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Modern understandings of anatomy and physiology have allowed us to know our body and mind in ways that have not understood previously. Whilst this is a blessing that sees both horses and humans able to function in a way that maximizes health and wellness, we have to take care that the same information that seeks to liberate does not become reductive. Where we are reduced to a body mobilized by a nervous system and brain and forget that we are so much more beyond that.
Our creativity, our intuition, the imaginative and the symbolic are, equal to the touchable and the visceral, a huge part of what makes up the magic and mystery of being human. A huge part of what allows us to make sense of the world, our place in it, and to both open and close loops of experience that may be swimming in the pool of our unconscious.
When we approach or seek out work that allows us to lead full and vital lives, to reconcile upsetting or traumatic experience, or to find a way through a real and present challenge, what we are looking for is safe passage; ways to be moved from the point that we find ourselves in now to a different space—a space that allows us more choices and gives us back our agency and voice.
Creative expression offers this, both as an organizing, physical movement and an internal movement. It allows us to leave a different person from how we came.
In this episode, we discuss:
A personal experience I had this week with writing that I found transformative on every level How creative expression can allow us to close open loops of experiences that are keeping us stuck The need for creative expression as part of a full and vital lifeI hope you enjoy it!
Happy listening,
xx Jane
Links referenced:
To join the journalling workshop, or to read my poetry & writing:
https://janepike.substack.com/
Confident Rider Website:
www.confidentrider.online
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I found out recently that the phrase “heart on your sleeve” is, in part, from Shakespeare’s play Othello-- we have just conveniently lopped off the other half of the sentence which goes on to say “…for the daws to peck at”.
These words are uttered by one of the most villainous characters in the play, who, in the process of confessing to treacherous acts, remarks that by wearing his heart upon his sleeve, which he says to mean the act of truly exposing himself or opening himself up, he would be inviting crows to peck away at him. As a consequence, he opts to keep his true emotions and intentions hidden.
While the treachery might not be entirely relatable, the idea of opening yourself up to the crows by speaking the truth of your insides might hit closer to home.
In JoyRide this morning, I asked if anyone had anything they would like me to speak to on the podcast, and Leana posted:
Ways to feel safe within vulnerability
I love this as a conversation launch point because there is so much to be said for safeguarding practices around vulnerable experiences and the process of ‘opening up’, the depth of which I only skim the surface of in this episode. Vulnerability has become somewhat of a cultural catchphrase, but the reality of what it takes to be vulnerable- and for that to be truly held- is much more complex and nuanced than perhaps we consider or allow for.
The world is hungry for vulnerability- on social media, in the arts (music, writing, music) etc, in life- but in the midst of the desire for its production and consumption, there is sometimes little to hold it at the other end. In some instances, vulnerability has become yet another commodity, another product ready for consumption without wider conversations around what our collective and community responsibility might be if we find ourselves on the receiving end of vulnerable expression.
On a personal level, vulnerability needs to be shared with discernment. Our energy is precious and to be vulnerable is another level of energy cultivation that can be depleting if not experienced in a context where that same energy is contained, and then beyond that offered back.
In this episode we touch on this in conversation.
What does it mean to be vulnerable?
How do we share our vulnerability with discernment?
And what is our collective and community responsible for both the vulnerable and vulnerability both?
I hope you enjoy it!
❤️ Jane
Links referred to in this conversation
JoyRide: www.confidentrider.online/joyride
Substack & Interwoven: janepike.substack.com
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Lovely people, I’m back-- Both on the airways with the Confident Rider Podcast more generally speaking, and with two of my favourites, the incredible Tania Kindersley and Kathy Price. If you are familiar with our catch ups from the past you will know that the usual format runs to something like the following:
What do you think we should talk about?
I’m not sure, what do you think?
I’m not sure either?
Shall we just hit record and see what happens?
Yes, let’s.
So here we are, hitting record and seeing what happens!
Given the nature of good friends, similar interests and desires for conversations that do more than skim across the surface level, we inevitably find things get interesting quite quickly.
Over the course of our meandering conversations, we discuss:
What is it we mean when we say that we are always learning from our horses? What does it mean to live a live that feels spacious? What is your relationship to time? How does it differ between horses and humans? How might the creative process apply to our relationship with our horses?I hope you enjoy it!
❤️ Jane
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"When the old patterns arise, I will dissent. When life convinces me, it is something to be endured rather than enjoyed, I will dissent.And I will show up here, and I will write about it, as a reminder to those wanting to hold hands and do the same."
❤️ Jane
www.confidentrider.online
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A gentle reminder to let yourself be new.
❤️ Jane
https://confidentrider.online/
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There’s a beautiful phrase that I hold gently in my hands, that I’ve adopted as one of my mottos for living.
"Birds coast when they can".
Every time I say it out loud to myself, I’m met with the glorious vision of a bird in flight, that proves these words to be true.Birds coast where they can is a reminder to let yourself be supported.
A reminder to look for opportunities for ease, and where you, yourself, may be complicating things in a way that isn’t necessary. Doing too much for what is required.
Where are the opportunities for you to coast?
How can you allow yourself to be carried?
And what are all the ways you argue against allowing this to be the case?xx Jane
www.confidentrider.online
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Peeps, I'm back with one of my favourite humans, the most loveliest Kathy Price!
Kathy and I are teaching a workshop together this weekend, and in our pre-workshop prep decided we could scoop the cream off the top of our conversation and sit down and chatter with you on the podcast.
Over the course of our meandering conversation, we talk about:
The evolution of our work and business The principles that we follow that inform our life and work The application of energy and intention to our decision making processesWe hope you enjoy it!
If you want to join us for our workshop, you can sign up here:
https://confidentrider.online/stepping-into-lightness/
And if you want to get in touch with Kathy, you can find her here:
https://kathyprice.co.uk/
Happy listening!
❤️ Jane (and Kathy!)
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The possibilities for your horse to move functionally and in a way that promotes health and wellness exist only within the range that he is balanced; our job as riders, then, is not only to facilitate balance in them in order that they can carry us without compromising themselves, and to ensure that our balance point matches theirs.
The area of study that I’ve involved myself in is really interested in the movement of the fascial trains and the path of movement that the body follows when it is in the parasympathetic, or not in fight flight. The key element that we pay attention to is the movement of the centreline and the arc that the centreline follows to produce healthy movement patterns.
In this episode, we discuss movement patterns and their relationship to the nervous system: how your nervous system manifests in movement, why understanding movement pathways is important and how we can use that knowledge to create ways of moving and riding that optimise harmony and health.
I hope you enjoy it! If you want to learn and explore more, we expand on these understandings in my membership program JoyRide. You can learn more by visiting www.confidentrider.online/joyride.
Enjoy!
❤️ Jane
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The interwoven thoughts of a New Year.
Happy New Year,
❤️ Jane
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Beautiful people, it's been a hot minute since we were last on the podcast airwaves. I'm super excited to be back for Season 3, and to share with you all the thoughts, musings and conversations that are swirling round my brainspace.
Before we get into that though...
At this time of year, it can be really easy to fall into "achievement energy"; the feeling that we have to set our resolutions, refine our goals and have things sorted out for the new year. The conversation I want to have with you today is an invitation to, well, not do that.
And the framework I want to offer in its place is one I stumbled upon recently and have been practicing in the moments since.
Omen Days are an ancient Celtic tradition that were practiced in the 12 days from the 26th December to the 6th January. They rest on the foundation of bearing witness, and of deep noticing. Of the land, the animals we share it with and the greater world around us.
In this podcast, we discuss the nature of Omen Days and how we can use it as a reminder to slow down, observe and begin the new year from a place of enoughness.
I hope you enjoy it!
Much love,
❤️ Jane
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Kate Sandel is back on the podcast! In less than a week’s time, Kate and I are co-teaching at a three-day clinic called Camp of the South, in Devon, UK. Initially we had the idea to record a conversation together to send to participants of the camp as a “here’s some helpful information” type spiel but it quickly became obvious that our chattering extended far beyond the limits of those three days to encompass the broader expectations we might have in learning environments, what it takes to be open to learning and what we consider to be “the best way to show up” as a student.
In this episode, we discuss:
🌷 What is takes to develop a “teachable mindset"
🌷 The necessary mess of the learning process (and how to embrace it)
🌷 How there is no such thing as failure
🌷The benefit of honesty and vulnerability in teaching environments
🌷 Discovering the joy (and challenge) of movement for both horses and humans
For those of you yet to discover the delight that is Kate Sandel, Kate runs a thriving equine business in the UK and internationally. She had trained for several years with French classical master, Philippe Karl, as well as honing her horsemanship skills with a variety of incredible teachers. She is also a qualified equine sports massage therapist and her background in mental health means she values the wellbeing of both humans and horses in a riding partnership.
You can find Kate at www.softandsound.org
Happy listening!
❤️ Jane
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It’s a party people! A few weeks back, I had the hankering to have a pod conversation talking about energy, the mystical and the magical, and the two people who immediately sprang to mind were Denise Elizabeth Byron and Kathy Price.
Denise I have known for a few years now, meeting her for the first time when I went to stay with Robyn Schiller and skipping along to an astrology session that blew my mind. After that, we all convened at the chocolate shop in town and well… if there’s a better way to cement a friendship, I’m not sure I’ve found it yet.
If you are yet to be introduced, Denise is a psychic, visionary guide, and mentor with over 30 years’ experience, using astrological patterns to illuminate each client's unique pathway to embody the magic of their life purpose more confidently.
And if you’ve been around the tracks on my podcast for any amount of time, you will already be acquainted with the fabulousness that is Kathy Price- what would this conversation be without her! Kathy's business is called Point of Balance, and she has been studying and researching the world of energetic modalities for a number of years now.
The aim of Kathy’s work is to help human and animal systems that she's working with, whichever of those applies to find its own unique point of balance and to help itself come back into health and vitality on every level, be that physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
Over the course of our conversation we cover:
- - Their different approaches to working with people, the tangible aspects of energetic connection and how information “shows up”
- - Parsing apart “what is mine and what is yours” when working with energy
- - Allowing time for creative expression, rest and rejuvenation
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
You can find Denise here: www.deniseelizabethbyron.com
You can find Kathy here: www.kathyprice.co.uk
❤️ Jane
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There are so many ways to introduce Barbra Schulte. You could start with the incredible work she does coaching riders, helping them develop mental strategies to get the best out of themselves and their horses. Or you could talk about her many outstanding accolades in the cutting horse arena, including her induction in the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 2012. But what I love most about Barbra is the warmth, love and kindness she exudes and the way she’s shows up in the world. Beyond everything, that is what impresses me the most.
I was fortunate to meet Barbra relatively recently, at the Journey On Podcast Summit in November of 2022. Listening to her talk, and then later having conversations with her, I instantly fell in love. I was so thrilled to have her agree to come on the podcast because there were things I wanted to talk about with her that extended beyond her work, her horses and what she teaches.
I wanted to hear more about the behind the scenes of her life, about her beautiful son Zane and their story, and what made her tick.
Over the course of our conversation we discuss:
Her life growing up with horses, her discovery of the Human Performance Institute and the impact that had on her life and work
Her son Zane, the impact of his life and death, and her journey with the experience of grief
Navigating life with trust and love
I hope you enjoy listening to this conversation as much as I enjoyed having it.
❤️ Jane
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In March of this year, I ventured over to the UK for a series of retreats and workshops that I held together with Rupert Isaacson. Having had a few weeks off from the pod, it made sense to kick back off with a catch-up conversation with Ru so we could effectively pick up where we left off and fill you in on the latest of our adventures.
In this episode, we talk about:
Popping the cherry on our first Longing and Belonging Retreat on the Welsh Borders (and our lead up extravaganza in ASDA) Vitality and community; ideas of shared responsibility of health, well-being, and healing Working together in Ireland on our collaborative clinic.Rupert and I are also excited to be holding the next workshop in our three-part series that spans the course of this year called Friendship.\
This two-part workshop explores the nature of friendship, how we go about cultivating it and the broad spectrum of understanding (friendship with self, each other, and the landscape) that the topic of friendship can encompass.
You can learn more about that or sign up for the workshop here:
https://confidentrider.online/friendship-online-workshop/
Happy listening!
❤️ Jane
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As many of you who follow along with my adventures will already know, at the start of this year I lost my beautiful Irish horse, Bear. Following on from that day, I shared my experiences and thoughts in series of Facebook live sessions that spanned the course of a couple of weeks, which led me to conversations, understandings, and a level of awareness that I would never have gained if I had chosen to keep my feelings to myself.
This experience was overwhelming in the best possible way. People shared with me their stories of loss and their personal experiences of grief. But was I felt most acutely was the love. Love not only sent to me and my little Irish pony, but a love that was unifying, gratifying and uplifting.
I guess death is funny like that. It brings into sharp focus everything that’s important and allows the superfluous to simply drop away.
I thought to record a separate episode on grief and I’m sure I will still do this. But the live session captures an “in the moment” experience that is impossible to emulate from a different vantage point. So, in an effort to continue to send conversations on grief, loss and death out into the ether- conversations we are intrinsically terrible at in western society- I offer them to you now in the hope that they will land where they are supposed to, with whoever it is that needs to hear them.
The nature of the live recordings means that the audio is imperfect at times, but hopefully their value extends beyond that. Amongst other things we discuss:
- - The duality of experience: how grief and loss can co-exist with happiness and joy (and why it’s important to understand this)
- - The invitation of loss and hardship
- - Dealing with guilt within the loss
- - My personal experiences with loss and death
Much love to you all,
xx Jane
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Are you ready for us?! I’m joined back on the pod this week with two of my besties who you no doubt are well familiar with already- the most amazing Kathy Price and the infinitely regal Tania Kindersley.
Kathy, Tania and myself are regularly chattering about all things life, horses and the universe, and whenever one of us is stuck or needs an ear, the call goes out over the WhatsApp airwaves saying, I need a DollyLama conversation! And when one hears this cry, one knows that they need to pay attention.
The Dolly Lama talks began a couple of years back when we were discussing what a superb human Dolly Parton is, and how the perfect cross between a human being would be Dolly and the Dalai Lama. Thus the phrase “Dolly Lama” was coined, and the Dolly Lama chats was basically us doing our best to make sense of this whole human-ing experience.
On that thread, when we all got together for this podcast, I couldn’t really do anything else other than to call it a Dolly Lama session. And with most of our conversations, we cover a lot of territory with much giggle snorting in between.
Amongst other things, we talk about:
The movement away from seeking outward validation and people pleasing patterns The liberation of living with authenticity and integrity How your perspective creates your realityI hope you enjoy it!
Happy listening!
❤️ Jane
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When I first met Rupert Isaacson, one of the things the struck me most was his tremendous energy and zest. He has the capacity to infuse joy into a room with a combination of humour, wisdom and compassion that makes it easy to get caught up in his enthusiasm and keen to understand more about him and the things that he’s passionate about.
His life story is one that traverses a lot of territory. A journalist for the British and American press from the early 1990s, he has also published several guidebooks to Africa and India, and is the author of three non-fictional memoirs: The Healing Land (a New York Times Notable Book), which tells the story of his family in Africa, and of his own time spent living with the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert; The Horse Boy (a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller), which tells the story of his journey across Mongolia on horseback with his autistic son Rowan; and The Long Ride Home, which tells of the three subsequent healing journeys he and his son made to Africa, Australia and the Navajo Reservation, as well as his discovery of how horses can help autism and special needs in general.
Rupert also runs the Horse Boy Foundation which offers services to autism families, Movement method education (a movement based learning methodology) and Helios Harmony (training to introduce riders to the higher levels of equitation).
A career in human rights runs parallel to all this; In 2004 Rupert founded the Indigenous Land Rights Fund, which helps hunting and gathering tribes gain legal title to their ancestral land and which helped the Bushmen of Botswana win the largest land claim in African history in 2006.
In this episode, we discuss:
The concept of vitality and what it means to live a full and vital life How our history and mythology informs our current experience (and how we can use this knowledge to our benefit) Belonging, purpose and connectionYou can find out more or get in touch with Rupert via his website:
https://ntls.co/
Happy listening!
❤️ Jane
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The subject of vitality is on my mind because in a couple of weeks’ time, I’m teaching a workshop with Rupert Isaacson on that exact topic. It’s a workshop that I’m really excited for because at the heart of my work lies the desire for the restoration of vitality.
The pathway there might look different for everyone; the challenges each of us experience may hold their own unique flavor; but ultimately, we are all looking to feel the essence of our own aliveness and to be able to hold that energy without turning away from the conversations that are important to us.
Horses provide us with a portal to have conversations that we would not be brave enough or supported enough to have without them.
They free us to say,
I am experiencing anxiety or
I feel lost or
I can’t find my way or
I’m struggling in my relationships,
by allowing us to think that it’s about them, just enough,
that we can turn towards what it is that is happening and begin the conversation.
They teach us different ways that we can save our own lives.
Ways that ultimately become more graceful as we become more skilled at holding the energy that’s required.In this episode, we discuss:
What vitality is (and what it isn't) The many ways we seek to save our own lives How vitality allows us to face towards the conversation, instead of away from itI hope you enjoy it! You can learn more about the Vitality Workshop I'm teaching with Rupert Isaacson or sign up on this link:
https://confidentrider.online/vitality-online-workshop/
Happy listening,
❤️ Jane
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Elsa Sinclair is a human that I have looked up to for a very long time. In the horse world, she is a rare light who explores a way of partnering together with horses that is seldom explored and practiced; one that is rooted entirely in freedom.
When I consider my own life and horsing adventures, I know that I am traversing a time where our consciousness of our relationships with our horses is undergoing a seismic shift. Whilst the majority may still work and ride with the traditional methods we have always known, there is a groundswell of others who are seeking something more. And beyond that, are starting to ask themselves the question, is what we’re doing here really ok? Is how we are approaching our horsemanship and riding of true benefit to our horses?
Diving into Elsa’s work gives you real possibilities when it comes to finding those answers. And as with any new learnings, it’s a process that involves unpicking and discarding some of your current beliefs or ways of going about things in order to make room for some new, that is as much about the human as it is about the horse.
In this episode we discuss:
The different forms of leadership; what it means to be a passive and supportive leader and a dominant leader My takeways from my 4 day clinic with Elsa How we can work in a way where the horse trains themselves to be a better partner What’s required for emotional stability in our horsesI hope you enjoy it! Let us know what you think!
❤️ Jane
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