{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Equine Assisted World with Rupert Isaacson","title":"\"Dangerous\" Racehorse to Healing Partner: Liberty, Scent Work & the Sacred | Dr. Amanda Minervini of EAGLE, Colorado Springs | EAW 63","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/c716385b\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":7807,"description":"Rupert Isaacson speaks with Dr. Amanda Minervini, founder of EAGLE (Equine Guided Learning And Healing Experience), a nonprofit equine program in Colorado Springs, and professor at Colorado College.\nEAGLE began taking shape during the pandemic, in response to a worsening mental health crisis. It was built around the preferences of one horse: Jimmy, an off-the-track Thoroughbred who raced as a stallion, was not gelded until after age nine, and was labeled dangerous. Originally intended for Amanda's college students, the program is now open to everyone. It brings together consent-based horsemanship, classical in-hand work, liberty, scent work, and good management, with a core belief that horses have a voice and that humans don't have to be in charge.\nThe conversation walks through how Amanda layers a session so that a horse can safely run free through the woods with people who have never been near a horse, how scent work for horses can build confidence in a spooky horse, and why a horse must always be regulated enough to learn. Amanda also shares what she observed with the medicine paint horses at a Lakota Sun Dance, and she and Rupert explore the sacred in equine-assisted work, consciousness, Saint Francis of Assisi, and how zooanthropology helps her bridge methods rather than choose just one.\n\n✨ \"I'm trying to show humans that they don't have to be in charge with horses, that it can be a shared enterprise.\" – Dr. Amanda Minervini\n\nIf you want to support the show, you can do so at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LongRideHome\n🔍 What You'll Learn in This Episode\nWhat EAGLE is, and why Amanda started it in response to the mental health crisis during the pandemic\nHow Jimmy, an off-the-track Thoroughbred labeled \"dangerous,\" became the horse EAGLE was built around\nWhy good management (herd life, a big pasture, free-choice hay) was the foundation of Jimmy's change\nHow Amanda layers a session, from herd observation to arena liberty work to free movement in the woods\nWhy...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/PuJAXgaKmhfeBRqqEPEATMHDH_c-iN9O1OlaUtqD0-g/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQwMDI3LzE2ODI0/MjQ0MTQtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}