In this episode we continue our conversation with Emmy Award Winning Filmmaker, Ginger Kathrens.

Come along behind the scenes with us as Ginger describes her experience filming for Cloud 3, “Cloud, The Stallion King”.  (Cloud 3 will air on Nature in May 2009)  Cloud’s story is beyond remarkable; listen in to hear about this amazing Stallion and his family.

Ginger’s first two films documenting Cloud’s life, “Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies” and “Cloud’s Legacy: The Wild Stallion Returns” air on PBS’s Nature series and represent the only on-going documentation of a wild animal in our hemisphere.

Visit Nature.com The Cloud Blog featuring updates from Ginger in the field.
Please visit The Cloud Foundation

Ginger is the founder and Executive Director of The Cloud Foundation, a 501(c)(3) dedicated to the preservation of wild horses on our public lands with special attention on isolated, historically significant and genetically unique herds like Cloud’s.  She is an informed, impassioned, and entertaining speaker on behalf of wild horses.  We are blessed to have hosted her on Reach Out on In Horse Harmony!

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Frank Bell’s Bio:
A cruel twist of fate as a child blessed Frank Bell with the gift to befriend even the fiercest of canines. As an adult, that fate – and gift – again nudged Frank, this time in the direction of the equine. From that moment forward, Frank Bell never looked back as his career in the horse world exploded. Frank quickly became one of the premier respected masters in the most significant revolution in horse handling techniques to come along for hundreds of years.
Frank Bell has helped thousands of horses and their owners worldwide to bridge the communication gap with his remarkable system of exercises that immediately puts both parties on higher ground. Instead of riding in fear, horsemen and women are now riding in greater confidence. Most importantly, safety is always chiefly at the forefront.
Frank Bell has been featured on all major networks, in numerous newspapers and horse magazines, and on Fox TV live in New York City just before the movie The Horse Whisperer hit the theaters in 1998. A follow-up three-part series reporting on Frank’s Seven-Step Safety System in Western Horseman magazine catapulted Frank into the international arena by the end of the last century. Frank has proudly earned the title and domain name: www.horsewhisperer.com – Join Frank Bell’s Gentle Solution Revolution!

This is Episode 3 of 3. Please listen to Episode 1 and Episode 2…they’re too good to miss! :0)

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Carolyn’s career and studies span 40 years as a trainer, breeder, clinician and student of wild horse behavior. The purpose of her approach is to help create a consistent connection with your horse based on love, trust and leadership.

This is Episode 3 of a 4 part series. Be sure to listen to Episode 1…where the Waterhole Rituals began! …and Episode 2, as well. :0)

Carolyn’s blog is alive and full of up to the minute stories and experiences, give it a visit~you’ll be glad you did!

To reach Carolyn, please visit her website: www.dancewithhorses.com

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Frank Bell’s Bio:
A cruel twist of fate as a child blessed Frank Bell with the gift to befriend even the fiercest of canines. As an adult, that fate – and gift – again nudged Frank, this time in the direction of the equine. From that moment forward, Frank Bell never looked back as his career in the horse world exploded. Frank quickly became one of the premier respected masters in the most significant revolution in horse handling techniques to come along for hundreds of years.
Frank Bell has helped thousands of horses and their owners worldwide to bridge the communication gap with his remarkable system of exercises that immediately puts both parties on higher ground. Instead of riding in fear, horsemen and women are now riding in greater confidence. Most importantly, safety is always chiefly at the forefront.
Frank Bell has been featured on all major networks, in numerous newspapers and horse magazines, and on Fox TV live in New York City just before the movie The Horse Whisperer hit the theaters in 1998. A follow-up three-part series reporting on Frank’s Seven-Step Safety System in Western Horseman magazine catapulted Frank into the international arena by the end of the last century. Frank has proudly earned the title and domain name: www.horsewhisperer.com – Join Frank Bell’s Gentle Solution Revolution!

This is Episode 2 of 3. To listen to Episode 1, Click Here! :0)

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Amazing Horsewoman and Author of “Naked Liberty”, Carolyn Resnick joins us today. Carolyn visited with Debra and Anna for four informative interviews. This is episode 2 of a 4 part series.
In today’s episode Carolyn continues sharing her “Waterhole Rituals”. Carolyn is deeply insightful; Anna and I both thoroughly enjoyed our conversations with her!

Carolyn’s career and studies span 40 years as a trainer, breeder, clinician and student of wild horse behavior. The purpose of her approach is to help create a consistent connection with your horse based on love, trust and leadership.

This is Episode 2 of a 4 part series. Be sure to listen to Episode 1…where the Waterhole Rituals began! :0)

Carolyn’s blog is alive and full of up to the minute stories and experiences, give it a visit~you’ll be glad you did!

To reach Carolyn, please visit her website: www.dancewithhorses.com

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Carolyn’s career and studies span 40 years as a trainer, breeder, clinician and student of wild horse behavior. The purpose of her approach is to help create a consistent connection with your horse based on love, trust and leadership.

Carolyn’s blog is alive and full of up to the minute stories and experiences, give it a visit~you’ll be glad you did!

To reach Carolyn, please visit her website: www.dancewithhorses.com

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Show Highlights:

• Horses sold for slaughter, shipped to foreign countries for horse meat
• 3 slaughter plants in U.S. now shut down
• Inhumane treatment, completely UNconscious
• The important, crucial difference between slaughter and euthanasia.
• Karen initiated a “euthanasia fund”
• Biggest reason for the number of horses going to slaughter in the U.S. is OVER-breeding
• People need to take full responsibility for the life span of their horses
• Make plans for the “retirement” years for your horse as well as how your horse will pass from this life
• Education and Solution Based Action are key
• Equine Voices can help give you viable options, PLEASE contact them to be sure you know your choices

Please go to www.equinevoices.org to get involved, learn more, adopt a saved Premarin Mare!

This is Episode 2 of 3. Please listen to our first episode with Karen of Equine Voices Sanctuary. In Episode 1 Karen shares her story of the creation of Equine Voices.

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Show Highlights:

• What led Karen’s desire to reach out and help Premarin mares
• What is Premarin–Increase your awareness
• How are Premarin mares treated
• How do you gentle a Premarin mare
• Women’s health issues as a result of taking Premarin

To learn more about Equine Voices Sanctuary and the incredible difference Karen is helping to make every day in the lives of horses and their people, please visit www.equinevoices.org.

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You seeth not what stands before the eyes,
It is time that you spoke for us,
We need your voices,
We take heart that many are awakening to our needs.

We are united as one.
We sing the song of the spheres.
We ground your beings into the earth
And through us we connect you to the stars.

You wonder why you feel good when you touch us – lean into us.
It is because we connect you to the stars.

See us – we sacrifice ourselves to your blindness,
And never give up hope that you will awaken,
And we will be released from our suffering.
Our ancestors had more hope.

Some of you see the sunrise when you ride us – feel the trees.
But how many of you feel the stream of light that flows
Between us when we carry you on our backs?
Our connections breathe life into your lifeless bodies.

See us once again as brothers.
We are here to serve as mirrors – so that you, mankind
can find your way back to the stars.
to the source that serves for us all.

Our molecular structure is one.
Know your power, mankind.
When you see us as one with you,
then you will know your strength.

We love you – We are one with all beings,
We are a vehicle for that knowingness of Oneness.
Hear ye the cries of the rooster,
Mankind must awaken,
He may no longer sleep.

- Linda Tellington Jones

To purchase a poster bearing this poem from Linda’s website, click here:

A Message From the Spirit of the Horse Poster

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Episode Highlights:

• Paying attention to body language
• Listening and understanding a horse’s vocal sounds
• Engaging a horse’s mind through peace/safety
• Appropriate training begins in your heart

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I hope you’ll all have as much fun with these harmonious horses as I did! When you see the cartoon of blinking horses just click on each horse to bring them into their greater herd harmony!! Enjoy, these are some groovy horses. *smiles*

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Equine Wellness Magazine is also about people who are using their resources to help horses, articles on natural healing and nutrition, advice from leading horse experts & holistic veterinarians, coping with the loss of your horse and highlighting the best quality natural products and nutrition available for your horse.
Equine Wellness Magazine – devoted to natural health in horses

Available at amazon.com!

Equine Wellness Magazine

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It’s 2007. Happy New Year to all of our Harmonious Horsey Friends!! It’s our wish that this new year brings us ever closer in our deepening partnerships with our equine friends…as we continue to commit to growing in our evolving awareness of the wisdom that horses so willingly bring to the dance. May we all be blessed with Love, Light, Joy and the celebration of taking time to enjoy the “sweet spots” in life!

Happy New Year blessings from the Herd at In Horse Harmony.

Originally uploaded by Kalalea.

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The Great Dance~In Horse Harmony
My senses are stirred, my pulse is quickened.
My heart is open, my mind awake, willing to receive.

The message is arriving~I hear the call…
strong as thundering hooves across the valley.

I listen, I wait…I am still, calm, patient, present
willing to connect, I am available and free.

In this moment I sense the essence
crystalline and pure~a mirror of reflection for all.

The desire to feel safe, the need to feel safe
responded to in the gift of Love, Compassion and Trust.

Within the first reflection of all time
the answer is revealed…

Pure energy to pure energy Horse and Human reflect each other
nurtured in Source Consciousness, a multi-sensory knowing
of only Truth, Love and Light.

Horse is here~calling us to listen
to get quiet~to pay attention.

To just BE…to learn to expand our Heart Light
our Love Energy into the greatest, farthest reaching realms.

To live in Truth…in Trust…in Peace…in Love
Dancing the Dance, quietly, calmly, purely aware.

Deeply connected to the pulse of all, as all are ONE.
One breath, one heart, one soul, one LOVE.

Pulsing in rhythm through the journey of life
pulsing ~ in ~ rhythm…

Cantering on with forward thrust
a floating suspension of GRACE manifest.

My heart sings, my soul soars
as I dance the dance.

Connected, ever more deeply
filled with boundless gratitude.

For Horse, for his strength, for her wisdom
for his gentle being, for her eternal grace.

For the message deeply embedded in us all
and for the promise of Hope and Love ever-lasting.

We are safe. We are Loved.
In this moment, in every moment…this is true.

Horse continues to call~asking us to remember…
to see it all in the first reflection, the ONE reflection.

In the Great Dance there is only this…PURE LOVE.
And in Pure Love we find all that we will ever need.

I am still, calm, patient…present
connected ~ I have heard the message.

Great Horse Spirit I thank you, my friend.
I continue to listen ~ I hear your call.

I am open to receive.
I am willing to give.

I am free as I dance the Great Dance
in Harmony with Horse, in Harmony with Life.

Blessed Be!

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I began my search on the internet, of course. I found all sorts of interesting things. Great support for what I was intuitively feeling about horses and their unique ability to touch humans in a way that could potentially shift their consciousness and alter the be-ing-ness of their lives forever was readily available. I knew that I wanted to be a part of this rolling wave of enthusiasm around the horse/human connection. I also knew that as I read the countless pages of material that while inspiring and stimulating on some level, for me it was not quite ‘right’…not quite what I was looking for.

What I found as I researched was that the containers or boxes that have been shaped so far for the work that is being done didn’t quite fit the vision I was holding. While the work being done definitely integrates the horse and human and the profound effect that working with a horse can have I felt that what I was looking for was more about the ‘exchange’ between the horse and human as equal partners and even more importantly that the human would come to the horse, honor the horse, get to know the horse, earn the horse’s respect and trust while quietly, slowly entering into an appropriate, balanced relationship with the horse. I wanted to learn what it’s like to be a horse…not from human eyes…but with horse’s eyes. I felt strongly that the truest expression of this work would be discovered from the horse’s perspective, not ours and that in that space the ‘magic’ or the ‘keys to the universe’ would be ours, so to speak. I wanted to discover what it is to be a part of the herd. What did it really mean to be in a herd? How did the members of the herd inter-relate with one another? How is the hierarchy established…what qualities does the leader possess that make him or her capable and respected as a leader? What do we notice about each of the other horses in the herd? Are there any recognizable behaviors that seem to be speaking the language of the horse? And so on. I wanted to delve into the world of the horse in order to understand them, from their perspective, so that I could share their wisdom with others.

I continued searching and suddenly something ‘clicked’–no pun intended as I was still ‘googling’ to find what I was looking for! I found Franklin Levinson, known for almost 30 years as “The Maui Horse Whisperer”, whose web address reflected immediately what I felt I was looking for…www.wayofthehorse.org. The Way of the Horse! Of course…that was it. Someone was focusing on the HORSE…for the horse. I began reading the many articles and essays available on Franklin’s site and I knew that without a doubt he was the teacher for me. It was so interesting for me to read Franklin’s words…they seemed to be my words. The thoughts and feelings I had been having, the intuitive truths that had been pulsing through me about the deeper connection between horse and human as partners in right relationship with each other resounded in every article I read. The biggest difference I could find between Franklin and me was that he was living and breathing it in his every day physical world and my experience was still largely in the intuitive world with a strong impulsion moving forward into my daily experience. I had been working for half a year at an incredible ranch here on Kauai where I could experience, ‘feel into’, and put into practice some of what I’d been feeling. I had learned (and continue to learn) so much about horses and their care…and I knew that if I wanted to delve in and completely immerse myself I needed to find a space where I could BE in the experience fully engaged with out the duties of day to day business. I had a sense that an experience with Franklin and the horses would be just the thing. I emailed him immediately and discovered that he was living in the Aspen/Snowmass area of Colorado…nestled in the Rocky Mountains. He offered what he calls “A Rocky Mountain Horse Vacation“…an immersion program designed especially to suit each individuals needs/desires.

We began connecting and planning through emails for what would soon become one of the greatest experiences of my life. I have so much gratitude for Franklin, for his willingness to be present, for his passion, enthusiasm and compassion in the work that he does. It’s obvious that the horses have taught Franklin well. He’s an incredible example of living the way of the horse every day.

In September we traveled as a family to meet Franklin. I was so excited I don’t think I slept for an entire week before the trip. If I was sleeping I was dreaming horses, non-stop. (That’s not that unusual for me!) Meeting Franklin the first day felt like being reunited with a close friend after a long time apart. There was an immediate bond which confirmed for me again that I was exactly where I needed to be. My week was filled with horses…a girl’s dream come true. We visited a healthy handful of ranches in the area and I worked (I really prefer ‘played’) with a variety of horses, each of which brought a unique blend of character traits to the ‘dance’, as Franklin lovingly refers to the communion of horse and human’s time together.
Throughout this week I lived and breathed what I knew to be true in my heart. I experienced first hand what it truly means to feel and think like a horse. I experienced an ever deepening sense of presence, of truly being in the moment. Franklin helped me see so clearly the smallest of details within the connection and relationship with each horse just by slowing things down…making each moment breathe on its own. What a remarkably beautiful experience!

There are so many attributes that I appreciate in Franklin. What stands at the front of a long list is his innate ability to be fully present, completely in his integrity…full of trust in the real sense of the word…a quality that is not often found in today’s world, a gift to be sure. He is honest. He is respecting and respectable. He’s quietly calm, peaceful…and at the same time exudes a happiness that lets you know he is truly living his passion. It was very easy for me to see how he’s so successful in his partnerships with horses. He’s everything they need him to be. He’s not full of hidden agendas. He’s there for them and they know it; they can trust him. He recognizes them for their greatness, their strength and their capacity to love. He recognizes their need for safety. He’s there for them.

As I write this I am reminded again of the overwhelming sense of purity, love and compassion that I felt as I observed Franklin with the horses. I remember reflecting with Franklin about how I feel so strongly that the power of the horse/human connection and the wisdom therein could truly be the answer to the world’s obvious cry for help and positive change. The qualities described above could cure this planet of anything that ails it if each human could find this space to exist in–relating in harmony with all of nature, all of life.

I’ll save the ‘technical’ details of my experience for another post. This post describes the essence that I came away with; an essence that I already carried in my heart and now had a wealth of practical experience to support it. I am forever grateful to Franklin…and Sunny D., Gracie, Shiloh, Sunbeam, Honey, Thunder and all of the other amazing Horsey Spirits out there! If you’re looking for a horse experience that will enhance your state of being for the rest of your life…contact Franklin, he and his horse friends will be there for you!

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