The Equi-Neural Shift Method

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The Equi-Neural Shift Method Rapid healing for you & your animals — or just you. The SHIIFT Method resets the root causes of the symptoms so your body & mind can thrive.
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It’s about tuning in, understanding the deeper messages, and finding true balance inside & out.

12/10/2026

What are the characteristics of champion racehorses vs the rest?

09/10/2026

Racing foals - how does their upbringing affect their performance?

06/10/2026

Weaning foals and the hidden trauma they experience.

You know me from the ragwort posts — the one clearing it every other day, checking for caterpillars before I pull a plan...
30/07/2026

You know me from the ragwort posts — the one clearing it every other day, checking for caterpillars before I pull a plant, banging on about the actual science because half of what's repeated online about horse safety is wrong, and I'd rather get it right than get it popular.

That same thing — dig until you actually understand what's going on — is why my work now has a name that actually says what it does: the Equi-Neural Shift Method.

Here's the short version. I work with your nervous system, and your horse's — because you, your horse, your dogs, your family, you're not separate problems, you're one interconnected herd, mirroring each other.

I follow what the nervous system shows me, without judgement, and release what's actually holding things back. Sometimes that's in you. Sometimes it's in the horse. Often working on one clears it for the other too.

I've had a flying change turn up on its own once a block was gone. I've had a rider's pain lift without us ever talking about the rider. That's not what I'm chasing — it's just what happens when the thing that was actually stuck gets integrated.

If you've ever felt like you and your horse are stuck in the same pattern no matter what you try, that's usually not a training problem.

Comment or drop me a message if you want to know more about how it works.

29/07/2026

Myth: pulling ragwort destroys cinnabar moth habitat.

Reality: it's not about whether you pull it, it's when.

If yesterday's post taught me anything, it is that there is alot of passionate, but uneducated, opinions on ragwort.

Here's the part people just don't get — the lifecycle of the cinnabar moth. Moths lay eggs on the plant, which hatch into caterpillars after 1–2 weeks. The caterpillars then feed for about a month, often stripping one plant bare before moving to the next - not hat I have ever seen that happen.

Once fully grown, they drop into the soil to pupate and overwinter underground, emerging as moths the following spring.

So for most of the year, there are no caterpillars on the plant at all — just that roughly month-long window, usually early July where I live.

I checked my ragwort today: approximately 3 acres of ragwort - no caterpillars. Three weeks ago there were though, so I left those plants alone and I'm only pulling now that they've moved on.

You don't have to choose between the moths and horse safety. Check first, leave what's still hosting caterpillars, pull the rest before it seeds. Symbiosis is best.

Sources:

Cinnabar caterpillars — Sussex Wildlife Trust
Ragwort cinnabar moth — Manaaki Whenua / Landcare Research
Insect Fauna in Detail — Buglife

I wish I could say this is all there is, hut this is just 3 days worth and not even a quarter of what is needing pulled....
28/07/2026

I wish I could say this is all there is, hut this is just 3 days worth and not even a quarter of what is needing pulled.

But there's a lesson - to anyone renting your fields out - include ragwort picking in the contract!

In 2010 when I got my farm it was over run. And each year, because I dont want to spray it costs me thousands to get it all picked.

Meanwhile, influencers are talking aboit beneficial a plant it is and encouraging people to leave it in place.

While the thousands of seeds those left plants have spread across the countryside causing havoc for people like me, who are doing their best to keep their fields with some grass in them.

Because the ragwort doesn’t just pose a danger for the horses, it also drastically reduces the grazing in the field.

Just my tuppence on the subject.

27/07/2026

Simba loves this jam!

26/07/2026

Build them a rubbing post - great idea!

Now - how do I get them to use it???

25/07/2026

"She’d be cruisin ’ for a bruisin’ if she were my foal!" Commenter.

She's sassy/spicy/having a temper tantrum/naughty/wants the milk bar/learning how to be a red mare/a stinker/has an attitude.

Or is she just being a foal?

How does the story we attach to what we see and anthropomorphising what we see horses do affect the outcome we want?

And why is everyone's judgement different? Because we judge others the same way we judge ourselves, from our core traumas and life experience.

If you took "needs a spanking" or "needs discipline" literally, you'd intervene in a completely inappropriate way for what's actually happening — a nursing/coordination/irritation issue, not a training or behavioural one.

The mares deal with it between them though - not-mum pins her ears and mum moves away. That is all that needs to be done, becasue body language speaks a thousand words. They show the foal - that is not what we do - and if you are doing that I am going to remove myself from you.

But we have a tendency to make meaning and attach feeling - if the horse misbehaves, that means I am failing. The horse "did that to me", so I need to retaliate and 'show them I am boss".

Then we carry the story from day to day. We focus on it. We expect it.

The dysregulated nervous system jumps into action - and we revert to dominance because dominance makes us feel safe - momentarily.

"I need to show her I'm boss" isn't actually a response to the foal — it's a person's activated nervous system generating a threat story and then justifying the action that story calls for.

The regulated nervous system just moves away or moves the foal away because they don't see the 'threat', they see a foal being a foal.

The mares show us that the response just needs to be proportionate, it doesn't have to be physical contact / retaliation.

That's not because horses are simple; it's because they're not running a narrative track alongside the behaviour.

And this is why our habit of attaching story is so costly to our relationships with our animals - our story becomes an expectation. Our expectation becomes our reality because it changes how we show up - muscle tension, heart rate and breathing rate - and the horse reads this.

The person arrives with tension and the horse braces against it and reacts to it. The story becomes evidence.

The story gets written by whoever's nervous system is least regulated in the interaction, and then everyone downstream, including the horse, ends up responding to the story instead of what actually happened.

This isn't really about foals. It's about every relationship where we've mistaken our own activation for someone else's misbehaviour — our kids, our partners, ourselves. The horse just makes it visible faster, because they can't pretend not to notice.

This is the whole premise behind the Saddle the Mind 7 day nervous system course — the horse was never the one who needed to change. It's why we start with the nervous system, not the behaviour. Yours, first.

If you would like to find out more drop a SADDLE in the comments.

I'm testing something new, and I'm only telling this community first.I'm running a live group session on 27 July — somet...
16/07/2026

I'm testing something new, and I'm only telling this community first.

I'm running a live group session on 27 July — something I haven't done in this format before. No fixed script. The work moves to whoever it's needed for, in the room, in real time. That's you, your horse, or both.

Fifteen people — and their horses, wherever they are. Ninety minutes. I'm confident the right ones will find their way into the room, for all to benefit.

I'm not opening this one up publicly. If it lands the way I think it will, that'll be obvious in the room itself — and this community felt like the right place to start.

Anyone who attends keeps the founder rate moving forward, for every group session I host after this one. A feedback form follows the session.

What people have said about working with me:
Vertigo — gone. Chronic pain — gone. Headaches and migraines — gone. Mindset blocks — cleared. Pelvis — straightened. Mood, rotation, and range of motion — improved. A horse's behaviour changed after one session - flying changes available when they were not before.

If you've seen that kind of result already — in yourself or your horse — or you're simply curious, this is your way in before anyone else hears about it.

Spots are genuinely capped at 15.

Link to reserve your spot in the comments.

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