Flanders Fields

[Wim]

Hi,
I'm from Flanders. Is there a list of EE-teachers in Flanders or Holland?
Heather, your book opened a whole new horseworld for me. I knew there had to be something as simple as you described it in your book. And above all that I was not alone  in thinking horses were not earning the treatment my so called teachers were letting me beleve I had to give them ...
At last I have the feeling of flying !!!
Thx  
Wim

[Heather]

Hi Wim,
And thanks for the kind words!! Glad the book has helped!! I hope to start teacher training in Holland this autumn- I already have three teachers there who have been on a couple of courses with me, and are now asking me to start teacher training over there. I have to say that I have found Holland to be the most receptive of all the Continental nations- maybe a bit biased as my partner is Dutch and I do have a lot of friends over there!!

I havent anyone in Flanders, in fact I have only a handful of teachers in England at present, but hope to rectify this too, with teacher trainnig workshops eventually taking up most of my own teaching time, as more of them can go out and spread the word.

Keep an eye on the diary dates for anytihng I am doing over there!!

Sincerely,

Heather

[Wim]

Hi Heather,
Holland is indeed an open and receptive little country. That's maybe because they snooped all our artists, intellectuals and free-thinkers away during the Spanish inquesition   :lol:    No, serious, it's more than regrettable that Flanders isn't so receptive for your ideas, I notice it every day when I try to talk to the dressageriders about EE.  :(  I would very much like to come to Devon to one of your clinics, and when you come to Holland I will be there.
Gratefully  
Wim

[Millie]

Hi Wim,

Interesting that Holland is so receptive yet Flanders, next door, isnt!!! We wil just have to try to change that with time- Holland wasnt always this receptive either!!! My good friend Elma Middel has done a lot to further EE over there, and also an article in the superb Dutch magazine 'Bit' last year really got interest going.

But hope you can make it to Devon first!!!

Sincerely,


Heather, using partner Remmelt's PC in Portugal, where he is signed is as Millie, after 'Dutch Mill' our mare that he rides!!!

[sam]

hallo wim uit het mooie vlaanderenland. and for the rest of the world i will
write further in english.
i know it is very hard to get a teacher over there...i also tried in holland
where i live in the south (brabant). it happens that just today i had contact
with elma (where heather is talking about), and they are trying to get a
clinic in holland with heather, it will probably be somewhere in september.
so keep a look at the dates of the clinics.
bye bye

[Wim]

Hoi Sam, mijn vlakke land, mijn Vlaand'renland... You will be very busy for the moment I guess ... coming from Brabant in Holland ! Carnaval ...
Thank you for the reply, I will keep a look at the dates for sure ! Thx !

  Heather, I will seek contact with Elma. Maybe I can go over there once to get my first real EE-lesson? Now it's a lot of trial and a lot of error ... Sometimes I try to do to much and then the "natural" feeling becomes a rational movement ...  :(  and it's as you describe in your book, we have to do the same movement a 10.000 times before it becomes an automatism   Let us thank heaven that horses are so patient with us  

Kind greet
Wim