Equine Breathing

12/04/2025

If you breath at about 6 breaths per minute and it's soft and almost imperceptible, then your heart, your circulation and your nervous system will become co-ordinated at peak efficiency. It's called COHERENT breathing and is a powerful way to relieve stress; to move from a sympathetic to a parasympathetic state. It's both calming, and increases heart rate variation which is a good indicator for health 😎.
The technique is simple (see below) but depending how good or bad your breathing is, it may require a bit of practise 🙃
The good news is that if coherent breathing is easy and natural for you, then your breathing, and therefore health, are good.
The further good news is that if you find coherent breathing difficult then you have great scope to improve your breathing, and therefore your health.
Equine Breathing 1N provides similar calming and health benefits to the horse so combining the 2 techniques can be really powerful. Especially if you or your horse have difficulty relaxing with 1N 😊
How to do coherent breathing
Use a metronome on your phone and count your in and outbreath as follows;
Breath in for 4 seconds
Breath out for 6 seconds.
Ideally your breaths will be so gentle that they're hardly visible or audible.
Avoid using your chest. Instead allow the diaphragm to naturally control the breathing without hinderance
If it's too difficult to do 4 seconds in and 6 seconds out, then start with lower numbers so that you can relax. Keep the out breath longer than the in breath.
More on Equine Breathing and free instructions for 1N here; https://www.equinebreathing.com/whatisit

If you breath at about 6 breaths per minute and it's soft and almost imperceptible, then the heart, the circulation and the nervous system will become co-or...

23/03/2025

1N is relaxing, both mentally and also physically. As tight muscles start to release the horse may move to facilitate the release. This may look like twisting, stretching or shaking the neck, tongue or other parts; yawning, grinding the teeth or stretching or moving the legs. The horse may hold strange postures for a while.

These releases will usually be interspersed with periods of deep quiet relaxation. The horse may release a lot in some 1N sessions and not at all in others. This mare walked 50m in a later 1N session, but often just chills motionless for the whole 1N session. Joy's been doing 1N for a couple of weeks and has already shown significant benefits both physically and mentally.

Elisabeth, Joy's owner said
"There has been a lot of improvement in her - movements has been improved, she’s more in a playful mind , she’s also makes sweet sounds in liberty - something she has only done when feeding before.

She’s in a much better state mentally and we connect in a much deeper level . I’m excited to see where this will lead us in the future ❤️

"We’ve had big breakthroughs, for example we rode in the arena! Usually she doesn’t like that (maybe some trauma from her past as a show horse). She’s never liked it so we don't do it. But now she worked very well and was very light and bright ❤️ This means SO much to me !!!"

(On a safety note, please be careful to not leave the lead rope on the ground.)

If your horse has done weird stretches or postures during 1N it would be great to see them. And if you're new to Equine Breathing it's easy to give it a go using these free instructions for the simple 1N technique https://www.equinebreathing.com/how-to-do-it 😊

02/03/2025

Equine Breathing trials
🐴 Have a horse with chronic symptoms that persist despite treatment?
🐴 Interested in doing an Equine Breathing trial?
🐴 No Equine Breathing experience necessary
🐴 Trials are a way of getting objective info about horses' recovery with Equine Breathing
🐴 In a trial you would do daily Equine Breathing with your horse for an initial 2 month period
🐴 You would monitor any changes and send feedback weekly
🐴 I would help you to provide the most effective Equine Breathing program for your horse
🐴 The nature of the symptoms don't matter much but their intensity must be bad enough that they can be readily monitored.
🐴 Examples of symptoms include headshaking, asthma, windsucking/cribbing, sweetitch or anxiety
If you're interested there's more info on the linked page and of course you can message or email me. I'd love to hear from you 😍

Equine Breathing has been successfully used to help horses recover from a wide range of chronic ailments and behavioural problems. Here are some examples of trials and case studies.

20/02/2025

Do you sometimes think that horses are more intelligent, better problem solvers, more compassionate and more deeply feeling than we see in the typical domestic situation? Andrea Wady certainly does! Especially after walking across Costa Rica, coast to coast, with a rescue horse. Andrea teaches horsemanship that results in a true connection and deeper relationship with the whole horse. Catch her at the Art of Horsemanship Fair on 22/23 February. Here's a taste of her wisdom in this lovely interview.

Check out the 150 presentations including those of Equine Breathing and get your free ticket for the Fair in the comment below

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04/02/2025

Horse lovers! 🐴🐴🐴 It's only 3 weeks until the amazing Art of the Horseman Fair. 50 world class horse experts are presenting over 150 presentations. I will be there with 3 presentations on Equine Breathing. Check out this list of presenters so that you're ready for the big event - and don't forget to book your FREE TICKET for the 2 days using the link at the top.
And if you can't watch everything you want in 2 days on the free ticket, you can buy the All Access Pass which gives you permanent access to all the presentations, using the same link.
See you there 😍 🐎🐎🐎