My background

I was born in 1977 and have since childhood nurtured a great love and fascination for the animal world. I grew up with animals around me and have ridden horses since I can remember. I always knew that I would spend my life trying to improve animal conditions and wellbeing.

I always knew that I would spend my life on that working with horses in their natural environment and surroundings. Today, most horse training is based on the horse to learn human language and submit themselves to our wants and needs. This method is not natural for the horse and therefore it’s not the optimal communication form between man and horse.

As a 17-year-old, I had the chance to live on a ranch with more than 300 wild horses in California, USA, where the horses are trained exclusively with natural methods. Methods which are adapted to the horses own "language" social interaction and mutual hierarchy. Instead of forcing the horse to cooperate on human terms, chooses the horse himself to follow the trainer whom he experience as its leader. It was for me a whole new way of thinking about horse training, but it was also a completely different result I experienced. I was in no doubt that these methods are the ones I want to work with the rest of my life.

In the beginning it was a big change not having to give one-way orders for the horse, but instead build a two-way exchange in which both horse and trainer adapts to each other. It gives a lot of respect both ways and thereby gives a solid and secure foundation upon which to build. But it also demanded an enormous patience from a new trainer, which I was.

The first step in such a process is to get a thorough understanding of the horse's own language and natural behavior. This meant for me that I in the first long period had to sit on the huge enclosures both day and late evening hours and just observe how the individual horses knew their place in the hierarchy and how they each express themselves across their different relationships.

Slowly, I understood their natural expression and continued my development and began to train and breaking in, the wild horses, and retrain outside horses that had already been ridden in an inappropriate manner. I was at the ranch for 3 years and participated alongside in a series of seminars with some of the world's leading horse trainers, including Tom Dorrance. I also got the opportunity to study Pat Parellis methods and visit the great well known trainers. Ranch, Flag Is Up by Monty Roberts.

I once had a dream to work with horses in a natural way. Today I know that when you can understand and talk the horse's own language, there are no limits to what can be achieved.

In the wild horses live in large herds which are divided into smaller herds. All herds live in a hierarchy structure, and all have their own special place in the hierarchy. At the top, are the leader and in the smaller herds there are also leaders in charge on daily basis.

In the pack there are clear consequences if a horse will not obey the leader namely isolation, it will simply be thrown out of the pack. This is a very vulnerable position for a horse, as it thereby left without protection and reassurance. All horses are constantly aware of their leader and his changing reactions. If the leader is calm, all is safe.

If the leader shows fear, then there is chaos. It is possible for humans to achieve this leadership role. But only when we use the horses natural behavior, in the communication. The very first step in my horse training is to get the horse to choose me as his leader. When this happens, the horse will follow my smallest signal.

I work at many levels in my training and have also taken courses in animal healing, clairvoyance and NLP and hypnosis therapist. When I visit with private individuals it is sometimes clairvoyance or healing there is needed. Sometimes it is the owner / rider who needs help getting over old traumas or fears. Other times it is a long-term training or rehabilitation program.

As a 17-year-old, I had the chance to live and work on a ranch with more than 300 wild horses in California, USA. The horses were exclusively trained and ridden with "horse-whispering techniques". I was at the ranch for 3 ½ years and educated myself at the same time at seminars at some of the world's leading horse trainers, including Tom Dorrance. I also had the opportunity to study Pat Parellis methods and visited the ranch 'Flag Is Up' by Monty Roberts, one of the most renowned horse training places in the U.S..

Since I came back to Denmark, I have worked with Danish horses in a variety of training processes ranging from young horses rearing, breaking in, preparing for performance testing, rehabilitation, riding problems and behavioral problems. However, I have specialized myself in training maladjusted horses. I am concurrently teaching these techniques in courses and lectures around the country.

Over the past year I have participated in courses for academic equestrian art and the work of classical dressage, though without the use of bite, spores or other means.