The Confident Rider Podcast

Dec 02 2024 100 ep. 43 mins 111

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The Confident Rider Podcast is for big-hearted equestrians looking to create meaningful relationships with their horses. My work explores nervous system support through movement, education, and biomechanics, and helps riders transform into responsive, adaptable, and confident horse people, living their dreams with their horses. Join me to explore the wisdom of our body & mind, through personal stories and conversations with other riders out there creating their best riding life.

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(1) Christmas Conversation with Karen Rohlf, Kathleen Beckham & Barbra Schulte

Dec 02 2024 90 mins

For the month of December, I've gathered together some of my favourite people for a Christmas Conversations Series including my three incredible friends who joined me today- Karen Rohlf, Kathleen Beckham and Barbra Schulte. Together, we answered the following questions: What have you held close this year? What has anchored you? What are you being called towards? What would you like

The Misty Cliffs: Navigating Overwhelm

Oct 18 2024 23 mins

When I was considering what overwhelm feels like as an experience in the body, the image that came to mind was one of foggy, misty cliffs; a landscape where we are aware of what lies in front of us but where the weather patterns at play are preventing us from getting a clear sense of the path that we should follow and the direction we should head. In other words, the experience of

Begin, begin & begin again

Oct 09 2024 20 mins

What does it mean to begin? What gets in the way of us beginning again? How can we approach beginning with tenderness? This episode is a contemplation, meditation on beginnings; on the challenges we face, the stories we tell ourselves, beginning as an art in and of itself. I hope you find it useful in some way, xx Jane In this episode, I mention an online gathering called Circle. I

On Being Enough with Barbra Schulte

Jul 03 2024 33 mins

Since the Western States Horse Expo, Barb and I have spent a lot of time chatting on zoom about life, horses, and the universe. Inevitably, there are many crossovers in our work; patterns and experiences we come across that inform how we approach things, beliefs and understandings that we witness either support people moving forward, or conversely, get in the way. Our conversations

Of Mind, Body & Spirit: On Conversations Outside of the Expected in the Horse Expo & Training World

Jun 18 2024 73 mins

Over the course of 3 days at the Western States Horse Expo, I presented a series of one-hour presentations that spanned everything from returning from injury, to processing big emotions, to looking at the way the nervous system affects our biomechanics. My designated area was the Mind, Body, Spirit tent, one of 3 presentation and seminar tents that sat next to the main arena. The o

Expo Reflections: On Teaching & Learning with Barbra Schulte

Jun 13 2024 59 mins

Lovely people, it felt a little strange to just roll into the next episode of the podcast without mentioning what I’d been up to the last little while. I considered sitting on my lonesome and giving you a debrief (**yawn**) and then had the most excellent idea to contact some of my people and see if they wanted to join me too. With that in mind, with me today is Cutting Horse Roy

A Horsing Practice Is Different To A Routine & Different Again To A Schedule

May 28 2024 7 mins

Based on a blog that I wrote this morning, that I share out loud with you now. xx Jane www.confidentrider.online

Allowing Yourself To Be Moved: On Creative Practices as Portals for Transformation & Wellbeing

May 26 2024 35 mins

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

Question: What are the ways to feel safe within vulnerability?

May 19 2024 41 mins

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 b

On Time, Space & Bigger Questions: A Conversation with Tania Kindersley & Kathy Price

May 11 2024 76 mins

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 th