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#32 The Key to Harmony and Bonding with Your Horse with Linda Tellington-Jones

#32 The Key to Harmony and Bonding with Your Horse with Linda Tellington-Jones

34m 45s

Linda Tellington-Jones is a true icon in the horse world. With her innovative method, the Tellington TTouch method, she has helped countless horse owners to establish a deeper connection with their beloved four-legged friends.

In this episode, Linda shares her unique insights and experiences of how the Tellington TTouch Method can successfully enhance the connection between humans and animals. She shares how these gentle touches and movements can help build trust, relaxation, and harmony between horse and rider.

#31 The Importance of Saddle Fit with Holly Barnett of August Equine

#31 The Importance of Saddle Fit with Holly Barnett of August Equine

75m 25s

Holly Barnett is the founder and CEO of August Equine. August Equine takes a whole horse approach to saddle fit, combining the knowledge of saddle fit with anatomy, conformation, biomechanics, and the nervous system.

For over 20 years Holly has studied and transformed equestrian partnerships of all levels and disciplines. She specializes in dressage, eventing, and jumping as well as western and endurance riding. Holly’s innate ability to both spot and resolve performance blocks, as well as temper the nervous system, harness the foundations of movement, and optimize the fit of equipment, enables clients to create quantum leaps in their...

#30 Breaking Barriers in the Sport of Polo with Agustin Arellano

#30 Breaking Barriers in the Sport of Polo with Agustin Arellano

41m 51s

Agustin Arellano is a professional American polo player, eco-entrepreneur, and model.

Agustin is also the newly appointed operations manager at Rinehart Polo, where he further assists with the organization’s goals to create a holistic future for the sport. Both Agustin and Rinehart Polo are dedicated to the long-term betterment of the sport of polo by focusing on polo education, sponsoring youth polo programs, and most importantly, making polo more inclusive, while improving equine welfare.

When he is not on the field practicing or playing polo, Agustin is tirelessly working on his co-founded companies, the Project Pampa and The Range, which...

#29 Making Your Equestrian Entrepreneurship Dreams a Reality with Christa Myers

#29 Making Your Equestrian Entrepreneurship Dreams a Reality with Christa Myers

65m 6s

Christa Myers is the woman behind the Equestrian Bookkeeper and the Equestrian Entrepreneur. Christa grew up as most of us horse-loving kids do, which is filling their days with barn time but not fully living out their dreams due to financial limitations.

In 2020, Christa began to build out the idea of combining her love for horses, passion for continuous improvement, and knowledge of business and financial operations to create her own business, which launched January 1, 2021. Through this, she realized that what is common sense to her in business and finances was not common sense to everyone else....

#28 Finding Success In and Out of the Saddle with Ingrid Klimke

#28 Finding Success In and Out of the Saddle with Ingrid Klimke

65m 32s

Ingrid Klimke is considerably one of the most successful riders worldwide. A multi Olympic medalist, and a successful competitor in multiple disciplines, including Dressage, eventing, and show jumping.

On this episode, we discuss everything from bringing along successful horses, to balancing training regimes and horse welfare, setting goals, staying present and mindful as a rider and trusting your own intuition, and so much more.

#27 A holistic approach to wellness for equestrians with Ifa Simmonds

#27 A holistic approach to wellness for equestrians with Ifa Simmonds

77m 6s

Ifa Simmonds is a certified fitness professional with over a decade of experience working with, coaching, and instructing people over their fitness hurdles and towards their goals. Ifa has spent 6 years now helping equestrians with their riding fitness challenges in areas related to stability, suppleness, strength, and stamina.

Realizing that many equestrian clients have prior injuries, imbalances, overuse strains, and have fallen off without proper recovery, which are all issues that continue to affect their riding and competitive confidence, Ifa developed a systemized approach to their fitness training that allowed them to make the most progress. This program strengthens...

#26 Understanding horse behaviour with Shelby Dennis

#26 Understanding horse behaviour with Shelby Dennis

71m 22s

Shelby Dennis is a horse trainer and Equine Behaviour Consultant based in British Columbia, Canada. She is also the owner of Milestone Equestrian, a training and equine sale business, and the author of her debut book, ‘The Other Side of Horsemanship.’
Apart from her academic education, Shelby also has varied horse experience from the Arabian horse circuit to hunter/jumper, to dressage, to exercising race horses.

The understanding and correct application of equine learning theory that she’s learned has allowed Shelby to hone her skills as a horse person and continue modernizing her approach as a trainer, with emphasis on equine...

#25 Emotional & Physical Trauma in Horses and the Power of Consent with Betsy Vonda

#25 Emotional & Physical Trauma in Horses and the Power of Consent with Betsy Vonda

122m 37s

Betsy Vonda is an Equine Postural, Performance, & Behavioural Consultant and Trainer.

Although raised with horses her entire life, Betsy went on to pursue a career as a paramedic. However, through her education and work experiences she began to see parallels between troubled people and horses. She learned that people’s actions and behaviors can be heavily influenced by their past experiences, living conditions and nutrition, and it became quite clear that horses are also influenced by the same.

Betsy believes that by better understanding the factors that influence our horse’s behavior, we have endless opportunities to overcome challenges and set...

#24 Mastering what it means to be

#24 Mastering what it means to be "horse-first" with Alizée Froment

62m 41s

Alizée Froment is a former international Grand Prix rider turned show performer, now known for her artistic and beautiful performances, bitless riding, and horse-first philosophy.

Alizée has six courses with us on the wehorse platform, with everything ranging from bitless riding to liberty training to flying lead changes.

On this episode, we chat about having individual programs for each horse, the benefit of bareback pads, pre-and-post-ride care routines, transitioning to bitless, mastering the basic of groundwork and liberty training, and more!

#23 Balancing equestrian goals with motherhood and a career

#23 Balancing equestrian goals with motherhood and a career

40m 19s

Taryn Young is a USDF bronze and silver medal amateur Dressage competitor, and the woman behind the social media presence, Warmbloods + Wine.

Taryn is a Director of Marketing by day, an avid equestrian by nights and weekends, and a 24/7 new mom.

One of Taryn’s priorities with her social media has been to showcase the ‘working woman equestrian lifestyle’ – as it is all about balance and realness but one should never give up on your goals whether in your career or riding dreams.