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08/09/2026

Facilitators, I’m curious… how do you actually make your business work through winter? 🐴🌧️

Because summer sessions are one thing. Long evenings, decent weather, more flexibility, people generally happier to be outside.

Then winter arrives and suddenly you’re dealing with mud, dark evenings, cancellations, freezing hands, soggy paperwork and clients who understandably don’t always fancy standing in a field in horizontal rain 😂

So what does winter look like for your business?

Do you reduce your sessions?

Move more work indoors?

Offer shorter sessions?

Run workshops or online work?

Focus more on schools, organisations or alternative provision during the colder months?

Do you build winter cancellations into your pricing?

Or do you just crack on in full waterproofs and hope for the best? 😂

I think this is one of those parts of equine-assisted and equine wellbeing work that people don’t talk about enough. It’s easy to discuss the lovely session ideas. The practical reality of running a sustainable business all year round is another matter entirely.

I’d love to hear what works for you, especially if you’ve been doing this for a few winters.

What changes in your business between October and March? 👇🐴

And how is the cost of living affecting you this winter 🤔

08/09/2026

🐴 Equimotional Adventures is now live 🐴

A new part of Equimotional created especially for horse-mad children and families who want learning to feel a bit more interesting and who might not bave access to horses.

Equimotional Adventures is a digital, horse-themed project-based learning membership.

Each Adventure gives children something to actually get stuck into. Depending on the project, they might be reading, writing, researching, calculating, designing, problem-solving, exploring science, learning about equine welfare, thinking about money or developing practical life skills.

The horse is the starting point.

The learning happens around it.

And no, you do not need to own a horse or have regular access to one. 🐴

For £7.99 a month, your child gets:

🐴 One new digital Adventure each month
📚 A complete downloadable illustrated project
📝 Activities and challenges woven through different areas of learning
🎨 Beautiful commissioned illustrations by Creative Georgie
👨‍👩‍👧 Parent guidance where it’s useful
🏅 A digital achievement badge
🏆 A personalised printable certificate
📱 Progress tracking inside the app

There are also membership options for children who want more Adventures each month.

This isn’t designed to replace a full curriculum, and it isn’t about making children sit through formal lessons disguised as pony worksheets.

It’s for children who are curious, horse-obsessed, interest-led, home educated, flexi-schooled, struggling to engage with traditional learning, or simply much more enthusiastic when the subject starts with something they already love.

And the best bit is that you can try the first Adventure completely free before deciding whether it’s for you.

So if you’ve got a child who can remember every pony they’ve ever met but mysteriously forgets what 7 x 8 is the second you call it maths… this may be worth a look 😂🐴

Have a nosey here:

https://equimotionalhomeeducation.com

And if you know a home educating family, alternative provision, equine facilitator or just someone with a seriously horse-mad child, I’d massively appreciate a share. 💛

Printable horse-themed learning Adventures for children aged roughly 6-14. Badges, certificates and no horse required.

06/09/2026

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂?

Is Sunday the day you set aside to rest & recoup your energy for the week ahead?

Or

Do you get all "those" jobs done that have piled up during the week ?

Remember that pile of washing can probably wait, so can that dusting or hoovering....don't overwhelm yourself with tasks that you find stressful because it's "the start of a new week".

Time is just a concept ✨️ Take a breather , have a nap , watch a movie - go for a walk , whatever it is that's self care to you , dont forget to allow yourself some of that lushness 😘

Repeat after me......

Resting is not a reward
Do not feel guilty for doing it 🙏

06/09/2026

Rest is not a day.
It is a permission.

Some people get Sundays.
Some people get Tuesdays.
Some people get a single hour when the house finally goes quiet or the shift ends or the kids fall asleep.

Some people do not get much at all.

Rest does not belong to the organised or the privileged. It belongs to anyone with a body that gets tired, a nervous system that stays alert too long, a heart that keeps carrying more than it should.

A rest boundary is the moment you stop offering yourself up to be used.

It might be turning your phone face down.
It might be eating without multitasking.
It might be sitting in your car for ten minutes before going inside.
It might be choosing not to explain yourself one more time.

This is rest too.

Rest is not the absence of effort. It is the absence of demand.

It is the moment your body realises it does not have to perform, respond, or hold everything together for anyone else.

There is no universal shape for it.
Quiet is rest for some.
Movement is rest for others.
Order is rest for some.
Simplicity is rest for others.

The only test is this: does it allow something in you to soften?

If the answer is yes, it counts.

You do not need to earn rest by finishing everything.
You do not need to justify it with productivity.
You do not need a specific day to deserve it.

Wherever you are, whenever you get the chance, you are allowed to put the weight down.

Even briefly.
Even imperfectly.
Even now.

06/09/2026

🐴✨ The Equimotional Adventures Partner Programme is officially open.

And just to make this really clear from the start…

You do NOT need to have trained with Equimotional to apply.

The Partner Programme is open to anyone working with children, young people or families who feels Equimotional Adventures could be a useful resource to recommend.

That might include equine-assisted practitioners, riding schools, tutors, home education groups, alternative provision, schools, mentors, coaches, community organisations, charities, wellbeing practitioners and plenty of others.

It’s completely free to join.

Once approved, you’ll get access to your own Partner Hub and toolkit, including:

✨ Your own personalised referral code
✨ An approved Equimotional Adventures Partner badge
✨ Example emails you can adapt and send to families
✨ Ready-made social posts you can copy and edit
✨ Information to help you recommend suitable Adventures and resources
✨ Referral rewards when eligible families sign up through your code

The idea is really simple.

If you’re already working with a family and you think one of the Adventures, projects or memberships might suit them, you can point them towards it.

Families still deal directly with Equimotional, so you’re not collecting money, managing subscriptions or dealing with any of the admin.

You can recommend a membership if that suits them, or simply point them towards an individual resource if they don’t want a membership.

Partners also receive a referral reward when eligible families sign up through their code. It’s not designed as something you need to push or constantly sell. It’s simply a small thank-you when you’ve genuinely recommended Adventures to a family who goes on to join.

Rewards build in your Partner account and payouts are currently processed manually once the payment threshold is reached.

I really wanted this to create a proper bridge between the professional side of Equimotional and the families using Adventures at home.

So whether you’ve been part of Equimotional for years or have only just found us, you are very welcome to apply. 💛

You can find out more and apply here 👇

https://equimotionalhomeeducation.com/partner-hub

05/09/2026

IT’S LIVE 🐴✨ PLEASE SHARE!!!!!!!

Introducing Equimotional Adventures

A horse-themed learning club for curious children who are far more interested in learning when there is a pony involved somewhere 😂

This has been created for families who want learning to feel more interesting, flexible and connected to the things their children actually care about.

Inside Equimotional Adventures, children can explore horse-themed projects covering all sorts of areas including maths, English, science, geography, money, creativity, equine welfare and practical life skills.

There is no fixed order.

No race to “keep up”.

No expectation that every child should be learning the same thing at the same age.

Choose something that sparks their interest, explore it, complete the project and earn badges and personalised certificates along the way. 🏅

And importantly...

🐴 You do NOT need to own a horse
🐴 You do NOT need access to a yard
🐴 You do NOT need to follow a particular curriculum
🐴 Parents and carers stay in control of the account
🐴 Projects can be chosen around your child’s interests

There’s also a private Equimotional Adventures Parent Community Page on Facebook where families can share ideas, projects, recommendations and general horsey learning chaos with other parents and carers. 😂

Membership starts from £7.99 per month, or individual projects can be purchased separately.

And because I really want families to be able to see what it’s like before deciding...

There is a FREE taster adventure ready to try now. 💛

Equimotional Adventures has been created in the UK, but because it is digital, families can join us from around the world. 🌍

Have a proper nosey here:

🙏❤️ https://equimotionalhomeeducation.com/

This is a completely new direction for Equimotional and I am ridiculously excited to see what children make, investigate, design, calculate and create with it.

If you know a horse-mad child who might actually enjoy learning a bit more if we put a pony in the middle of it... please send this their way. 🐴📚✨

05/09/2026

🐴📚 Okay. It is ACTUALLY finished......

Not “I think it’s finished but I’ll probably redesign 47 pages tomorrow” finished.

Finished finished. 😂

I’ve spent what feels like approximately seventeen years changing it, scrapping bits, adding things, checking the curriculum links, deciding I hated the formatting, reformatting it, adding MORE resources…

…and I can finally introduce:

✨ EQUIMOTIONAL EQUINE LEARNING KS2 ✨

A complete collection of 180 flexible horse-themed English, Maths and Science sessions created particularly for children who need a different way into learning.

📚 60 English sessions
➗ 60 Maths sessions
🔬 60 Science sessions

And it has become MUCH bigger than I originally planned.

The complete download now contains 487 PDF pages 😳 including learner workbooks, facilitator guides, curriculum maps, completion certificates and 120 pages of subject-specific printable resources.

It works out at £2.49 a session that you can use over & over again with various cohorts.

PLUS I’ve added:

🐴 an 11-page Yard Learning Passport, where children can record their strengths, goals, weekly learning, achievements, favourite work and their own reflections

🏇 a 10-page Build Your Own Show Jumping Course project, including cutting out and building jumps, arena planning, measurement, distance, strides and budgeting

📋 another 16 pages of cross-subject resources including story planning, pony mystery investigations, yard journalism, project planning, science investigations and learner evidence pages.

I kept thinking about the child who sees:

“Calculate the perimeter of this rectangle.”

…and immediately switches off.

But ask them to work out how much fencing we'd need around a paddock and suddenly there is a reason for the maths.

Or the child who doesn't want to write a newspaper report about some random imaginary event…

…but might quite happily become the Yard News Reporter and investigate what has happened at the stables.

Or the child who can tell you absolutely EVERYTHING about horses but has started believing they're “bad at learning” because traditional education hasn't always been easy for them to access.

That is who I kept thinking about while making this.

There are Walk, Trot and Canter routes throughout, but they aren't easy, medium and hard labels stuck onto children.

They're simply different ways into the learning.

Activities can be written, spoken, drawn, practical, modelled or facilitator-recorded.

It's designed for home education, alternative provision, equine-assisted learning settings, SEND/inclusion provision, tutoring, mentoring and other flexible learning environments.

It supports selected KS2 National Curriculum objectives.

It's something different.

It's a way of taking meaningful English, Maths and Science learning and putting it into a context some children actually WANT to explore.

And I am ridiculously relieved to finally be able to say…

IT'S READY. 😂❤️

THE COMPLETE DOWNLOAD 180 flexible learning sessions3 complete subject programmes487 PDF pages120 pages of subject printablesEnglish + Maths + Science facilitator guidesCurriculum-objective mapsIndividual printable PNG resourcesYard Learning PassportBuild Your Own Show Jumping Course projectAddition...

04/09/2026

🐴✨ INTRODUCING EQUIMOTIONAL HORSE ED ✨🐴

After being made redundant from my social care role this year, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want the next chapter of Equimotional to look like.

For years, so much of what we’ve created has been for facilitators, coaches, practitioners and professionals.

Now I’m creating something directly for home education and families too. 💛

Equimotional HorseEd is a brand new project-based learning subscription for horse-loving children, starting broadly around KS2 age.

The idea is simple…

If your child suddenly becomes FAR more interested in maths, reading, science or writing when there’s a pony involved, this is for them. 😂🐴

Each project will use horses and equestrian life as the starting point for learning across things like:

📚 English
➗ Maths
🔬 Science
🌍 Geography
🎨 Creativity
💷 Money and practical life skills
🌱 Environment and land
🐴 Equine knowledge and welfare

Projects might include designing a dream equestrian centre, budgeting for a pony, planning a horse show, creating an equestrian magazine, exploring breeds around the world, investigating horse feed, designing a paddock or even creating an imaginary equestrian business.

And no, you absolutely do NOT need to own a horse.

Children can have their own pony, ride occasionally, go to a riding school or simply be completely horse obsessed from afar. 🥰

🏅 Every project also comes with its own achievement badge and certificate, so children can build up a collection as they complete more projects.

📩 DIGITAL HORSE ED PACKAGE

🐴 1 project per month: £7.99/month
🐴🐴 2 projects per month: £12.99/month
🐴🐴🐴🐴 4 projects per month: £19.99/month

Digital memberships include:

✨ Full printable project pack
📚 Learning activities and challenges
📝 Parent guidance where needed
🏅 Digital achievement badge
🎓 Personalised printable certificate
🌍 Available worldwide

📮 PHYSICAL HORSE ED PACKAGE

🐴 1 printed project per month: £18.99/month
🐴🐴 2 printed projects per month: £27.99/month
🐴🐴🐴🐴 4 printed projects per month: £39.99/month

Physical memberships include:

📮 Printed project packs delivered to your door ( subject to postage costs )
📚 Activities ready to use
🏅 Collectible physical achievement badges
🎓 Printed certificates
🇬🇧 UK

And if you don’t want a subscription, you’ll also be able to buy individual projects:

📩 Digital: £9.99
📮 Printed: £21.99

We are tking something a child already genuinely cares about and using it to encourage reading, writing, maths, science, creativity, research and problem-solving.

With significantly more ponies involved. 😂🐴

✨ JOIN THE HORSEED EARLY ACCESS LIST

If you’d like to be amongst the first families to hear when subscriptions open, join the list here:

https://form.jotform.com/262461604396359

You’ll get first access to launch information, the first projects and membership details.

Please feel free to share this with any horse-mad home educating families who might love it. 🐴💛

02/09/2026

🐴 FACILITATOR FATIGUE OR FACILITATOR BURNOUT… DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE?

Sometimes you are tired because it has been a particularly demanding week. Sometimes the way you are working has been asking too much of you for far too long.

They can feel similar, but they need different responses.

😴 Facilitator fatigue can happen after a busy block of sessions, difficult safeguarding work, lots of travelling, endless paperwork or simply juggling clients, horses, family and a business without enough breathing space.

You might feel shattered, less patient, behind on everything and unable to face another email. However, when the pressure eases and you have genuine time to rest, your energy and interest usually begin to return.

🔥 Facilitator burnout develops when there is no meaningful opportunity to recover because the same pressures keep returning. A day off might help temporarily, but you come back to the same unmanageable diary, poor boundaries, financial pressure, emotional responsibility and mountain of admin.

You may begin to feel distant from work you once enjoyed. Messages feel heavier, small tasks take far more effort and you find yourself wondering whether you want to facilitate at all.

Neither experience means you are weak, unsuitable or “not resilient enough”. They can be understandable responses to what you have been carrying.

Equine wellbeing work may happen outdoors beside horses, but that does not automatically make it peaceful or easy. Facilitators are considering human wellbeing, equine wellbeing, consent, safety, safeguarding, preparation, documentation and professional boundaries… often while also poo-picking, checking fencing and wondering why nobody has turned the hosepipe off. 😂🐴

Fatigue may need rest, a lighter week and some practical help.

Burnout usually asks us to look more closely at how the work is organised. That could mean reducing the number of sessions, changing availability, strengthening boundaries, using supervision, reviewing prices or accepting that the current way of working cannot continue indefinitely.

A candle, a bath and another beautiful notebook might feel lovely… but they cannot make an unrealistic workload realistic.

Repeatedly pushing through fatigue without changing anything can eventually leave us feeling disconnected from work that matters deeply to us. We do not need to wait until we have absolutely nothing left before taking our own capacity seriously.

Perhaps the more useful question is not, “What is wrong with me?”

It is, “What have I been carrying, and what would make this work more sustainable?”

What part of facilitating takes more energy than people realise? 🐴💬