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The Essence of Liberty
Online Academy
Equine Psychology
Dive deep into the science of equine behaviour, herd dynamics, learning theory and connection through both theory lessons and training sessions.
Follow Various Horses
Each individual horse needs a slightly different approach depending on their personality and past experiences! The academy follows shut down and timid, to playful and confident horses!
From First Contact to Collection
Whether you are a pure beginner or an advanced liberty enthusiast, the academy walks you through the very first steps all the way to more advanced exercises.
Ignite Your Horse's Motivation
Learn what truly motivates your horse! Discover how to gently communicate and guide your horse and master the art of positive reinforcement training!
The Essence of Liberty
Online Academy
Equine Psychology
Dive deep into the science of equine behaviour, herd dynamics, learning theory and connection through both theory lessons and training sessions.
Follow Various Horses
Each individual horse needs a slightly different approach depending on their personality and past experiences! The academy follows shut down and timid, to playful and confident horses!
From First Contact to Collection
Whether you are a pure beginner or an advanced liberty enthusiast, the academy walks you through the very first steps all the way to more advanced exercises.
Ignite Your Horse's Motivation
Learn what truly motivates your horse! Discover how to gently communicate and guide your horse and master the art of positive reinforcement training!
When You Sign Up, You Get:
Immediate Access To All Modules
Over 25 Hours Of Videos
Exclusive Access to the Academy Community
When You Sign Up, You Get:
Immediate Access To All Modules
Over 25 Hours Of Videos
Exclusive Access to the Facebook Community
Nina Andersson (Sweden)
"The liberty training course has brought back the joy of working with my horses. I had never tried liberty training before but felt confident to get started after taking part of Nadine's very pedagogical and well organized material. At the end of the course I can honestly say I developed more during the course then I have during the last two years since I’ve had my own horses."
Maegan Thomas (Kentucky, USA)
"Nadine is one of the few trainers that has found a way to PRESERVE the horse’s playful spirit rather than suppress it on the journey to make them a ridable horse. Most excitedly, in the barely two months I’ve been applying Dr. Nadine’s material to my own horses, I’ve seen the beginning of this vivacious in my own horses!"
Louise Cooper (Qld, Australia)
"Since starting our sessions together and starting the course, I have gained a whole different mindset that I have been able to apply when working with both Levi and other horses. I cannot recommend to people enough that if they get the chance to work with, learn from or just be around Nadine, it is truly worth your time!"
Nina Andersson (Sweden)
"The liberty training course has brought back the joy of working with my horses. I had never tried liberty training before but felt confident to get started after taking part of Nadine's very pedagogical and well organized material. At the end of the course I can honestly say I developed more during the course then I have during the last two years since I’ve had my own horses."
Maegan Thomas (Kentucky, USA)
"Nadine is one of the few trainers that has found a way to PRESERVE the horse’s playful spirit rather than suppress it on the journey to make them a ridable horse. Most excitedly, in the barely two months I’ve been applying Dr. Nadine’s material to my own horses, I’ve seen the beginning of this vivacious in my own horses!"
Louise Cooper (Qld, Australia)
"Since starting our sessions together and starting the course, I have gained a whole different mindset that I have been able to apply when working with both Levi and other horses. I cannot recommend to people enough that if they get the chance to work with, learn from or just be around Nadine, it is truly worth your time!"
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This guide walks you through the 6 fundamental principles of the horse-human relationship and gets you on your way to developing and maintaining a strong relationship with your horse!
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Online & In-Person Coaching
Lessons, Clinics, Consultations, Webinars
Liberty | Trick Training | Problem Solving | Academic Art of Riding
Services
Coaching
Online & In-Person
Liberty, Tricks, Problem Solving & Academic Art of Riding
Nadine offers coaching through online lessons and the academy, as well as private lessons, workshops, clinics and demonstrations!
Philosophy & Approach
Nadine's philosophy and approach revolves around establishing a strong connection between horse and human, and providing the horse with choice and autonomy. Horses are incredibly peaceful creatures and will always search for the path of least resistance and, therefore, it is (in most cases) easy to coerce a horse into obedience. However, in these situations the horse will often lack the beautiful expression, motivation, play and power that comes with freedom of choice. Nadine incorporates trick training as a tool to enhance communication and improve the relationship. She also incorporates "power postures" and collected movements to help the horse find more confidence, balance and strength! The communication relies on slow, gentle (non-escalating or forceful) guidance, always giving the horse time to think and the option to leave. Rewards (positive reinforcement) are used to help motivate the horse to follow and search through the guidance!
Nadine's approach is largely science-based with a focus on the psychology of the equine brain and autonomic nervous system, as well as evidence-based herd dynamics. She does not incorporate dominance theory into her training as horses do not understand the concept of authority or superiority. Understanding the similarities and differences between horse and human minds and emotions has a massive impact on the way we interpret their behaviour and how we then respond to that behaviour. It is crucial to understand why something does or doesn't work and what evidence there is behind it in order to ensure that we choose the most appropriate and ethical approach to training and caring for our horses!
Click below to learn more about Nadine's liberty philosophy.
Read MoreNadine's Philosophy
“Liberty is often confused with obedience training, but a horse is only truly at liberty when he feels autonomous. It is this empowering state that opens the door to easy and fluent communication as well as playful and proud expression." ~ Nadine
Read MoreAbout Nadine
Dr Nadine Lindblom is a qualified equine veterinarian with a strong interest in equine psychology and training. Nadine has worked closely with horses over the past 16 years and has had the opportunity to learn from several fantastic trainers in both Australia and Sweden.
Read MoreWhat Are People Saying?
"What drew me to Dr. Nadine’s work is the way her horses LOVE TO BE WITH HER.
Most trainers I see in person and online have animals in a state of learned helplessness. Although they obey, they lack any playfulness and spark in their soul. They appear listless and machine-like.
Nadine is one of the few trainers that has found a way to PRESERVE the horse’s playful spirit rather than suppress it on the journey to make them a ridable horse.
Of those few I have found, most of them have an air of mystery and “horse whisperer” aura about them that make them difficult to understand. Their methods have a haze of mythology around them that, although is certainly intriguing and something to learn from, makes it difficult to derive a technical method which you can apply at home to your own animals.
Nadine’s course [The Essence of Liberty Online Academy] neither is dressed in pretty verbal distractions or based on making the horse do something by depriving of them of any other options. Her psychological and physiological knowledge of the horse, common training methods, and how she introduces us to the method from this background knowledge, leaves no holes for ambiguity.
Nadine has no “tricks”, “magic tools”, “magic words”, or “quick fixes”. It’s all very real, bare and scientific, allowing you to clearly see what’s happening and why she does it while introducing this new training approach to the three new horses featured in the course.
Dr. Nadine’s social media, full of her adult horses performing difficult Haute Ecole elements while also playing like foals with her, is a testament that her method does work.
Most excitedly, in the barely two months I’ve been applying Dr. Nadine’s material to my own horses, I’ve seen the beginning of this vivacious in my own horses!
When the course ended, I was not left without many ideas on how to pursue my own unique endeavors using the material learned in the course. If you want a horse that engages in play with you, a TRULY EQUAL partner where both parties can walk away when they feel uncomfortable (yes, including the horse), and a dream relationship most believe to be impossible, and seemingly so few have obtained, Nadine’s course will definitely give you something to add in your horse training repertoire on that journey.
Thank you so much Nadine for your hard work in creating a course that are helping me shape my lifelong equine dreams!"
Maegan Thomas (Kentucky, USA)
Nina Andersson (Sweden)
"The liberty training course has brought back the joy of working with my horses. We’ve reached a hole new level of play and connection. Nadine is extremely generous with her knowledge and experience. The course is filled with both theoretical knowledge and lots of practical learning. I had never tried liberty training before but felt confident to get started after taking part of Nadines very pedagogical and well organized material. At the end of the course I can honestly say I developed more during the course then I have during the last two years since I’ve had my own horses."
Louise Cooper (Qld, Australia)
"Nadine truly makes learning fun! Her content [in The Essence of Liberty Online Academy] is so well thought out and executed, and she puts so much effort in - and it really shows! Her way of explaining things, no matter how 'simple' or 'complicated' is clear and concise, and she makes sitting down to her course fun, engaging and so rewarding!
The use of case studies really helps to connect the theory to practice, and getting to see her work with horses that have never experienced liberty training, and follow through their sessions, really helps to cement everything you learn! I was extremely lucky to have my horse Levi (the giant grey clown one) used as one of the cases in Nadine's foundation course. As pretty-much newbies to liberty training, the experience both myself and Levi gained was invaluable! Not only did we have so much fun on our filming afternoons (anyone that has had the pleasure of meeting Nadine knows how kind, funny and brilliant she is!), but watching the change in Levi from the first session to the last session was so rewarding - he was happier than ever and you could tell he genuinely really loved their time together! Since starting our sessions together and starting the course, I have gained a whole different mindset that I have been able to apply when working with both Levi and other horses.
I cannot recommend to people enough that if they get the chance to work with, learn from or just be around Nadine, it is truly worth your time!"
Siri Bjølseth (Bachelor of Equine Science, Equine Osteopath EDO | Norway)
"I highly recommend The Essence of Liberty Online Academy! The theory part of this course is giving a solid foundation on how to work with your horse, based on research and the anatomy and physiology of the horse. The practical part is built up from the beginning with the foundation exercises and with a progression that is easy to follow, as well as considering that different horses may need a different approach. This is also emphasized by the three very different horses we follow through their lessons and how the training can be adapted to suit the individual horse. It has been challenging but has also given me many more tools in my toolkit when working with my horse, and we have just begun our journey into liberty training."
Jordana (QLD, Australia)
"Manaaki and I are so lucky to have had our first lesson with Nadine upon her travels to Yeppoon! Holy wow what a fun time!!!
Nadine's love for horses and strong knowledge of natural horsemanship shines so bright throughout her teaching. Very positive, full of heart and professional. I learnt more then I ever expected to in my first session and really look forward to the journey ahead! Highly recommend to anybody who is seeking to build connection, respect and love between horse and human.
Thank you Nadine!"
Kacee Murray (QLD, Australia)
"I’m absolutely loving this course [The Essence of Liberty Online Academy], learning from home in my own time. Really easy format for a technologically challenged individual hehe. So much amazing content -obviously so much has been put into it. I’ve learnt so much already - can’t wait to get further along! Would recommend to anyone wanting a better connection with their horse- it’s really fantastic!"
Clare (QLD, Australia)
"Start 2019 off right! Sam and I sure did, as we were blessed enough to have a session with @nadinelindblom. I have raved about Nadine before, and I'm going to do it again. "A good trainer is worth their weight in gold." This is true, then some. Nadine is so knowledgeable, and my brain always becomes a massive jumble of thoughts, jumping from one topic or idea to the next like a mind-map. Thankfully, for my cluttered brain, she is so patient and understanding, and is happy to jump from one idea to the next, linking them back together and how they interconnect in terms of biomechanics. She is more than willing to help in any way she knows how, and go through each movement process in steps - with both demonstrations and talking you through it. I have also been lucky enough to see her work with two other clients, and it is so refreshing to see a trainer differentiate their methods to suit each individual horse (and human!). I have honestly never witnessed someone connect with horses as quickly as Nadine - it is ridiculously inspirational. Thank you, Nadine, for helping me move onto my next chapter with Sam. I am so excited to see what we can achieve now that we have direction, and I cannot wait for another clinic in the future! "
Sophie Stallman (Bachelor of Equine Science, Veterinary Student | QLD, Australia)
"Absolutely love the layout and style of the website [The Essence of Liberty Online Academy], it's really easy to navigate through and hop between lessons. Lessons are titled appropriately so it's very simple to look back and find information from each section as needed, and the content is fantastic!"
Bronwyn (Qld, Australia)
"Had the best clinic with Nadine. Very refreshing and patient young lady who taught us a lot in such a short amount of time. Even after one session I saw so much potential in my mare. I have now had 2 practice sessions on my own, using what Nadine taught me, and I can't believe how well Diva is responding without any force or cruelty. Highly recommend Nadine."
Clare (Qld, Australia)
"When the opportunity presented itself for me to get a lesson with Nadine (@nadinelindblom) I jumped at the chance! And I am so, so glad that I did! Nadine is so kind, professional, and knowledgeable. She answered every question that I had; I could honestly listen to her talk about horses all day. She helped me connect with Sam at liberty, and gave me advice to continue with my trick training. Oh, and watching her work with horses! The photos on her Instagram page do not do her horsemanship justice. She is incredible! 😍 She had literally only just met Sam, and already he responded to her cues and body language. I could gush about Nadine and my lesson with her all day! I can't wait to practise what she showed me and then hopefully book another session with her in March 2018. 🤞"
About Nadine
Dr Nadine Lindblom is a qualified equine veterinarian in Melbourne, Australia with a strong interest in equine psychology and training. Nadine has worked closely with horses over the past 16 years and has had the opportunity to learn from several fantastic trainers in both Australia and Sweden. Nadine's main interest is helping horse owners improve their relationship with their horse and helping horses with behavioural issues. She also loves liberty, trick training and Academic Art of Riding (a form of dressage based on historical principles) with the aim of improving the relationship and the horse's physical and mental health!
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Equus Empeiria is followed by over 200,000 people across Instagram (main platform), Facebook, TikTok and YouTube! Nadine uses these platforms to share her journey with her own horses and horsemanship, connect with followers and other trainers, as well as to provide free educational content revolving around equine training and health! Click on the icons below to explore content!
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Equine Connection Academy is followed by over 200,000 people across Instagram (main platform), Facebook, TikTok and YouTube! Nadine uses these platforms to share her journey with her own horses and horsemanship, connect with followers and other trainers, as well as to provide free educational content revolving around equine training and health! Click on the icons below to explore content!
