Jayne Roberts - Equijay

03/09/2026

And so I stand on my own threshold...again.

My Mini Mare has now started college, and as my full time hours as Home Educator & 'just' a SAHM (more on that later) have been significantly cut, I'm gently opening the barn doors once more.

It's been quite the ride home to get here & I feel like I'm only just getting started.

For those who have been here since the 2012 pioneering days of "Equijay - Making Sense of Horse Sense", you'll know my philosophy has always been about nourishment.

Fifty years in the saddle, an MSc in Equine Science, over a decade in equine vet med, academia & clinical nutrition on both sides of the Atlantic & Downunder, and a portfolio of complex cases (including my own) that taught me true nourishment begins within...namely with a nervous system that can actually access rest & digest.

Horse & human.

A healthy happy herd depends on a healthy happy human...and healthy happy land on which we all stand.

So I kept riding...across the realms of Spirit, Soma, Science... where the sacred, somatic and scientific finally stopped arguing with each other and sat down in the same pasture to rest & digest together.

Deeper into trauma work, neuroscience, HERstory, Somatic Therapy, Sacred Female Yoga & iRest Yoga Nidra, Shamanic medicine, energy healing & trainings that put paid to my peer-reviewed reference list unhealthy co-dependency.

And along the way my “triple-dipped, super-psychic bad-ass” natal chart handed me the reins, slapped my arse, told me to find my sovereign seat bones & ride my own wild home.

So I did.

Years in the arena, years in books, years in training spaces and many moons face planted in the initiatory mud puddle of existential embodiment...I've spent the last decade sensing my way back in & letting go of needing to fix, change or make meaning of any of it.

Because our bodies already know the way home, and our horses are the primal placeholders that invite us to return there...as uncomfortable as that often gets...if we can just allow the grace & sanctuary space to be with all of it.

To re-claim
To re-member
To re-wild ..what has always been inside.

This is the wild ride home I came here for, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Feel like you might like to ride wild alongside & wondering where to start?
..right where you are.

I designed "The Half Halt: FREE guided somatic practice" for exactly that reason.

For you.

No horse required (although they do appreciate practising alongside). Just a few uninterrupted minutes, and a body that's curious to begin the ride home.

https://tr.ee/2UPG5lf6xb

Jx

And feel free to share...we were never meant to ride this alone!

Jayne Roberts MSc | You came here to re-claim & re-member | Your wild ride home begins here...come join us!

03/09/2026

I'm a HUGE fan of the Equiculture and The Equicentral System & have followed & advocated for Jane & Stuart's work for almost 2 decades. All of my clients are guided towards implementing their principles where possible.

While many are still obsessively micromanaging grass & 'balancing' nutrition requirements others have been quietly implementing changes that allow the natural behaviours of horse, land & human to live in a more reciprocal & relational field.

Because, who wouldn't want:

• More turnout time (due to more grass and larger herds). So far, they have four months of extra grazing this year. And this is with an extremely high stocking density. Much less than one acre per animal. When not grazing the herds are given free access to large indoor/outdoor areas with adlib forage.
• Significant and steady weight loss (farm total of two tons) even though on long grass and more turnout time. Remember, donkeys/mules are even better ‘doers’ than ponies and horses.
• No laminitis even though on long grass and more turnout time.
Land condition changes
• Less heavy machinery on land (so less compaction) due to reduced manure collection, now the grass is longer they leave the manure in place. In future will be looking at the role of dung beetles.
• Recovered fields from previously heavily trashed, using mulch in some areas, they now have less or no mud with 100% grass cover in most areas.
• Previously seriously overgrazed ‘sacrifice areas’ now rested and vastly improved.
• Previously, the much smaller herds meant that they could not carry out rotational grazing. Now they can and have reaped the benefits.
Staff changes
• More engaged and proud staff, now very aware of the benefits of good land management and the dangers of overgrazing.
• Time saving, allowing more time for handling/grooming.
Reduced feed costs
• More grass grown, more sustainability.
Environmental changes
• ‘Noisy’ fields – the sound of insects, birds, etc., where previously it was silent, with more plant species/biodiversity.
• No soil loss, erosion, etc.

Horse pasture/land management, horse care, welfare and care for the environment (the One Welfare concept). Alternative Equicentral grazing system.

22/07/2026

Come As You Are 🎶

That song's been in my head all day.

A barn radio dedication...

To all the women expected to turn up a certain way.

To dress and impress.
To conform and perform.
To fit and hit the KPIs...

Meanwhile, back at the barn, everything is turning to s**t.

The women who would love, even just for one afternoon, to have armpits that would stop a sales pitch mid-spiel.

Legs that look like a horse's chin.

Fingernails still carrying half of this morning's mucking out session.

Because how fu***ng liberating is that?

Not despite the mess.

Because of it.
..

There is space for all of you here.

Full piece beyond the barn doors over on Substack

https://equijay.substack.com/p/come-as-you-are?r=wpb2l

15/07/2026

We speak of horses as sacred now.

As teachers and therapists. Mirrors and medicine.
As healers and psychopomps guiding us through worlds we cannot yet see.

I don’t question any of that.

I live it in the integrated realms of spirit, soma and science.

And I love it here.

What I do question is what happens when virtuous reverence becomes another way of avoiding real world responsibility.

Full essay live now on The Sanctity of Equus. Link in bio.

Jx

29/06/2026

We talk about the earth like She’s something outside of us.

A separate entity of toil and trouble.
Something fragile to fawn to
and ferocious to fear.

We have forgotten we are Her.

Born from the primordial waters of the WIld Womb.
Spiralled into sacred relational form.

Sensing…
breathing…
feeling…
flowing…

Rooted.
Reaching.
Re-membering.

It is a return.

To relationship.
To reciprocity.
To reverence.

She does not need saving.
She needs savouring.

She needs us to come home.

✧

Equinidra
Welcome Home to Yourself

15/05/2026

My body of work has been slowly emerging from my own ride home to myself.

The last 10 years have been about questioning everything the first 40 or so taught me. Quite the messy mud-puddle to sit with.

From Making Sense of Horse Sense, through Forage-Friendship-Freedom to Spirit-Soma-Science… it’s been a wild ride and there’s still so much left to explore.

What I ‘do’ is a difficult one to articulate but if I had to sum it up, it’s this:

I help people become the kind of human horses would want in their herd. Because that’s truly who I want to be and all I feel they’ve ever really asked from us.

What I’ve come to realise is that while we long for change around us, nothing changes until something changes. And the only thing any of us can truly change is ourselves.

What I’ve also come to realise, often with great introverted, independent reluctance, is that we all have our own pony to ride but we were never meant to do it alone.

And so the Equijay barn doors officially re-open with this short somatic practice I made as a gift for those called to ride alongside (link below). It reminds me of where I began and where I return to, over and over.

I do hope you come along for the ride x

https://preview.mailerlite.io/forms/2224081/185640308489323625/share

27/04/2026

This is me. Georgia, 🇺🇸 2010. The day before I became a mother. The day before the real mucking out began.

Younger she had no idea what was composting.

Neither did I.

What follows is the first in the series of The Ride Home- dispatches from the archive and the woman who lived them.

A return to what was, to re-claim and re-member what is.

https://equijay.substack.com/p/the-ride-home-dispatches-from-the?r=wpb2l

Link in comments to Substack- The Sanctity of Equus - it's just a a more intimate space to spiral into that the AI slop on here. Trot on over if you fancy

Jx

23/04/2026

Laminitis season again… and the focus is the same

Weight
Grass
Restriction

And yes—those things matter.

But I think we’re still missing a big part of the picture.

Because I can take two groups of native ponies—both good doers, both theoretically high risk—and get very different outcomes depending on how they live.

My own ponies are on marginal land—mountain pasture, heathland, woodland.
They move, they browse, they forage, and in winter they fend for themselves unless conditions are extreme.

On paper, they should be laminitis-prone.

In reality, they’re far more stable than many horses kept on improved pasture with controlled grazing.

So I started looking at what’s different.

When we test the microbiome, one of the clearest patterns is fibre-digesting bacteria—particularly Fibrobacteres.

In more managed systems, it’s not unusual to see levels around 3%.

In my herd—and in the Carneddau ponies nearby—it’s consistently much higher, often 10–15%.

That’s not a small difference.

These bacteria are central to fibre breakdown and hind gut stability.

So the question becomes:

If the microbiome is shaped by environment…
and the microbiome influences how the horse handles fibre, sugar and inflammation…

are we looking in the wrong place when we focus only on restriction?

There’s a growing move toward regenerative grazing and more biodiverse systems—and I don’t think that’s a coincidence.

Because the more diverse the environment, the more resilient the system tends to be.

Laminitis is complex. It’s never one thing.

But environment → microbiome → metabolism is a link that’s getting harder to ignore.

If you’re dealing with a horse that is “managed carefully” but still not quite right, this is often the layer I start looking at.

Have you seen differences between horses in different environments?

14/04/2026

You don’t need more.

More trainings.
More certifications.
More clinics.
More coaches.
More courses.
More retreats.
More modalities.
More breathwork.
More healers.
More medicine you already own.

You need s p a c e.

To sense your way back.

To feel without making meaning.

To follow your breath…
where does it end? Where does it want to go?

And you don’t need to be told any of this.

Your body already knows.

She’s just been waiting for you to get quiet enough to hear her.

Jx

05/04/2026

The other day, Pluto gave himself a shock at the yard gates.

Early spring.
Cold air.
Wind up.
Horses galloping.
System stacked.

His headcollar clanked on the gate and he responded with a space-hopper move the Spanish Riding School would have applauded.

Full. Fast. Clean. Honest. Agile as hell.

And then… he came straight back down to earth alongside me.

Not because I calmed him.

Because I didn't meet his activation with more activation.

I stayed.
Witnessing without want.

Calm isn't the goal. Capacity is.

A healthy nervous system will startle, mobilise, orient… and then return... without getting stuck in the surge or collapsing because of it.

That's range.
That's response.
That's resilience.
And it's no different for us.

If you've ever been on a livery yard and felt the quiet pressure to rein it in tighter... in yourself and in your horse... this one's for you.

Your full expression was never the problem.

Full piece on Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/equijay/p/from-spook-to-sanctuary?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web