Being raised just a few miles from Long Island’s Belmont Park racetrack, Victor fell in love with horse racing during his high school years. Upon winning a few dollars his first day at the races, he was instantly hooked on the excitement, adrenaline and beauty of the sport.

A few decades later, after relocating to Seattle, Victor ventured into the realm of thoroughbred ownership and purchased his first racehorse at Emerald Downs, located near Seattle. Today, he owns a pair of broodmares and manage a small racing partnership under the stable name of Royal Victory Thoroughbreds. Victor's time on the backstretch with professionals across the racing industry over the past two decades has given him the gift and joy of continuous learning while fostering a deep appreciation for the beauty, power and grace of the thoroughbred. Today Victor is a devoted advocate for racehorse welfare and longevity. His debut novel, Heliacal Star, draws on this passion and experience.

When not writing, working as a tech executive (30 years in high-tech at Microsoft, Service Now and currently Nutanix) or spending time with his [18 year old] retired thoroughbred, Rooster City, he will attend the local races at Emerald Downs. Victor also travels to Belmont Park and Saratoga Springs with the friends from high school who first introduced him to the sport. Victor currently lives in Washington State with his wife and two children.

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Camron Adibi is a horseman, equine relationship coach and a PATH Therapeutic Horse Riding Instructor who holds graduate degrees in education and architecture. He offers equine assisted learning for children and adults of all backgrounds and ages, who are facing challenges such as anxiety, trauma, or social difficulties. He also offers Sound Healing with Horses as an invitation for those who want to experience the power of horses. He has a mission to improve horse and human interactions through education and storytelling. Oh yeah, and Cam is a sailor with a captain's license.

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camronadibi.com
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cam@camronadibi.com

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Belle Shook, MC, NCC, LPC, SEP, NARM, BCC, founded Equine Guidance®, a world-renowned equine experiential learning and therapy program, established in Sedona, Arizona in 2004.

Belle's impressive credentials as a licensed professional counselor in Arizona and Connecticut, as well as a National Board-Certified Coach, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, and NARM® Therapist, are a testament to her unwavering dedication to helping people overcome self-defeating behaviors, negative thoughts, and emotional patterns.

Belle has a unique approach that uses the sentience of horses to help clients achieve emotional integrity, clarity, focus, creativity, intuitive intelligence, heart coherence, and self-awareness beyond traditional talk therapy.

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https://EquineGuidance.com

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Jason reads a recent poem he wrote over some chill guitar playing in the background

~
Eluded by time
swept away
as the hound tracks
the scent of
a raccoon through the trees
be easy on
yourself
for the unraveling
is taking place
Thousands of years
to this moment
Conditioned to believe
What is belief
but confidence in
unknowing
Know yourself
not what you've been told
but who you truly are
Repeat Love
as if a broken record
plays about the symphony of
your destiny
one which isn't destined
at all
but rather
free to choose
the path aligned with the
strongest scent
Believe to
Live
~

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Linda is an author, speaker, riding instructor and horse trainer who has become an internationally recognized innovator in the field of Equine Experiential Learning and a respected writer on the subject of Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy.

Her book The Tao of Equus: A Woman’s Journey of Healing and Transformation through the Way of the Horse was selected as one of the Top Ten Religion and Spirituality books of 2001 by Amazon.com.

Her second book, Riding Between the Worlds: Expanding Our Potential through the Way of the Horse, was published in 2003.

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https://eponaquest.com/
https://masterherder.com/
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Peggy Okelly began her career in San Francisco as a CPA with KPMG Peat Marwick. In 1990 with two young girls in tow she moved back to her hometown in the Napa Valley and founded St. Helena Olive Oil Co. After 25 years of growing the business, Peggy suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury rendering her a stranger to herself.

Having little access to her executive functioning, Peggy listened to the cues of her body leading her on a path of mind/body/spirit connection. Along the way she gathered teachings from healers of all medicines. Peggy's most profound healer continues to be Roxy, a Warmblood Mare, who she met while recovering in the Eastern Sierras of California. Their mutual struggle with disregulated nervous systems created an immediate and powerful connection. With no specific intention other than to share insights from her healing journey with Roxy, Peggy found herself delving into a profound exploration of the human-horse connection. Together, they learned to befriend and tend to their biology leading to deeper healing and connection.

In gratitude, Peggy created Congruence Tucson, a place to share and hold the space for other human and horse awakenings to the healing power of their true nature.

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peggy@congruencetucson.com

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Kathy Moffatt is an Equine Experiential Learning Facilitator, Transformational Life Coach, Reiki Practitioner, and writer.

Although loving horses all her life, her real involvement began in the mid 90's when she and her husband bought a farm. Embodied horses then appeared.

Her love of learning brought her down a path of becoming a student of riding, horsemanship, and stable management. She was particularly drawn to dressage where she studied and competed for a time. Competition though was really not for her, it was the art of riding and the horse connection that she loved most.

As life challenges presented, a cancer diagnosis, the death of her mother, and her youngest son struggling with addiction, Kathy found herself going to the horses. Sitting on a rock, the horses would come and hold space. It was her therapy. She knew there was something profound about this. What was this feeling, this felt sense, this connection?

Her curiosity and intuition lead her to a stable practicing equine assisted learning with children at risk. She became witness to a profound interaction with a beautiful elder mare and a young man. It became a sudden knowing that this was what she was supposed to be doing. She did not need words, she knew what it was, she knew what she needed to do.

Kathy quit her corporate job, researched programs, and became a student.
She a picked a program based on attunement to emotions, the honouring of horse as a partner, neuroscience and profound connection to spirit through shamanic practices.

It is all about energetic connection.
Kathy launched her practice in 2022. She combines the horse connection with other energetic modalities like Reiki, sound bathing, forest bathing, and yoga all done in partnership with horses and nature.

She is currently working on a book about a “Mothers Journey Through Adoption, Addiction, Finding Healing and Purpose through horses.”

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https://rideaubreezestablesandwellnesscentre.com/
kathy.moffatt@me.com

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