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Holiday Sales here: https://www.emotionalhorsemanship.com/holiday-sales-2025SURPRISE!  Season 1 might be over, but this bonus episode is here for you this holiday season.  In this solo episode I summarise the year, give my highs and lows, and predict what is next for 2025. I hope this episode finds your ears during this holiday season and is soothing, relaxing, interesting and helpful. Take care, and can't wait to see you on the other side in 2025!For more information check out www.emotionalhorsemanship.com!

Explore the Emotional Horsemanship Foundation Online Course here: https://www.emotionalhorsemanship.com/emotional-horsemanship-foundation-online-courseSupport Lori here: https://www.horseandheart.org/THANK YOU FOR SEASON 1!!!For more information check out www.emotionalhorsemanship.com!

Explore the Emotional Horsemanship Foundation Online Course here: https://www.emotionalhorsemanship.com/emotional-horsemanship-foundation-online-courseConnect with Amy Skinner: https://www.amyskinnerhorsemanship.com/For more information check out www.emotionalhorsemanship.com!

Sign up for "When to Reward, For What" (A.K.A. Food Rewards in Freedom)HERE: https://www.emotionalhorsemanship.com/mini-courseConnect with Helen here: https://www.facebook.com/frogpondfamnchttps://www.facebook.com/sincerusleadershipFor more information check out www.emotionalhorsemanship.com!

Sign up for "When to Reward, For What" (A.K.A Food Rewards with Freedom)HERE:   https://www.emotionalhorsemanship.com/mini-courseConnect with Elaine Hayes here:https://www.facebook.com/partnershipdressageElaine Hayes is a friend, client and colleague.   Elaine is a boarding barn owner, a dressage rider and trainer and lives in NC USA.   Partnership Dressage is the lense she approaches to developing correct sport horses, to a high level, with kindness and respect.  I have really enjoyed supporting her on a few cases she called me in to advise on.   Elaine is also an advocate for quality breeding.  After discovering ECVM in some of her horses, which resulted in life ending scenarios for these horses, Elaine put her entire business on the line to begin advocating for better breeding, diagnostics and awareness.  Awareness around the bodies many horses are born with.   ECVM, which has been discussed a few times in season 1, together with many other genetic diseases of a horses skeleton is not always a doom and gloom diagnosis.  It is not always a life ending diagnosis.  But it does hold a very high prevalence of high potential for discomfort, pain, and potentially event catastrophic dysfunction.  Early studies indicate the possibility, but not yet proven fact, that an enormous percentage of today’s domestic horses are bred with broken bodies.   I hugely admire Elaine.  Because I admire anyone who speaks boldly to their triuth and puts everything on the line, passionately for causes that are important to them.   Appearing on her first podcast ever, here.  It is my pleasure to introduce you to my friend and colleague, Elaine. For more information check out www.emotionalhorsemanship.com!

Sign up for Barefoot Basics here: https://www.emotionalhorsemanship.com/barefoot-basicsGet to know Bethan, Dan and Gawsworth Track Livery here.https://www.facebook.com/gawsworthtrackliveryFor more information check out www.emotionalhorsemanship.com!

Sign up for the Emotional Horsemanship Video Library HEREwww.emotionalhorsemanship.com/video-libraryDiscover Gillian Larson here: www.gillianlarson.net/Isn't Gillian Badass!?For more information check out www.emotionalhorsemanship.com!

Sign up for EH Video Library HERE: https://www.emotionalhorsemanship.com/video-libraryConnect with Siets here: https://echopegasus.com/Sietske Meerloo is a friend of mine.  She is a phenomenal horse woman of Dutch descent and has lived all over the world, from Jordan to Spain and now France.   Siets is a wonderful practitioner of the AAOR and for a while lived close to me in Galicia.  In fact, while I was searching for farms in Galicia, her support, and her life, inspired and assisted me in my homecoming.   Last year, I had the honour to ask Siets to come to my farm every week to work with me and my horses on working a totally new skill set.  I enjoyed every single session.   Siets is now offering her new business for horse people.  Called ECO OF PEGASUS, Siets offers a spiritual approach to life with horses through her lense as a Reiki practitioner, classical dressage, mountain trekking, Arabian horses and more.   She aims to create a space for human and horse possibilities to come together holistically and honestly.   She guides horse people who are struggling in their horse journey to create a more aligned partnership with their horse, that is focused on the horse persons SELF CARE as the first priority.   I am so excited for her new venture and highly recommend working with her.   I miss her greatly and look forward to bringing her to my farm for another deep dive together.  For more information check out www.emotionalhorsemanship.com!

Sign up for the EH Foundation Online Course HERE: https://www.emotionalhorsemanship.com/emotional-horsemanship-foundation-online-courseMeet Sheri Salata Here: https://sherisalata.com/about/About SHERI SALATASheri Salata is an American author, speaker and producer.    She is the former executive producer of the Oprah Winfrey Show, and former co-president of the OWN and Harpo Productions.    She has written memoirs, and today is a freelance producer and transformation guide who leads women arounds the globe in creating limitless lives.   Sheri has been named of the Fast Company’s 100 most creative people in business, the Hollywood Reporters Women in Entertainment Power 100 and a Feminist Press Power Award Winner.    She proceeds transformational coursework experienced by people all over the world with membership platforms, courses and outreach.   I invited Sheri onto the podcast after I noticed she followed my instagram page.  I knew who Sheri was, and found out that she was a new horse owner.   I thought a conversation about how she came to be a horse woman, a NEW horse women, through her experienced lense could yield a brilliant conversation that illuminated horses from a totally different light.   She did not disappoint.   Sheri has a standing history of giving to animal and horse charities and I loved hearing her compare horses to shamans!   I hope you enjoy this conversation, and I am so thankful for Sheri for joining us on the pod. For more information check out www.emotionalhorsemanship.com!

Consider Joining the EH Foundation Online Course here:https://www.emotionalhorsemanship.com/emotional-horsemanship-foundation-online-courseLearn more about Kat HERE:https://kathosoolee.com/Kat Ho Soo Lee is a spiritual business mentor.  She is also the host of the Emotional Alchemy Podcast of which I have happily visited at least twice as a guest speaker.    Kat takes a trauma informed lense to the practice of running our own businesses.  She enfolds somatic, scientific, spiritual and nervous system knowledge into a holistic mentoring role, guiding today’s business owner to thrive in AND enjoy running their own business.   She is also a client who has taken lessons with me.  Which to my delight I discovered a self professed beginner with horses, to possess an advanced skill set towards horses.   Her work in the nervous system, in movement, in traditional eastern medicine and trauma informed practices naturally makes her a brilliant horse woman.  She lives in Washington state, has a ranch of her own, and in spring of 2024 she showed up to my Washington State clinic and was a powerful voice in that space.   Kat is the first of a series of podcasts where I present people whom on the surface appear to be new to horses, and yet possess skill, feel, understanding and knowledge that even lifelong horse people struggle at times, to embody.   I present such guests here, alongside industry figure heads such as Temple Grandin and Celeste Lazarus, because it is never my opinion that only decades of experience can help you be excellent with a horse.   Sometimes, from the mouths of beginners, comes the ultimate feel of horse-sense.  From the mind of the fresh, we find  logic and horsemanship is not solely gate kept, by the uber experiences, but can be embodies more immediately, from a multi-disciplinary approach.    For more information check out www.emotionalhorsemanship.com!