Episode #45: Starting The ‘Unstartable’ Horse with Claire Hunter (Copy)

What does starting horses and re-staring horses have to do with bodywork? LOTS!

Join me for today’s episode where I chat with Claire Hunter of Braecrest Farm. Claire has, in my opinion, the most incredible approach to breaking horses with special attention to the signs they show through their autonomic nervous system response.

This is how bodywork practitioners read horses during sessions as well. 

Her understanding of equine physiology and body language has resulted in her incredibly unique breaking process that honours the horse most authentically.

Her techniques can be translated into everyday work with your own horses, even if they are started and going. The results will astound you!

We make several references to “Sirenity Story” in this episode. You can watch that three-part story on Claire’s YouTube Chanel here.

To contact Claire, or to follow her on socials, check out the links below.

Grab our free Autonomic Nervous System Checklist to help you recognize signs of the sympathetic and parasympathetic state in your own horse.

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Please note: The ideas expressed in this podcast are opinions only, and are not substitutes for proper veterinary care, veterinary medicine and other forms of bodywork. The opinions are not intended to be prescriptive or diagnostic in nature.

Judith Rathbone