Cavit Equine

29/12/2025

https://youtu.be/LxKYrJ7mhEA

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Secret x Cooramin Dancecard (De Niro/Sandro Hit)Filly, born 12/11/25

23/12/2025

🎄✨ Merry Christmas & thank you ✨🎄

As the year wraps up, I just want to say a heartfelt thank you to my clients — both new and long-standing, and the village that makes this passion business possible. Thank you to my clients, your trust in me with your equine partners, and for your flexibility and understanding with my changing timetable throughout the year. It truly means more than you know.

2025 has been an exciting one, with wonderful horses to ride and compete, and a big year of growth for my developing, upcoming young horses as well. I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunities, support and partnerships along the way.

Here’s to a fantastic 2026 ahead 🦄 ✨

06/12/2025

Come Join Us to Celebrate a Year of Achievements and the return of our Perpetual Trophies

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30/11/2025

Tomorrow is Dec 1st - crazy! This year has flown by..!

A reminder that I’ll be wrapping up* for Christmas on Fri 19th and limited appointments still available.

Gift vouchers available for those wanting to gift a bodywork session (or whack on your Santa List!) 🎅

This week I will be travelling to Beaudesert / Tamborine / Logan Village / Canungra / Maudsland and anywhere in between - sing out if you want more details as I do have some flexibility and able to add a horse or two here and there. 🐴

Happy Riding! ✨

*pun totally intended.

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29/11/2025

BOUGHT!
Cooramin Secret Sorceress (Secret x De Niro/Sandro Hit), half sister to Fritz!
Judith Cowie and I couldn’t resist another fabulous horse of Heather Cooramin’s 😍
Super exciting times ahead! 🤩

21/11/2025

When your coaching is so good even the kangaroos stop to watch 🦘📚🌞🦘 🇦🇺 !

01/11/2025

Yes to all of this!!

Sunday Musings: What Does It Really Mean to Feel Safe?

If you’ve been following my recent posts — especially the ones about being safe from us and safe with us — you’ll know the word “safety” has sparked some great discussion.

Many people quite rightly think of safety as avoiding harm: not getting kicked, bitten, or trampled. It’s a big part of what I do every day as a coach — helping riders and horses stay physically safe. In fact, safety is the very first of the ISES Ten Principles of Horse Training: Regard for horse and human safety.

But lately, through personal development work, watching Warwick Schiller’s work, and my own study of Polyvagal Theory, I’ve come to realise there’s another layer — one that most of us never used to talk about...

It’s the kind of safety that happens inside.

For most of my career, I thought safety was something you could see — helmets, boots, distance, discipline. But a few years ago, I began to learn what it means for the body itself to feel safe.

Polyvagal Theory describes the nervous system as a kind of internal surveillance system, always asking one question: “Am I safe?”

When the answer is no, the body prepares for battle or escape — heart racing, muscles tight, breath shallow. When the answer is yes, the system shifts gears: heart rate slows, breathing deepens, and we can rest, learn, and connect.

Neuroscientist Stephen Porges explains it this way:
“Feelings of safety are the product of cues of safety that down-regulate threat reactions and neutralise defensive strategies.”

And Deb Dana calls that ventral-vagal state “the place where we feel grounded, organised, and ready to meet the day. Life feels manageable; we see options and have hope.”

That’s what internal safety feels like.

Horses have nervous systems, too. A horse that looks “quiet” can still be frozen inside — not safe, just shut down.

When my own nervous system is buzzing — anxious, frustrated, or distracted — the horse feels that. Their internal system asks, “Am I safe with you?”

True safety between horse and human isn’t just about preventing accidents. It’s about creating a shared state where both nervous systems can breathe. Where neither of us is waiting for the next explosion, correction, or misunderstanding.

That’s the kind of safety I want to bring into the arena:

Physical safety — so no one gets hurt.

Emotional safety — so horse and rider can learn.

Internal safety — so both bodies can rest and trust.

Next time you step into the paddock or arena, take a moment before you pick up the reins.

Notice your breath.
Take stock of things around you you can see, hear, smell, feel and taste. Ask your own nervous system: “Do I feel safe in this moment?”

Because the horse will already be asking that question about you.

01/11/2025

Happy 2nd Birthday to Fritzle! Getting closer to being able to be riding pals 💙👯 💗

28/10/2025

Celebrate a Night of Dressage with us and see the return of the Perpetual Trophies

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28/10/2025

Epic distinction.

🐎 Day 2 – From Science to Soul – Day 2: Safe From Us, Safe With Us

When Warwick Schiller said there are two kinds of safety — safe from us and safe with us — it stopped me in my tracks.

For years, my training has centered on ensuring that horses understand exactly what’s being asked. Clear cues, predictable consequences, calm repetition. That creates a horse who feels safe from me — I’m consistent, I’m fair, and I don’t surprise them.

But “safe with me”? That’s another layer entirely.

A horse who feels safe with you seeks your presence when uncertain. They regulate by proximity, just as foals do with their dam or humans do with trusted figures. That’s attachment theory in action — translated through a prey animal’s nervous system.

This is where my work with Dr Nima Rahmany meets Warwick’s teachings. When we become a ventral tether — a grounded, co-regulating presence — we stop being just the signal-giver and start being the safe place.

In groundwork now, I notice subtle differences:

If the horse drifts away, I don’t immediately call him back. I check: did I feel safe enough for him to stay?

When he comes toward me, I don’t fuss or correct — I just allow. That moment of shared stillness builds trust faster than any yield exercise.

I’m learning to read when a horse is “safe from me” but still scanning the horizon, versus when he’s “safe with me” and his entire body softens.

It’s a small distinction with huge consequences. Because when safety comes through us instead of despite us, learning becomes effortless.

Tomorrow: Day 3 – Doing Nothing is an Action – The Power of Co-Regulation.