Jayne Roberts - Equijay

Jayne Roberts - Equijay Equine Educator, Researcher, Women's Health Advocate.

Riding the realms of Spirit, Soma & Science
Modern Equine Science + Ancient Feminine Wisdom
Founder Equinidra & Equestrienne Somatic Alchemy
Ride Wild Guide for women called to re-claim and re-member Restoring the Feminine in the Ride, bringing healthy back to barns & reclaiming our Wild in the Ride.

You don’t need more.More trainings.More certifications.More clinics.More coaches.More courses.More retreats.More modalit...
14/04/2026

You don’t need more.

More trainings.
More certifications.
More clinics.
More coaches.
More courses.
More retreats.
More modalities.
More breathwork.
More healers.
More medicine you already own.

You need s p a c e.

To sense your way back.

To feel without making meaning.

To follow your breath…
where does it end? Where does it want to go?

And you don’t need to be told any of this.

Your body already knows.

She’s just been waiting for you to get quiet enough to hear her.

Jx

The other day, Pluto gave himself a shock at the yard gates.Early spring.Cold air. Wind up. Horses galloping. System sta...
05/04/2026

The other day, Pluto gave himself a shock at the yard gates.

Early spring.
Cold air.
Wind up.
Horses galloping.
System stacked.

His headcollar clanked on the gate and he responded with a space-hopper move the Spanish Riding School would have applauded.

Full. Fast. Clean. Honest. Agile as hell.

And then… he came straight back down to earth alongside me.

Not because I calmed him.

Because I didn't meet his activation with more activation.

I stayed.
Witnessing without want.

Calm isn't the goal. Capacity is.

A healthy nervous system will startle, mobilise, orient… and then return... without getting stuck in the surge or collapsing because of it.

That's range.
That's response.
That's resilience.
And it's no different for us.

If you've ever been on a livery yard and felt the quiet pressure to rein it in tighter... in yourself and in your horse... this one's for you.

Your full expression was never the problem.

Full piece on Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/equijay/p/from-spook-to-sanctuary?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

So what is it I offer?Coherence.Not performance.Not perfection.Not fixing.Not “healing.”Not transcendence.Not training.N...
02/04/2026

So what is it I offer?

Coherence.

Not performance.
Not perfection.
Not fixing.
Not “healing.”
Not transcendence.
Not training.
Not teaching.

Just a woman landing in her actual body.
And a horse finally meeting someone who’s home.

Barn changer 🐴

28/03/2026

Great day… thank you! We’re so fortunate to have such high-calibre, outside-the-box CPD in our area. Always a great range of experts in their own fields and likeminded souls devoted to doing the best for our horses, land and whole herd health. Northumberland College Equestrian Centre at Kirkley Hall leading the way 👏👏

Rethinking Horse Welfare: Beyond the BasicsEver wondered if we are truly seeing what matters to our horses? A new framew...
24/03/2026

Rethinking Horse Welfare: Beyond the Basics

Ever wondered if we are truly seeing what matters to our horses? A new framework called the Teleonome invites us to do just that. It is not just about counting behaviors or measuring stress. It is about understanding the whole adaptive system of the animal, how feelings, motivations, and environment interact to shape wellbeing.

Key insights:

* Welfare is not just what we can measure. It is what matters to the horse’s own system
* Emotions and motivations are meaningful indicators, not side notes
* Physical signs make sense when seen through the lens of survival and flourishing
* Helps us rethink welfare in contexts where traditional measures fall short

This approach encourages us to ask: Are our horses simply surviving, or are they thriving within their evolutionary design? This is a key concept in embodying the emergent Five Domains model of welfare assessment, which will guide our practice moving forward.

Over to you:
What welfare signals do you think we have been overlooking? How might this perspective change the way we train, care for, or rehabilitate horses?

This paper introduces the teleonome as a unifying biological construct that clarifies the goal-directed organised system by which organisms engage in adaptiv...

23/03/2026
No one has the right to short-circuit your survival strategies. (Or your horse’s for that matter)No one.No thing.Not coa...
01/03/2026

No one has the right to short-circuit your survival strategies. (Or your horse’s for that matter)

No one.
No thing.

Not coach.
Not therapist.
Not breathwork.
Not bodywork.
Not plant medicine.
Not polarity preacher.
Not nervous system teacher.

Enough of extraction.
Enough of bypass.

Release is not resolution.
Regulation is not range.

You held your own tight rein for a reason.
It kept you alive.
It kept you intact.
It kept you safe.
It knows you intimately.

Do not hand that over to someone who has not earned the right to ride alongside.

This is your body.
Your reins.
Your oracular temple.

If there is softening, let it be by consent.
If there is opening, let it be by choice.
If there is release, let it be from within.

Take back the reins.
Ride your own wild.

By invitation only.

Jx

My invitation to work with me has just been updated.

More details coming soon, including special treats for birthday-month celebrations! 🎉

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The void is not chaotic.It’s the centred calm amidst the storm.The holy half-halt between breaths. The deepening of our ...
20/02/2026

The void is not chaotic.

It’s the centred calm amidst the storm.

The holy half-halt between breaths.

The deepening of our seat bones into riding astride paradox before unbridling into the unknown beyond.

It’s where our nervous system stakes out new neural markers of spaciousness…
& the possibilities of all timelines exist.

Where every breath…
every shift of weight…
rewires our nervous system…
re-claiming and re-membering the ancient language of safety, surrender and our own rewilded ride of return.

If you’re in a vortex that feels more like a storm than stillness…keep going.

Find your somatic sanctuary amidst it.

Feel your way there.

Sensing sanctity…serenity…equanimity…
Timeless…formless…all & nothing.

Dark Goddess.
Deep Feminine.
Primordial wisdom encoded in your DNA.
Gatekeeper of the eternal.

Where we lose our boundaried form in deconstructed restoration.

Standing at the threshold of rebirth, beyond the death that has been.

As women, we are finely attuned to this through our monthly bleed cycle, life stages & initiations we meet at menarche, motherhood & menopause.

It’s the ride home we came here for.

And if it’s full of thoughts & confusion, you’re not there yet.

Keep riding in, not over.

Jx

19/02/2026

There’s something present for you right now that longs to be seen

To be sensed

Breathed into

Felt

Witnessed

Without any need to fix, change, or make meaning of

Just welcomed in.

I invite you to take a moment

Follow your breath in

Where does it land?

What’s here?

What do you feel

And where do you feel it?

Can you linger here a little longer…

What do you notice?

Let go of the doing… breathe into your being

I’m curious…

What’s longing for your sacred witness in this moment?

05/02/2026

In this thoroughly insightful and enjoyable chat, Shea Stewart takes us through the incredible role that sunlight has on our body and the bodies of Horses. There…

I do not seek the limelightNor do I yearn for the spotlight.I am a tender of thresholdsMost alive where opposites touch....
13/11/2025

I do not seek the limelight
Nor do I yearn for the spotlight.

I am a tender of thresholds
Most alive where opposites touch.

Dawn & dusk
Death & birth
Shadow & light
Blood & bone
Silence & scream
Veil & vision

I hold the reins in these liminal spaces,
with an open, reverent wonder
for what awakens when senses re-emerge & converge.

I’ve been here before.

I’ve held them many times.

And I’ve learned how to unbridle, untether & untame.

Not from dripping bare in wild performative abandon

But from slowing…
sensing…
spiralling…
& feeling my way back into the sacred cosmology of my own body.

And you can do that too.

If you’re ready to take back your own reins, this space was crafted especially for you…

To Re-claim

To Re-member

To Re-wild.

Are you ready to ride?

Jx

I do not seek the limelight

You didn’t come here to become.You already became.You came here to re-claim.You came here to re-member.Your medicine.You...
11/11/2025

You didn’t come here to become.
You already became.

You came here to re-claim.
You came here to re-member.

Your medicine.
Your mission.
Your vow.
Your soul.

As Visionary.
As Wayshower.
As Edgewalker.
As Bridge-Builder.

I see you.

Word Weaver.
Soul Seer.
Threshold Keeper.
Some call you Teacher, Coach & Guide.

You came for the ride wild astride…

The ride home we’ve prepared for lifetimes…this one last time.

Come on in & land your seatbones.
The horses have been waiting.

Welcome… it’s so good to have you home. 🤍

Jx

You didn’t come here to become.

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The Embodied Equestrienne

Unbridle~Untether~Untame Hi, come in!

I’m Jayne... Mumma Mare, Equine Scientist, Nutritionist, Feminine Yoga & Meditation Teacher & Equestrienne Embodiment Mentor, plus founder of several unique programs that bring an alchemical blend of science, sensuality & spirited soul to the barn. My work is mainly focused on nourishing and deepening the horse-woman relationship and the many aspects of that that go censored and untouched in our heavily masculinised industry....

...like the fact we've been riding in saddles & styles designed by men, for the male anatomy for decades (hello pelvis, hip, knee pain anyone?)

...or that we may be terrified to even get back in that saddle (and often bullied for it)...for many reasons, especially postpartum when our bodies have undergone immense neural, physiological & emotional shifts.