Slow Horsemanship

🎧 Slow Horsemanship, Rooted Systems, Living Work

An ancient rhythm, a living system, and a slow return to what matters.

In this episode, Kim shares the living framework behind her work at Bramblewood Stables—a system shaped by horses, held by land, and rooted in authorship rather than performance.

This isn’t a how-to. It’s a manifesto. A map. A reclamation of rhythm and relationship in a world that often rushes past the real work.

Whether you're a horse person, a writer, a land steward, a coach, or simply someone searching for a different pace—this episode offers a grounded invitation into a new (but ancient) way of being in the world.

Kim walks through the four pillars that support her practice—Respite, Riding, Story, and Coaching—and the three taproots that keep the work honest: nervous system awareness, mutual relationship, and land-based presence.

If you’ve felt tired, unseen, or unsure how to keep going in your own work, this is your quiet yes. And if you’re new here, welcome—you don’t have to know horses to feel the current underneath this conversation.

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Kim Carter is the founder of Bramblewood Stables and the creative force behind Stable Roots, an exploration of story, horse-guided growth, grief, and transformation. Her work is rooted in a deep reverence for the nervous system, for the land, and for the wisdom of horses as partners—not tools—in the process of becoming more fully human.

Kim’s teaching and coaching approaches blend somatic awareness, narrative process, and grounded horsemanship to support clients through seasons of personal change, restoration, and rewilding.

After decades of study, teaching, and training—including advanced riding instruction and equine-assisted certifications, financial coaching credentials, and somatic facilitation training in the Compassion Process—she continues to refine a method that is uniquely her own: relational, responsive, and deeply intuitive.