Episode #7 - The Rhythms and Cycles of Life, Death, Grief and Connection

11/02/23 • 64 min

Episode #7 explores the challenging, beautiful, and mysterious topics of death and grief. Guests on the podcast share their experiences through the transitions of loved ones with vulnerability, gratitude, and curiosity.

Many of us in western cultures are taught to fear death and dread grief. But when we have a deep knowing inside of us that death is not the end (and birth is not the beginning), there is less reason for fear, and sadness becomes a welcome reminder of love. What would happen if we were open to exploring the mystery of life after life?

For those left behind in our bodies, grief is inevitable. Grief is when we miss the beauty of a being’s physical presence. When we miss someone, we’re missing the person that we knew here on earth, in their bodies. But where are they now? Can we still feel their presence? Does it feel the same? If it’s different, how does it feel? Can we feel it all the time, or does it fade in and out?

The more we are open to exploring these questions in our hearts and in our bodies, the more comfort we can take in knowing that we can learn how to connect in a different way.

Join us as we explore the rhythms and cycles of life, death, grief, connection, and consciousness as a beautiful continuum.

Participants

Carla Bauchmueller - www.theintuitiverider.com
Kerri Lake - www.generateharmony.com
Shea Stewart - www.equinebalance.net
Leslie Desmond - www.lesliedesmond.com
Crissi McDonald - www.crissimcdonald.com
Music by Mark Rashid

The more we are open to exploring these questions in our hearts and in our bodies, the more comfort we can take in knowing that we can learn how to connect in a different way.

Join us as we explore the rhythms and cycles of life, death, grief, connection, and consciousness as a beautiful continuum.

Participants

Previous Episode

Episode #6 - Can I Receive The Love And Attention Being Offered?

Episode #6 explores the suggestions that get in the way of clarity, receiving and enjoying relationships.

This episode examines a set of questions that many people grapple with: Am I a bad person for asking for something I want? Do they genuinely want to connect with me? What does it mean if they say no? How can I interpret if the “no” is specifically relating to the task, or more generally to my request for connection?

This conversation is in the context of working and being with horses, but the angst and wisdom apply far beyond relationships with horses.

Self doubt, lack of self confidence, and guilt plague many of us when we are unsure if we “should” be asking our horses to work with us;: these feelings within us come across to the horse as incongruent, unreliable, and undependable. Even though it comes from a place of love, when we put a lot of mental and energetic focus on what we might be doing wrong, we may be inadvertently casting a shadow on our relationship.

If we dig a little bit deeper, we find a new question: what is it in us that resists receiving the gift of another’s awareness, attention, and effort? The group discusses ancient stories, how horses played a vital role in the survival of humanity. It’s revealed that these stories can embed within us a deep sense of gratitude, reverence and joy. The joy can emanate from that person, for horses and others to sense the joy from their heart. As we reflect on our own stories, we recognize this as an invitation to see ourselves with a new lens, revel in possibilities and different perspectives that lead to transformation.

What if we shifted our focus from what’s wrong to all the things we are both doing right? If we could honor the horse’s immeasurable capacity for forgiveness, we’d be free to approach every day with joy, playfulness, enthusiasm, reverence, and gratitude for their choice to connect with us. How might our relationship change if we shifted our perspective in this way?
Carla Bauchmueller Kerri Lake Jessica White Plume Chris Anderson Joell Dunlap

Podcast Guests

Joell Dunlap - www.squarepegfoundation.org
Jessica White Plume - @jessica.white.plume.5
Chris Adderson - www.forthehorse.com
Carla Bauchmueller - www.theintuitiverider.com
Kerri Lake - www.generateharmony.com

Music by Mark Rashid

Photography by Crissi McDonald

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Episode #8 - Energy: Using Words to Describe the Place of No Words

This episode was fun for all of us. . .
The word “energy” means a lot of different things to different people. In today’s episode, we explore how each of us uses energy in our work and in our teaching. Some of us interact with energy and observe what changes physically; others work with what’s tangible and observe what shifts energetically. When we shift matter, energy changes; when we shift energy, matter changes – in the end, are we really approaching our work so differently?
Some see everything as energy, with no demarcation between people, animals, and objects other than a difference in our vibrational frequencies. Energy is information. Energy is the space between two beings - the place we enter while being totally open to receiving, to greeting. Energy is connection and intent, first to the self, then to others. Energy is creating an opening to allow connection. It’s something that must be allowed through openness and felt through awareness. Energy is the existence of movement; awareness of energy is perception and consciousness. Energy is in the integrity of your request. Energy is felt – with your horse, what does it feel like to move from a walk up into a trot? Is it fast, slow, smooth, abrupt, sticky? What if you put that feel into your body? Horses feel and understand this.
The commonality in everyone’s experiences and definitions of energy is that we’re pointing to something that is experienced or felt or sensed, which is different from thinking with the mind. Horses give us the amazing opportunity to use this ability like a language – to remember a part of us many have forgotten.
In this episode:
Mark Rashid - www.markrashid.com
Barbra Schulte - www.barbraschulte.com
Kathy Price - www.kathyprice.co.uk
Chris Adderson - www.forthehorse.com
Sukie Baxter - http://wholebodyrevolution.com/about/
Music by Mark Rashid