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This podcast is dedicated to learning how to use your intuition to connect to, and make sense of, spirituality and science. My co-host Lydia is our guest speaker. She’s been reading, listening, and experiencing a lot of really cool stuff lately that has inspired, and stimulated, her intuition. I’m so excited she will be sharing her experiences with all of us!  Some of our discussion will include: -          Consciousness -          Overpowering Connectedness -          Transcending -          Clairvoyance -          Stewardship -          Permanence vs Impermanence "I want to share this quote that I have utilized through out my gardening career. It is the key to what I've discovered over a lifetime of listening to plants and animals. They have helped me find the truth in understanding the connectedness between all things...  "Rudolf Steiner presents a notion of science that says we can know things that go beyond what we can weight, measure, and calculate. Science is the practice of observing phenomena and relating them in a way that correctly represents the phenomena’s reality. Agricultural judgments about health, what to do where, and when to do what, best succeed when we begin to rely on a certain wisdom gained through observation and experience and when we perceive consciously and concretely the phenomena that induce life itself.  "Spirituality is just science we don’t understand yet." Lydia

This next podcast is dedicated to weanlings, handling, development and training. My last podcast on this topic was recorded March 8, 2023. I’ve included below all three podcasts dedicated to this subject. This one will be part four. While I’ve talked about raising weanlings, I haven’t spent as much time on this subject and I sure have gotten a ton of emails and questions about it over the years.  So, it’s time to dive in and talk about the research, stats, natural family dynamic of wild horses, domesticated dams and weanlings, common sense and most of all, what I’ve learned along the way that I believe is best practices for weanlings – what’s in their best interest. Starting Young Horses, Part I How & When (Developing Good Habits) https://www.buzzsprout.com/815860/episodes/5349703  Starting Young Horses, Part II: How to Begin Your Horse's Education & How to Problem-solve https://www.buzzsprout.com/815860/episodes/5370628  Young Horse Development & Age-Appropriate Training, Part III https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/young-horse-development-age-appropriate-training/id1504085225?i=1000603347868 I'd like to give a special thanks to Elisabeth  for allowing me to share her journey raising Frigga, her baby Fjord, with all of you. Please click here to watch her amazing relationship and imprinting of Frigga https://www.youtube.com/@lizzyshorses. “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” - Swami Vivekananda May you always be one with your horse, Caroline

I hope you enjoy an interview by one of my youngest students, Sarah, who is only 17! Sarah's interview is for her senior thesis and her horsemanship.Sarah did an excellent job asking questions. Lunging is an art, the art of movement and in my method, it's also about the art of connection and synchronicity in heart, mind and body energy.We are all living, energy beings. There is nothing more powerful, magical or healthy than connecting with our horses in heart/relationship, mind/thought and body/movement. My art of lunging comes full circle too and not only teaches you how to develop horses inside out, it includes biomechanics, energy, connection, self-regulation, collection and most of all teaches the rider how to develop the movement they want to ride in their horse and in themselves.I teach all about this and how to start a horse, from the inside out, ground to riding, start to finish, rehab to recovery, novice to pro in my big MasteryMembership Riding Foundation Program https://www.taoofhorsemanship.com/masterymembership. Enjoy!

Another famtastic podcast with nationally recognized integrative vet, Dr. Rob Silver! You can learn more about Dr. Silver's knowledge and products from the following websites:http://nurseyourpet.com/http://nurseyourpet.com/blog/ https://www.wellpetdispensary.com/ https://www.realmushrooms.com/  He is offering a 25% discount. Please use code: tao25 It's good for one use and for 25% off of anything in the www.wellpetdispensary.com, and is non-expiring. More about Dr. Silver...Dr. Silver educated us on the healing powers of medicinal mushrooms amongst many other areas of pet care from diets, health to longevity. Dr. Robert Silver graduated in 1982 from Colorado State’s College of Veterinary Medicine. He established one of the first integrative vet clinics in the USA in Boulder, CO in 1993.  Since then, Dr. Silver has become a nationally recognized expert in veterinary herbal and nutraceutical medicines, medicinal mushrooms, veterinary CBD and cannabis therapeutics. He has adjunct faculty positions at Lincoln Memorial University, College of Veterinary Medicine, and Chi University, a College of Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine.  “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” - Swami Vivekananda May you always be one with your horse, Caroline

This next podcast is dedicated to young horse development and training. This time I’m going to dive in deeper, simplify some complex areas and give you a clear idea about age appropriate education, handling and training – areas that are important to young horse development, such as emotional fitness, confidence and safety.  I’ve done two podcasts on this subject already, back in 2020, that cover a lot of common questions, concerns and advice. You can listen here: Starting Young Horses, Part I How & When (Developing Good Habits) https://www.buzzsprout.com/815860/episodes/5349703  Starting Young Horses, Part II: How to Begin Your Horse's Education & How to Problem-solve https://www.buzzsprout.com/815860/episodes/5370628  “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” - Swami Vivekananda May you always be one with your horse, Caroline

I am super excited to have our next guest, Jonas Feeley! We rarely have men on our podcasts and believe me, this is not intentional, so having Jonas as our guest speaker is super exciting and special. Welcome Jonas! Jonas is a student, and friend, of mine which makes him a student of the Tao and my Tao of Horsemanship. He became a student with his wife Emily many years ago and together they achieved a life most of us would dream of.  I hope you join us as we listen to Jonas talk about his life before the Tao and how the Tao of Horsemanship has positively influenced his personal transformation, mindset, spirituality and relationships.

Our next podcast guest is Sonya Spaziani, known as Mustang Meg to her followers. Mustang Meg (Sonya Spaziani) is renowned for her photography, field research, and ongoing efforts to educate the public on the status of wild Mustangs. Currently, 75,000 wild horses are caught in political, emotional, and environmental controversy. Mustang Meg is concerned for the future welfare of our wild horses. She chooses no other, but one side, the side of the wild horses and burros. It's her hope and ambition that she can reach at least one person daily, so they know that we still have these inspiring free-roaming animals on our wild lands, and how necessary they are on so many levels, but mostly our spirits.... These wild horses, an American icon symbolizing our own struggle to remain free~ A powerful icon to the citizens of the great Nation, and to so many around the world. I hope you join us for a powerful and riveting interview with Mustang Meg as she shares her adventures and experiences with these beautiful wild horses.  

“First You Go with the Horse. Then the Horse Goes with You. Then you go together.” ~ Tom Dorrance If you’re ready to change your relationship, and your riding, with your horse and in a way that creates the deepest connection, relationship, trust and safety, this podcast is for you.  What I’m about to share will clearly defines the ingredients, give you an outline, of my way of Being, doing and riding with horses. If you’re ready to dive in and make the changes you need and want in your horsemanship, the roadmap and training is taught in both my in-person workshop and online Mastery Program.  Click here for details and to join my Intuitive Workshop for Women & Horses February 22-24, 2023 https://www.taoofhorsemanship.com/intuitive-workshops-for-women-and-horses.  Click here for the online course, Discovering the Spirituality of Horsemanship https://www.taoofhorsemanship.com/spirituality. 

We are thrilled to have this week’s guest speaker Rahansia Ben Merjuri again!  Rahansia will be sharing with us her experiences, and understanding, of how the animals that come into our lives are often spirit guides. They have written on a soul level to be with us and assist us in this lifetime. Many times we think we are taking care of them when in truth they are taking care of us. Rahansia has been in the Healing Arts for over 30 years. She is teaching and doing Massage, {Horses and people} along with Energy Lite, sound healing and reading sessions.  She has traveled many areas of the US teaching and sharing her Energy Lite Therapies. She expanded and started working with horses around 2002. She realized how sensitive the horses were to the different energy tools and how quick their response was compared to humans. She also became aware of a deeper connection with the horses and  having the ability to sense what they were desiring to communicate to us. I hope you join us for a deep and mystical exploration into animal spirit guides! I will be sharing some of my experiences too with my animals, especially my horses, as my personal spirit guides. Click here https://www.healinghorses8.com/ for more information about Rahansia. “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” - Swami Vivekananda May you always be one with your horse, Caroline

Happy New Year!  I hope you all had a blessed, safe and joyful holiday season with loved ones. I wanted to start off this new year with positivity, purpose and connection, especially connecting to the areas in our lives that bring us harmony, ease and fulfillment.So often we go day-by-day without giving time and attention to the areas in our lives that feed our soul. Especially the time we make for our horses. They feed our souls for sure and often we feel frustrated and disappointed in the fact that we never have enough time for them, let alone for ourselves and others.  Well, not anymore! I’m going to share some tips and secrets to keeping my emotional reservoir feeling full and not empty, and how you can feel amazing in 15 minutes or less with your horse.

Thanks for joining Lydia, me and our guest this week, Kris Newkirk for a very special holiday podcast about recognizing, connecting to and honoring our Higher Selves and its relationship to Christmas. Kris has been practicing for over 45 years in counseling and psychology with a specialization in psycho-spiritual crisis, trauma, and women’s empowerment. Most recently, Kris has become a Certified EMDR therapist integrating EMDR with Transpersonal therapies, with a focus on addiction and spirituality. If you're looking for some inspiration and spiritual guidance this holiday season, please join us as we dive in deep about connecting to our divine selves, spirituality and peace within ourselves. “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” - Swami Vivekananda May you always be one with your horse, Caroline

December 7th’s podcast is going to be a little different this time and exciting! I will be doing a collaborative interview with guest speaker Nancy Zintsmaster, expert liberty trainer and co-founder of the Resnick Method Liberty Horsemanship. Both Nancy and I have a lot in common with liberty training being one of them! We will be sharing our experiences, personal stories, and a few of our secrets to why liberty training is the #1 building block to riding and Riding as One™ with horses. I hope you join us as we discuss the fundamental principles of liberty training and why it’s the foundation of all things possible with horses – most of all making training stress-free and mutually enjoyable for both horses and humans. “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” - Swami Vivekananda May you always be one with your horse, Caroline

This podcast is going to be a little different this time. Writer and author Carolyn Waller is going to be interviewing me, Caroline Beste. For those of you who know Carolyn as a repeat guest speaker, I don’t need to tell you that she is a fabulous writer and storyteller. Many from our audience have enjoyed listening to her and always want to hear more of her stories and life as one of the few women guest ranch guides. I hope you join me, Carolyn and Lydia as we dive in deep talking about my life with horses and what they have taught me about love, leadership and confidence. “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” - Swami Vivekananda May you always be one with your horse, Caroline

Hi Janine,  This is such a huge topic in horse training. It’s so big I am dedicating the entire month of my November Facebook daily posts to addressing this topic and why we use it in horse training. You’ve probably heard about pressure and release training at some point. It’s commonly used in both natural horsemanship and other forms of positive training. It's akin to desensitizing, operant conditioning and flooding. This is why it's a very misunderstood method of training. Pressure and release training is in reality a form of negative reinforcement. Instead of teaching the horse a new thinking skill or level of confidence and trust in what it's learning, the horse responds through learned helplessness. That's because horses are passive by nature and hardwired to work together, and get along. The common understanding of pressure and release training puts the emphasis on applying pressure and rewarding with a release. In fact, the most effective application of pressure and release training is to use pressure to encourage the horse to seek release. Thus, the release becomes the reward for their effort or a teachable moment as many natural horsemanship trainers say. But in reality, they seek the path of least resistance eventually, with the release teaching them that when they submit to force, excessive pressure or pain, the negative experience goes away. Next time you use pressure to help communicate what you're teaching, think about what your horse is learning and if they are confident learners, learning to think, engage, and problem solve. I explain more about what I mean and how I develop horses into trusting, confident, and thinking partners in my podcast. “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” - Swami Vivekananda May you always be one with your horse,Caroline

We are thrilled to have this week’s guest speaker Carolyn Coleman Waller, pen name Carolyn White, join us again to share her best of the riding wrecks as a guest ranch guide and what she learned along the way.  Carolyn's writing career began after she got a guiding job on an isolated, off-grid guest ranch outside of Elk City. The first publication, a two-parter for Western Horseman, was on loading mule strings and braiding three-strand cargo ropes.  Many other magazines followed, including Equus, The Natural Horse, IDAHO, Colorado Life, and most recently, History. She also spent 12 years as a columnist and feature writer for The Fence Post, a weekly ag periodical.  Three memoires topped the writing career, each of them about growing up with and eventually, living off-grid with horses: Bricks underneath a Hoop Skirt, Trucks are for Girls, and Like a Swarm of Locusts.    “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” - Swami Vivekananda May you always be one with your horse, Caroline

I hope you can join me and Lydia, my co-host, for a controversial podcast about teaching horses patience and tying. I agree that horses need to learn patience, but I don’t agree with teaching them to learn it by tying. I also agree that horses need to learn how to be tied, but I don’t teach them by tying them. If you’ve got a horse that hates to be tied, is scared of cross ties or pulls back from being tied, this podcast is for you!  Hope you can join us as I share my secrets to teaching horses patience and how to stand quietly and happily in cross ties. See you Wednesday, October 26, 12pmEST/USA for my LIVE Q&A podcast about patience and tying horses! “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” - Swami Vivekananda May you always be one with your horse,  Caroline

This week’s podcast guest speaker is Carolyn Coleman Waller, pen name Carolyn White, from Cedaredge, Colorado. She started riding bareback in earnest at age six, got her first horse at 12, and after graduating from Ohio University (English and Creative Writing), hauled her horse to Lolo Pass, Idaho, where she attended the Trapper Creek Wilderness Guide School. Carolyn's writing career began after she got a guiding job on an isolated, off-grid guest ranch outside of Elk City. The first publication, a two-parter for Western Horseman, was on loading mule strings and braiding three-strand cargo ropes.  Many other magazines followed, including Equus, The Natural Horse, IDAHO, Colorado Life, and most recently, History. She also spent 12 years as a columnist and feature writer for The Fence Post, a weekly ag periodical.  Three memoires topped the writing career, each of them about growing up with and eventually, living off-grid with horses: Bricks underneath a Hoop Skirt, Trucks are for Girls, and Like a Swarm of Locusts.    Please join us to hear her amazing stories of taming the wilderness, horses and men! “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” - Swami Vivekananda May you always be one with your horse,  Caroline

Kris has been practicing for over 45 years in counseling and psychology with a specialization in psycho-spiritual crisis, trauma, and women’s empowerment. Most recently, Kris has become a Certified EMDR therapist integrating EMDR with Transpersonal therapies, with a focus on addiction and spirituality. We will be talking about addiction and spirituality with an emphasis on high functioning addiction and the path that leads us out of it – the path to spirituality. Here are a couple excerpts from our discussion: “People can develop addictions to a range of things. In addition to substances, there are many things a person can develop an addiction to, unfortunately. For instance, in people can develop process addictions, which are compulsions to engage in specific behaviors. The person may engage in these behaviors, even if it brings emotional, mental, or physical consequences.“ – Lydia “Many people with addictions deny religion or spirituality because they have heard that there is a spiritual element to recovery, and they do not feel that they can function within a spiritual framework. What they fail to realize is spirituality and addiction recovery go hand in hand.” - Caroline “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” - Swami Vivekananda May you always be one with your horse,  Caroline

In our previous podcast (August 17, 2022) we touched on this subject but didn’t dive in like we wanted to so we are continuing the discussion about spirituality and promise to dive deep and talk more about: - What it means to each of us - How spirituality shows up  - How we become spiritual - And, best of all, how horses lead us into spirituality through their divine intuition and connection to nature, and 5D consciousnessI share my personal experiences with spirituality, totem animals, what it's like to live in 5D, and how purpose can be created through intention and found in the moments that make each day. Spirituality is a broad concept with room for many perspectives. In general, it includes a sense of connection to something bigger than ourselves, and it typically involves a search for meaning in life. As such, it is a universal human experience—something that touches us all. The shamans, healers, sages, and wisdom keepers of all times, all continents, and all peoples, in their ageless wisdom, say that human spirituality is composed of three aspects: relationships, values, and life purpose. “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” - Swami Vivekananda May you always be one with your horse,  Caroline

Spirituality is a broad concept with room for many perspectives. In general, it includes a sense of connection to something bigger than ourselves, and it typically involves a search for meaning in life. As such, it is a universal human experience—something that touches us all. The shamans, healers, sages, and wisdom keepers of all times, all continents, and all peoples, in their ageless wisdom, say that human spirituality is composed of three aspects: relationships, values, and life purpose. My guest speaker, Kate Neligan, and my co-host Lydia and I will share our personal experiences, stories, and insights into the wonderful world of spirituality and horses: - What it means to each of us- How spirituality shows up - How we become spiritual- And, best of all, how horses lead us into spirituality through their divine intuition and connection to nature, and 5D consciousness “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” - Swami Vivekananda May you always be one with your horse, Caroline