Alongside the experience of connection and freedom that Alix experienced when riding, she also understood the importance of classical training. A deep, holistic knowledge of the horse as well as correct seat have always been essential to her. Still today, she is constantly learning about horses and trains regularly to broaden her skills.

 When living in France, she rode at La Jonction in Saint Germain en Laye, where she took all her Galope exams at a young age. This strictly formal tuition on school horses allowed her to establish the clear basics, according to the French Classical principles, with many hours of seat training and slow work (she remembers a lot of walking after years of free gallops in Africa!).

It is also in France where she had the great fortune to train on school masters with Michel Henriquet, famous pupil of Nuno Oliveira. For the first time, she rode Spanish horses and, as Michel Henriquet put it at the time "You have feel, it is time to learn some technique". This classical insight on technique serves her and her clients well to this day.

Age 27, after a few years travelling and working in the corporate world, she decided to follow her dream of working with horses full time. She settled in the UK to undertake her British Horse Society professional qualifications and ended up staying for 10 years to train and work as a British Horse Society Level 4 Senior Coach. This experience gave her the industry know-how to work anywhere and a broad understanding of cross training with the three eventing disciplines of dressage, showjumping and cross-country.

Training under Tim Downes (Fellow of the BHS and International Dressage Judge) and Robert Lovatt (FBHS) at Ingestre Stables she got a great amount of experience in competition horse management and training as well as teaching both clients and professional students. She also worked with Alex (FBHS) and Lee Hudson (Senior Coach of the BHS) where the training was more focused on jumping and eventing, before running her own livery yard in Berkshire. During this time in England, she established a deep knowledge of the scales of training and gained valuable competition experience. She laid the foundations for her own coaching by truly understanding the importance of systematic step by step coaching, goal planning, horse fitness and perseverance, whilst also trusting your instinct and putting the horse's well being first.

For the last twelve years, Alix has been coaching and training horses in Mallorca, Spain, where she lives with her two young daughters.

She teaches (in English, Spanish and French) and rides full time for passionate horse owners, who all want to develop a strong partnership as a foundation for all their performance goals with their horses.

Classical Training and Relaxation have become more evidently the cornerstones of her coaching and riding as she has met many complicated horses damaged by their early training or ignorance towards the nature of the horse.

As awareness is raised in the competition world, an increasing number of competitive riders look for more sustainable ways to develop their horses, Alix´s work is expanding to help a variety of riders looking for a classical foundation to keep their horses healthy.