Online horse training - connect from the heart

True Connection Horse Training

Join me on a journey and connect with yourself and with your horse
All online and real live courses, clinics and webinars!

Step 0 - It all starts in the Nervous System
Polyvagal Approach to Horse Training
Help your horse feel SAFE

NEW course - Wired 4 Connection!

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Become a Nervous System Navigator and transform your Horse Training with Polyvagal Principles for Connection & Learning!

- Deepen your Bond with your Horse
- Optimize Training Conditions
- Boost Resilience

Step 1 - Foundation Groundwork Phase
Do you want to learn to connect to yourself and your horse?
Start with a journey to True Connection!

I know that you want to have a true heart connection with your horse❤️!

The problem is that we live so much in our head in this society that we have lost the connection to ourselves, to our body and to our heart. That's why you might feel lost, or frustrated or not good enough.

I believe that you can only connect to another being in as far as you are connected to yourself.
So it starts with YOU!

I believe everyone can learn how to connect to your authentic self to become the human your horse WANTS to be with!

That's why I created the online
True Connection course, a foundation groundwork course to become the person your horse WANTS to be with.

Connect to yourself!

It all starts with you!
Breathing, meditation and grounding exercises
Connect to your horse

Learn the power of soft touch and truly seeing your horse, also energetically.
Connected groundwork

Learn to connect your horse to your breathing so you start walking and playing as ONE.
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FREE E-book!

The way to
True Connection

You can only connect to another, in as far as you are connected to yourself. Most people live in their heads and have lost the connection to their true self!

Breathe - Trust - Connect

FREE

Yes, I want this!

Mini-course

True Connection

mini-course

Connect with yourself and with your horse. Get 4 videos and feel if my way of teaching resonates with you.

I believe that creating a deep bond of trust, communication and connection is possible for everyone! Watch these 4 videos and magically improve your equine partnership❤️!

Get started today!

€ 27

Yes, I want this!

Full course

True Connection

FULL course

Become the person your horse WANTS to be with! From that place, magic can start and you can help your horse get stronger and better balanced.

Join a like-spirited and very supportive community and get all your questions answered in the closed Facebook group, including LIVE Q&A sessions!

Start anytime!

€ 497

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Step 2 - Advanced Groundwork Phase
The logical next step is building strength and flexibility!

Continue with Lateral Movements Simplified!

Once you have a true connection with your horse, you now want to build strength and flexibility so you can enjoy working with your horse for as long as possible!

You are already aware of the natural asymmetries of your horse and you know that lateral work can help your horse stay fit and healthy, but you find shoulder in, haunches in, half pass and pirouttes difficult or you believe that this is only for high level dressage people (and horses).

I can assure you that also YOU can learn this and ANY horse can do this!

The essence (the why)

Learning the essence of the gymnastic exercises will help you understand WHY and WHEN to do WHAT exercercise.
Step by step (the how)

Showing all exercises step by step will give you the skills to explain the basics to your horse as well.
Every horse!

Seeing me work with different horses will give you the confidence that your horse can do this too!

E-book

Lateral Movements

Simplified E-book

Learn the essence of all lateral movements and collection.

Clear, step by step explanation with amazing pictures and drone view drawings of every step!

Illustrations of correct spinal alignment, different groundwork positions to work from and understanding what gymnastic exercise to use for what purpose.

WORKING ON IT😄!!
To be published in 2024

€ 39

Mini Course

Lateral Movements
mini-course

Learn how to prepare your horse for lateral work. It's actually quite simple. The question is 'how can I move the shoulders of my horse' and 'how can I move the haunches of my horse'. I will also give you some simple exercises on the circle to prepare your horse for advanced stuff like half pass. It's all on the ground, but will help you in riding as well!

Get started today and get a taste of the full Lateral Movement course that opens only 2x per year (January 1st and July 1st).

€ 27

Yes, I want this!

Full course (with support)

Lateral Movements
Simplified full course

Join this 6 months Lateral Movements Simplified course! Every month a new gymnastic exercise will be explained in detail, so you understand the essence of the exercise, supported by step by step videos how to teach your horse. I will work with my educated horse and with a horse that has never done any groundwork before.

Start together with an international group of like-spirited people on
July 1st, 2024!

NOW OPEN for registration
Just 5 spots left!

Join TODAY!

€ 795 / € 1095

Get one of last spots!

Step 3 - Prepare yourself and your horse for a relaxed RIDE!
Breathe - Connect - Ride!
True Connection Mounting & True Connection Mounting

Full course (with support)

Invite your horse to the mounting block

Learn how to invite your horse to the mounting block! If your horse is coming to the mounting block, it's like your horse is giving you a signal that he/she is ready to be ridden.

Only if you are prepared to also take NO for an answer...

Filming with several different horses, even horses that have traumatic experiences with mounting.
More than 50 videos!

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€ 197

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Full course (with support)

True Connection RIDING

Everything you learned in the True Connection course will be translated to RIDING. How to connect your horse to your breathing, how to change directions, make circles smaller and bigger, trot and canter transitions.

And if you can do all this just based on breathing, your seat, body posture and energy, then you might as well take the cavesson off.

Extra module riding with neckrope
(on request from pilot group😊)!

€ 497

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Full course (with support)

Lateral Movements
RIDING

Complete 6 months Lateral Movements Riding course, translating everything you learned on the ground to ridden work!
Filming will start in 2024.

Every month a new gymnastic exercise will be explained in detail. What do you need to do in YOUR body to ask for a certain lateral movement of your horse.

Get full support in a closed Facebook group! Get all your questions answered in live Q&A sessions!

2024!

Do you want to organize a clinic at your stable?
Invite me for a 1 day clinic (NL only) or 3 day clinic (abroad)
Go to Contact page to send me a message!

Body Awareness for Riders

1-Day Workshop

Connect to the wisdom of your body through breathing. Become aware of the power of relaxation. Learn to align your spine and move from your centre. Feel your seatbones and understand the effect on your horse.

Body Awareness for Horses

1-Day Workshop

Learn basic anatomy of the spine of your horse. Deepen your connection because your horse feels truly seen. Learn a few simple, yet powerful techniques and help your horse release physical and mental tension.

3-day Balanced Rider & Horse

The whole package!

The total package! Body Awareness and Release for Riders and Horses so both you and your horse are relaxed and connected. Now the magic begins! The 3rd day you can do liberty, groundwork, work in hand or riding.

Send me a message if you want to organize a clinic at your stable!
Watch a small selection of pictures of clinics all over the world ➡️.

Individual lessons are only possible at the location in Vorden, the Netherlands.
It's also possible to have a lesson with a school horse.

Contact me!

Body Awareness for Riders

Body Awareness for Horses (Australia)

Clinic Slovenia

Clinic Norway

Clinic Austria

Clinic Denmark

Retreat Spain

Clinic Canada

Do you want to help your horse release physical and mental tension?
Join or organize a Masterson Method weekend seminar!

The Masterson Method is a simple-to-learn series of techniques that will help your horse release physical and mental tension.

Learn these simple techniques that you can apply immediately! Learn the power of soft touch and gentle movement in a relaxed state. Your horse will be forever grateful that you learned this!

For information and registration go to the Masterson website!

Beyond horse massage

Learn how to work TOGETHER with your horse. Access your horse's nervous system.
Everyone can learn this!

The techniques are simple, also YOU can learn this!
Your horse will love it!

Deepen your connection with your horse.

Go to Masterson website

Do you want to know what other people are saying?
I truly feel grateful when I receive these amazing testimonials🙏!

Dearest Lucie, no wonder tears are coming - reaction to truthfulness and beauty of truly being ... your body reacts in appreciation and, at times, in flow of great emotion of being noticed ... as the horse does when it comes to realization that you actually make a note of what they are expressing. In my struggles, I came to strongly feel that the horse and the human body are, indeed, very similar beings, maybe not anatomically but in the ways of being. I am so grateful that you are, that I know you and that you found the way to share what you have with us. Thank you from my heart <3! Elena

Elena Cutting

Hungary

I just love seeing this beautiful way of relaxation, being truly present in our body.

I just cannot now do it any other way. Thank you for showing us another softer and deeper way. I knew horses are sensitive and this way shows us there is no limit to their sensitivity. Horses are a life long work on myself 🙏♥️
Watched all the videos, very happy, beautiful work. Loved the explanations for the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. Loved all of it actually <3.

THANK YOU Lucie Klaassen, you are brilliant!

Monica Goold

France

The True Connection course has helped me get an even better relationship with my horses. People often refer to my horses as Nanna-calm, but now we have taken the connection to the next level ❤️. It was amazing what happened with the horse attitude when I changed my mental approach from "We do this together!" to "CAN we do this together?”

The course is brilliant and I warmly recommend it if you want techniques to monitor and improve your own relaxation and your relationship with your horse and get a view of how your horse sees the connection❤️

Nanna Svane Theisen

Denmark

Do you ever wonder?
Does my horse really want to be with me ...?

When you see a human interact with a horse, it is very obvious to recognize a horse that trusts its human and enjoys being, playing and working together with joy and mutual respect, as opposed to a horse that obeys out of fear.

Creating a deep bond of trust, communication and connection may sound almost magical, but I believe it is possible for everyone.

Note: The True Connection mini-course that I mention was free for a short period when I first launched it. Now it's available for € 27.

Vorden, the Netherlands
info@lucieklaassen.com
(31) 641 206 107

My dream/vision

I want to make a soulful and inspirational contribution to the horse world where welfare, connection and communication between human and horse are the basis of everything we do with our horse.

My Philosophy

I believe everyone can learn how to connect to your authentic self to become the human your horse WANTS to be with. Understand and feel the depth of the breath, listen to the wisdom of your body and connect from the heart. From that place help your horse become stronger, more balanced, flexible and collected so that you enjoy a healthy life together!

Videos: Jill Bakker
Pictures: Maybel van der Linden and Christa Balk

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