Angelica Hesselius is an internationally renowned reward based horse trainer with a background as an instructor in classical dressage with a great passion for Academic Art of Riding. She specializes in positive reinforcement training for balanced movement in groundwork and riding. Developing proprioception, movement and communication through systematic reward-based strategies. She trains horses, teaches students and coaches colleagues all over the world.

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She has developed new strategies for creating high precision movements and low frustration from the get-go when working with food reinforcers. Passive and active pauses, independent eating and continuous feeding techniques are some of her signature strategies. 

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Angelica has been teaching dressage since 2010 and with an R+ approach since 2016. It is her passion to guide horses and riders towards higher balance. To find both connection and collection together with a horse that loves to train.

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She is one of the founders of The Reward Based Horse Academy  A collaboration with dutch horse trainer Do Groen where the focus will be on creating on longer educational programs to build a strong foundation for your reward based training.
 

Her current projects also include Exploring Nuances together with Eva Bertilsson, with lectures and courses for more advanced horse trainers and behavior geeks curious to explore and expand their training systems. 

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