ABOUT

Balance Your Horse

with Straightness Training

The Straightness Training Academy is one of the most well-known names in the equestrian world.

Over 100,000 riders have joined our Straightness Training education over the years. 

It all STarted with one horse: Maestro. 

Maestro wasn’t just a horse:

• He was my teacher.
• My mirror.
• My challenge.
• My breakthrough.
• A real master — a maestro in every sense of the word.

He made me grow. He made me question everything.

And he showed me what’s possible when you choose to develop yourself side by side with your horse.

From our journey together, Straightness Training was born.

It's not a training method, it's an awareness method.

For two decades, I documented every insight, every discovery, every breakthrough.

Every essence and every fundamental concept.

Every exercise, tool and aid.

So others wouldn't have to struggle the way I did.

Maestro said goodbye to his life on earth, but his legacy lives on:

A legacy of possibility. 

Our online ST programs are among the best in the world and have helped thousands of STudents help their horse's go:

From "impossible" to "I'm possible".

Balance Your Mind

I started with my horse, Maestro.

Helping riders create balance and harmony
with their horse.

But over time, something became clear.

The biggest influence
was not the technique.

It was the rider’s thoughts
and emotional state.

So the work expanded.

From training the horse
to understanding the mind.

And from there,
something deeper revealed itself....

with STEREO Coaching

This work is about your inner world

Understanding how it moves.
Where it’s out of balance
And bringing it back into alignment.
Like a group of birds flying in V formation in the direction that feels right for you.

It's not about fixing yourself

It's also not about becoming someone else.

It’s about seeing clearly
where you’ve been going against yourself.

Where you adapted.
Where you overrode what you knew.

It's about letting go of what isn’t yours.

Roles.
Habits.
Patterns.
Identities.

And returning
to a place that’s already there.

It's about coming back to your authentic self.

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❝To travel purposefully toward an unknown destination.❞ 

Years ago, a dog came onto my land.
Old. Sick. Ready to be put down.

But she stayed five years.

At the end of her life, she asked for something simple:

Not to be put down.
But to make the crossing herself.
At her own tempo.
And not alone.

So I stayed.

She knew what she needed.
I made it possible.

What that showed me:

There is a moment in life where you can’t go back...

But you don’t yet know who you are becoming.

In that moment, you don’t need someone to fix you.

You need someone who can stay.
Hold space.
So you stay with what's true.
And don't abandon yourself again.

This is my work.

I don’t help you improve yourself.
I help you cross.
And come home to your true self.

At some point, you know

There comes a point where you know:
this can’t continue.

Not because someone tells you,
but because you feel it.

And if you ignore it,
you abandon yourself.

But if you follow it,
everything changes.

You start living from a different place.

Where your yes is yes.
And your no is no.

Where you don’t override what you know.

Where you come home to your true self.