Kahu Creek Ranch
Now based in Taranaki, providing education in Working Equitation and Equestrian Vaulting in New Zealand.
We love helping to build your skills, and making it fun too!
Vaulting builds awareness, balance, and coordination for human bodies with gymnastic exercises and acrobatic teamwork, progressing to performing dance routines on horseback to music.
Working Equitation develops the horse and rider partnership with Dressage and Ease of Handling through obstacles, following a path of simple progressions that encourages correct movement in a way that makes sense to the horse.
Learn about emotional pathways in horses and how survival instincts affect the body. You will be guided in techniques for nourishing the calming effects of the nervous system, building secure connections, confidence, and resilience that maintains health and emotional well-being.
Weekend clinics by appointment. Available for private or group sessions in the Taranaki region and vicinity.
Our Background
Equestrian Training
Vaulting
Home of the Waimauku Vaulting Club
Vaulting barrel lessons for fitness, balance and awareness
Riding
Rider development through exercises on the lunge
Working Equitation
Horse Training
Building balance and quality of movement
Classical approach
In-hand & lunging
About Us
Belinda Rodriguez is an experienced coach, specialising in the equestrian disciplines of Vaulting and Working Equitation. She founded and managed the Waimauku Vaulting Club and was a founding executive member of Working Equitation New Zealand, Inc. In April 2020 she co-founded Virtual Working Equitation, a format for educating and developing Working Equitation in New Zealand, running online competitions and webinars.
Educator at Equitana Auckland 2019.
Organiser of Virtual Working Equitation and providing instruction for the lower levels.
Equine entertainer at major events including Equidays, Equitana, and horse racing events.
For more information on the Waimauku Vaulting Club. See the Waimauku Vaulting Club website.
For more information on the national organisation Working Equitation New Zealand Inc. See the wenz.nz website.
The first NZ based online Working Equitation competition and educational resource for competitors. Visit Virtual Working Equitation
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Articles & News
- Avoidance vs Shut DownWhen I taught my nervous system clinic recently, an observation arose from a horse owner that caught me a little off guard. I had to think through it for a while before I realised how the misconception had arisen. TheContinue reading “Avoidance vs Shut Down”
- Why ‘Group Think’ doesn’t help our horsesFirstly, let me start by saying that no one is getting everything right all the time. The learning curve for anything, including things we thought we already knew, means that sometimes we make assumptions that are not right, or takeContinue reading “Why ‘Group Think’ doesn’t help our horses”
- Spooking vs Not SpookingI watched a video a little while ago that someone had posted online of a pony coming up to a jump (a very tiny jump as it was), then braking hard and spinning in two different directions whiplashing its riderContinue reading “Spooking vs Not Spooking”
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