“When I purchased Hannah’s virtual clinic package, I wasn’t new to liberty. I had already tried different online courses and approaches. Although I have always been fascinated by liberty training and by learning to become more aware of my own body language so I could communicate better with horses, before Hannah I had never found a truly solid way of training liberty.

I ended up developing a bit of my own way of doing things, while also noticing a lack of consistency in many of the online programs I tried to follow, and in my own method. For my Kaimanawa — a New Zealand wild horse — I wanted something solid, predictable and consistent. Something that would also offer continuity with her initial handling, which had been done using Hannah’s and Kelly Wilson’s gentling approaches.

When I joined Hannah online, I didn’t quite realize what an amazing journey I had ahead of me.

Hannah’s Liberty Fundamentals and Liberty Advanced courses are the most intuitive and solid approach to liberty training I have ever come across. Every new milestone is built on the backbone of strong foundations, and the learning is broken down into small, understandable steps, so the horse does not need to constantly guess what is being asked. This is why this system so reassuring and calming for horses.

My mare, in particular, came out of the wild with significant pelvic injuries, which became considerably worse after she gave birth to the colt she had been mustered in utero with. I was left with a horse who, when she wasn’t shut down, was aggressive. I desperately needed an approach that would allow me to prove myself to her as an understanding and predictable handler, while still keeping her engaged and interested in working with me.
Today, not only do I have a much sounder horse who is about to be started under saddle bridleless, but we also recently performed fully at liberty at a local fundraising event.

Nizzi amazes me every day in the arena with how quickly she thinks and learns, and she is also my best mate when we are out on the trail — often at liberty, moving together just like our own little herd.

Hannah’s program gave us much more than liberty skills. It gave us a clear language, consistency, confidence, and a way of building trust through training."