The Hatha Equus International Online Program
✅ Three Journeys
✅ Four Levels
✅ One Transformation
Effective soulful & science-backed training for horses of all backgrounds, bodies and histories.
- Where relaxation, fun and true performance shine -
If Your Horse Is...
Cross-Training
...a talented sport horse who doesn't understand showing and only does it for you.
Often exhibits separation anxiety, stiffness, spook and no work-joy.
Restart
...a sensitive soul with a history. You see their true potential (hello, riding in the sunset with you on their back...consensually!) but so far no method has ever truly reached them.
Rehab
...physically and emotionally broken from human ignorance (some of it your own) and with little hope.
...and You Want...
Cross-Training
...a training system that:
✅ strengthens the topline,
✅ protects the joints, and
✅ creates the mental availability needed for brilliance.
Restart
...the skillset to decode their every behavior and help them feel safe and sound in their body again.
Rehab
✅ camaraderie,
✅ love,
✅ fun AND
✅ badass, guilt-free results.
...then there is a Place for You Here!
Our online program blends nervous-system literacy, injury-preventing biomechanics, behavior science and mindfulness into a path that transforms horses into the most fulfilled version of themselves.
This is not another “fix the behavior” program.
This is a root-cause, horse-empowering, spirit-lifting, emotionally-intelligent path.
Training for the Whole Horse — Body, Mind & Emotions
Here, every horse is seen in their full complexity — biomechanical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. And every human becomes a more grounded, aware, emotionally elastic partner.
The Three Journeys Inside the Program
The Cross-Training Playground™
For sport horses and active partners who need:
✔ better balance
✔ stronger toplines
✔ emotional regulation
✔ agility, mobility & coordination
✔ intrinsic motivation
✔ brilliant, joyful performance
This curriculum builds the well-conditioned athlete who loves their job and stays sound through intelligent movement.
The Restart Playground™
For horses recovering from:
✔ trauma (emotional or physical)
✔ injury
✔ postural dysfunction
✔ confusion, overwhelm, or shutdown
✔ poor movement patterns
This curriculum rebuilds the horse from the inside out — the nervous system, the fascia, the balance, the trust, the hope, the curiosity.
The Rehab Playground™
For young horses, restarts, and horses needing safer, softer, clearer under-saddle foundations:
✔ mounting confidence
✔ tack confidence
✔ basic space conversations
✔ forward commitment
✔ clarity, communication & safety
✔ seat education for the rider
This curriculum re-patterns the entire ridden experience so your horse doesn’t just accept riding — they welcome it.
Every Journey Moves Through Four Levels of Horse–Human Mastery
Each Level has goals for the horse and the human, and each one represents a major developmental leap in emotional safety, athletic capacity, clarity, trust, and useful practical skills.
Level 1: Relaxed, Focused and Safe
Horse Goals
✅ Calm & self-aware
✅ Focused on the human when requested
✅ “My human is awesome — and I can talk to them kindly” attitude
✅ Understanding/expressing basic space conversations
✅ Positive association with arena work
✅ Positive association with tack & mounting block
✅ Stationing
✅ Committed forward Mobility (1)
✅ Topline development (1)
✅ Balance (1)
Human Goals
✅ Elastic Energy (state your needs without stiffness/anger)
✅ Read your horse like an open book
✅ Delivering food rewards without creating cookie monsters
✅ Understanding and implementing shaping
✅ Mastering cues and release timing in R- interactions
Level 1 is where anxious horses breathe, reactive horses soften, confused horses understand, and humans learn to listen first, ask second.
Level 2 is where movement becomes mutual.
Ideas fly back and forth.
Joy enters the chat.
Level 2: Confident, Knowledgeable & Engaged
Horse Goals
✅ Self-organized collection (1)
✅ Hind-end activation
✅ Balance
✅ Suspended trot
✅ Mobility (2)
✅ Agility (2)
✅ Cardio (1)
✅ Strength (1)
✅ Topline development (2)
✅ Willingness in welcoming tack and rider
✅ Trailer Loading on line
✅ Softly accepting of human leadership in human-led patterns on the ground and in the saddle
Human Goals
✅ Cues softening in human-led patterns
✅ Rider’s seat improvement
✅ Beginner Context Designer Mindset
Level 3: Strong, Balanced and Eager
Horse Goals
✅ Self-organized collection (2)
✅ Hind-end engagement
✅ Balance (2)
✅ Mobility (3)
✅ Agility (3)
✅ Cardio (2)
✅ Topline development (3)
✅ Joy in more collected movements with a rider
✅ Trailer loading at liberty
Human Goals
✅ Rider’s seat skyrocket
✅ Whispered cues from the ground and saddle in human-led activities. Minimal usage of reins
✅ Understanding & Embracing variability mindset & Creatively composing horse-specific appropriate workouts
Level 3 develops two powerful, supple, present athletes who move with intention — on the ground and under saddle - together.
Level 4: Athletic, Co-Creational & Forever-Sound
Horse Goals
✅ Balance (3)
✅ Mobility (4)
✅ Topline development (4)
✅ Complex movements in self-carriage
✅ Long attention span
✅ Maximum resiliency, courage & self-efficacy
✅ Ability to stay sound and adaptive
✅ Co-Creational bridleless communication
Human Goals
✅ Co-Creational bridleless communication
✅ Conducting level-appropriate dressage and jumping patterns with whole-horse awareness
✅ The tools, clarity, and confidence to keep your horse sound, motivated & growing for life
Level 4 is where all Journeys converge into a well-rounded, emotionally available, biomechanically strong, joyful partnership.
What's Included in the Monthly Membership
Hatha Equus International Online Program
100% risk free - 15 day 'pay only if it works policy'
Here's what you get:
Short, clear, structured step-by-step tutorials added weekly
Science-deepening appendixes
Journey-specific membership channels:
Upload video snippets.
Receive written or video feedback.
Attend feedback Zoom calls.
Get unstuck fast.
A supportive community (Zero judgment. Infinite cheerleading.)
Live arena Zoom lessons with Giorgia (add-on)
Early-stage incubator advantages - Your questions and your horse actively influence what gets created next. Your journey literally shapes the program.
Pilot Price Just $59/month
Oh my gosh, we just had the coolest success!
"Last year I thought she would never trot.
Now she’s pulling out all of her best dragon tricks, cantering and collecting.
My heart is full".
Come join a fun program,
a supportive community &
➡️ throwing the rule book out ⬅️
to get the results you crave!
"Compassionate, effective, and quietly revolutionary"
We put the horse first...without compromising performance.
Meet the Coach
Giorgia Ghizzoni
✅ Equine Rehab Specialist
✅ Cross-Training Coach
"I didn’t come to this work through ribbons or rankings. I came to it through a horse who said no".
Here's Giorgia's story if you prefer reading it 📖⬇️
"My horse Sombra, wanted nothing to do with me. As soon as the lead rope would go off, she was gone. I stared at her butt for a year.
If that’s not a ‘horsey f*** you’, I don’t know what is 😔
She tried to jump a gate with me on her once just because I asked her to walk under saddle.
I could have made her stick around. Or walk forward under saddle 🤷♀️ I knew the ‘techniques’, if you know what I mean.
But what I really wanted - even more than tangible results - was reciprocity.
Together with my business partner Elizabeth Riecks, I studied everything I could find — from movement science, to behavior modification, to nervous system regulation — testing, integrating, and translating it into a language horses can genuinely relate to: mindfulness, positivity, peace, fun, and the occasional giggle.
What emerged was a way of training that doesn’t force the body or the spirit — it invites both to unfold.
And that’s the work we share: helping horses and humans find joy, balance, and belonging in movement again."
How This Works:
Sign Up!
Fill in the application form and wait to hear if you are accepted to the pilot cohort.
2. Two-Week Trial ($0), then Get Billed $59/month
Only If It Works
You get 2 weeks free access (with credit card down) to our Level 1 curriculum.
If you have:
✅watched at least 80% of the videos
✅ attended 2 live calls
✅ submitted at least 4 video entries in the community
...and still your horse's relaxed focus OR forward haven't improved...
...then you can cancel before you get charged.
We believe in our curriculum so much that we're taking the entire risk for you.
NOTE! This policy is conditional to your horse and you having no health impediments to the implementation of our techniques.
3. Progress Along the Cross-Training Playground Journey:
⭐️ short and to-the point video tutorials
⭐️Supporting printable PDFs
⭐️ clear levels and goals
⭐️ weekly zoom calls for feedback on your video-entries
⭐️ an amazing like-minded online community
...at the lowest-ever discounted rate, in exchange for:
⭐️ honest feedback on the teaching materials and program structure
⭐️ your entries available as case studies for our marketing
⭐️ one or more (ideally, video) raving review/s, if you believe that the program deserves it
4. Progress Through the Levels (Tests and Certificates of Completion!) and Enjoy the Benefits for Life!
Not only your horse and you are going to be athletic, present, and confident co-creation partners at home and in the show-ring, but you'll have the skills (and the community for accountability!) to keep the work up for the rest of your life together!
sign-up questions
WHAT IS YOUR CANCELLATION POLICY?
You get 2 weeks free access (with credit card down) to our Level 1 curriculum. You get billed $59/month on Day 15.
➡️ If you have:
✅ watched at least 80% of the videos
✅ attended 2 live calls
✅ submitted at least 4 video entries in the community
➡️ ...and still your horse's relaxed focus OR forward haven't improved...
➡️ ...then you can cancel before you get charged.
We believe in our curriculum so much that we're taking the entire risk for you.
NOTE! This policy is conditional to your horse and you having no health impediments to the implementation of our techniques.
Our curriculum cannot be used in replacement of species appropriate whole-horse management and care. It works great IN HARMONY WITH the above.
HOW IS THIS DIFFERENT?
The word 'Playground' is intentional.
For children, a playground isn’t just where they burn energy — it’s where they build themselves. Every swing, climb, and balance beam teaches more than coordination.
It teaches courage, adaptability, and the joy of trying again.
They learn to lead, to follow, to collaborate, boundaries.
They invent, improvise, and grow strong — without ever noticing they’re “training.”
That’s the inspiration behind this program.
For horses AND riders, our Playground offers the same freedom to explore, strengthen, and learn through curiosity...together!
They build mobility, balance, courage, and focus — not through repetition, but through discovery.
IS THIS A COOKIE-CUTTER APPROACH? AN A-Z METHOD VALID FOR ALL HORSES?
In our experience, it IS valid for all horses because it is NOT a cookie-cutter approach.
Co-Creational Horsemanship is a toolkit. It draws from different frameworks to give you as many tools as possible to learn to address your horse's unique needs.
In this program in particular, we lay the curriculum out in a linear way to help the human brain, but our goal is to help you become an independent cross-training designer. The sooner you don't need us anymore, the sooner we'll have done our job 🤗
WHAT IS THE NECESSARY TIME COMMITMENT ON MY PART FOR THIS PROGRAM?
We have found that the sweet spot for your time AND results maximization is when you dedicate about 2h/week to this curriculum (and as usual, the more time you give it, the quicker you can progress through the goals and levels!).
We try to be 100% minimalistic on our video tutorials, so that you don't have to spend much free time away from your horse. In fact, some videos are to be watched AT the barn WITH YOUR HORSE almost like a guided meditation.
WHAT IF I CANNOT COMMIT RIGHT NOW?
This discounted rate will not be back again, BUT we hope this program will have a long life cycle and that you'll get to be a part of the change, when the time will feel right! If you'd like to be kept in the loop about this please submit this form and we'll add you to the waitlist.
I HAVE A HARD TIME WITH ONLINE LEARNING BUT I'D LOVE TO HOST A CLINIC
We'd be glad to talk! Please book a discovery call with Giorgia at this link.
HAVE QUESTIONS?
For any question, please contact Giorgia at giorgia @ hathaequus . com or call/text Hatha Equus at 720-600-2640
