Maia Love MD Coaching

05/29/2026

Leadership with Horses ~

As I deepen in my personal practice with my horses, I love the awareness of how to lead while increasing my sensitivity to what is happening for the Horse.

There is a beautiful place of balance, where the sense of the Horse and its lightning fast perception, becomes part of our world, while we also hold a place of clear leadership and what feels like s nurturing protection for the Horse.

This study matches the way that I have guided and taught mindfulness - that there is a way to be with our Mind, our Nervous System, and our Body, where we are like the guide with the Horse, and/or the Rider with the Horse.

When we can understand that we are “riding” the Nervous System, and the Mind, we can move with our perceptions and our reaction, to learn and discern new responses.

With this perspective, we have more degrees of freedom, starting from within.

When we shift the place that we are in, and where we are coming from, the Horse senses this. The Nervous System sense this. Etcetera.

Then, there can be a movement into a connection that truly unfolds the Art of the Moment.

In the Art of the Moment, we experience that Beauty of the connection unfolding as we both create and receive, in moments that are difficult to describe yet deeply beautiful and deeply meaningful.

As we study this, we evolve a Mastery, even as we stumble and move towards this Mastery imperfectly, through dedication and consistency, we evolve.

And in this process, the Horse has an intelligence that brings an exacting mirror, that I have observed, allows us to move in leaps and bounds - if we listen.

05/28/2026

Creation with Hillary ~

Hillary Schneider is a woman, a mystic, an innovator and so many things, as she holds space for healing, personal growth and transformation on her beautiful land with her herd of horses

She has been a guiding force in my life, for whom I am ever thankful. She is someone that I create with - is the word that felt most aligned and potent today.

The word “creation” which originates in the Latin, creatio meaning to bring into being. Sometimes, we can think bringing into being needs to be an active, productive and generative mode in a big sense, when we can be equally creative by deeply listening in a receptive, letting go and discerning mode.

Hillary has helped me deepen into the latter. With her herd and horses, she holds a space for refining a capacity to listen to the truth of the moment, the truth of your being, the truth of the horses and to discern between the programs you are running in your mind, versus the authenticity of your being, and to fo do humbly in the authenticity discerning presence of the Horse.

Within this creative process of a deep listening, intuition becomes part of the creative process. Although I have spent years studying intuition and creativity, motivated by a huge loss at the age of ten years old - that had been predicted and perhaps preventable through a greater listening to intuition - the process with Hillary and her Herd has led me into a much more satisfying and authentic creative process than I had been aware of, before entering her space.

Beautifully, our connection has led to a very easeful collaboration on Horse Medicine and Neuroscience. With her mastery in the horse space, and my knowledge in the neuroscience, and our shared love of intuitive listening and aligning with the authenticity, truth, and integrity of the moment - we have written a book, founded a curriculum, built a beautiful retreat and enjoyed an ease of creating together.

I truly honour Hillary, and her herd, and the space she holds for the magical and powerful intelligence of horses to shine, and awaken us to beautiful ways of being amidst the challenges life brings.

05/26/2026

Women in Leadership ~

Women in leadership often face the challenge of what I like to call the Nurturer Mask.

The Nurturer Mask is where nurturing becomes coping, rather than a place from which you respond with an inner well of full energy.

As a woman, when you are in a leadership position, you use many different roles, or archetypes, to move through the day and adapt to the different challenges and opportunities that arise.

When you navigate to overcome challenges with victory, you experience something called eustress, which is positive stress, which parallels a positive health and resilience within the body.

When you navigate through stress that is difficult to handle, you move into negative stress, with an erosion (literally) of the body, and a fight-or-flight response that can include something called the “Fawn” response.

In the Fawn response, we become submissive. When tired mentally, we can frame this incorrectly as being nurturing - and this is what I call “The Nurturer Mask” with my clients.

The beauty of developing leadership skills in partnership with horses, whether you engaged with horses or working with a coach that works either horses, is that the Capacity to work with Authenticity to identify and dissolve the use of the Nurturer Mask to cope with- is a compassionate yet also very clear and decisive way that you grow as a Leader.

In my work with Women Leaders over the last twenty or more years, I have seen the power of identifying the Nurturer Mask, on progressively deeper and deeper levels. Energy is freed up. Confidence grows. Your life starts to support you, as well as your team.

When we add horse sessions into your leadership sessions, the work profoundly deepens. For over 30,000 years, women leaders have been connecting with horses. Archaeological studies have shown that high status women matriarchs were buried with their horses and their weapons, in honour of the deep bond they held with their horses - and we can infer that the horses guided these women to clear, calm trustworthy leadership styles given the teachings that horses bring.

Nurture yourself today, dissolve your Nurturer Mask.

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05/25/2026

Horse Nidra Workshops ~

I am loving how much the Horse Nidra event is speaking to some of you.

Because of this, we are now collecting your names and contact information for a waitlist for two future offerings: an online virtual workshop, and an in person workshop that includes those of you near but outside the Sea to Sky geography - given the interest from nearby Vancouver.

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What is Horse Nidra?

Horse Nidra is a technique created by my horses and myself as we wove together a blend of ways to guide you into a dreamlike state, influenced by my longer term guiding of Yoga Nidra in a specific way. With neuroscience, physics, intuition and the magic of the subconscious realms, science and mysticism weave together in Horse Nidra to bring you a way to access a deeper state of awareness, where you are in the seat of power and work with your own gifts and wisdom.

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What is the Community Focus?

As you learn Horse Nidra, for these two upcoming workshops, the fpcus on community means that you also learn tools for a reset of the collective nervous system. You are taught an understanding of tools and skills based in neuroscience for showing up together to weave a healthier fabric of community.

These offerings include both teachings and practice, and are designed for ages over 18 years old to understand and be able to practice.

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How do I get on the Waitlist?

To put your name on our growing waitlist, contact us through the website.

www.maia.love/contact

05/22/2026

A Sea to Sky Community Event ~

Gather, learn and practice skills for intentional rest and a reset of the collective nervous system. With neuroscience-based practices, relax your neurobiology and learn the power of daydreaming, also called “nidra” in ancient texts. U destined how horses add intelligence to the area of intentional rest and guide you in the space of deepening your capacity to dream - for yourself, for your future, and for the collective of your community.

Discover the beauty of intelligent rest ~

Open to Sea to Sky community members ranging from Horseshoe Bay to Pemberton.

Note: limited spaces remain.

Sign up:

www.maia.love/horse-nidra-event

05/22/2026

Dreaming ~

Somehow, many of us have forgotten how to dream.

We spend our time loving from task to task, consuming thought to thought, information focused, mind moving faster as if faster holds an answer.

In these fast beta brainwaves, without balance in other rhythms, we fatigue - we fatigue our brains, we reduce our capacity to problem solve, we lose access to creativity and we simply survive, and there is an emptiness where doing seems to fill time but only expands the emptiness.

We need, collectively, to remember how to dream again. To slow the brainwaves to then engage in our creativity, to remember our visions for bringing beauty into the world and revealing the magic within the present moment - to remember our nature, to rejoice in the nature around us, to remember that life is Magical.

As I sat tonight with Sterling Galaxy, reconnecting, I slipped into my daydream mode. The birds sang around us. The rhythms of nature bathed me in a gentle return to the beauty.

I felt like he whispered - when people think they are broken, they are not broken, what needs to break is the shell of what they thought was their mind, the shell that doesn’t believe in magic. That needs to break. If that doesn’t break, the Magic in us slowly dies and the life drains out of us. We need to believe in each other’s Magic.

Sterling Galaxy is a horse who has pulled me into a state of deep contemplation, deeper than I realized was possible, more intuitively connecting than I dared to believe was a possible Magic. I do not stay there all the time but he always brings me back - even demands this of me, in his own way.

Perhaps you can relate - to the deep state your animal pulls you into, a wordless intelligence. Or perhaps you recognize a pull to re-awaken this state within you.

We are available for virtual sessions, contact me to receive the link to book.

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05/19/2026

The Energy of Things ~

A Story:

When I saw a photo that my colleague posted, I felt magnetized to the image of the horse, in black and white. I felt a need to take action, but did not, as I practice restraint in order to discern my impulses.

The image continued to ring in my mind, and several days later, I sought it out. Her text below the image suggested contacting the photographer for a session, so I did, and this led to my photography session with - with the photo you see above.

Our process of booking was full of the language of discovering energies of exhaustion and repletion, burnout and beauty, business creation and hurdles. I found this fascinating we were both bringing the energy of intentional physical creation into the session.

Only recently, had I decided on how my next chapter will focus on a recourse of self - a recovery from burnout, a study of the science of prevention of burnout, woven with the beauty of both the neuroscience and mysticism of horses. I find it fascinating that the energy of this, wove through the entire process of booking and completion of the session.

And here, much to my complete surprise and delight, captured my connection with Apache. I felt tired, worn out, with strands of great love for my people yet physically exhausted from balancing many demands - yet demands that mean a great new chapter of life is being birthed into being.

I love that, despite exhaustion etcetera, this photo emerged, which feels to me like the very deep and strong love of what I do, shining through all the imperfections, challenges, setbacks, doubts and fears. There is a full, strong, glowing beauty to this captured moment, that reminds us of the creative energy of things - how much this matters, and outshines superficial doubts, fears, glowing from within the tired self, as we move into the next chapter of repletion.

05/18/2026

Horses & Fear ~

Fear is a fascinating state of being, appearing in many different facets, ranging from full terror to subtle stirrings of anxiety.

Fear can be justified and useful. Fear can also be internally generated from complex neural circuits, and so, not relevant to the present moment.

When we encounter a creature as large and quick moving as the Horse, we encounter a natural fear. The possibility that the Horse moves quickly and injury results is, quite real.

To enter into relationship with a Horse, is to Face Fear.

To enter into a more authentic relationship with yourself, is to Face Fear.

To deepen bonds of trust and connection, in community, and in relationships, is also, to Face Fear.

Facing Fear can lead to us deeply feeling alive. We greet the unknown. We peer into the darkness. We choose Courage.

While entering into Horse Ownership for me was intuitively a given, the process was infused with fears. As I aligned with the “mutual choosing” as described by Linda Kohanov - where the horse chooses you - I was also reluctant, slow, cautious, wary; yet within me a fire burned to give my horses a “forever home”, as Hillary Schneider describes.

There is a place, a place where we have survived fear, we have navigated terror, we have proved relentless amidst the storms of life, and we emerge humbled yet majestic, our spirits triumphant. Yet, not without battle scars that require patience and intention to heal, so that we can deepen into a more wise trust in the Beauty of Life.

There is a Majesty to this, something I sometimes call, Stumbling towards Majesty, a phrase that holds both the humility and the acknowledgement of the beauty. I love that, no matter how tough some of the lessons, my horse journey takes me deeper into this, step by step, dissolving fears and step by step, welcoming majesty.

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05/18/2026

05/17/2026

Contentment is a neurological and physiological state.We create our states of being, and need not be only passive passengers to our moods.

After preparing with the energy of acceptance, you can begin to garden the neural circuits of the brain and mind, with intention. By letting go of a drama of grasping and needing, while also not judging the drama, you can create a space in which you oversee the architecture of your mind, as a grand design.

You then gain the capacity to be the Grand Designer, of your physical Mind.

One of the states of high value and great reward, is that of Contentment. One of the things that I absolutely adore about horses, is how they pull us into a state of Contentment, if we allow them to help us shift state.

Whether you are with horses or not, you can practice the beautiful art of Savouring Contentment.

Here is how.

Enjoy ~



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05/17/2026