EquineCoach

27/04/2026

Launching our Spring & Summer new activities programme.

For those who want to just 'dip their toe' into what we do or experience something new to see if it resonates. No commitment to anything more. Just enjoy an activity, the location and meet the horses.

Based near Hallaton, Leicestershire.

Message to book your space. All day Saturday and weekday evening availability.

1. Just Being Sessions.
- Learn how to be present. Breath work and grounding techniques
- Sit with the horses and enjoy the peace of 'Just Being'
- 45 mins
- £15

2. Forage Sessions
- Identification of local herbs
- Understand the benefits to the horses and to humans
- Collect and feed the horses
- Enjoy a herbal tea
- 90 mins
- £25

3. Forest Therapy Type Exercises
- Get back to nature in our beautiful & peaceful location
- Learn about energy vibration, how it works in us and the natural world around us
- Learn to connect with your body and feel vibration from local trees and plants
- 90 mins
-£25

4. Meet the Horses
- Meet our team of Equine Facilitated Learning horses
- Understand how they communicate with each other and us.
- Learn the regard technique and observe, discuss their communication
- Enjoy a scratches session for those that choose
- 90 mins
- £25

5. Kids and Emotions
- Introduction activities for children in emotional well-being
- Understand what we feel and why
- Tools to help them better express and manage emotion
- 1 hour
- £20

6. 'Dip Your Toe' for over 12's & Adults
- Introduction to what we do in the emotional & mental wellbeing space
- Learn step 1 tools to start being aware of the felt sense
- Education on how our mind v body works and stores emotions
- Education on trauma and the effect on our physical and mental health
- Understand how the horses support and teach us
- Meet the horses
- 90 mins
- £35

Equine Facilitated Learning, Somatic Emotional work, Forest Style therapy experiences. Supporting emotional & mental well - being

26/04/2026

I am so proud of the horses ❤️

First client sessions this week at our new location, including a new client.

These guys are amazing. Within a week of moving they have settled beautifully and supported the clients just like nothing had changed.

Coco and Olly in particular.
Coco, our true empath, demonstrated breathing techniques and offered his support as our client went through step 1, with his muzzle resting gently on our clients head. A special moment.

Olly gave a text book demonstration of how our vibration changes when we become present and how that effects us and him.

We ended, in the shelter, with the whole herd generating the beautiful energy they exude together. A very peaceful and strong presence that you have to experience to truly feel the power it has on our own body's vibration and emotion.

Its heartwarming that we now have some male clients who have joined us as well as
another new client who has started sessions working with her own horse.

Equine Facilitated Learning service, Somatic emotional work and forest style therapy experiences. Offered at our centre, online or with your own horse.

Contact us to see how we can help you.

24/04/2026

Kindness

True kindness and community spirit.

I probably experienced this from a stranger for the first time this week.

We all have friends that support, family that helps out and even neighbours that check in your ok. With that in mind I would like to say a huge thank you to the girls at Kindred Spirits - Equine Track System for giving me lifts this week due to my car being in the garage.

But how regular is true kindness from a stranger or someone you barely know, asking for nothing in return.

As humans we were designed to make connections, our very survival depended on it. Communities that worked together for the great of the whole. Each having a role in that community based on their strengths. Just like the horses.

With connections dwindling in todays society, we see the impact in both emotional and physical symptoms. We can distrust and isolate. We fear.

There have been moments in my life where I have been truly grateful to others for their kindness and on occasion 'sacrifice', to do something good.

But this week a stranger, someone I had just had met, did something that completely overwhelmed me with their kindness when I needed help. It was very interesting to feel the impact that it had in my body. To experience the sensations and how there was a shift in me energetically. A few days later and I am very aware that several life experiences that had left their emotional scars, no longer have the same effect on me.

A simple act of kindness caused a shift in my trapped emotions.

We do not realise how powerful we can be, how important we are to each other.

EquineCoach can help you overcome fear and have a better life experience.

Let's listen to the horses and build a community where we can trust and support each other. Where kindness heals.

Equine Facilitated Learning, Somatic emotional work, Forest style therapy experiences.

May's diary is open. Get in touch to see how we can help you

21/04/2026

The absolute joy of Jasper and Tiger on the new track.

Certainly the best move we made.

The hill is already improving movement and muscle.

They remind us of simple pleasures in life. To run free and play ❤️

Looking forward to our first sessions at our new home on Saturday 🙏

20/04/2026

3 full days at their new home and the herd have settled well.

Lots of play tonight and scratches sessions to help with the shedding. Jasper very much enjoyed again 😁

Meanwhile Frosty is taking advantage of his height and helping himself to the best grass. Oh, I know this boy of old 😆🥰. We enjoyed a foraging session down the hedgerows too.

Lots of rest and recreation before our first clients, at our new location, come along on Saturday.

3 new clients booked as well. We are very excited to welcome them 🙏

May diary opens this week, so enquiries welcome whilst slots available.

Equine Facilitated Learning, Somatic emotional work and forest style therapy excersises.

Learning from the horses.

Look out for a post coming soon on new summer sessions for those who would like to trial what we do, or 'dip their toe' to see how we can help with emotional and mental well-being.

19/04/2026

The highest point.

From here they can see for miles.

Frosty, our EquineCoach has already nailed this spot as his look out post. Watching. To make sure the herd are safe.

They are safe, so its time to rest ❤️

19/04/2026

Our new home.

EquineCoach and Kindred Spirits - Equine Track System

We are tired but delighted that we are now in our new home near Hallaton.

A big thank you to Matt Bryan and 'uncles' who helped move horses and a lot of related 'stuff'.

Whilst the humans continue to build shelters and unpack, the horses are already exploring and settling.

They did so very well, and Coco just loaded himself, even though it wasn't his planned turn at the time 😁

We still have a lot to do, so this week is settling time and bar regular clients, sessions start again proper during May.

Its been a beautiful few days, hearts lifted though bodies tired. Our new adventure ✨️

Equine Facilitated Learning, Somatic emotional well-being work, Forest style therapy.

Look out for our diary opening in May with our new calendar of introduction sessions for those interested in what we do to 'dip their toe' into various events as a trial.

For now, the horses are playing and joyful 🥰

Pics of moving day.

14/04/2026

Following on from the previous foraging post.

This evening a lovely time had by me and the herd foraging the hedgerows. They were cleavers gluttons 😁

A great lymphatic and urinary support, allowing natural detoxification.

Frosty as always, was the first to spot me foraging on the farm track. You can't get anything by him 😆

And a spring tail wash ready for Friday's big move. Photo for evidence as tomorrow it won't look as lovely and white as this 😉

12/04/2026

Foraging. How does it fit with the work we do at EquineCoach?

Getting back to nature is very powerful in reconnecting with our 'animal' selves.

Johann Hari talks extensively about our lost connection to the natural world and the link to anxiety and depression in his book 'Lost Connections'.

Our work at EquineCoach supports people with emotional well-being issues.
Foraging is part of our Forest Therapy ' type work that assists with the mind/body balance. Being present and quietening the internal narrative is a step towards relearning how to work in the Felt sense. The Felt sense being how we work somatically to manage trapped emotion. Just how the horses teach us.

I was therefore so excited today on a visit to our new location, to see an abundance of 'herbs' starting to grow around the edges of the fields. Some new to me re identification. We had great fun looking them up.We even identified burdock (dont tell Frosty, its his favourite 😉).

With Foraging and understanding how the natural plants are used for both Equine and human well-being being one of the alternative sessions I planned to launch in the summer, I was like a kid in a sweet shop 😀

Existing clients have all spent time Foraging for the horses and have very much enjoyed feeding them the spoils.

The horses, of course, love it!

We hope new clients do to.

Pictures of some of what we found. How many can you identify?

Just 4 days to moving day 🥳

11/04/2026

Its been a very busy week with moving pretty much everything bar the horses and their essentials, ready for moving day proper.

The girls have done the most amazing job ever and I am ashamed to say that due to work I did very little. I am so very grateful to them ❤️

Sessions have carried on and will do up to Thursday, then its a week off to move and settle the horses, Ill be there for that part 😀

Diary will reopen for May and Ill also be launching the new session options that are in planning for Summer. An opportunity for people to come along and experience something different without obligation to attend sessions.

So very excited for a new adventure with Kindred Spirits.

Pic of the herd on whats left of the current track as fencing has gone over to the new location to build the new track ready for their arrival 😀

08/04/2026

The warm temperatures for the time of year has thrown the guys coat shedding and boy were they all warm today.

Me and Jasper had a wonderful scratches session to help him shed some of his winter coat.

The birds will love all that hair 😁

Lots of sighs, yawns, licks and chews from our grateful boy. I even got a groom back.

Thank you for an enjoyable evening Jasper ❤️

What our EquineCoach herd do on their days off 😉

06/04/2026

I have had several enquiries recently about ridden work.

Please do note EquineCoach is a therapy style service and not a riding school 🙏

I am resharing my previous post on why we do not offer riding.

Any questions are more than welcome

Why we do not ride or use lead ropes on our horses in client sessions.

The concept of working with horses or 'Equine Facilitated Learning' originated from the understanding that horses have the ability to help rebalance that which is out of balance. Instinctively they want to rebalance as being prey animals they have a strong sense of energetic vibration, in order to keep them safe. Out of balance is 'not safe'.

Each horse will react differently to energetic vibration, or the vibration our emotions give off, depending on their own experience in life, their personality or their role within the herd.

When a client arrives, it tells me a lot about them depending on which horse approaches and which ones may stay at a distance. Because I understand each and every one of our herd physically, mentally and emotionally.

If we ride or lead we are removing the choice from the horse. If we remove the choice we are not listening. If we are not listening, we are unable to hear their messages about what is out of balance in us, and hence what we need to change. The horse can move in to 'automatic' mode rather than come forward to offer support naturally.

My role as the 'Facilitator' is to guide clients in understanding that message through questioning and teaching how to feel in their body (somatically) rather than via our analytical mind.

Mind versus body balance.

By adding structure, timeframes and set 'exercise' we are coming from our human analytical mind.

The horses do not do structure, timeframes and set 'exercise' as they come from a somatic, energetic vibration, present moment space.

If we truly want to learn from the horses, we too need to be in the same space. At EquineCoach, we first teach you how to enter that space and balance the mind/body in order to work in the Felt sense.

Only then can you start to learn from our greatest teachers.

It saddens me to see humans taking this concept and adding human complexity, thus removing the voice of the horse and working from the mind. The opposite of how the horses work,

I am heartened to see working with horses being more understood as a support for those with trapped emotion or mental health issues. It is the way forward, rather than the more known 'analysing' approach and working solely in the mind. However I am seeing that same analytical approach being incorporated into EFL training recently which immediately reduces the benefits.

Online courses, training with no prior knowledge and understanding of equine behaviour or how the species lives instinctively, training without going through your own journey with the horses, training from the mind space not somatically all simply tick human 'boxes'.

My training, many years ago, was a lengthy process and included residential 'hands on' learning with real clients. Since then I have trained in somatic emotional work, Forest Therapy, Reiki as well as regularly attend emotional trauma masterclasses.

EquineCoach will continue to learn the messages from the horses in the way they work best. This is why our success rate is so high.

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We listen, we understand, we make changes. Not from using 'Technique', but from deep knowledge and experience of the horse, human emotion and our instinctual body, but more importantly................from listening to the horses.

Come and see how we do things differently and how it can help you.