Oh wow, I've heard of that before, that it is very tough to find horse people over there. Kudos to you for sticking with it!
The one thing I can think of to refer you to at the moment would be my horsemanship blog which can be found here:
Tumblr Horsemanship if you would be interested. It's still a work in progress and it's also...quite a bit of reading, I must admit, but I have been trying to cover a lot of different subjects that are applicable to all levels of riders. It's meant to be at least a foundation or help for others' horsemanship methods, but of course I would encourage anybody to modify anything written there to make it more appropriate for themselves and their horses if need be. It is also open to any suggestions or questions at any time.
(continuing in the next post for space reasons)