Joyce Benning
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Episode 709 with guest Beth Parrish
Beth Lauren Parrish is a Certified Level 3 CHA Riding Instructor and Level 1 Certified Equestrian Tai Chi Instructor. She has taught thousands of lessons for the past 20 years across the United States, and now teaches worldwide remotely. Beth has an unrelenting passion to improve her life and anyone else’s life that she comes into contact with. With her business, Inspired Riding, Beth has created courses, meditations, and a journal for Inspired Riders to help them become more confident and connected with their horses. She teaches equestrians to trust their intuition and have conversations with their horses telepathically, which sets up each horse and rider to have the best co-creative dances possible.
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Episode 707 with guest Lisa Brisse
Lisa Brisse is an Author, Speaker, Wellness Heart Coach, Exercise Physiologist, Personal Trainer, Spinning Instructor, Meditation Teacher, Founder of State of the Heart Fitness and lover of life, humanity and the planet. She helps people develop a healthy, loving, balanced and harmonious relationship to themselves — to their heart, mind, body and soul. She believes that we all came here as the Divine expressing itself uniquely through of us as us and that our body is the stage with which we shine our light to the world.
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A Horse, a Boy, and Undying Love (Naomi McDonald)
Naomi was named one of the top five animal communicators in the US. Naomi uses a unique combination of quantum physics, metaphysics, and ancients medicine teachings to help others on their path to self-discovery.
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Gabriel’s Story (Sharon Dilley)
Sharon Dilley is a lifelong educator and animal lover. With her degree in Elementary Education, she has taken her decades of teaching into the realm of the K9 to teach dogs and their people how to elegantly navigate the human world. She has developed a groundbreaking schooling program built on connection, meeting the animal’s needs and regulating environment that empowers young dogs to excel in any environment. Her expertise has served dogs and humans in search and rescue, veterans affairs and everyday life.
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My First Best Friend (Deb Matlock)
Deb Matlock grew up in the mountains of Colorado and is deeply committed to nurturing the connection between people, animals, earth, and spirit. She has spent twenty-five years working as a professional environmental and humane educator and naturalist. Additionally, Deb offers shamanic- style spiritual guidance, animal communication, nature connection workshops, and retreats through her business, Wild Rhythms. She is passionate about helping people find connection and deep spiritual meaning in their lives and in the places where they live. Deb holds a Master of Arts in Environmental Education from Prescott College and is pursuing her doctoral degree in environmental studies at Antioch University New England.
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Episode 679 with guest Beth Parrish
Beth Lauren Parrish is a Certified Level 3 CHA Riding Instructor and Level 1 Certified Equestrian Tai Chi Instructor. She has taught thousands of lessons for the past 20 years across the United States, and now teaches worldwide remotely. Beth has an unrelenting passion to improve her life and anyone else’s life that she comes into contact with. With her business, Inspired Riding, Beth has created courses, meditations, and a journal for Inspired Riders to help them become more confident and connected with their horses. She teaches equestrians to trust their intuition and have conversations with their horses telepathically, which sets up each horse and rider to have the best co-creative dances possible.
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Episode 696 with guest Kate Neligan
Kate Neligan is an equine-partnered coach, healer, and animal communicator whose life’s work is devoted to the human-animal bond. Kate pairs her intuitive gifts with those of the horses to help people access their own inner power and connect to their life purpose. Kate has been a best-selling author, TEDx speaker, corporate marketing VP, and Huffington Post writer. She has a Master’s in Spiritual Psychology and is certified in Equine Experiential Education. In equine coaching sessions, she facilitates life-changing transformation with horses and humans around the country. In animal communication sessions, she bridges humans and their beloved pets for conversations and healings that spark positive change.
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Episode 693 with guest Colleen Graham
Caring, compassionate, and completely committed to helping women of all ages acquire the empowering foundation they need to blossom into their full potential, the remarkable Colleen Graham of Ideal Destiny is an inspiring entrepreneur of many talents. An avid equestrian, Colleen is the mother of champion trick-riding daughters & a professional dance instructor, which seems only fitting for the proud founder of a life-size, replica western village, a living legacy that Colleen has been incrementally building for over twenty years. Graham Town, with its genuine antiques and down-home welcoming hospitality, is a popular returndestination for Colleen’s many fans and followers, a family tradition for multiple generations celebratingbirthdays, weddings, and other…
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Episode 691 with guest Joanne Routhier
I was raised on a farm from the age of four and even at a young age I felt deeply connected to the openness, Mother Nature and of course animals. I didn’t start off then with a horse of my own, but through my Uncle Maurice’s insistence, “She needs a horse,” I received one shortly thereafter. It wasn’t until later in my life that I learned just how majestic horses really are. This pulled me into a journey to understand them more, which led me to taking an Equine Assisted Learning Certification course. In addition to that I began reading voraciously, going to horse barns, clinics and taking my own…
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What It Means to Be a Red Barn Horse (Alexis Braswell)
Alexis Braswell is the horse team leader and riding instructor for The Red Barn in Leeds, AL. She has been riding horses since she was 8 years old and has won many Alabama, United States, and world horse show competitions. Alexis Braswell graduated from Birmingham-Southern College majoring in religion, with a psychology minor. She loves horses, horses, and working with children as they learn about horses.
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Episode 689 with guest Nancy Gerson
With limited horse riding experience, and no formal equestrian training, native New York attorney, Nancy Lee Gerson, travelled to Colorado on a whim, to attend a women’s retreat with horses. She spent five days riding and communing with a special horse named Cherokee, who became the ambassador for Nancy’s life-changing, serendipitous journey, guided by interspecies connections and inspiring synchronicities. She is a contributing writer in Touched by a Horse Equine Coaching Stories, Volume 1, and a former student of twenty-three years at the School of Practical Philosophy in New York City. She is currently working on her next book!