About this episode

Kira Julius discusses resilience in horses and humans, drawing from her personal experiences and professional practices in equine therapy.

✨ "The healing process is there in service of your life, not the other way around. Do the healing in order to live." – Kira Julius Kira Julius is a German-Danish horse trainer and equine assisted practitioner whose career has taken her from working young horses in Tanzania at 16, to eight years alongside Australian warmblood specialist Will Rogers — first in the Netherlands, then Germany — to therapeutic work with autistic children and families across Germany, Denmark, Ireland, and the UK. She now runs her own practice through horserealms.com, working with horses, families, and individuals at the intersection of horsemanship and resilience. What makes Kira's perspective unusual is that she has lived the subject she now teaches. A lifelong relationship with anxiety and fear around horses, a family crisis at 18 when her father suffered a stroke that pulled her into an early adult role, and years inside the hyper-demanding world of sport horse training — including a period where her own anxiety became so acute she could barely ride — all of it has shaped a practitioner who speaks from earned experience, not theory. In this conversation, Rupert and Kira go deep on what resilience…

People in this episode

Host: Rupert Isaacson

Guest: Kira Julius

Topics covered

• resilience
• equine therapy
• anxiety management
• horsemanship
• therapeutic practices
• personal growth

Keywords

• equine assisted therapy
• resilience building
• anxiety
• horsemanship
• therapeutic work
• autism
• personal experience

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: horserealms.com

Places: Tanzania, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, UK

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