Bruno grew up in the city of Zurich where he began working with horses at the early age of 6. His first experience came from leading a scrap iron collector’s draft horses. Over the years, his duties grew to include harnessing, unharnessing, feeding, and grooming until, as a teenager, he began riding the draft horses as well. Since Bruno could not afford formal riding training at the time, Horst Stern’s 1961 book titled "So verdient man sich die Sporen" (This is How You Earn the Spurs), became his guide to "self-taught" riding training. During this period, he rode mainly on extensive rides in the Swiss Jura and occasionally on vacations.

At around the age of 25, priorities changed and many years followed in which family, children, and work took priority. Thus, riding and handling horses remained on the to-do list until, towards the end of his professional career, Bruno took his first riding lesson. It was the first time he had been in an arena with such strange letters he didn’t understand. Many riding lessons later, however, he now has an understanding of voltes, circles, second hoofbeats, left hand and the like. Since he only started his actual riding training at retirement age, there is still a lot of room for improvement and thus the motivation to keep advancing.

In parallel to his riding training, Bruno has completed various other horse training courses in recent years. This includes extensive training in groundwork and horsemanship, courses in dual activation and equikinetics, seminars in horse assessment, bits and bridles, as well as seminars on Tellington TTouch. Along the way, he came across The Masterson Method®, which fascinated him from the start. Bruno’s experience and lessons over the past few years have given him the skills to maintain a respectful yet goal-oriented approach to horses and the ability to deal with difficult horses*. Horse related further education and training has not yet been completed, for there are still many topics he would like to explore.

Bruno works with a wide variety of horses not only in Switzerland, but also in Spain, where he spends several weeks every year on a horse ranch.

**As is well known, the problem is often at the other end of the reins. This is where Bruno benefits from his many years of professional experience and training in various management functions including management responsibility for small and large teams.

Phone: 41 79 3409111

Email: [email protected]

MM Website: https://mastersonmethod.com/practitioner/bruno-ryffel-mmcp/

As a child I wanted to be a millionaire, an astronaut or doing something with animals. Sometimes I had a dream that I was riding a horse from school to my house. But that was unthinkable: horses were unreachable. We didn’t have the money, we didn’t know anyone with horses and my mother was afraid of horses. So I fulfilled the dream of my parents to study well, becoming a manager and earning a good lot of money. I lived my life – thinking I was a happy person because I had a good job and health. Until 7 years ago; I lost my job in a large reorganization and didn’t find another well paid job.

With all the free time I had, I started to study horse nutrition (because every rider should know what to feed his horses), horse massage and shiatsu for horses. With still no job, my husband supported me to start my own little company in helping horses. I could do a lot for them with the things I knew but there were also a lot of ‘simple’ problems I couldn’t help them with.

There was a little pony with health issues because she couldn’t eat very well. The dentist came every 6 months but "there was nothing else" to do for her. I found a video on the internet of Jim Masterson on the TMJ release. I tried it and she could eat a lot more than before. Her health was improving through this simple exercise. I went to Equitana in Germany to see a demonstration by Jim. It touched me deeply, not only because of what I learned but also the connection he had with the horse during the demonstration. Afterwards I spoke to Vicky Devlin about the pony and she showed me another exercise I could do on the pony and gave me the advice: never give up.

And so, I started my Masterson journey, with a weekend in the Netherlands with Chaja Voest-Kolthoff, five days in Oxfordshire with Jim himself and Vicky Devlin, a lot of horses and coaches in the fieldwork and finally – after four times changing of the final dates through the virus – I could do my certification with Walter Saxe in Germany.

I like The Masterson Method® because I like to work softly with horses and still have huge improvements. For me it is giving Passion and Performance back to horses.

I’m living in the Netherlands, at about 4 miles away from the Belgium border. I have 80% customers in Belgium and 20% in the Netherlands. The Netherlands: Provinces Zeeland, Noord-Brabant, Limburg en Zuid-Holland.

Phone: 31 6 5779 4223

Email: [email protected]

Website:https://goedvoorjepaard.nl