France Wild Voice Equine

France Wild Voice Equine Transforming horses' lives through holistic hands on for physical, emotional, and energetic wellbeing
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That's a wrap! Off for a few months... Now the wait begins! Thank you everyone for your lovely wishes and caring attenti...
03/02/2026

That's a wrap!
Off for a few months... Now the wait begins!
Thank you everyone for your lovely wishes and caring attentions that made working until past 38 weeks a breeze 💕🙏🏼 xx

23/01/2026

I’ve noticed a pattern that’s been bothering me, and I think it says something uncomfortable about our industry.

When I post about hoof balance and how it affects the horse, it gets attention.
When I post about pathology, posture, or the professional working on the horse, it gets attention.

But when I post about the rider.
Or the environment.
Or human management.
Or the fact that the horse is living in a species-inappropriate world.

Silence.

And that silence tells a story.

We are very good at engaging with problems that allow responsibility to sit somewhere else. Somewhere external. Somewhere that doesn’t require us to change how we ride, manage, house, train, or think.

But when the finger turns back toward the human system surrounding the horse, engagement drops off a cliff.

My webinar series on ethological reasons why the industry needs to change had the lowest viewing figures of any series I’ve ever run. And yet, arguably, it was the most important work I’ve done. Because the pathological relationships we like to discuss, lameness patterns, postural collapse, behavioural fallout, chronic tension, almost always trace back to the same origin.

The implications of domestication and how far modern horse management has drifted from the biological and behavioural needs of the animal.

This isn’t just an equestrian problem. It’s a human one.

Psychology has a name for this pattern. Cognitive dissonance. When evidence threatens our identity, habits, or sense of competence, the nervous system doesn’t lean in. It protects. As described by Leon Festinger, humans will often avoid, dismiss, or disengage from information that implies personal responsibility or behavioural change, even when the evidence is strong.

There’s also the well-documented bias toward external attribution. We are more comfortable blaming tools, professionals, or isolated body parts than confronting systemic causes that implicate our own choices. Especially when those choices are culturally normalised.

But horses don’t live in fragments. They live in systems.
And we are the dominant variable in that system.

If we only ever talk about what’s wrong with the horse, or the hoof, or the tack, without addressing the rider and the environment that shape them every single day, we are treating symptoms while preserving causes.

The truth is harder.
Because the truth asks something of us.

It asks for responsibility, not blame.
It asks for change, not critique.
And it asks us to sit with the discomfort of realising that many of the problems we study so closely are downstream of human inertia.

Silence doesn’t mean the message is wrong.
Often, it means it’s landed exactly where it hurts.

With that in mind, I invite anyone who’s willing to lean into this to engage with the ethology series and the upcoming webinar on rider biomechanics on Jan 28 not as a sales pitch, but because it truly matters to the horse.

👉 https://equineeducationhub.thinkific.com/courses/riderbiomechanics
👉 https://equineeducationhub.thinkific.com/bundles/how-can-the-equine-industry-maintain-its-social-licence-to-operate

A quick hello from me, I will post an email soon to all of you in my mailing list to update more on the baby front. In t...
23/01/2026

A quick hello from me, I will post an email soon to all of you in my mailing list to update more on the baby front. In the meantime, here's a lovely picture of me with Magnus and the bump on a rainy day 💗

Merry Christmas to you all 💕 Enjoy the rest and family time. And maybe some extra time with your woolly horse 😄😍Sending ...
25/12/2025

Merry Christmas to you all 💕
Enjoy the rest and family time.
And maybe some extra time with your woolly horse 😄😍
Sending lots of love to you all ✨
France and the bump x

Week 30 🎉 I'm looking forward to a week off for Christmas 🎄!! This baby boy spends more time with your horses than with ...
05/12/2025

Week 30 🎉 I'm looking forward to a week off for Christmas 🎄!!
This baby boy spends more time with your horses than with his dad 😂

09/11/2025

14 yo new forest pony looking for a new home asap. Suitable for companion pony. Has a history of laminitis but has been well managed and is stable. Message me for more details.

📍 Availability in Kent – 8th OctoberI’ll be in the area and have limited spaces available. 🐎My approach is a little diff...
23/09/2025

📍 Availability in Kent – 8th October

I’ll be in the area and have limited spaces available. 🐎
My approach is a little different: I work by looking at the whole horse – connecting inner anatomy, the relationships between the organs, the musculoskeletal system, and the emotional state – to bring about deep, lasting change.

✨ You can find out more on my website.

Please share x

23/09/2025

✨ Newsletter Update ✨
I’ve just resent my latest newsletter to the email addresses where it might have ended up in the junk folder. 📬

👉 If you still don’t see it, please check your junk/spam folder and mark it as Not Spam so future newsletters land straight in your inbox.

This one includes some exciting news you won’t want to miss! 🎉

If you’re not already subscribed and would like to join, let me know and I’ll make sure you’re added. 💌

10/07/2025

Brakes issue with my car which means all appointments are cancelled tomorrow. Keep an eye on WhatsApp and emails for rescheduling options.

I’ve been reflecting on the rising number of suspensory ligament injuries in horses, including young ones who have done ...
03/07/2025

I’ve been reflecting on the rising number of suspensory ligament injuries in horses, including young ones who have done relatively little work. It raises important questions about potential contributing factors: breeding choices that prioritise performance traits over structural robustness, nutritional imbalances that affect soft tissue resilience, training methods that might overload immature bodies, or even the type and quality of surfaces horses work on, which can influence strain on their limbs. Perhaps too, with advances in veterinary diagnostics and greater awareness among owners and professionals, we’re simply identifying issues earlier and more accurately than we once did. I don’t have all the answers, but I believe this is a vital conversation. Have you noticed similar patterns? What are your thoughts or experiences on why these injuries seem increasingly common, and what might help us prevent them in the future?















While carrot stretches are commonly used in rehab routines to encourage flexibility, they can easily become rushed or fo...
21/06/2025

While carrot stretches are commonly used in rehab routines to encourage flexibility, they can easily become rushed or forced—especially when food is involved—leading to compensatory patterns or even reinforcing unhealthy postures. In contrast, static mobilisations (such as gentle guided flexions or passive range-of-motion techniques) allow for controlled, mindful engagement of the muscles and fascia. These techniques respect the horse’s current limits, support proprioceptive feedback, and promote quality of movement rather than quantity.
Check out my mobility course 👉🏼 link in biog


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19/06/2025

How are horses different from sheep and cows? 🐎🐄🐑

Sheep and cows are multi gastric ruminants (more than one stomach) and require higher amounts of simple carbohydrates (more sugar) as they must take more time per mouthful to process forage in their rumens. Think of them lying about for hours methodically chewing their cuds. Horses are a hind gut fermenter with one stomach and a giant cecum and thereby occupy a different niche. They rely on higher volumes of feed throughput as they spend much longer proportions of their days grazing higher fiber forages, and less time on every mouthful than ruminants do. Why are we feeding our horses like cows and sheep then?

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