Roundness™ guides students towards coaching ability and advanced riding mastery through an eight-week residential programme, preparing them for BHS Stage 3 certification. Students work with multiple horses to build confidence with varying temperaments and training challenges. The programme covers advanced lateral movements, jumping refinement, work in hand and liberty training. Completion of Foundation™ is required.
€33,900 excluding VAT
Roundness™ represents the transition from learning to teaching, from executing correctly to understanding why. The programme emphasises recognising the difference between superficial compliance and genuine partnership, as Master Nuno Oliveira taught in distinguishing shaman from sorcerer.
An eight-week residential programme including preparation for BHS Stage 3 certification. The programme includes advanced flatwork, including half-pass preparation, refined jumping, cross-country and free-jumping sessions. Students work with different horses throughout the course, developing adaptability and confidence. Prerequisite: Completion of Roundness™ or equivalent BHS certification.
The programme emphasises developing a feel for softness in contact with the rope at any distance. It includes advanced groundwork with obstacles and work on emotional and physical fitness. Work in hand covers overstepping, jaw softening, leg-yield and shoulder-in from the ground. Liberty work progresses from enclosed areas to larger spaces, including changes of direction and locating one’s handler when working with multiple horses. Trailer loading and advanced groundwork prepare for professional-level capability.
Across the eight-week progression students reconnect with core skills through orientation, safety guidance followed by a review of groundwork. Training then develops communication and pattern work before refining feel, timing and impulsion. Imagination is introduced through adaptable pattern work. Suppleness is developed through lateral work including leg-yield, shoulder-in, travers and renvers. The clover-leaf pattern improves control and counter-canter supports balance and jumping progress with cross-country elements. Hack work builds confidence while canter training emphasises balance, transition quality and consistent impulsion.
Students begin developing coaching capability and work towards Stage 3 teaching certification. They learn to analyse horse–rider partnerships on mental, emotional and physical levels and to identify strategies that support the human–horse relationship. The course introduces an approach for assessing situations, recognising issues and offering practical solutions while fostering an approach that is both empathetic and analytical. The programme emphasises creating a safe learning environment, delivering effective feedback and adapting teaching to different learning styles and personalities.
ALTERRENO Roundness™ VALUE
Alterreno Roundness™ goes beyond a programme: it offers a transformative experience. Eight weeks living and training intensively with horses, guided by world-renowneded professionals will foster growth in every rider, enhancing their skill, understanding and connection.
Waking with horses, caring for them daily, inhabiting equestrian rhythm completely transforms understanding. This isn't visiting, it's becoming.
Eight weeks in one of Earth's most beautiful countryside supports transformation. Nature, beauty, history create space for profound change.
Maximum eight students means every person receives proper mentorship. Instructors know each student's challenges and style.
Accommodation, cook service and personal tutor are included. Students focus entirely on learning without logistical concerns distracting them from transformation.
The BHS Stage 3 enables professional employment in riding schools, livery yards, assistant instructor positions across 26 countries internationally.
Alterreno Roundness™ Certification will distinguish graduates in the equestrian world and shows commitment to ethical, relationship-based approach.
CONSOLIDATE TECHNIQUE THROUGH PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Roundness™ inspires you to become both a better rider and a more effective communicator: a certification holds no real value unless paired with the conscious methodology we’ve dedicated ourselves to developing and refining.
Alterreno Roundness™ graduates hold internationally recognised BHS and the distinctive Alterreno Certification, establishing their profile worldwide.
This eight-week intensive course establishes the groundwork for decades of professional achievement, shaping skills and networks that endure across a long-term career.
The Roundness™ represents a significant commitment. This investment pays dividends throughout your career, providing solid skills and a professional network.