Giving Horses a Voice

Sharon Wilsie
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Giving Horses a Voice With Sharon Wilsie What if your horse isn’t being difficult… What if they’re trying to speak? Giving Horses a Voice is a podcast for horse owners, trainers, therapists, and seekers who suspect there’s more happening beneath behavior — and want to understand it clearly, practically, and without mysticism or gimmicks. Hosted by Sharon Wilsie, author of the Horse Speak book series and founder of the READI® framework (Regulated Equine Atonement for Dynamic Interaction), this podcast explores the missing link between traditional training and true relational communication. Sharon shares: • How horses actually communicate through micro-gestures • What regulation really means (and how to recognize it) • Why “feel” isn’t magic — it’s observable • How maternal care messages shape equine safety • What happens when humans learn to slow down enough to see This isn’t about whispering. It’s not about dominance. It’s not about anthropomorphism. It’s about learning to observe what has always been there. With over a decade of field research, international clinics, neurobiological study including HRV research, and thousands of horses observed, Sharon brings both grounded science and lived experience to conversations that feel intimate, honest, and practical. Each episode invites you to: • Question what you’ve been taught • Trust what you’ve sensed • And reclaim your own lived experience with your horse You don’t need to believe anything. Just be willing to look. Because when we give horses a voice, we often find our own.

Episodes

  1. What is Zero?

    1D AGO

    What is Zero?

    The word "Zero" comes from work with the neurodivergent community. It describes an internal state of regulation and resiliency — the place inside us where we can pause, process, and choose our response. From Zero, we can truly hear horses. Horses are prey animals. Their instinct is to move away from perceived danger. What feels inconvenient to us is often intelligent survival. As a fellow social species, when we ask horses to follow or trust us, we must check — and double check — the environment we’re inviting them into. Sometimes it’s as subtle as pointing to an object and using a tail swish gesture to say, “You don’t have to worry about that.” When we see horses through an ethological lens — not as beasts of burden, but as socially intelligent prey animals — we begin giving them something powerful: A voice. And that voice starts with our willingness to listen.

    14 min
  2. Who is Sharon Wilsie?

    FEB 11

    Who is Sharon Wilsie?

    In this first episode of Giving Horses a Voice, Sharon Wilsie shares the origin story behind her work with equine body language — and the turning point that changed everything. Sharon explains how years of working with neurodivergent students and rescue horses led her to notice something most people miss — the slow, precise micro-gestures horses use to communicate. Not behavior. Not obedience. Not pressure-and-release mechanics. In this episode, you’ll hear: • The difference between training responses and relational communication • What “inner zero” first meant before it had a name • How observing horses without interfering revealed a conversational structure This is not an episode about techniques. It’s about perception. If you’ve ever felt like your horse was trying to tell you something — but you didn’t have the map to understand it — this is where that map begins.

    18 min
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Giving Horses a Voice With Sharon Wilsie What if your horse isn’t being difficult… What if they’re trying to speak? Giving Horses a Voice is a podcast for horse owners, trainers, therapists, and seekers who suspect there’s more happening beneath behavior — and want to understand it clearly, practically, and without mysticism or gimmicks. Hosted by Sharon Wilsie, author of the Horse Speak book series and founder of the READI® framework (Regulated Equine Atonement for Dynamic Interaction), this podcast explores the missing link between traditional training and true relational communication. Sharon shares: • How horses actually communicate through micro-gestures • What regulation really means (and how to recognize it) • Why “feel” isn’t magic — it’s observable • How maternal care messages shape equine safety • What happens when humans learn to slow down enough to see This isn’t about whispering. It’s not about dominance. It’s not about anthropomorphism. It’s about learning to observe what has always been there. With over a decade of field research, international clinics, neurobiological study including HRV research, and thousands of horses observed, Sharon brings both grounded science and lived experience to conversations that feel intimate, honest, and practical. Each episode invites you to: • Question what you’ve been taught • Trust what you’ve sensed • And reclaim your own lived experience with your horse You don’t need to believe anything. Just be willing to look. Because when we give horses a voice, we often find our own.

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  • Creator
    Sharon Wilsie
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    2
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Sharon Wilsie 2026
  • Show Website
    Giving Horses a Voice