In 2025, Natasha from Natural With Horses reached out with an equine management question. We'd connected years back when we ran a Carolyn Resnick Waterhole Rituals clinic and kept in contact - as people in a similar profession do. What started as a question ended up in reciprocal visits to each other's venues and long chats about our work and the complexities of horse care. Whilst meeting one time, we realised we can't be alone in needing to share these kinds of conversations

The horse: human bond is an interesting one. Communication is through body language, not through a verbal language and each species has different needs and priorities. Long ago I learnt that any kind of success with horses required there to be a way of communicating. I needed to know when they were injured and unwell. They already knew me, because reading other beings is their primary language. They however also (in my experience) learn our word-based language, just as we mus