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Horse as Teacher:  The Path to Authenticity with Horses

Horses have the capacity to teach us key life lessons. To ex-perience this higher level of connection and communication, humans must accept the horse as a partner and be open and willing to receive their wisdom. 

The stories in this collection will move you to tears, make you laugh, remind you of your first brush with love (in the form of a horse), and most importantly, connect you with your soul; because that's what horses can do when you are willing to embrace what they so naturally and beautifully reveal to you.

In this compilation, ten extraordinary and unique professional women (including our own Anna Twinney) share powerful, funny, heartwarming, and poignant stories about how horses have transformed their lives – and the lives of their clients.

The authors come from a variety of horse backgrounds, but there is a common thread - they all see the simple truth that these magnificent beings, through their presence and grace, can raise our consciousness, peel back the layers to uncover our true selves, and show us how to shine with brilliance.

Contributing Authors of Horse As Teacher: The Path to Authenticity With Horses
Anna Twinney
An internationally respected natural horsemanship clinician, animal communicator, and Reiki Master, Anna has been featured on television, writes for national and international magazines, and is the creator of the "Reach Out to Natural Horsemanship" DVD series. Formerly the Monty Roberts Learning Center's head instructor, Anna teaches people how to create genuine, trust-based partnerships with their horses.

Lisa Dee
Lisa Dee is the creator and guide of the Equist™ process. Her ranch, Vista Caballo, is an exclusive equine experiential center based in Dove Creek, Colorado, dedicated to self-awareness, the development of human potential, and personal growth. Her work with horse medicine for humans is deeply transformative and healing at a cellular level. She creates completely unique, custom-designed experiences resulting in profound healing, clarity, and growth.

Wendy Golding
Wendy Golding, founder of Horse Spirit Connections, promotes transformation through personal development and corporate leadership, with the horse as teacher. Passionate about horses, Wendy enjoys weaving together her continually expanding connection with horses and her shamanic spiritual path. An Epona Approach Instructor, she is the co-owner of a multi-million dollar service company in Toronto, Canada.

Karen Head
Karen Head, the founder and director of Equinection, has been loving and working with horses since she was five. As an Advanced Epona Approach Facilitator, she has worked with hundreds of people across the US and Canada, guiding them toward authentic living. She holds a master's degree in Creative Arts Education from Rutgers University.

Holli Lyons
Holli Lyons lives in the foothills of the Coast Range in Northwestern Oregon, offering workshops, individual sessions, and intensives in Equine Facilitated Experiential Learning and Coaching.  After spending over 25 years in the high tech industry, she is now a full-time Advanced Epona Instructor and Centered Riding Instructor. “Melding body awareness, shamanic principles and love of nature to inspire & co-create personal excellence.”

Stormy May
Stormy May, founder of Stormy May Productions, promotes harmonious relationships between horses and their humans through her educational videos, workshops, and other related services. A former horse trainer, riding instructor, and competition judge, she is the producer of the highly acclaimed documentary DVD, The Path of the Horse.

Mary Beth Meyers
Mary Beth Meyers is the mind inside Harmonic Riding & Equine Integral Movement™ (HREIM). Through her five decades of work with horses, supported by research in physiology, behavior, and quantum mechanics of healing, horse owners learn to change their horses' behaviors and biomechanics. Mary Beth's work helps horses and their owners become physically and energetically released from the past to be fully in the present in joy.

Melisa Pearce
Inspired by her lifelong relationship with horses and a background in Psychotherapy, Melisa Pearce, CEO of Touched By a Horse, Inc., has been an innovator of Horse Human Experiential work for over 25 years. Her books, lectures, and events have earned her the Best Spiritual Retreat Award (5280 Magazine, Denver 2006) and The Top 50 Most Influential Horsewomen Award (Horse South Magazine 2008).

Kathy Pike
Kathy Pike is the founder of the Mind Body Method (MBM), a published author, life coach of eight years, and an Epona Approved Instructor. Her current book, Hope From the Heart of Horses, is available spring 2009. Kathy travels national and internationally, coaching individuals to raise their consciousness and deepen relationships through working with horses.

Susan Williams
Recognized nationally and internationally as a digital camera expert, Susan's evocative fine art equine photography portrays the magical essence and intimate moments of horses. After attending the International Center for Photography in New York, she taught programs for Olympus America. Collectors across the country seek her award-winning images of horses to grace their homes and businesses.

Each author shares her unique experiences - some sad, some joyful, some frightening, but all enlightening - clearly illustrating how we can put our trust in horses, listen and learn, and become horse conscious, opening ourselves to their wisdom and the higher levels of connection they offer. 

A must read! - Natural Horse Magazine, March/April 2010

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Eponalisa: The Fall Ride
by Melisa Pearce

Why are you here? What were you born to do?
And . . . how would you discover it?

Riding her horse, Clarity, is Lisa’s favorite activity. She wants her life to be built around horses, but her parents have other ideas—none of which appeal to Lisa. How does she know what direction is right for her?

On one of her morning rides, Lisa encounters Epona, the Goddess of All Horses, and is offered the chance to provide a valuable service to the equine world. When she accepts, she is transformed into the Fairy Eponalisa and sets out on a journey to bestow Pronouncements on the Callings to horses who, like her, may not yet understand their life purpose.

Through her journey as Eponalisa, she brings peace to those of the Equine Realm and finds peace within herself. Anyone who questions their own life purpose will find wisdom and inspiration in Eponalisa.

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CD's

We have chosen Templeton Thompson as our very first recording artist to sell in our corral.  Why?  Because if you like country music, and if you like horses, and if you like a great voice, toe-tappin' numbers and heart-touching ballads then you have to buy these CD's! You really don't have a choice.  And Templeton and her husband and musical collaborator, Sam, are 2 of the nicest people you'll ever meet on the planet.  Templeton's song, "A Horse That Can Fly" will also be featured on Anna's upcoming CD project with Melisa Pearce, Lisa Dee, Susan Williams and Wendy Golding. Want to hear what she sound like?...

Go to YouTube to get a taste of some of the best country music I've heard in a long while!

If you've heard Templeton before you know what I'm talking about and if you haven't.... well... it's only a matter of time before you become a lifelong fan too!  And as Templeton would say... Thanks for listenin', y'all!

Life On Planet Cowgirl - Templeton Thompson

1. Life On Planet Cowgirl (Introduction)
2. Life On Planet Cowgirl
3. Wishin' You Wings
4. Follow Me Around
5. I Miss the Girl
6. When I Get That Pony Rode
7. Stronger In the Broken Places
8. Missin' You
9. I'd Rather Run Than Crawl
10. Yee Ha & Halleluja
11. Happy House
12. When My Story's Told
13. Wishin' You Wings (Reprise)

Singer/songwriter Templeton Thompson draws from a deep well of influences that combine with her Texas roots to give her style of country music a distinctive, soulful edge. She names Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow and Don Williams as her most influential heroes.
You can find her songs on million-selling CD's from country superstars like Reba McEntire, Jo Dee Messina and Little Texas. Her song, “Settle Down Cinderella” is featured on the 2006 20th Century/Fox Motion Picture, “Dr. Doolittle 3”

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Audio CD (1 disc)

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girls & horses - Templeton Thompson

1. Girls & Horses
2. Guardian Angel
3. Cowgirl Creed
4. Just Stay Crazy
5. Ride Before It Rains
6. She Remembers Ridin'
7. Shouldn't We All
8. Beautiful Day
9. Tall in the Saddle
10. Wake Up Grateful

Singer/songwriter Templeton Thompson draws from a deep well of influences that combine with her Texas roots to give her style of country music a distinctive, soulful edge. She names Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow and Don Williams as her most influential heroes.
You can find her songs on million-selling CD's from country superstars like Reba McEntire, Jo Dee Messina and Little Texas. Her song, “Settle Down Cinderella” is featured on the 2006 20th Century/Fox Motion Picture, “Dr. Doolittle 3”

Order:
USA & Canada Customers
Audio CD (1 disc)

Price: $14.95

Should you prefer to not place your order on-line please contact: info@reachouttohorses.com for an order form or call Anna Twinney on (805) 350-1406.