5 DAY ADVANCED LIBERTY IMMERSIVE RETREAT

Refined Liberty & Bridleless Mastery Experience - A 5-Day Intensive Retreat for Serious Students of Horsemanship

The Advanced Liberty Immersive Retreat is a five-day, residential training experience designed for riders and trainers who want to fast-track their understanding of liberty and bridleless work through deep, embodied learning.

This retreat offers a rare opportunity to learn with both unstarted and highly accomplished, competition-winning liberty and bridleless horses in an immersive, supportive environment.

Participants work not only with their own horse (or an unstarted horse can be provided for those travelling), but are also paired with one of Kelly’s most advanced liberty horses. This allows students to progress from foundational exercises into refined movements that most riders would not experience until much later in their journey.

This is not a standard clinic. It is a fully supported retreat experience designed to transform how you feel, think, and communicate with horses.

ABOUT THE RETREAT

Drawing on over a decade of experience in liberty and bridleless training, Kelly has developed a repeatable, progressive system that builds clarity, softness, and trust from the ground up.

This retreat is designed to provide an accelerated understanding of that system through direct experience. By working with horses at multiple stages of training, participants gain both the technical knowledge and the embodied feel of refined liberty.

Rather than rushing progress, the retreat focuses on inspiration, and developing an internal reference point for what high-level partnership truly feels like.

WHO THIS RETREAT IS FOR

The Advanced Liberty Immersive Retreat is ideal for:

Intermediate to advanced liberty or bridleless students
Professional and aspiring trainers
Performance-focused riders
Serious horsemanship students
Riders seeking accelerated development

Participants should have a genuine interest in liberty or bridleless work and a willingness to engage deeply in the learning process.

Only a limited number of places are available to ensure personalised mentorship.

THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE

Working With Your Own Horse (or an Unstarted Horse)

Participants begin by installing Kelly’s liberty foundations from the ground up, learning how to create clarity, calmness, and responsiveness that can be replicated at home.

You will learn to develop:

Connection and communication at liberty
Awareness of tension and relaxation signals
Fundamental lateral movements, including shoulder and hindquarter yield, sidepass, and reinback
Confidence through basic obstacle work
For past students, who already have the foundations established, a custom programme will be designed to offer refinement and advancement

This phase builds strong technical understanding and emotional safety for both horse and handler.

Working With an Advanced Liberty Horse

Alongside your own horse, each participant is paired with one of Kelly’s most personal liberty and bridleless horses.

This allows you to experience first-hand what refined liberty feels like in your body and nervous system.

You may work on:

Liberty circles
Soft lateral work at the shoulder
Large-field obstacle and jumping courses
Stay and recall exercises
Parking at the mounting block
Trot–halt–reinback transitions
Figure-eight patterns
Selected advanced movements and tricks (subject to individual horses)

These experiences provide clarity, inspiration, and a tangible reference point for your own training journey.

THE HORSES

Participants will work with some of Kelly’s most accomplished liberty and bridleless horses, including:

Patriotic
Conquistador
Captain
Showtym Moonlight
Showtym Sinatra

All are competition-winning liberty horses. Two of these horses also perform advanced bridleless work, allowing a maximum of two participants to select bridleless as their primary focus (subject to riding level, height and weight).

RETREAT STRUCTURE

Each day is carefully designed to balance intensive learning, private coaching, demonstrations, and recovery.

The program includes:

All private and group lessons
Accommodation
All meals, including fine dining and wine-and-cheese evenings
Daily demonstrations
Mentoring and goal-planning sessions
Professional equine–human portrait shoot with hair and makeup
Action photography from your training sessions
Airport transfers (if flying in)

Every detail is designed to allow you to focus fully on learning and growth.

A TRANSFORMATIONAL EXPERIENCE

This is more than a training clinic. It is a rare opportunity to immerse yourself in refined horsemanship, supported by elite horses, personalised mentorship, and a carefully curated environment.

Many participants describe the retreat as life-changing, providing clarity, confidence, and renewed belief in what is possible with their own horses.

If liberty or bridleless has ever felt out of reach, this experience is designed to change that.

WORKSHOP DETAILS

Duration: 5 Days

Maximum Participants: 6

Requirements: Interest in liberty or bridleless training

Equipment: Supplied

Included: All lessons, accommodation, meals, mentoring, and professional photographs of your experience

Dates: To be confirmed

Location: Taupō, New Zealand

Investment: $2,750 NZD

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