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Grief, Horses & the Sacred Present: Love, Loss and Resilience with Karla Brahms | Equine Assisted World 49
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- Feb 26, 2026
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- 8011
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Summary
In this deeply personal and wide‑ranging episode of Equine Assisted World, Rupert Isaacson speaks with longtime colleague and friend Karla Brahms of Wellenreiter in the Odenwald, Germany — a region steeped in myth, forest, and living horse culture. What begins as a conversation about equine‑assisted practice unfolds into an intimate exploration of grief, love, resilience, and the sacred role horses play in helping humans navigate life’s darkest passages. Karla shares her evolution from decades of forest‑based therapeutic riding with children into her current work integrating NIG (Neuro‑Imaginative Gestalt) constellation methods with horses. Through spontaneous drawing, embodied awareness, and equine presence, she helps clients access inner wisdom beyond intellectual processing. The conversation then turns to the death of her husband, musician Jan, and the profound grief that followed. Karla speaks openly about ritual, laying out the body at home, identity loss, and how horses — through presence, warmth, and simple being — helped her remain anchored in the present. This episode explores what modern culture has lost around death and ceremony — and how horses may help us reclaim a more honest, embodied relationship with grief. If you want to support the show, you can do so at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LongRideHome 🔍 What You’ll Learn in This Episode How Karla integrates forest‑based horsemanship with therapeutic work What NIG (Neuro‑Imaginative Gestalt) is and how drawing with the non‑dominant hand accesses embodied insight How horses interact during constellation processes and reflect emotional states Why standing on symbolic drawings creates somatic awareness and shifts perspective The role of the “meta position” and third‑person dialogue in therapeutic work How…