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Aug 14
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Alizée Froment: From Grand Prix Dressage...

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This Week on In Stride 

Sinead Halpin-Maynard sits down with Alizée Froment to talk about her path from Grand Prix dressage to liberty training, and how she teaches horses to recognize tension in their bodies and find their own way out of it.


Meet the Guest: Alizée Froment 

Alizée Froment is a French liberty trainer, performer, and author who competed internationally in dressage up to Grand Prix level and trained the French National Pony Dressage Team. In 2011 she made her international Grand Prix debut aboard her stallion Mistral du Coussoul, competing at that level for years before retiring him from competition in 2018. Since 2009, Froment has performed neck rope liberty demonstrations for hundreds of thousands of spectators around the world. She now works with sport horses sent to her for emotional and behavioral struggles, runs her own liberty and education programs, and has developed courses with fellow trainer Tristan Tucker on his TRT platform. She is the author of The Horses Who Made Me, released in 2024.


In This Episode, Sinead and Alizée Discuss:

  • How she reads the physical tension behind a horse's fear, anger, or frustration, and teaches them to release it themselves instead of shutting the emotion down
  • Her horses' daily bodywork routine, including stretching, massage, and natural therapies like clay and essential oils, and how it feeds directly into her training decisions each day
  • The moment she stopped chasing performance in competition and started training for the horse in front of her
  • Why she believes horse welfare debates need more listening and less judgment


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