EQUINE FACILITATED SOMATIC LEARNING

BODY MIND HORSE

EFSL for adults

You know how to hold it together. But your body is keeping score.

You manage. You show up. You do what needs to be done.

But somewhere underneath the doing, there is a tiredness that won’t go away and that sleep doesn’t fix. A tension that yoga helps but doesn’t resolve. A knowing that you are living in your head, in your lists, in the next thing — while your body waits patiently below.

You’ve talked about it. You’ve journalled about it. You may have done therapy about it.

What you haven’t done is let a horse show you in real-time where you actually are..

What is Body Mind Horse?

Body Mind Horse is a somatic learning experience for adults, held on the ground with a horse or with the herd.

It’s not a riding session – nor is it coaching, or therapy.

It’s a session of genuine embodied practice — grounded, guided, and held — in which the horse becomes your most direct teacher.

Because Horses read energy

Horses are exquisitely attuned to the nervous system. They don’t respond to what you say about how you’re doing. They respond to how you actually are: your breath, your tension, your presence – or absence – from your own body. In that response — instant, non-verbal, and entirely without judgement — lies the learning.

Body Mind Horse draws on the principles of Equine Facilitated Somatic Learning (EFSL): the understanding that the body holds wisdom the mind can’t always access, and that real regulation — not managed calm, but genuine settling — happens through embodied, felt experience, and not through thinking.

What happens in a session?

Sessions follow a gentle, spacious structure:

We begin with you — not the horse.
A brief check-in: how are you arriving today?
We introduce the space, and the horse
And take time to land, breath, and become present

Then we work with the horse.
This is the heart of the session. Working quietly on the ground alongside the horse, you are guided through breath-based and somatic practices — mindfulness, body awareness, nervous system regulation — while the horse responds in real time to your internal state. You will notice things here that you cannot notice anywhere else.

Closing.
We step back and reflect — not in an analytical way, but somatically.
The closing is where the learning is anchored, so that you leave with something you can carry forward and apply in your day to day life.

Disclaimer: Body Mind Horse is a somatic learning experience, not a therapeutic or clinical service. It does not replace assessment or treatment by a registered health professional.

Who is this for?

Body Mind Horse is for the woman who is running on empty.
It is also for those who have experienced trauma and want to gently begin the process of healing , releasing, and weaving Body and Mind back together.

You may be navigating burnout — the kind that comes from giving too much for too long. You may be living with chronic stress, anxiety, or the exhausting invisibility of holding everything together for everyone else. You may be at a turning point — not in crisis, but aware that something needs to change, and that the change needs to happen in your whole body, not just in your thinking.

If this is you, then this is for you.

Body Mind Horse session formats

Choose your structure:

Private 1:1 sessions.
We recommend booking a single session to begin with to experience the work, after that you can book in sets of 4 sessions (1 session per week)

Small group container.
If you’d like to work in a small group then join us for a series of 4 sessions (1 session per week) held on a weekday morning

Workshop immersion.
A 3.5 hour Body Mind Horse immersion where you’ll have the somatic experience, anchor and integrate, and learn tools and exercises to take home with you to practice as needed.

The Workshop immersion is usually a group workshop – but it can also be booked as a private 1:1 experience.

A note on the horses

The horses in a Body Mind Horse session are not props, or pets. In the Medicine Horse tradition, we work with the horse as an ally —
a being of extraordinary sensitivity and presence, who offers something that human facilitators can’t:
an entirely honest, body-to-body reflection of your nervous system state.

When you are scattered, the horse feels it. When you settle, the horse settles.

That moment of mutual regulation — felt in the body, not filtered by the mind — is where something real lands and can be integrated into your daily experience.

Who facilitates Body Mind Horse?

Body Mind Horse is facilitated by Sam Huckle, founder of Medicine Horse — a somatic practitioner, coach, and animal communicator with forty years of lived experience with horses and ten years of professional equine-facilitated practice.

Sam’s work draws on training in NVC (Nonviolent Communication), somatic and embodied approaches, Family Constellations, and multiple coaching modalities.

Sam does not work from a clinical model. She works from presence, deep knowledge of horses, and a genuine commitment to meeting each person exactly where they are.

Ready to join us?

Book a free 20-minute Clarity Call with Sam

Or request the intake form to book your first session.