EquineCoach

15/09/2025

Tiredness
Anxiety
Frustration
Overwhelm
Irritability
Stress
Burnout
Not feeling heard
Not feeling seen
Tension
The list is endless

How many of us feel one or more of these daily? It becomes the norm.

All symptoms of trapped emotion.

Leading to inflammation in the body and over time can cause physical symptoms from immune responses.

High blood pressure
IBS
Crohns disease
Asthma
Colitis
Eczema
Dermatitis
Hair loss
Fibrimyalgia
Chronic Fatigue
Addiction
Mental health issues
Any autoimmune disease

And according to more recent research, linked to some cancers.

Trapped emotion is caused by trauma.

Trauma doesn't have to be with a capital T, such as abuse, tragedy involving severe injury or death of a loved one, war or similar experiences.

Trauma can develop over time, such as a difficult relationship in childhood or as an adult. A hospital procedure. Bullying, a series of uncomfortable situations and much more.

Trauma can also be passed down as generational.

We often unknowingly become fearful and feel unsafe.

Anything in life can cause an emotional reaction that gets stored in our body. Over time these hundreds or thousands of emotional reactions, if not allowed to be released, can build. Often without us being aware.

It can effect our self esteem, confidence, social interactions, workplace and our families.

We can loose who we are.

I was once that person. My trapped emotion materialised as Crohns disease. Hospitalised regularly and on medication for life, I was told.

I no longer have symptoms and have been given the all clear.

How?

By starting a journey driven by my horse 10 years ago.

He is now our EquineCoach and together we help others on their journey to make changes to their lives.

I have spent many years learning and gaining qualifications to be able to offer a different option for those who may have been failed elsewhere or have not been 'diagnosed ' to qualify for available help, or even those who haven't yet recognised that what we class as the norm, is not.

Everyday people, everyday lives, that have just become overwhelming.

The horses remind us who we are. Animals, just like them.
They help us remember how to re engage with our felt sense to become aware of, explore, and ultimately shift trapped emotion.
Relieving the physical systems they cause.

Our service with a difference offers a combination of Equine Facilitated Learning, Reiki, Somatic (or in the body) work and Reiki, all wrapped up with 'back to nature'.

We provide a safe environment to understand how emotion becomes trapped and how we can move forward.

We use techniques that are science based and learned from understanding our animal selves. This is where working with animals, particularly horses, can be both powerful and enlightening.

Horses sense our emotions even those we are unaware we are holding. They are drawn to rebalance that which is out of balance, as their instinct is that of survival, out of balance is a risk.

We teach techniques you can use in the everyday.

We provide support outside of sessions.

Although the face to face sessions are the most powerful, we do offer video sessions (yes the horses will join those too!) and can also offer sessions with your own horse at your location.

There is no judgement.

Emotion is normal. Come along and let it go. We do 😁

For a no obligation chat about how our team can help you, drop a WhatsApp or Facebook message.

Carrots and apples are mandatory 😋

Note, there is no ridden or I hand work. The horses are free to choose if they engage or not.
Our priority is the horses physical and emotional well-being and a session maybe changed should any horse not be in a physical or emotional state for clients.

13/09/2025

Autumn is well and truly underway.

We know this as our EquineCoach has his orange look going on.

Get used to seeing him this way through winter 🙈

The evenings are drawing in but nature sure has a way of bringing joy (thanks to Samantha Dean for the amazing pictures after the rain today).

I will be doing a series of posts over the next weeks sharing a few stories on how our herd support clients.

Starting with my own session I had this week.

We are still encouraging young people to drop in for a visit or a taster session.

Mental health is a big agenda for those in their teenage years and help is limited.

Drop us a note to arrange a call to understand how we can help.

11/09/2025

Something a little bit different. Hope all the horses fit in the hall 🤣

🌋There's no need to hold on to anger. While one sound bath won't solve your problems, I hope the sounds begin to soften what you're carrying and help to make room for release. Anger damages our physical and mental health.

🌀On Monday Sept 15th, join me for the weekly gong bath in the Sonic Alchemy series- we tackling anger.
Michaela Marcham from Life - Reiki Energy Healing qualified somatic coach, equine facilitated learning and reiki- she will show us breathing & grounding techniques to help us gain control and release stress brought on by carrying anger. Also, Janice from JanJan Drumming will join me during the gong bath to rhythmic beat from her African drums to shift and release.

Another amazing night planned for you!
Spaces are filling quick: https://bookwhen.com/ simplysound/e/ev-smbd-20250915190000

04/09/2025

A new idea with Simply Sound . Introducing step 1 of the techniques we teach at EquineCoach to start moving from being in the head, to the body. Looking forward to spreading the word about what we do.

01/09/2025

A quick update that we are back to work now its September at EquineCoach.

The horses are lining up 😆

An amazing session with an amazing young lady on Saturday, I just love working with her ❤️

First proper session. Whilst teaching a particular technique to become aware of our body and quiet the mind, the whole herd came and stood in a semi circle around us. A very clear indication that she was moving in the right direction. They are so very attracted to the space we create when we remember who we are.

Not being very good at the whole social media post stuff, I've engaged some help.

Tomorrow evening is video night. Making some short reels to build a picture of what we do and how we can help.

Less waffle (I hope) 😆

Look out for them in coming weeks.

Drop us a message to understand how we can help you.

25/08/2025

Further training completed this week on root cause trauma.

Remembering that trauma doesn't always come with a capital T. Trauma is defined as a state of locked emotion that has not been released from the body as nature intended.

Trauma can be related to abuse, war, an accident as we know, but trauma is also a result of any experience that triggered our natural response of fight or flight. Bullying, a phobia, not being allowed a voice, relationship issues and so on.

By learning to listen to our body we can identify trapped emotion and work it through.

Improving confidence, self esteem, emotional management and much more.

By understanding how and why emotions are triggered, such as guilt, anger etc, we can learn how to change behaviour.

The horses can show us how to reconnect to our instinctual selves, work in the felt sense and change our lives. They react to the changes we make, which in itself can be a light bulb moment for us. We cannot deny what they show us.

It's a challenging journey, but horses do not judge. Nor do we as we too learned from the horses.

Ill be booking sessions for September soon, so please get in touch and book your slot. They go fast.

The horses have had a well deserved rest during August and look forward to welcoming clients again.

If you want to understand more or just come for a visit to experience a little peace of peace in nature, then do message. No obligation.

Ill also be continuing my own qualifications during September.

17/08/2025

Still on the theme of a rest period for me and the herd, what a wonderful weekend full of energy work and further leaning.

I keep up with my own sessions to continue my education and ensure I maintain my emotional balance to be in right place to work with clients. It's vital I do not pass on anything Im working with to clients or the herd.

Thank you to Gill Leach of Fenland Holistics for new lessons and reminders of old ❤️

Tiger, who needs extra support at the moment, received a wonderful crystal healing session yesterday from Gill, thank you again.

The herd benefited from the energetic work we did in general, with some actively engaging or asking.

Today I offered short Reiki sessions, that most took up

And Frosty had a body work session with his physio. On top form Im happy to report.

The herd all supported him during his session, Coco our empath in particular. Frosty throughly enjoyed his 'maintenance' massage with some release and processing going on. Frosty has bimonthly physio to ensure we maintain physical health (he also has regular Masterson Method sessions and Reiki, as well as his self selection of herbs daily, whilst I hobble aroundlike an old lady some days 😆 ).

Looks like we will be tip top come September for sessions to restart 💪

Next week Im undertaking further training in 'root cause' trauma to enhance the Somatic/ felt sense work that forms part of what we teach/undertake here. Very excited to build on my qualifications.

Im sure the team will be delighted to be my test dummies as always 😉😆 thank you girls 🥰

(Pic, Frosty at the end of his body work session today, with his support network 😁)

15/08/2025

Enjoyed time this week with the herd during our little 'vaccination '. Present moment and sharing space has been good for recharging.

A couple of short Reiki sessions for those who needed. An opportunity to also bring in their humans.

I'll be booing sessions for September shortly, so drop me a note if you are an existing client, or would just like to know more.

Im happy to have a no obligation call to discuss what we do and how we can help.

Everything we do is based around learning from the horses, working in our body to reconnect to our natural selves, building resilience and understanding what we need to change in order to work on trapped emotion.

This can be applied to our lives in general, our relationships and understanding our emotional effect on our animals.

I work with humans for themselves as well as human/animal partnerships.

I'll be making changes on some of my services come September, after reflection, so will post about that soon.

Enjoy the sunshine 🥰

11/08/2025

Despite having a couple of weeks break from client sessions this month, I am still very much working with the herd and Kindred Spirits - Equine Track System Team.

We had a fantastic cleansing session last Thursday with an impromptu follow up Saturday. Olly in particular lapped up the energy we created and joined us.

Saturday morning was herd trim day with Olivia Cresswell .

Olivia is fantastic at listening to the horses, and adjusting her approach dependant on the horse and what maybe going on that day.

Our Olly is a very sensative guy and was a little high energy from overnight. Picking that up and working briefly with his human, a plan was made for his trim to ensure it went smoothly. Olivia was so very supportive in working with that.

Lady is awakening and understands she now has a voice and it is understood. She clearly expressed her opinion that from now on she would like to be trimmed out with the herd, again Olivia just simply adapted and all went well.

Some may ask the question as to us allowing so much choice and voice from the horses, as traditionally it has been seen that humans should have 'control '.

There is a big difference in allowing choice and being out of control, which we balance. By working this way, we maintain emotional health and build strong relationships, leading to working in partnership with the herd.

Without this approach we could not do the work we do and the horses would simply not engage willingly and of their own choice.

I do work with several humans and their own horses to help them build similar bonds and relationships using the same EFL techniques and Somatic work.

If you are interested in understanding how it could improve your relationship with your horse. Please do get in touch for a no obligation call.

02/08/2025

We are taking a few weeks off during August to recharge and spend time just being with the horses.

The team have a lovely cleansing session booked this week and as also an Equine Reiki Specialist, Im upping the energetic work for the herd. Short regular sessions started today with the whole herd attracted like bees to a honey pot, they so embrace this type of work.

A couple of beautiful sessions this week. One just this morning attracted Coco to come and support.

What do I mean by support?

Horses are effected by human emotional energy. We start by teaching how to be in the right space for ourselves, which is also the natural state of the horses. We are all animals at the end of the day and this is how we can learn from them. We also prefer our clients, early on, to be come aware of how our energy effects horses and embrace the techniques we teach in lesson 1, so we are not putting our emotions on them. We don't, however, work near the horses, ride them or work on lead ropes. Any work with the horses is because they have chosen to come to us and engage.

Being in the right space then allows us to engage with our felt sense, exploring our bodily sensations away from our analytical brains influence. Our felt sense allows us to listen to our body, explore trapped emotion and either build resilience, change our perspective or let go.

When we work in this space, the same space the horses exist in, they will choose to share that space and will openly interact. Our work is solely about learning to listen to what the horses can teach us.

They are naturally drawn to rebalance, it's what keeps them safe. You can observe an anxious horse seeking out a balanced horse in times of crisis and share their space. Similarly you can observe the balanced horse offering support energetically. You can then observe the anxious horse calming and moving back into the right space.

They will naturally want to do the same for us when we work in the felt sense.

This has a powerful effect on us and can bring about change. Change that can effect our whole life.

The techniques we teach are taking us back to our roots, connection naturally occurs that the horses want to be a part of. You just can't stop them. Listen and learn.

It's a very humbling experience and often a tough one to let go of ego and expose our true selves, but the change is worth it.

Are you brave enough to ask
Are you strong enough to listen
Are you humble enough to learn.

They speak nothing but truth.

(But don't forget the carrots)

30/07/2025

Love this video of Frosty enjoying a scratch.
Such lovely laughter.
The joys of life 🥰