Many people feel stuck when training their own horse. I teach people how to understand, enjoy and successfully train their own horses.

STUDENT LOGIN
STUDENT LOGIN

Featured on:

logos_featured

October 2020

Stacy's podcast reaches episode 100!

Did you know podcasts are a great way to learn while you're driving your car...or cleaning stall?

Click here to listen to an episode or download a podcast app for your phone and never miss an episode!

 

Is this class for you?

This is for you if...

  • Do you want to understand the whole steering process...so you could figure out what to work on next?
  • Do you feel confused at times about which aid to use when?
  • Do you wish you could simplify the aids you're giving your horse?
  • Does your horse seem frustrated...and you suspect your inconsistency could be to blame?

In this course, Stacy clearly explains the stages of training, the techniques in each stage, how she uses them and why.

She shows examples of horses that are confused and frustrated as well as the appropriate way to handle them.

If you are a rider who strives to understand training from the horses point of view, with actionable instructions on how to train your own horse, this course is for you.

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE, INCLUDING FREE SAMPLES

Feedback from Students

Linda and Del

“I have been wanting to neck rein my horse for the last few years... When I saw Stacy had a new course on Steering & Neck Reining I was so excited and ordered the class and immediately started watching the modules... One of the greatest tools is the Audio Ride Guide.

Thank you Stacy Westfall for creating your Course Curriculum. Your courses and video work are very professional and right on the mark for helping us train our horses." -Linda Turner & Del

Click to read more

Martina and Hildy

“For many years I could never get Hildy to slow down and I really wanted to learn how to ride one-handed. I tried to get professional advice locally but no one could help me. I had pretty much lost hope on Hildy ever slowing down and being able to ride one-handed until Stacy taught me---"The Second-Hand Slide". When I learned about the "Second Hand Slide" and the "Hug" my horse totally changed!!! She slowed down, became collected, and it felt AWESOME!!! I still cannot believe that my horse can walk/trot/canter nicely, with a collected frame while I am riding one-handed. This was a HUGE breakthrough with my horse. Thank you so much, Stacy, for always providing easy to understand lessons and techniques that I can follow and apply with my horse. The results have been OUTSTANDING and I am so HAPPY!!” -Martina Brown & Hildy

- MARTINA BROWN

Click to read more

"I have gained SO much from Stacy Westfall’s 'The Complete Guide to Improving Steering and Teaching Neck Reining' course! The course helped me with my overall precision and awareness. I now have more precision with less effort!
Stacy’s videos and instructions in the course are clear and well illustrated. I love that she rides different level horses on the patterns. Especially, when she takes a college level horse back to elementary school. It really drove home the point that the concepts are layered and each individual piece is important. So if you skip, omit or cheat it leaves a hole you will need to find and fill in at some point. For either you or the horse.
It was absolutely well worth it, I thank you and my horses thank you."

Jesse F.

"The Complete Guide to Improving Steering and Teaching Neck Reining course is proving to exceed my expectations. Stacy turns concepts into actionable exercises enabling the student to develop refinement, timing and feel while training the horse. The Audio Ride Guides are an incredible asset to the coursework as Stacy’s audible coaching helps the student practice and apply the techniques while riding. No matter how many times I’ve utilized the Audio Ride Guides, I still discover something new in myself and/or in my horse. I have been having so much fun learning with this course that my sister signed up too!
Thank you Stacy for the time and work you put into developing this!!"

Ann

"Hi Stacy, I have been taking lessons on and off for about 5 years, and I recently moved to Hawaii (I’m military so I move a lot). A few months ago I began on a bossy yet well trained reining mare. She’s safe to ride, but my cues were not as concise and consistent as a more advanced rider. Last week I had a truly frustrating lesson, and the things I thought I knew weren’t working.
So, I got online and watched practically all your videos on youtube and then bought your course. I binge watched the entire thing over the weekend, over and over while practicing on an exercise ball with fake reins. Today I finally got to ride for an hour and it was incredible. I could finally communicate with this horse and focus on learning. We practiced perfect circles, isolated both the direct and indirect reins and then put them together. We were able to side pass, do shoulder in and out, reverse arch and pick up the correct leads (when before I was struggling so much with picking up the left lead), made straighter lines and worked on collected transitions. Most of all I finally understood what I was asking for and how to ask for it.
Before I thought it was all me, but now I can see that as a lesson horse she needs help too, especially getting flexion to the left. I have a lot of review, practice and learning to do, but today was a major breakthrough.
I had to tell you how thankful I am you put so much time and effort into your course. I can’t wait until the next ride now!!!! "

Elizabeth

"Thank you so much for putting together such a great course! I have listened to all your podcasts and have just about every video, but this steering and neck reining video and audio ride guide is the best yet! I am a hands-on type of learner so to be riding and having the audio ride guide playing and guiding me through each step was incredibly helpful. I would have considered my horse in the high school level with a few things that I knew he still needed work on. This Steering guide really helped me learn a new approach to teaching my horse and it really helped him improve his form and steering to the right. (which was his bad side).
I would highly recommend this to anyone whose horse needs some fine tuning or is in the beginning stages of steering, either way it is going to help you and the horse.
Thanks again Stacy for coming up with these teaching processes so easy and simple to follow."

Kathy

Latest Posts!

Episode 283: Switching Gears: Mastering Multiple Roles with Your Horse

By Stacy Westfall | April 17, 2024

Stormy and Lefty Updates: Sleep tight, ONE job to do…

By Stacy Westfall | April 12, 2024

Episode 282-Riding Towards Understanding: the Virtual Tevis Cup Challenge

By Stacy Westfall | April 10, 2024

Tevis Cup: Will you join me?

By Stacy Westfall | April 4, 2024

Episode 281- Earning Wisdom: Two Stories of Personal Growth

By Stacy Westfall | April 3, 2024

Little Lefty and his pal Stormy: unloading from the trailer, meeting the first time, drinking milk, and Lefty’s layers of blankets!

By Stacy Westfall | March 28, 2024

Episode 280: Gratitude Amidst Adversity: Caring for Orphaned Foals

By Stacy Westfall | March 27, 2024

Episode 279-The Pitfalls of Regret: Tracing Its Effects on Thought Patterns

By Stacy Westfall | March 20, 2024

Jesse Westfall: “I’ll miss her for the rest of my life.”

By Stacy Westfall | March 17, 2024

Life’s Tough Moments: Lucy, Little Lefty, and the Art of Not Rushing

By Stacy Westfall | March 13, 2024

Online Events!

Workshop #1- Goal Setting & Problem Solving- available now!

Workshop #2- live event complete, online version coming soon: Leadership & Communication

Workshop #3- Coming October 20, 2020-Teamwork & Feedback

Bonus: Any online participant will receive one free ticket to an in-person event to be held October 21, 2020 at Stacy Westfall's barn! This will be a day of auditing and participating in an equine facilitated learning experience.

  • you are open to the idea that changing the way you approach a challenge can change the outcome
  • you would enjoy spending the day in a learning environment with other horse people
  • you would like to increase your confidence even when you face setbacks
  • you would like to be more effective at reaching your business & personal goals
  • you have listened to Stacy's teaching materials (podcast, emails, videos) and would like to learn more

Come to one or come to them all!

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS!

Feedback from Students

Linda and Del

“I have been wanting to neck rein my horse for the last few years... When I saw Stacy had a new course on Steering & Neck Reining I was so excited and ordered the class and immediately started watching the modules... One of the greatest tools is the Audio Ride Guide.

Thank you Stacy Westfall for creating your Course Curriculum. Your courses and video work are very professional and right on the mark for helping us train our horses." -Linda Turner & Del

Click to read more

Martina and Hildy

“For many years I could never get Hildy to slow down and I really wanted to learn how to ride one-handed. I tried to get professional advice locally but no one could help me. I had pretty much lost hope on Hildy ever slowing down and being able to ride one-handed until Stacy taught me---"The Second-Hand Slide". When I learned about the "Second Hand Slide" and the "Hug" my horse totally changed!!! She slowed down, became collected, and it felt AWESOME!!! I still cannot believe that my horse can walk/trot/canter nicely, with a collected frame while I am riding one-handed. This was a HUGE breakthrough with my horse. Thank you so much, Stacy, for always providing easy to understand lessons and techniques that I can follow and apply with my horse. The results have been OUTSTANDING and I am so HAPPY!!” -Martina Brown & Hildy

- MARTINA BROWN

Click to read more

"I have gained SO much from Stacy Westfall’s 'The Complete Guide to Improving Steering and Teaching Neck Reining' course! The course helped me with my overall precision and awareness. I now have more precision with less effort!
Stacy’s videos and instructions in the course are clear and well illustrated. I love that she rides different level horses on the patterns. Especially, when she takes a college level horse back to elementary school. It really drove home the point that the concepts are layered and each individual piece is important. So if you skip, omit or cheat it leaves a hole you will need to find and fill in at some point. For either you or the horse.
It was absolutely well worth it, I thank you and my horses thank you."

Jesse F.

"The Complete Guide to Improving Steering and Teaching Neck Reining course is proving to exceed my expectations. Stacy turns concepts into actionable exercises enabling the student to develop refinement, timing and feel while training the horse. The Audio Ride Guides are an incredible asset to the coursework as Stacy’s audible coaching helps the student practice and apply the techniques while riding. No matter how many times I’ve utilized the Audio Ride Guides, I still discover something new in myself and/or in my horse. I have been having so much fun learning with this course that my sister signed up too!
Thank you Stacy for the time and work you put into developing this!!"

Ann

"Hi Stacy, I have been taking lessons on and off for about 5 years, and I recently moved to Hawaii (I’m military so I move a lot). A few months ago I began on a bossy yet well trained reining mare. She’s safe to ride, but my cues were not as concise and consistent as a more advanced rider. Last week I had a truly frustrating lesson, and the things I thought I knew weren’t working.
So, I got online and watched practically all your videos on youtube and then bought your course. I binge watched the entire thing over the weekend, over and over while practicing on an exercise ball with fake reins. Today I finally got to ride for an hour and it was incredible. I could finally communicate with this horse and focus on learning. We practiced perfect circles, isolated both the direct and indirect reins and then put them together. We were able to side pass, do shoulder in and out, reverse arch and pick up the correct leads (when before I was struggling so much with picking up the left lead), made straighter lines and worked on collected transitions. Most of all I finally understood what I was asking for and how to ask for it.
Before I thought it was all me, but now I can see that as a lesson horse she needs help too, especially getting flexion to the left. I have a lot of review, practice and learning to do, but today was a major breakthrough.
I had to tell you how thankful I am you put so much time and effort into your course. I can’t wait until the next ride now!!!! "

Elizabeth

"Thank you so much for putting together such a great course! I have listened to all your podcasts and have just about every video, but this steering and neck reining video and audio ride guide is the best yet! I am a hands-on type of learner so to be riding and having the audio ride guide playing and guiding me through each step was incredibly helpful. I would have considered my horse in the high school level with a few things that I knew he still needed work on. This Steering guide really helped me learn a new approach to teaching my horse and it really helped him improve his form and steering to the right. (which was his bad side).
I would highly recommend this to anyone whose horse needs some fine tuning or is in the beginning stages of steering, either way it is going to help you and the horse.
Thanks again Stacy for coming up with these teaching processes so easy and simple to follow."

Kathy

img_cta-sidebar

Free PDF Download "Why is my horse...20 things your horse is saying with his behavior"

!
DOWNLOAD

PDF will be delivered to the email address you enter as will weekly tips from Stacy. Totally free. Unsubscribe anytime.

Something went wrong. Please check your entries and try again.

© 2019-2024 STACY WESTFALL | WEBSITE BY MAP

BLOG | PRIVACY | TERMS | CONTACT | STUDENT LOGIN