I jump
for my
dreams.
Olympic show jumper, author of the Butterfly Method®, and mother of twins. A thirty-year conversation with horses — from São Paulo paddocks to the sand of Aachen.
BASED
Wachtberg, DE
CURRENT PARTNER
Vertigo du Desert
LANGUAGES
5 fluent
SYDNEY 2000✦ATHENS 2004✦BEIJING 2008✦LONDON 2012✦RIO 2016✦BUTTERFLY METHOD®✦FEI #272✦VERTIGO DU DESERT✦SYDNEY 2000✦ATHENS 2004✦BEIJING 2008✦LONDON 2012✦RIO 2016✦BUTTERFLY METHOD®✦FEI #272✦VERTIGO DU DESERT✦SYDNEY 2000✦ATHENS 2004✦BEIJING 2008✦LONDON 2012✦RIO 2016✦BUTTERFLY METHOD®✦FEI #272✦VERTIGO DU DESERT✦SYDNEY 2000✦ATHENS 2004✦BEIJING 2008✦LONDON 2012✦RIO 2016✦BUTTERFLY METHOD®✦FEI #272✦VERTIGO DU DESERT✦
5
OLYMPIC GAMES
Sydney → Rio
150K
FOLLOWERS
90% outside Portugal
40+
COUNTRIES
students worldwide
30
YEARS IN SPORT
still every morning
FIELD NOTES · APR 12
What Aachen taught me about patience.
Three strides before the combination I almost changed my mind. Vertigo knew — and he waited.
METHOD · JAN 15
The Butterfly, ten years later.
A method is never finished. It’s a promise to keep looking at the eight aspects of partnership.
ARCHIVE · 1983
The first ribbon, and who held the reins.
A photograph from the São Paulo farm, and the grandfather who taught me to breathe between fences.
ON PHILOSOPHY —
“A horse knows before you do. The Butterfly Method® is simply the quiet between intention and the jump — where the partnership actually lives.
— LUCIANA DINIZ
CHI GENEVA, 2024
THE BUTTERFLY METHOD®
Eight aspects
of partnership.
A framework for riders who want to stop commanding horses and start listening to them. Taught in video, print, and in person at the farm.
01
Technical Riding
Precision, timing, and technique — the physical language between rider and horse.
02
Emotional Connection
The felt bond that makes every other aspect possible. Trust starts here.
03
Mental Preparation
Clarity before the ring. Visualisation, breath, and the quiet that wins rounds.
04
Physical Conditioning
The rider’s body is half the partnership. Strength, flexibility, and endurance matter.
05
Horse Partnership
Reading your horse, responding to your horse — before, during, and after the round.
06
Self-Knowledge
Your patterns, your triggers, your growth edges. The rider who knows themselves rides better.
07
Strategic Planning
Season goals, competition selection, training cycles. Winning is planned, not hoped for.
08
Lifestyle & Recovery
Sleep, nutrition, rest, and the rhythms that keep a high-performance life sustainable.
From the journal.
FIELD NOTES · APRIL 12, 2026
What Aachen taught me about patience.
Three strides before the combination I almost changed my mind. Vertigo knew — and he waited. A short essay on listening to the horse who already knows.
STABLE · MAR 28
Vertigo’s winter: a conversation with my farrier.
Why we shoe the same horse differently every six weeks, and how the road to Aachen begins in a cold hallway.
FAMILY · FEB 02
Raising twins and horses on the same farm.
Pedro and Paulo grew up with hay in their pockets. What that taught all of us about patience.
METHOD · JAN 15
The Butterfly Method®, ten years later.
Notes from a decade of teaching: what I got right, what I’d re-write, and the aspect I only recently named.
TRAVEL · DEC 10
Geneva, and the ride that didn’t go to plan.
A round that fell apart at fence 7, and how the eighth fence became my favourite memory of the week.
CORPORATE · BRAND
Host your team.
A full-day experience for leaders, creatives, and athletes — built around groundwork, horsemanship, and honest conversations about performance under pressure.
01 / TEAM DAY
Corporate Days at the Farm
Up to 12 guests. Stable tour, supervised groundwork, lunch with Luciana, and a roundtable on flow and fear under pressure. Wachtberg, Germany.
02 / KEYNOTE
Keynotes & Panels
Talks on leadership, decision-making, and the athlete–animal partnership for conferences up to 800 guests. Delivered in PT, EN, DE, FR or ES.
03 / BRAND
Brand Partnerships
Long-standing collaborations with equipment, lifestyle and wellness brands rooted in craft, precision and longevity.
04 / CLINIC
Private Clinics
Small-group Butterfly Method® clinics for riders 1m+. Two-day intensive, held at the farm or hosted internationally on request.
What riders say.
FROM ACADEMY MEMBERS · 2024–2026
★★★★★
“The Method changed how I walk into the warm-up. I arrive with a plan, not with nerves. Every one of the eight aspects is something I use every ride.”
Sofia M.
Young rider, 1.35m · Porto
★★★★★
“Luciana teaches the thing nobody else names — the moment before the fence where the partnership is decided. I watched the first module three times.”
Henrik L.
Amateur, 1.20m · Hamburg
★★★★★
“I brought my clients to the farm in March. We rode, we talked, we came home different. No corporate retreat I’ve run has moved a team like that day did.”
Isabela R.
Founder · São Paulo
Long-standing partners.
SELECTED · 2020–2026
Bruno Delgrange · Roeckl · Equisense · Urban Arts · ClipMyHorse.TV · Horseware · Parlanti · CWD Sellier · Longines · Rolex Series
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