Lucy is a lapsed art historian who loves wordplay almost as much as community building. Prior to her time at The Arts Paper she was a reporter at the New Haven Independent and station manager at WNHH Community Radio, where she still produces and hosts Arts Respond.
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In this horse-centred podcast now in it’s eighth season, author, facilitator, horse and human manual therapist, animal communicator, and horse lover Alexa Linton explores uncharted territory and newly discovered edges of the horse-human partnership with equine professionals. Together, we'll be shedding light on all the different ways of relating to and being with horses, learning how to cultivate optimal health for horses and their riders, uncovering the many facets of horse training, and sh ...
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WH138 | Storytime with Alexa - finding our new home and farm
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22:12This is a short and sweet episode and it's just me, which I haven't done since the very beginning of season one! In this episode, I sit out with the herd and share the story of how this space and land came to be for us, the horses and our other animals, as it definitely was a miracle how it all came together. I also go into our hopes and dreams for…
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WH136 | Contact nutrition for the horse-human relationship with Carmen Spagnola
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50:50As we continue this season's mentorship series, this conversation with one of my current mentors was as potent as I had imagined. Carmen Spagnola has been a support, guide, teacher and esteemed colleague for over 12 years, and I have benefitted greatly from her depth of presence, attunement, clarity and nuance. She has spent time with my mares Diva…
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Marc Deaton, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Madison Lyric Stage
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REACH Fund of Connecticut Fund-a-Thon 2025
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WH135 | What flowers have taught me about horses and healing with Sabina Pettitt of Pacific Essences
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1:00:00Welcome to the first of my mentorship series. where I have conversations with some of my most important mentors, allowing you to access some of the goodness and wisdom that I was so supported by on my journey. The first in this series is my teacher and friend Sabina Pettitt, who is the founder of Pacific Essences, a company here on the west coast o…
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"FUSE Theatre Co-Founder Lara Morton on 'The Awakening'wakening'"
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Catching Up with the Freddy Fixer Parade Committee
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Sarah Fritchey & Luciana McClure-Lewis (Nasty Women Connecticut)
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49:05A conversation about the seventh annual show from Nasty Women Connecticut, which opens at Creative Arts Workshop March 8.By WNHH-LP 103.5 FM NEW HAVEN
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Call Forth a Woman | Shubert Theatre New Haven Call Forth A Woman takes you on a journey through stories of the powerfully dynamic women in the bible, often forgotten but most notably heroic and significant in the text. When fulfilling the call of their purpose, they shifted the paradigm of culture, government, the arts, business, and family life. …
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WH134 | A whole horse perspective on veterinary care with Dr. Tomas Teskey
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1:01:19This conversation with Dr. Tomas Teskey blew my mind in the best possible way, as he shared about what veterinary care looks like for him (and truly, what I would love to see much more of) - as he puts it, examining every square inch of a horse and what's impacting their health, including hooves, teeth, environment, feed, supplements and more. Toma…
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Noelle Fair and Matt Simmons, Eastbound Theatre Company
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WH133 | Sacred contracts with horses and how to recognize them with Brittany Ashworth
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1:07:07Season 8 of the Whole Horse podcast is here! To start us off right, I chatted with my friend and colleague Brittany Ashworth of Sacred Echos and we headed right into some wild and wonderful territory. Rewinding back almost 12 years, Brittany shared about how she met her horse Duke, after never being a horse person, and how his presence and his stor…
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Arts Respond with Lucy Gellman: Aug Stone
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Alexis Robbins & Christie Echols (The Mercy Velvet Project: Super Sweet Fundraiser)
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WH132 | Understanding equine postural mechanisms with Dr. Karen Gellman
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1:02:03In this episode, marking the end of season seven of the podcast, I spoke with Dr. Karen Gellman. What an incredible journey she has been on, culminating in her dedicating her life and veterinary practice to the study of equine health as it relates specifically to postural mechanisms, as well as sharing this body of knowledge with others. During our…
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Maestro Perry So, Tia Brockington & New Haven Poet Laureate Sharmont Influence-Little
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WH131 | Shifting how we think about breathing with Holly Barnett
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1:01:14In this episode with Holly Barnett, I learned all about the new style of breathwork she created called InteroBreath, which is a way of working with the breath that focusses on our sixth sense, interoception. Holly walks us through the definition of this breathing practice, including what interoception is, how she developed it, why it's so powerful …
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Host Lucy Gellman talks to Angel Dahfay, founder of Sweets & Sounds Entertainment, and Kolton Harris, program associate with the Connecticut Office of the Arts, about the upcoming Creative U conference scheduled for Oct. 11 and 12 in New Haven. Learn more about Creative U here: https://www.creativeu.us/…
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Musician Sev7en Taylor on Life, Love & His New EP
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WH130 | Horses as muses, teachers, and guides with artist Kim McElroy
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1:02:28As we wrap up season 7, I was honoured to sit down for a conversation with the artist Kim McElroy. As you'll hear in this episode, I met Kim in 2007 through a series of synchronistic events, and was struck by her presence even then. I then had the opportunity to be inspired by her art as I regularly pulled cards from the Way of the Horse, her colla…
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WH129 | Unmasking sensitivity to be better (horse) people with Lori Halliday
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59:06This conversation with the wise and wonderful Lori Halliday certainly touched into some tender places! Lori offered her perspective on the fall from grace of a notable rider this past summer, which led us into a powerful discussion on the personal responsibility we all hold to be accountable for our history and allow it to inform our present-day ac…
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Chris Bethune, New Series "Divided Loyalty"
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WH128 | Becoming nervous system navigators with Wired 4 Connection author Lucie Klaassen
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1:01:55Today on the podcast, I had Lucie Klaassen back on for the first time since Season 1 (!) and we had a chance to catch up on all the ways her work has evolved since that first conversation. Lucie’s new book, Wired 4 Connection: Transform your Horse Training with the Polyvagal Principles, just came out over the weekend, and I was excited to ask her a…
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Ionne - New EP "Right Foot Front," A Musical Tribute to Skateboarding
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WH127 | Speaking the language of horses with Belinda Bolsenbroek
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1:08:20In this episode I was joined by classical horse trainer Belinda Bolsenbroek for an amazing conversation about the way she merges scientific study with historical, artful ways of partnering with horses. I had the pleasure of auditing a clinic of Belinda’s awhile ago, and it was great to be able to sit down together to talk about her latest work doin…
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WH126 | What horses can teach us about healthy boundaries with Kim Hallin
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1:03:37What a deep and necessary conversation I had the pleasure of sharing with Kim Hallin, owner of Unbridled LLC. Kim’s tagline is “Stay true to yourself so you can stay true to your horse” and this is exactly the road we went down in this episode, exploring the world of boundaries in ourselves, in our horses and in the equine industry at large. It was…
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WH125 | Taking a 3Fs approach to providing good horse care with Lauren Fraser
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1:01:20This week on the podcast I spoke with equine behaviour specialist Lauren Fraser, the woman behind the 3 Fs (Friends, Forage, Freedom) framework for species-appropriate horse management. As you might imagine, I was excited to pick her brain on the intersection between equine life-styles and environments and their behaviour. Our conversation ranged i…
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WH124 | Releasing Tension to build trust with Jim Masterson
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54:59In this episode with reknowned equine body worker Jim Masterson, I got to know the origin story behind the Masterson Method and ask Jim about his perspective on a wide range of important topics including consent, pain and environment for our horses. One of my favourite take-aways from our conversation is the simple yet profound power of observation…
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WH123 | The wisdom of nature and the body with Julie Anne Lee, DCH
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1:02:21This episode with holistic practitioner and classically trained homeopath Julie Anne Lee is absolutely jam packed with digestible, insightful information about the often-mysterious practice of homeopathy and some super helpful facts about remedy usage. Additionally, we chat about feeding medicinal mushrooms to horses, and how the wisdom of mushroom…
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WH122 | Making the hardest choice with Diana Waters
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52:59In this moving episode I am joined by horse trainer Diana Waters of Responsive Equine. We begin with an overview of some of Diana's formative equestrian experiences, including her passion for training at the walk and its many benefits to the equine-human partnership, and then head into a vulnerable conversation about her journey rescuing a horse wh…
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Whole Horse | Allowing room for Emergence in our relationships with our horses and their habitats with Shannon Beahen
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58:51It was such a pleasure to have Shannon Beahen back on the show today for an impassioned discussion about our mutual interest in stewarding and cultivating relationship with land - with special attention as to how that endeavour relates to keeping horses, obviously! We wandered together through the topics of land having its own nervous system, what …
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Whole Horse | A call for collaboration to support horses with Dr. Rachel Heart Bellini
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59:49This week on the podcast I was joined by holistic veterinarian Dr. Rachel Heart Bellini for her perspective and experience of the scope of vet med and the ways in which she’s supplemented her education over the years in order to be of better service to horses. We had a really interesting conversation about the gap and, at times, inconsistencies bet…
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Whole Horse | All about track systems for horses with Amy Dell
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1:00:33I was excited to be joined by Amy Dell of Abbotts View Livery for this episode, who wrote the book Horse Track Systems and runs her own track livery in England. What I loved about Amy’s book is how it laid out the steps and tips for creating your own track system in a very thoughtful and practical way, and it was great to be able to go into more de…
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Whole Horse | Leading with relationship with Jodine Buydens
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54:30This week I was joined by my long-time friend and colleague Jodine Buydens (pictured here with her mare Breeze) for a beautiful conversation on the horses who have shaped her life and given her the tools to be able to help humans receive the many teachings of their own equines, or, for some folks, encounter horse wisdom for the first time. We talke…
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Whole Horse | Restoring functional movement through fascial chains + rib sling work with Christy DiColla
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56:33Tune in to this episode with equine sports therapist Christy DiColla for a great chat about her latest work and area of research: rib entrapment and fascial chains. Christy filled me in on how she was seeing common patterns of posture and muscular appearance in her equine clients and how these dysfunctional presentations were chronically affecting …
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Whole Horse | Centring the horse in our horse keeping and training with Lockie Phillips
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1:08:13It was lovely to have Lockie Phillips back this week for his fourth time on the podcast. We got to chatting about how he’s feeling and what he’s been up to since his big move across the country to the North West of Spain last summer, which I have been excited to talk to him about! Unsurprisingly, he’s been busy turning his new property into a super…
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Whole Horse | Healthy Land, Healthy Horses with Jane Myers of Equiculture
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57:49I was so excited to welcome Jane Myers of Equiculture onto the podcast for our first episode of 2024! Jane is a wealth of knowledge on the subject of land and pasture management, and an expert on equine grazing behaviour. We covered a lot of ground (pun intended!) chatting about the ways in which horse owners can learn to keep horses in a way that …
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Whole Horse | Holistic + horse-first hoofcare with Kendra Skorstad
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56:05In this episode with farrier Kendra Skorstad, our conversation covers my many (and maybe yours too!) hoof-related questions from both the perspective of horse steward and body worker, including the interplay between horses' posture, body, and the health of their feet, as well as specific inquiries surrounding navicular, high-low syndrome and heel f…
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Whole Horse | Geek out with Alexa and Elisse: Senior Horse Care + The Rule of the Artery
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1:00:40Today’s conversation with Elisse Miki is a special edition podcast episode that we are affectionately dubbing a ‘geek out’, and we want to hear what you think! This episode is the first of what will be a four-part series together over the next year, and could eventually turn into its very own show if people like you are curious and hungry to listen…
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