Mary Wanless - Ride With Your Mind22 Aug 2025

Ep. 74 Beyond fight, flight, or freeze

Send us your feedback! In this episode, I return to the nervous system — and to Stephen Porges’ polyvagal theory, which reshapes our old picture of fight, flight and freeze. Your autonomic nervous system is constantly scanning for safety or threat, and it quietly drives your thoughts, emotions and actions. I explore how trauma fills your “threat bucket,” why hypervigilance is so common in riders as well as horses, and how simple cranial-nerve exercises can start to empty your "threat bucket"....

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Ep 84. The Butterfly Muscles

Send us your feedback! Butterfly muscles, viable mental rehearsal, and a focus on the means whereby - the only way to discover the connection is to listen to this episode!

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Ep. 83 Stop Bracing, Start Breathing

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22 Maj 17min

Ep. 82 Peeling The Layers

Send us your feedback! The surprising connection between tiramisu, snot, and your horse's back.

10 Maj 20min

Ep. 81 The Magical Connection Between Rider And Horse

Send us your feedback! Explaining The Magical Connection for horse lovers everywhere.

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Ep. 80 Not knowing, curiosity and sleep

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3 Okt 202521min

Ep. 79 Ways of knowing

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26 Sep 202520min

Ep. 78 How change happens

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19 Sep 202521min

Ep. 77 Stance, state, sense, signal, see, stop

Send us your feedback! How do you show up to sessions with your horse? And how do you manage your stance and state when you get there? Explore how to manage yourself and your horse to establish more e...

12 Sep 202519min