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Welcome  
 

 

About the Online Academy

The Sky Is Not The Limit

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The Sky Is Not The Limit Online Academy was established by Mirka Crew in 2023 in efforts to provide her students with easy access to virtual horsemanship education from anywhere in the World. 

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The Online Courses were created for students who either wish to attend a clinic, but are unable to, or for those who are looking for continuing their education after attending Mirka's clinic. The content is divided into THEORY and PRACTICE. The theoretical Foundation Courses, Modules 1 and Module 2, set the students' mindset for successful sessions with their horse. The practical Online Courses, Posture Focused Training™ and Liberty, give you access to;

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* professionally video taped instructions with excellent audio quality

*step-by-step format

* divided by Levels 

*checklists

*assessment

*certificate upon completion 

*questions answered by Mirka

* community of students with similar interests

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The Groups are an important part of the Online Courses here on the website (without the  need to be a part of any social media group). The Groups are a very useful platform for our Online Academy students where they get to know each other virtually, support and encourage each other, ask Mirka questions, share their progress, highlights, the aha moments and much more. It's a lot about the journey and having the added community support is very important. 

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Photo Credit: Sedrick Hicks - PS91 Digital Arts
 

 The Benefits of the Online Academy

 

*Study from anywhere in the World! You just need access to the internet and have an electronic device which will play videos.

 

*Improve the quality of your partnership with your horse through clarity,  understanding, connection, responsiveness, relaxation and balance/posture.

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*Learn new techniques and maneuvers through a step-by-step program of small isolations at your and your horse's level.

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*Learn a nice balance between positive and negative reinforcement while working with your horse.

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*Feeling stuck? Whether it's due to your mindset (fear, lack of confidence, afraid to make mistakes, worrying about what others think, feeling like you aren't talented enough or good enough,...) or you aren't sure how to go to the next level, this is the right place to get help!

 

Who is this for? Horse lovers who's priority is the relationship with their horses, who desire to gain a momentum towards a deeper connection and harmony, while simultaneously improving their horse's self-carriage, resulting in the horse's healthier posture and many beautiful feel good moments for both. 

How can I help you? I help resolve disconnected horse-human relationships, by addressing the causes of tension, anxiety and stress for both the horses and their human partners. I also help resolve the horse's poor self-carriage/posture (tight hollow backs, leaning in or out/lack of balance, too much weight over the front end, lack of engagement), which would prevent the horses from moving in harmony with their human partner. I go deeper, not wider. Too many people are like little squirrels looking for nuts. If it isn't working they quickly change to something different. So many times the results are hidden in going deeper. Strengthening the foundation more. Aiming for a higher quality of the foundation.

MY STORY. How did all this come around? 
To get great with horses I knew I had to work with a lot of them. I spent the past 25 years training 8-12 horses a day. I dedicated thousands of hours to figuring out what worked, but more importantly what didn't! Once I eliminated enough of what didn't work, I started finding myself in the midst of stunning moments of connection and harmony with my horses a lot more often.


 I studied natural horsemanship methods and I learned from many World-renowned mentors of different specialities (colt starting, liberty, dressage, reining, jumping,...). On top of that as a young ambitious trainer, I wanted to prove to the the rest of the World that I was worthy of having horses sent to me for training, by encouraging clients to send me their "problem horses" - horses with bolting, bucking, rearing issues, horses who would shiver in their stalls if a person walked in there. While I was able to help all of them, the process seemed at times way too hard for me and the horses. While every horse taught me something new, my feel, timing, strategies and techniques improved, and I consistently placed TOP 5 in national competitions, I always wondered, why was it still such a struggle at times for the horses to come around?

I learned horse psychology from natural horsemanship studies, but I was missing important education about how to help horses use their bodies in a more effective way, to help prevent leaning, to resolve tension, to improve engagement and especially their balance!

I immersed myself in education on how to improve the
horse's self-carriage. I am not talking about holding the horse in that self carriage. I had the theory from the books, the practical lessons with my mentors and then I added my intuition to it while working with my horses.

The results were beyond what I ever expected. Even beyond what one of my most inspirational and influential mentors thought was possible and definitely what I had always dreamed about doing. I gave myself the green light, the permission to explore a new, unknown to me, territory. I was certain it was possible. I had a vision.

I repelled all internal as well as external doubts. I trained a mustang from the wild in 100 days to dance at liberty in self-carriage in a beautiful collection, without anything on her. No bridle, no lead line and she performed this flawlessly at liberty in front of 3,000 raving fans.

The impossible became possible and I realized that the sky is NOT the limit. I realized how much our limiting beliefs can hold us back and prevent us from achieving amazing things.

If I can train a wild mustang to dance without tack in a 100 days,
imagine what YOU can do with your horse with my help! Since then, I have introduced this approach to hundreds of my students and other horses with breath taking results. I have helped many people who were stuck in the same place with their horse for years, not for lack of trying and learning, but for the lack of the right strategy.  

Are you in search of:

*Clarity * Connection *Willing Partnership *Harmony *Self-Carriage?

Then you are in the right place!
 

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