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WalkSublime is a commercial business established in Nov 2022 with a bigger purpose than simply making money. Humans intervening in the fate of horses. Big goal.
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Magical experiences connecting with rehomed horses, eye-to-eye as equals ✨ Walking with Horses in Nature™ ✨
Book private sessions & order Gift Vouchers here: walksublime.com.au My team and I are working towards a vision to bring about a future wellbeing program for Australians experiencing loneliness, social isolation or difficulty 'fitting in'. I've registered the name for this future not-for-profit organisation:

* Sublime Intervention *

Horses intervening in the fate of humans. The walksublime philosophy centres on people forming real, emotional, tangible connections with unwanted or rehomed, retrained horses including ex racehorses not fit for riding and Brumbies removed from our National Parks to manage environmental impacts. Wouldn't it be monumental if a public program like this could be rolled out state by state, voluntarily co-funded by private contributors within the horse racing industry itself? Imagine the vast numbers of horses that could also benefit from the daily attention, socialisation and purpose they'd be given instead of going to waste. I've set a 10 year timeframe from our date of establishment, 15 Nov 2022, a date that holds deep personal meaning. My 'why'. And it all starts right here in South Australia. Sublime Intervention can and will be realised with time, goodwill from the public and the support of our guests and customers. If you're interested in playing a small part in our progress towards achieving this vision, please show your support by liking our page, sharing your favourite posts or simply spreading the word. If you'd like to play a larger part or get involved, I invite you to reach out (contact details under Bio). With gratitude for all that I have and am able to share with my horses and other humans, now and into the future,

Mel, Founder & Guide

- Guardian of the WalkSublime Horses -
- Admirer of Ex racehorses & Australian Heritage Brumbies -
- Driving force behind Sublime Intervention -

Jun 7, 2023

02/12/2025

Key to my approach to “training” is acknowledgment of Kite’s emotions in the moment – and respect for her right to make her own choices.

If she tells me she’d like to stop, then we stop. If she’d like to turn left and I was thinking of going right, we’ll respectfully negotiate. Often I defer to Kite; often she defers to me.

Our time on the trail is 50/50 for her happiness and for mine.

Link in comments for more.

28/11/2025

An experience shared by one mum describing a collective trauma for so many of us horsewomen. Thank you Tegan for giving your 10 year old daughter an introduction to a whole new way of being with horses.

She represents the next generation.

“Growing up I had learnt the old school way of horsemanship where authority and dominance rules. It was so healing to learn another way of being with horses.

With Mel and her herd it was an extremely emotional moment for me feeling and learning how to Just Be with a horse.

To share this with my beautiful daughter is something I will hold and treasure forever… food for the soul.

Two hours of Bliss and love! Thank you thank thank you.”

Google review by Tegan, Nov 2025

Images featuring adopted 2 yr old Australian Brumby filly ‘Bliss’ and rehomed 10 yr old black Arabian mare ‘Kite’

-Mel 🙏

27/11/2025

A few weeks ago I accepted an invitation to be a guest speaker on Moonbeam Monday Coaching + Training's professional coaching podcast series. Beck and I met at a social networking event in 2022, connecting over (you'll never guess) our shared love of horses! There was no Walk Sublime back then, just a pilot light flicker in my eye that hadn't yet lit.

I've since had the privilege of being coached 1:1 by Beck and credit her for helping me discover the absolute best within myself. The Zoom session we did on eliciting my personal values and their influence on my business gave me groundbreaking insight. Once you know what drives you - look out!

This interview is a conversation about connection - with nature, with ourselves, and with something greater. Keeping the memory of my brother at the centre of who we are. Our reason for being.

And for those who'd like a good laugh, I recommend skipping straight to timestamp 22:49 😂

https://www.moonbeammonday.com.au/podcast/episode/1c8dc33f/ep-38-or-hoofbeats-and-heartbeats-mindfulness-lessons-from-walking-with-horses

Enjoy!

-Mel

25/11/2025

* JUST 1 SESSION LEFT FOR 2025: Sat 20th Dec *

A double celebration for our family today 🍏 + 🥕 !!

Wishing Gypsy Cob 'Scout' a very Happy 11th Birthday and giving thanks for Thoroughbred 'Torquey's 5 year anniversary of joining our family.

Back in 2020, a big racehorse named He Is Golden faced a very uncertain future having run his last race a few months earlier, unable to be ridden again at just 8 years of age.

A turn of fate meant he and I crossed paths and on this noteworthy day, Nov 25, he moved into his forever home with the horses and I. I remember the date clearly because I always knew I'd share my life with ex racehorses and he was my first... I remember thinking Christmas Day had arrived exactly one month early that year!

And it just so happens these boys were who I matched with our guests on Sunday afternoon. Contacted by a like-minded animal and nature lover who mentioned her father loves horses, it brought me so much joy to see the easy, natural connections happening between horses and humans as we walked.

Perfect strangers to each other only an hour earlier, I found myself wondering if, in fact, I was in the presence of soul mates ?

-Mel McLaren,
Founder & Guide

* 'HEAL' 2 dates left for 2025, we only run 1 session per day, your choice of morning / afternoon / evening BOOK ONLINE *

www.walksublime.com.au

21/11/2025

I've said it before and I'll say it again - it never ceases to astound me how a half tonne flight animal does NOT require physical size or strength to be “handled".

Such is The Horse.

Last weekend I wandered along in awe and wonder as a tiny and ever-so-gentle lady, who'd never been near a horse in her life, found her own very happy way to influence all 520kg of Andalusian 'Saxon' and his unshakeable strength of will. Laughter flowed down the trail as she and he went back to the negotiating table each time Saxon went to indulge in the spring grass!

Cherishing freedom, family, health and joy, this was a special gift organised by her daughter to celebrate her very special birthday together.

Thank you Kite and Saxon for such happy, calming and awe-inspiring memories,

-Mel McLaren,
Founder & Guide

13/11/2025

Saxon saving my back! Treating muddy hooves The Sublime Way 😇🥰🙏

10/11/2025

I am deeply touched by this post, written by the lady I randomly stopped to thank for moving off the trail with her very happy dog yesterday while Kite and Saxon continued on in their ‘bubbles’ of safety and relaxation, created by our guests.

It's not uncommon for me to stop for a brief chat while the horses walk on with guests, but more often than not, the magic of what they're seeing unfolding in front of them is totally lost on my fellow humans!

Thank you Darielle Bydegrees for reminding me how very, very special this is ✨✨✨

-Mel
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Note: Unable to share a private post to our business page, instead I’ve pasted Darielle’s words below:

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“Something lovely happened to me yesterday. I was out walking with Cosmo in the forest and I came across a couple of beautiful, relaxed and peaceful horses just wandering through the forest with some relaxed and peaceful humans. Such a different vibe to the ridden horses I normally come across in the forest.

Last year I caught a young straight off the track ex racehorse with a banged up bleeding head and chest that had thrown his rider and was an absolute sweaty mess, belting around the tracks, lost and terrified. The whole experience was dangerous, upsetting and sad.

As I handed this trembling agitated youngster back to his bruised and shaken rider, I was pretty sure no one had much fun that day, not me, not the rider and most definitely not the poor bloody horse.

Yesterday I got to have a quick chat with Mel, the founder of Walk Sublime, about her business and her mission to give back to horses, to treat horses as equals and to deeply understand the great privilege it is to be in their company. As I walked on I felt a tear slide down my cheek, so moved was I by this rare experience of seeing horses being so deeply respected.❤️"

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09/11/2025

Attending a fundraising dinner earlier in the year for See Differently with the Royal Society for the Blind, the moment she spied the Walking with Horses gift voucher on the silent auction table, our guest today knew it had her name on it.

And so it was that black Arabian 'Kite', Andalusian 'Saxon' and I found ourselves on an enchanting path through the pines this afternoon, privy to a quiet conversation of bird calls going on above and all around us, sharing in the delight with the only other nature seekers we saw on the entire trail - a lady and her beautiful dog.

Looking at these photos it's hard to believe this was the first time Saxon's walking partner had ever been in the presence of a horse. The honour was mine to be the one to introduce him to horses, and to listen as he told me he admires what I am doing.

I'm looking forward to donating another experience for the Paws for Celebration fundraiser next year, to what I understood to be a hotly contested silent auction table!

-Mel McLaren,
Founder & Guide

Henry & Zeke RSB Guide Dog

07/11/2025

* An expression of gratitude for a dream week of publicity *

www.welltraveller.com.au/latest/wild-wellness/the-best-equine-wellness-experiences-in-australia/

Anyone kicking back in front of the TV on Saturday afternoon may come across Aussie surfing icon Layne Beachley hosting the second season of Well Traveller TV, free to air on network 10.

Viewers are directed to the WT website periodically during the episode, and when they land on the home page a striking image of a Gypsy Cob and his walking partner perfectly in sync (all the way down to right legs stepping forward) steals the show!

To see beautiful Scout up in lights here, representing us as one of The Best Equine Wellness Experiences in Australia... I can't help but wonder what the 'me 3 years ago' would've said, if someone had told me in our first month of opening, this was going to happen. I suspect a range of emotions looking something like this as I processed it 😮 🤨 🧐 🥹 😍

Raise a glass tonight in celebration of Koszi, Saxon, Kite, Torquey, Quattro, Scout and Bliss, as I'm toasting the team at Well Traveller for broadcasting our message with pinpoint precision.

-Mel McLaren,
Founder & Guide
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Image credit | Heidi Who Photos

04/11/2025

Our 3 year anniversary this month! Celebrating with a shout out to all the humans doing so much to shine a light on our message of COLLECTIVE WELLNESS - giving back to the horses while looking after our own wellbeing - by helping me secure media coverage.

This one might surprise you:

www.fiftyplussa.com.au/health-wellness/wellness/rehomed-racehorses-helping-humans-heal-in-nature/

To the racehorse owners and syndicate members we've walked with to date (and there are many of you), thank you for your open minds, your open hearts and your public support of our work.

Your willingness to walk the talk is lighting up the way to the first door that'll open for Sublime Intervention 💖🕊🔦

-Mel McLaren,
Founder & Guide

Image credit: susielangphoto
Susie Lang

02/11/2025

Double majesty - Scout & Kite - now representing us across the country, up there with the best of the best in Australian wellness experiences, right where we belong. #4 below is particularly special.

My heartfelt thank you to the team at Thrive Communications for the incredible way you've brought the depth of my vision to life through our website, just in time for this! 🙏🦄🥰

www.walksublime.com.au/experiences

-Mel McLaren,
Founder & Guide

31/10/2025

Meet our new mascot hat 'Blimey' !

"It's a one-of-a-kind sample from our supplier. No one else in Australia has one like this" stated Emma matter of factly as she handed me this unicorn - an electric teal hat she'd put aside after receiving my phone call the week prior... If I buy a ticket to your workshop, can I put my logo on a bluey green hat?

Emma is the creative genius behind It's Just a Vibe - Creative Studio, running a national Hat Burning Tour that just so happened to stop in Adelaide last weekend. An artsy, crafty workshop like this is something the old left brain / accountant-by-trade me wouldn't have looked twice at, if it weren't for my persistent friend Alyssa there in the sublime green top.

Bear in mind the daintiest tool I'm skilled at using is a hoof pick, so the thought of inscribing an irreplaceable standout piece sporting our logo, by my own heat-gloved hand, holding a delicate 250 deg C tool, with zero practice first - all done and dusted within 2 hours - was overwhelming to say the least. Hand me an ex racehorse straight off the track any day of the week.

During the intro's and demo, when Emma assured the group there is perfection in imperfection, I got the distinct feeling she was talking to me. I do like things to be just so. Perhaps she picked up on this during the extensive set of questions I casually sought answers to before committing.

This day of discovery began at Sublime Cafe on the south side of the CBD - great name guys and equally great food! Next time I'll be back with Blimey in tow.

And as for the finishing features on our mascot? While Emma kindly wrote in chalk for me to trace, I ruffled through the box of charms... BLESSED | PROTECTED | IMAGINE | INSPIRE... they were all there.

But it was the black rocking horse, the old-fashioned key and GRACE that deserved pride of place on this hat band in honour of our matriarch, black Arabian 'Kite', and all that she has taught me.

Oh, and would I do it again?

Hell yeah!

-Mel McLaren,
Founder & Guide

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Adelaide Hills
Adelaide, SA

Opening Hours

Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm
Saturday	9am - 5pm
Sunday	9am - 5pm

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http://walksublime.com.au/

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