Our herd live out all year round, we provide them with as natural a life style as we possibly can. This includes all horses living without rugs, shoes and stables. We have good natural shelter for them in the fields and none of our horses or donkeys are ridden. Living together ensures they have the social interaction and herd structure they desire and thrive from.
Many of our herd came to us as they could no longer be ridden due to injuries. As we don’t ride the horses here and instead allow them to just be themselves this environment has supported many of the horses healing on various levels.
When horses are allowed to be themselves and are around people they offer us levels of feed back which can be helpful for our own personal development and insights. Therefore when we work with the horses at Intuitive Horse we allow the sessions to be horse led. If a horse doesn’t want to interact then quite simply, they don’t have to!
We have been running Intuitive Horse since 2009, originally discovered due to Emma’s personal insights into her own behaviours, mind and feeling states and how she was impacting the relationship with her horses. The more she became aware of how she was behaving or what she was thinking , the more she started to see the horses shifting in their behaviour around her as she made conscious shifts to change. This propelled her to explore the work with horses deeper and develop it into the Intuitive Horse personal development and coaching that it is today so that she could help people as well as horses.
Whilst horses are our passion, we are also passionate about helping all animals and nature and this is why Intuitive Horse is a vegan centre. When you attend our retreats all refreshments are vegan!
We have become passionate about learning to rewild the land here over recent years. Intuitive Horse’s land has been an organic farm for the last eight years. We make our own hay here for the herd and sheep but the rest of the land we are leaving to rewild as much as we can. There are still some areas of management that are needed due to the size of the land and how many horses we have but we are loving learning how to create a balanced eco system for all who live here, including barn owls, herds of deer, foxes, badgers, buzzards, squirrels, mice, the list goes on! We are also seeing many new tree saplings appearing all over the farm of many varieties. We share some of our journey on our fb and instagram pages.