Something for everyone

• Competition riders
• Pleasure riders and complete beginners
• Those who feel they are stuck at the same level
• Admirers of horses who are held back by fear.
• Therapeutic work using the horse as a tool.

Choose the rewarding training that your horse would choose and realise your full potential – redefine your limits !
 

• Courses from 1 to 5 days, our popular and highly succesful
  
  classical riding with equi-energetics
  
  
  
• Courses co-operating with other professionals
  
  liberty training
  life coaching using horses
  
  from summer 2010 our program will also include -
  " make friends with your fear " combining equi-energetics and hypnotherapy
  " make-over, inside and out " build your self esteem with a new look plus new outlook
  watch our courses page for more information
  
  starting from May 2010 we will be offering residencial courses
  
  
• Individual lessons or sessions including our much loved meditation on horseback
  
  
• Trail riding / trekking enjoy the wild beauty of the Sierra de Agua
  
  
• Training horses, starting youngsters and retraining
  
  
• Livery and boarding if you want to bring your own horse on a course
  

Our top priority is the enjoyment and fulfilment of our students along with a huge respect for the horse and insistence on maintaining his dignity.

For more information, sample course schedule and prices see our Courses page.

Our location in the breathtaking mountain scenery close to Alora, Malaga, Andalucia will enhance your experience of peace and relaxation - see our Images of Andalucia Gallery.

Proprietor and chief instructor Susan Harden has 38 years experience in the horse world. Starting with an obsessive love of ponies from an early age, she progressed through Pony Club onto show jumping and eventing. After moving to Spain in the late 1980's her imagination was captured by the spirit of the Spanish horse and her focus came more onto dressage - especially with the discovery of the work of Nuno Oliveira.

For the last 20 years she has trained horses full time and though recently has dedicated more time to teaching riders still finds time to work several horses every day. Susan takes every opportunity to keep redefining her own limits and still finds magic in the daily work with each horse.

Apart from horses ( which actually leave little time for other things ) Susan enjoys her children, flamenco dancing, martial arts and studying/ training as a therapist.

" There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man "
Winston Churchill





The horse gives us a wonderful opportunity to be more authentic and total in our lives.

To communicate successfully with the horse we have to learn to trust our instincts and feelings if we are to have any chance of reacting fast enough. If we are too much “ in the head ”, analysing each situation, we miss the moment , the horses, of course is present , in the moment.
Beginning just by being more aware and through meditation we start to connect with our own true nature, then we can really connect with nature and the horse.
If we commit ourselves to this learning it has advantages in all areas of our lives including :
Enhanced physical, emotional and spiritual health
Feeling more vibrant and alive
Improved posture and composure
Clear communication & self expression
Increased self esteem

The interaction with horses, their awe inspiring power, grace, pure spirit and straightforward honesty is the ideal mirror for personal development and refining our sensory capacity
During this work it is possible emotional issues come up and we can use the opportunity to drop the ego and take a look inside
Here at La Luz we work in conjunction with professionals in the fields of psychotherapy, hypnosis, life coaching and physiotherapy. For anyone interested, these sessions can be incorporated into the training


Be who you are, cherish your dignity and let your light shine.