Nomadic Pathways · a year on the trail
Find your Pathway.
Four Pathways, each a theme to grow into, from true liberty to the open trail. Not levels to climb. I guide you to the one that fits you and your horse today.
The deepening route
Themes, not levels.
A Pathway is a year of deepening with your horse, built around a theme rather than a level. You can walk a theme again a year on and find something new in it, because you and your horse will have changed.
Each Pathway follows a Roadmap: four stages of three days, with winter sessions for the theory in between. There are four Pathways, and I guide you to the one that fits where you and your horse actually are. A series, not a shop.
The four Pathways · choose your theme
PATHWAY 01 True liberty & bonding rituals
Most think this is where you end up. It is where we start. Herd wisdom, body language, bonding rituals, and training with freedom of choice. You enter the horse's world before you ask anything of them, and become the partner your horse actually wants.
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PATHWAY 02 Consent based horsemanship & groundwork
Guiding your horse towards self mastery by giving them the space and the language to make good decisions, not by force or repetition. Groundwork, conversation, consent, capacity. It ends with a first adventure on the trail, for those who are ready.
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PATHWAY 03 Training on the go & out on the trail
Adventurous training in real terrain, away from the familiar. Groundwork that inspires, and for those who want to ride, where the partnership starts to unfold under saddle. Starting, or restarting, in the field and on the trail.
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PATHWAY 04 Riding, trekking & multi day adventures
The arena, the trail, and real overnight adventures, for horse and human ready to go further. It builds towards a multi day trek for those who want it. You do not follow a route, you build the partnership that makes any route possible.
Explore this PathwayHow a Pathway runs
Every Pathway follows a Roadmap.
Four stages of three days across the year, with winter sessions for the theory in between. Whichever theme you walk, the rhythm is the same.
Stage one
Three days. We arrive, and set the ground of the theme.
Stage two
Three days. The conversation deepens, at the pace your horse sets.
Stage three
Three days. We take it further, and into new terrain.
Stage four
Three days. We go out, and let the trail show the work.
Between the stages, winter sessions carry the theory, held by the fire.
Joining a Pathway
One short request, and I place you.
You do not pick a Pathway off a shelf. You send one short request, we talk about you and your horse, and I place you in the theme that fits you today. A place is a considered yes, never a checkout.
The guided treks.
Out is where it all leads. The guided treks are the earned end of the path, for horses and humans I already know and feel safe to take into open country. Not a starting point. A destination.
See the treks“A client's words about their year on a Pathway go here, in their own voice.”
Before you apply
Good questions.
Yes. The Pathways are walked with your own horse, because the work is about the two of you and the relationship you are building.
Yes. Pathways one and two live on the ground, and even in three and four there is a full path for those who stay unmounted. A horse does not need to be ridden to be met, understood, and taken somewhere new together.
You do not choose alone. You send a short request, and I place you in the theme that fits you and your horse today. You can walk a theme again a year on and find something new in it.
Small, always. Enough to learn from one another, few enough that every horse is seen.
Choose your Pathway
Which road is yours?
Pick the theme that speaks to where you and your horse are today.
Not sure which fits? Tell me about your horse and I place you →