Our Team

Unbridling Your Brilliance is part of Planned Transitions Consulting & Coaching Inc. www.plannedtransitions.com, a unique and innovative collective whose “soul” purpose is to bring individuals one step closer to discovering their authentic selves, resolving issues, and creating sustainable change.

The foundation of the Unbridling program is our partnership with horses, who act as co-facilitators for personal growth and learning. Our equine facilitated programs are highly experiential, allowing participants to interact with the horses at a personal level.

Click here to see the schedule of all programs and events

Most of our Personal Coaching, Business Coaching and Healing programs are held at our beautiful retreat center called Healing Heart Sanctuary or Silver Star Stables in Langley, British Columbia (BC) Canada. Special retreats may be held in other parts of British Columbia and the Lower Mainland.

About Our Facilitators

Linda-Ann Bowling | Cristina Rennie | Christa Miremadi |

Linda-Ann Bowling – Master Coach & Intuitive Healer

At the age of 45, I was called by the horses to begin a journey of incredible discovery, possibility and spiritual connection with nature. Not unlike many thousands of women around the world, I found horses for the first time in my life (or rather they found me).

I am a Master Coach, certified in Business Coaching and Personal Coaching, and have been coaching since 1999. I am absolutely passionate about my work in the field of somatics, movement, language, moods and emotions. Combining these distinctions with my work with the horses has taken me to incredible depths of joy, freedom and new expression of my emotional self.

I have studied with some amazing women from the U.S. who are pioneers in the work of Horse Facilitated Experiential Learning. I am an apprentice in Barbara Rector’s, Adventures in Awareness program out of Tucson, Arizona. You can read about Barbara’s wonderful story of how she got in the field of Equine Facilitated Experiental Learning on her website, http://www.adventuresinawareness.net/ My work has also been highly influenced by Linda Kohanov, an internationally recognized innovator in their field of Equine Experiental Learning and author of The Tao of Equus, Riding Between the Worlds and Way of the Horse www.taoofequus.com.

I have attended many programs with both of these women, and have also studied with Ariana Strozzi, www.strozziranch.com and numerous other incredible teachers both two-legged and four-legged here in Canada and the U.S.

I have a strong commitment to authentic leadership and am certified in many “people” based programs including:

I work with people from all walks of life, business owners, salespeople, leaders, organizational professionals and anyone who is seeking a more purposeful, passionate life. My story of the horses can be found on my blog. I would love the opportunity to speak with you about how you can experience the power of learning with the horses!

Cristina Rennie – Equine Facilitated Counsellor

Cristina Rennie received her MA in counselling psychology from the Adler School of Professional Psychology and has completed specialized training in an exciting and creative intervention called Equine Facilitated Counselling. This opportunity to partner with horses gives her great joy, as it integrates two passions: caring for people and animals.

In 2008 she received her level II in animal Reiki as a way to give back to her animal partners who give unconditional love to both her and her clients. She has completed two certification trainings with her mentor and supervisor, Sue McIntosh (MA, CCC) under the Canadian Therapeutic Riding Association – Equine Facilitated Wellness (CanTRA – EFW). Combining skills through formal education, 24 years of equine competitions, and now involvement with various therapeutic riding centers, she hopes to continue facilitating healing for people and animals.

EFC helps facilitate insight by creating better connections with horses and people that will positively influence personal life goals. Cristina combines EFC with Adlerian theoretical orientation principles integrated with Attachment (Gordon Neufeld), Art and Expressive therapies, Narrative therapy, Biophilia, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Social Justice Theories, and Neurobiology (Mindfulness).

Christa Miremadi

Christa has been working with horses for as long as she can remember. Starting out as a 3 year old in England, she soon discovered that horses were her true calling. Through the loving support of both her mother and father, Christa continued her equine education in Vancouver, B.C. Canada when they moved from England in 1986. She explored English equitation, Hunter/Jumper, Dressage, Reining, Western and English pleasure, as well as trail.

Christa showed successfully in each discipline with the help of many great instructors as well as many great equine teachers. She also credits her years of experience working summers on a horse ranch in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta for her acquired knowledge in everything from Stable Management, Out-tripping, packing and starting young horses.

Christa is a Certified Horsemanship Association (CHA), Certified Level 3 Western Riding Instructor as well as a Certified Level 1 English Riding Instructor. She and her family started up Silver Star Stables in Richmond, B.C. in 2001. After 6 years of successful business on 3 acres, Christa and her Family moved Silver Star Stables to it’s current location in Langley B.C. With the help and support of her loving husband, they provide horses with Natural Care Boarding, living outside in herds as well as off g riding lessons, breeding, sales, rescuing horses and Horsemanship from the Heart(TM) Natural Horsemanship.

Through years of learning from her horses, Christa developed the Horsemanship from the Heart training method, recognizing that horse, as well as human and all other living things produce physical and measurable energy. Christa teaches how to tap into that energy as a communication tool.

Christa also enjoys her role as Equine Specialist for Unbridling Your Brilliance helping the horses to safely and clearly communicate with their human partners. She will continue to learn from these remarkable, emotionally advanced and spiritual animals and counts herself lucky to be blessed enough to be guardian to a few special horses along the way.

Check out her website at www.silverstarstables.com or email Christa at info@silverstarstables.com

Linda-Ann Bowling

Langley, British Columbia

CANADA

604-626-4806

Linda-Ann@UnbridlingYourBrilliance.com

 

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