Starting Friday, 10 July 2026: six Fridays, six emails – each with a horse-inspired mindfulness meditation video, a quick-and-easy breathwork practice, a practical nervous system reset tool, a soul-stirring story, plus a thought-provoking question to help it stick – in your inbox.
Can you actually remember what it feels like to be totally relaxed? Or have you, like I used to, become so accustomed to feeling tense that you’re barely aware of it now?
This summer is going to be very, very special.
Last April, one of my retreat guests sat down on the old chair by the paddock, sighed the particular sigh of someone who has not been able to stop moving in approximately four years, and said, “I just want to feel fully rested and relaxed again.”
Angelito — my sweetest Falabella, the cheeky one, who has never once met a personal boundary he respected — wandered over, looked at her for a long moment, and then very deliberately put his head in her lap.
She cried. Then she laughed. Then she asked if he did this for everyone.
He doesn’t, particularly. But he does have an excellent sense of timing.
If you’ve attended a retreat here before, you already know this feeling. You know what it’s like to sit by that paddock and feel something in your chest unclench that you didn’t fully realise was clenched. And if we haven’t met yet — welcome, you’re in excellent company, read on to find out more.
Either way, I suspect you’re reading this because some version of “I just want to feel rested and relaxed again” sounds familiar.
You’re still tired when you wake up in the morning and exhausted when you finally fall into bed at night, with no time to rest in between. You check your phone more than you’d like to admit. You rehearse conversations that haven’t happened yet and brace for problems that may never materialise.
You’re doing all the things: You pay the bills. Feed the dog. Buy the groceries. Take out the trash. Fill the car’s petrol tank. And you check your phone far more often than you’d care to admit, you keep reviewing your inbox, you mentally rehearse difficult conversations, and anticipate problems before they have even appeared on the horizon. And somewhere underneath it all, your nervous system has quietly settled for “permanently on alert”, having forgotten it actually has a variety of other settings.
You know something needs to change. You’re just fairly sure you don’t have it in you to attempt (and give up on) another ‘life-changing’ five-step programme promising to effortlessly deliver the Best Version of You by September.
Maybe this year, you are starting to realise that living this way, day after day, comes at a cost and that being stressed-to-the-very-edge-of-sanity was never meant to become anyone’s permanent state.
Good news: this is something entirely different. This is six weeks of deliberately, unapologetically doing less — so your body can finally go from “high energy alert” to “low energy maintenance.”
So what is this Slow Living Summer series?
For six weeks this summer, I’d like to connect with you once a week, on a Friday morning — that’s it — for a horse-guided mindfulness meditation.
You won’t need to travel anywhere. You won’t even need to get dressed. You won’t need previous experience, special equipment, or neon-coloured Lycra. And you won’t need to rearrange your life around it. You’ll simply need to be present. To watch. To listen. To breathe. And little by little, to let go.
I have some news. During this series, you won’t just be spending time with Loki, Angelito and the Fabulous Friesians. I’ve recently welcomed four more rescued Falabellas into the fold — three little girls, Zofia, Estrella, and Bianca, and a boy named Valentino — and the Slow Living Summer series will be their introduction to all of you. So consider this a soft, unhurried meet-and-greet: four new arrivals, all of them rescued, all of them now rather smugly in charge of the paddock.
Horses are remarkably good teachers of the thing we’re all trying to relearn: how to stay alert without staying braced. They don’t startle at every passing cloud (unless the cloud looks like a dragon.). They rest when they need rest. It turns out you can borrow some of that, just by sitting with them for a while — even through a screen.
Each Friday for six weeks, a new recording lands in your inbox. Each combines:
- a guided mindfulness meditation video, filmed with the horses and focused on one practical, stress-reducing tool — things like saying ‘no’ without drowning in three days of guilt afterwards, worrying less about what you can’t control, or building small pockets of actual calm into any ever-so-ordinary Tuesday.
- a simple breathing practice audio recording you can return to several times during the week and long after the six weeks are over, and
- a gut-wrenching but inspiring and insight-giving story that illustrates the use of the stress-reducing tool of the week in real life
You’ll also get a thought-provoking question or two — not homework exactly, more an invitation to notice what’s shifting underneath all that busyness.
Because here’s the thing: you can understand stress perfectly well intellectually and still feel stress to the point of imploding. Calm doesn’t arrive through understanding. It arrives when your body believes, finally, that it’s safe to let go. That takes a bit of repetition, and a bit of practice. Breath by breath. Friday by Friday. Falabella by Falabella.
Why would you invest in the Slow Living Summer series?
Reason no 1
Well, self-care, you know. Because, for one thing, you’d like to fall asleep effortlessly. Sleep through the night. Wake up refreshed and bursting with energy.
You’d like to notice the gap between an actual emergency and your nervous system’s enthusiastic imitation of one. Make decisions without performing the full disaster-movie version of events in your head first.
You’d like a successful role model. Not me. I’m as rubbish at it as you are. But I do know what to do when I don’t know what to do anymore.
I drag a chair over to the horses’ paddock, because horses know how to remain attentive without becoming overwhelmed.
And that’s what I want to share with you this summer. The horses can’t perform miracles, though (although I’m not entirely convinced of that.) But they’ve quietly helped a fair number of people get there, and I’d love for you to be next.
Reason no 2
I’m not particularly good at marketing what I do, you may have noticed. But this whole thing feels seriously right to me: every cent you invest in Slow Living Summer goes straight to Sauvetage et Sérénité, my charity supporting the rescue and care of horses like Sofia, Estrella, Bianca, and Valentino. No cut, no percentage, no overheads quietly absorbed elsewhere — 100% of the proceeds go directly to their care.
So your once-a-week session doesn’t just benefit you. It’s hay, grain, carrots, vet and farrier bills, soft winter coats and a soft place to land for four small horsies.
Right. So what is it going to cost?
Your Investment in your Future: €299 — 100% paid directly into my charity Sauvetage et Sérénité’s account
Starting Friday, 10 July 2026. One session in your inbox every Friday for six weeks — a mindfulness meditation video with the horses, a breathwork practice, one practical stress-busting tool and one soul-stirring story each time — plus thought-provoking questions to help it actually stick.
If you’ve been waiting for a sign to stop procrastinating and do something about your ever-increasing stress levels — I think this might just be it.
Click below to sign up for the SLOW LIVING SUMMER SERIES.
Because your nervous system might also appreciate a summer break.
This is your opportunity to spend the summer in the company of horses whose quiet presence has already helped so many retreat guests rediscover calm, clarity, connection, and a sense of coming home to themselves.
Imagine starting autumn 2026 feeling calm and connected, less reactive, thoroughly rested, less guilty about protecting your energy and able to trust yourself to make decisions without mentally rehearsing every possible disaster.
Breath by breath.
Moment by moment.
I’d love for you to spend the summer with us.
Click above to sign up for the SLOW LIVING SUMMER SERIES and give your nervous system the summer holiday it so desperately needs.