Horse Medicine Leadership – Details, episodes & analysis

On our latest podcase episode we are navigating a conversation of what it means to hold consent based horse care with our horse partners.

Join our founder Hillary and faculty members Brittany and Breanne, as we share our intepretations and experiences of how to hold horse care in a consent based manner with our horse partners.

On this episode we also share about our upcoming sacred stewardship retreat that is a horse care based retreat, you can learn more about that here:  https://www.horsemedicineleadership.com/sacred-stewardship.

If you want to follow and learn more about our founder and faculty you can do so in the links below.

Brittany Ashworth: 

Website: www.sacredechos.com

Instagram @sacredechos

Breanne Kerr: 

Website: ⁠www.wildwynd.com⁠

Instagram ⁠@⁠⁠wildwyndequine⁠

Hillary Schneider

Website: ⁠www.hillaryschneider.com

Instagram ⁠@⁠⁠hillaryepona

In this episode, Brittany Ashworth sits down with trauma-informed horse trainer Poppy Peach to explore the complex world of trauma in horses. Inspired by a thought-provoking Instagram post, "What if you could make friends with your horse's trauma?" this conversation dives deep into understanding trauma responses not as flaws, but as protective gifts horses carry with them.

Poppy shares her unique perspective on how common trauma responses (Flight, Fight, Freeze/Shutdown, Fawn/Appeasement, and Hypervigilance) can be reframed as gifts that once served a vital purpose, and how creating safe, supportive environments allows horses to no longer feel the need to wield them.

Together, Brittany and Poppy discuss how these gifts show up in horses, the parallels with human trauma, and practical ways to support horses on their healing journey. Listeners will gain insights into creating compassionate, trauma-informed relationships and learn the importance of patience, gentleness, and holistic care.

About Poppy Peach

Poppy Peach is a Trauma-Informed Horsemanship Coach, who also integrates Animal Communication and Reiki into her work with horses.

In her coaching, she utilizes environmental management, attunement, nervous system support and somatically informed trauma resolution work to help horses to live a thriving, emotionally fulfilling life.

She wants to empower horse-human partnerships to have a joyful, authentic and emotionally safe relationship together.

She is forever inspired by horses, and looks to them as friends and mentors, and sees them as being incredibly skilled in knowing what they need for their own healing, and is led by them in that process.

Poppy shares her life with a herd of three horses called Willow, Annie, and River.

On our latest podcast episode we are unpacking the notion of "bad behaviour" in our horse partners.

In recent weeks we have had conversation with some of our students around some horse behaviour that was manifesting and what to do about it and if it was "safe" for people to be around.

What our philosophy around this is here, there is no "bad behaviour" there is horse behaviour and certain behaviours that can be triggered by past experiences that we need to know how to tend to and support in our horse partners.

There is a dance between holding our horses in the space of consent and honoring their communicaiton, while also having the space of being able to handle them outside of our purpose with them and knowing how to hold that in a way that still honors the horse.

There are a few pieces we speak to in this podcast, that we are excited to bring to our community.

To learn more about our programs you can check out our website www.horsemedicineleadership.com

Hera and Heka: A journey of joining our teaching herd.

On our latest podcast we share the journey of two of our latest herd members that have joined us over the last few months.

We believe that our horses are called to us as deeply as we are called to them, that they have a purpose with us and choose that.

Both of these horses have their own unique journey in coming to our herd and we wanted to be able to give voice to what that journey has been.

Sometimes we can question if our horses are called to this work as much as us, we believe that if our horses are finding their way to us, it is because they are choosing this path too.

We have loved getting to know Hera and Heka more deeply and seeing them integrate into our herd.  Already their impact has been deeply felt and we are grateful to welcome these beautiful souls into our herd.

On our latest podcast episode we share our own journey of feeling the courage to hold this space with horses outside of what we were taught.

We have many conversations with those that have found us over the years, where there is a question of can I hold this work this way? A way that is often different from what we have been taught how.

There are many times where we feel we are giving permission to and validating where we are called to hold this path differently than what we have been taught.

Hillary founder of horse medicine leadership shares her own personally journey with this and how she moved from beyond her own teachers into finding the courage to hold this work the way the horses called her to it.

Sometimes we need someone to say, it is ok to hold things differently and to listen to your inner knowing and partnership with the horses in a way you are feeling lead and called to.

Permission granted.

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On our latest podcast episode we are unpacking a conversation around our perspective that horses are not problems, they are partners.

We came across something recently that advertised supporing problem horses in the equine therapy field, we felt the urge to speak to this concept and how we believe that in looking at horses as problems, we are deeply dishonoring them and our partnership with them.

This is a great podcast to hear some insights with Hillary and Laura as they share their experiences with a range of horses and backgrounds and how they support them in the equine guided learning field.

How do we as facilitors be responsible for holding safety for both horse and human while also knowing our capacity and how to call in the "right" horses for our practice.

In this episode, faculty members Laura Marie and Brittany Ashworth sit down to introduce themselves and talk about their journeys with The Horse Medicine Leadership Academy training program. They discuss how it's impacted their relationships with their horses, helped shape their businesses, and what they envision for the Academy moving forward.

This is an honest and meaningful conversation about the many layers of horse ownership and how walking in partnership with horses can honor them as sacred beings.

If you want to connect with Laura, her website is www.wildawakewoman.com 

If you want to connect with Brittany, her website is www.sacredechos.com 

Welcome to Season 4!

We are really excited to be welcoming another episode of our podcast.   In this episode we are sharing an update of where we are with horse medicine leadership, how it has evolved this year and what new programs, retreats,  and new spaces we are welcoming in for the new year.

To learn more about our programs and retreats or to explore more deeply check out our website www.horsemedicineleadership.com

You can also see us on instagram, horsemedicineleadership. 

We look forward to a new season with you all! 

On our latest podcast we are sharing our journey of starting in the breeding industry to running and owing our an equine retreat center.

We don't always see the journey to get the final outcome, when people find us now, there is sometimes a comparision of looking at what we have with our herd and our center and feeling like this is what we need in order to do this work.

The truth is, it took us 10 years since we found the path of EAL to get to here, and sometimes we need to be reminded of the journey to get to where we envision ourselves wanting to be.

We hope today's episode proves as an inspiration and encouragement that wherever you find yourselves on the journey in your EAL practice, it is enough.

On today's episode we are sharing a message and wisdom that felt inspired by our lead gelding chief.

Why is it important for us to acknowledge and own our leadership alongside of our horse partners?

What is powerful about us recognizing that our voice and presence is as equally as impactful as the horses?

We answer these questions and more in this episode.