ALTERRENO EVOLUTION™
Four-week post-graduate intensive: refined development for accomplished professionals, starting 11 March 2028

Evolution™ is a post-graduate experience for established professionals who want to deepen their practice. Over four weeks participants work alongside Angelika Schneider and visiting world-famous practitioners in a setting that treats learning as a path towards service and humility.
€19,900 excluding VAT

FROM PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE TO MASTERY WISDOM

Evolution™ offers a rare chance for established professionals to learn with senior figures whose long practice has shaped insight that sits beyond standard teaching formats. It supports refinement of existing knowledge through careful inquiry, steady awareness work and contact with sport’s upper levels, following the view that deeper understanding leads to clearer service and greater humility.

The Structure
Programme

Four-week post-graduate intensive for established professionals seeking further development and personal stretch. The work centres on philosophical understanding, subtle energetic communication, refined classical principles and the idea of service to future generations. The programme supports integration of learning into coherent professional practice and includes a quiet philosophical strand that links technical skill with purpose and service.

WHAT IS INCLUDED:
Daily Schedule: around eight hours per day, six days a week, following a structured curriculum
Small Cohorts: four to eight participants, ensuring personalised attention throughout the programme
Personal Support: tutor, butler service, cook service with meals and beverages included during the days of training
Alterreno Evolution™ Certification: receive the Alterreno Evolution™, the highest certification issued by Alterreno
World class equestrian education: a programme and certification that brings together the upper levels of classical training with an expanded approach to horsemanship developed by Angelika Schneider, framing technical work within a path that links knowledge, service and humility
You Will Learn
Core Focus Areas

Evolution™ examines the philosophical foundations that underpin effective horsemanship. It considers the difference between compliance and partnership drawing on Nuno Oliveira’s distinction between shaman and sorcerer. It investigates the relationship between freedom and structure, submission and cooperation and dominance and leadership. Students review their own methods, recognise unconscious patterns and refine their approach through deeper philosophical understanding. This combined intellectual and experiential study alters practice at its base.

SELF REFINEMENT:
Examining personal methodology: identifying unconscious patterns, assumptions and habitual responses that limit effectiveness
Partnership versus compliance: distinguishing genuine cooperation from surface obedience and understanding the implications
Freedom within structure: exploring the paradox of liberation through appropriate boundaries and clear communication
Classical masters’ wisdom: studying the teachings of Oliveira, Baucher, Steinbrecht and La Guérinière with attention to contemporary application
⁠Integrating understanding: translating philosophical insight into practical work and refining the entire professional approach
GESTURE TO ENERGY
Development

The programme develops subtle awareness of energetic communication that sits beneath physical interaction. Students study how horses respond to intention, focus, breath and internal state before any physical aid is applied. They refine the capacity to notice small responses and adjust communication before escalation is required. Work is done with well-prepared horses able to reflect these attempts with clarity, which helps reveal areas that need further refinement. This approach cultivates feel that cannot be conveyed through standard teaching methods.

STRUCTURE:
Week 1: Intention and Internal State- study how mental clarity sets the frame for all work. Examine how breath and emotional steadiness shape the message received before any aid. Daily practice links attention, intention and internal regulation
Week 2: Reading Small Signals- develop awareness of faint responses that appear before obvious change. Work on timing, pressure and release through early recognition. Focus remains on adjustment before escalation
Week 3: Horses as Mirrors- work with well-prepared horses that reflect the practitioner’s patterns with precision. Identify habits in focus, tension and timing. Use these reflections to refine communication and create steadier internal organisation
Week 4: Feel before Method- shift from mechanical technique to cultivated feel. Study how inner steadiness supports clear outward communication. Bring all elements together into one integrated approach that shapes professional practice
Evolution
Key Benefits

During Evolution™ students receive direct mentorship with Angelika Schneider, drawing on more than forty years of sustained practice, supported by input from influential visiting practitioners whose classical technique and upper-level experience broaden the frame of study. They observe expert work at close range to understand decision-making, timing and subtle adjustment, then engage in focused discussion and inquiry that addresses questions requiring advanced understanding and careful thought. Throughout the process they receive guidance in applying these insights to their own way of working, refining a distinct professional approach and replacing limiting habits with clearer practice.

WHAT YOU GAIN:
Direct mentorship with Angelika Schneider: access to understanding developed through more than forty years of sustained practice
Input from influential visiting practitioners: learning drawn from classical technique and the upper levels of horsemanship, including training methods and mental preparation
Observation of expert work: watching applied decision-making, timing and subtle adjustment
Focused discussion and inquiry: exploring questions that need advanced understanding and examining the finer points of horsemanship
Support for personal integration: applying insight to one’s own way of working, refining a distinct professional approach and replacing limiting habits with clearer practice

BECOMING WHO WE WERE MEANT TO BE

A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.

Alterreno Evolution™ goes beyond a programme: it offers a transformative experience. Four weeks living and training intensively with horses, guided by world-renowneded professionals will foster growth in every rider, enhancing their skills, understanding and life.

Immersion

Waking with horses, caring for them daily, inhabiting equestrian rhythm completely transforms understanding. This isn't visiting, it's becoming.

Tuscany

Eight weeks in one of Earth's most beautiful countryside supports transformation. Nature, beauty, history create space for profound change.

Limited

Maximum eight students means every person receives proper mentorship. Instructors know each student's challenges and style.

Support

Accommodation, cook service and personal tutor are included. Students focus entirely on learning without logistical concerns distracting them from transformation.

Evolution™

Alterreno Evolution™ Certification will distinguish graduates in the equestrian world and shows commitment to ethical, relationship-based approach.

Meaning

We didn't invest our lives for it all to be lost. Certification holds no real value unless paired with the conscious approach we’ve dedicated ourselves to developing and refining.

STRENGTHENING YOUR VOICE IS THE HARDEST OF TASKS

Evolution™ is when you and your voice are one

Strengthening a voice is demanding work, whether it is technical, interpretive or philosophical. It means stripping away habits, examining assumptions and choosing what is worth saying and how to say it with clarity rather than force: this is Evolution™.

Recognised

Alterreno Evolution™ graduates hold internationally recognised BHS and the distinctive Alterreno Certification, establishing their profile worldwide.

Evolved

Evolution™ represents the pinnacle of one's professional development. Participants emerge with a refined curiosity, distinguishing them as the best student of themselves.

Future-bound

The Evolution™ represents a significant commitment. This investment pays dividends throughout your career, providing solid skills and a professional network.