Clarity Creates Confidence
How the Straightness Training Academy helps you develop real skills STep by STep
Learn Straightness Training STep by STep
With the Straightness Training Academy, you learn to recognize your horse’s natural asymmetry and understand what your horse needs to become more balanced.
Step by step, you develop the knowledge, skills, and strategies to rebalance your horse through gymnastic exercises.
By working with your horse’s nature instead of against it, you create more balance in body, mind, heart, and soul.
Choose Your Path
Two Proven Pathways to Grow with Straightness Training
The Straightness Training Academy offers a structured learning journey for riders who want to deepen their understanding of Straightness Training and create real change with their horses.
Whether your goal is to master ST with your own horse or to eventually teach the method to others, the ST Academy provides a clear path forward. Choose the pathway that fits your goals and start building your knowledge, skills, and experience step by step:
The Mastery Path
For riders who want to master STÂ with their own horse.Â
The Mastery Program is a one-year training journey where you learn the Straightness Training method from the inside out, developing the knowledge, skills, and confidence to create real results with your horse.
The Certification Path
For riders who want to go further and turn their passion into a profession.Â
The Instructor program is a one-year certification journey where you’ll go from passionate rider to certified Straightness Training Instructor, becoming qualified, confident, and ready to teach.
Your Transformation is Our Success!
It's our mission, to help you transform into the confident horse trainer - or instructor - you're meant to be. Â
In the Straightness Training Academy, we already helped thousands of people all over the world.Â
And we'd be honored to work with you too.
Riders Around the World Train with Straightness TrainingÂ
Proven success with 100+ horse breeds — here’s a glimpse of what it looks like...
Lippizan
Irish Sport Horse
OTTB
Paint
The Journey from Struggle to Mastery
Make it happen STep by STep:
Get Clarity
Recognize and understand your horse's natural asymmetry.
Get Confidence
Learn how to rebalance your horse with clear and logical STeps.
Get Results
Optimize your knowledge and skills, so you can actualize your horse's potential.
Get Harmony
Create balance, togetherness, and a stronger connection with your horse.
Created by Marijke de Jong
Marijke de Jong is the founder of Straightness Training and the creator of the Straightness Training Academy.
For more than two decades, she has dedicated her life to studying the natural asymmetry of horses and developing a systematic approach to help riders create balance and harmony with their horse.
Today, the Straightness Training Academy helps riders and instructors across the globe apply Straightness Training, and continue learning together.
Join a Worldwide Community of Riders
Straightness Training is practiced by riders around the world who share a passion for improving their horses’ balance, health, and well-being.
Inside the Straightness Training Academy, you'll learn alongside a supportive community of riders and instructors who are walking the same path toward mastery.
Together we learn, train, and grow, STep by STep, in a horse-friendly way.
 Ready to Start Your Straightness Training Journey?
Whether your goal is to transform your horse or to eventually teach Straightness Training to others, the Straightness Training Academy offers a clear path forward.
Start building your knowledge, skills, and confidence, today.