For years, Ren Thorpe operated behind the scenes of high-stakes event operations, startup business strategy, and demanding community projects. After pouring her heart into major civic efforts like the City Auditorium project, the relentless pace left her burnt out, disillusioned, and searching for something deeper. That turning point led her back to her roots in movement, discovering steel mace training not as another rigid workout regime, but as an expressive dance of play, spinal hygiene, and somatic rehabilitation.

In this episode of The Tap Intuit Podcast, host Ravyn Robinson-Barco sits down with Ren to explore what it takes to cultivate capacity, build rooted community in Manitou Springs, and navigate the fragmented world of women's health. Ren brings refreshing transparency to the table, honoring her ethical boundaries as a coach while advocating fiercely for harm reduction, relational healing, and open dialogue.

The shift was not chasing online wellness optimization or doom-scrolling for answers. It was learning to simplify, notice cycles, and meet the body where it actually is.

Their conversation covers the application of athletic progressive overload to microdosing integration (explored in depth in Kenny Stahl's guide Couch Milk), the historical community ritual of Fireball, and the critical, yet rarely discussed, physiological reality of how estrogen and psilocybin interact at the 5-HT2A receptor.

This one is an invitation to step out of isolation, stop treating health as a gatekept commodity, and rediscover the strength that comes from authentic community and listening to your own landscape.

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ABOUT REN THORPE

Ren Thorpe (CPT, CNC, CES) is a Functional and Nature-based Certified Personal Trainer, Certified Nutrition Coach, and Corrective Exercise Specialist based in Manitou Springs, Colorado, where she co-owns The Den Somatics alongside her partner Dante Liberato. Ren spends her days supporting her community through movement and outdoor adventure. An excitable athlete of nearly 16 years, her world includes grappling, strength conditioning, steel mace, soccer, and trail running. Ren embodies versatility, grit, and playful ferocity. Known for her loving heart, creative intelligence, and natural leadership, Ren helps athletes reconnect to purpose, integrity, and the joy of expressive movement.

Beyond her daily coaching at The Den, Ren is an integral support pillar behind major local athletic and research endeavors. She is featured on the cover of Kenny Stahl's publication, Couch Milk: An Athlete's Field Guide to Microdosing, having collaborated deeply throughout its creative process, and provided vital crew support for Dante Liberato and the team during the monumental 500-mile Dante 500 ultra-endurance project from Manitou Springs to Moab.

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For most of her life, Natalie Newhart lived by the rules of high performance: push harder, train more, stay disciplined, keep moving. It carried her through nearly a decade as a professional athlete and fitness coach, until the pushing landed her in the hospital, and her body made it clear it could no longer keep pace with what her mind demanded. That collapse forced a question she'd never thought to ask. What if peace is the one thing you can't force?

In this episode of The Tap Intuit Podcast, host Ravyn Robinson-Barco sits down with Natalie to trace the long, uncomfortable work of loosening her grip on perfectionism, body image, and the pressure to always be "on." Natalie is candid about the turning points that reshaped her path, and about how the same drive that made her successful kept resurfacing as overwork and attachment to outside validation.

The shift wasn't trying harder. It was learning to slow down and actually listen.

Their conversation moves through the difference between normal and natural, why peace can feel so unfamiliar in a culture built on constant striving, and how practices like Tai Chi, Qigong, and time in nature help bring us back into the body.

Natalie reflects on the teachers and community that carried her through transition, including the trip halfway around the world to a Qigong retreat she nearly abandoned for a gym, and on why the point of a practice isn't to perform it perfectly, but to let it change the way you live.

This one is an invitation to stop treating peace as another thing to achieve and start recognizing it as a way of being.

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About Natalie Newhart

Natalie Newhart is the founder of Mountain Soul Hikes, where she guides people through nature-based experiences: Tai Chi and Qigong walks, spirit walks, and practices designed to reconnect them to their bodies, their hearts, and the natural world. Her work blends movement, stillness, and inner awareness to help others slow down and come home to themselves.

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Most of us are trapped living a life that belongs to someone else because we make our biggest decisions using logic instead of our bodies. We are taught to use our brains to analyze our way out of confusion, but relying entirely on your mind during a major life transition is a fast track to burnout and deep anxiety.

In this episode of The Tap Intuit Podcast, host Ravyn Robinson-Barco sits down with Human Design coach Anie Dyer, the founder of Your True Nature. Anie shares her personal journey of growing up in a traditional religious background where parts of her naturally felt a little taboo, and how she found a soft launch into the energy world through fashion profiling. This gentle bridge point eventually led her to completely change how she makes choices and learn how to read her body feedback instead of just relying on her brain.

Anie strips away the complex jargon of Human Design to expose why we accidentally pick up on the stress, bad moods, and insecurities of the people around us. If you are a natural empath who constantly avoids conflict or feels overly responsible for everyone else's happiness, Anie reveals the hidden energetic glitch causing your burnout.

We also pull back the curtain on the mirror effect, explaining why the rest of the world often perceives a completely different version of you than the side you see in yourself. Anie unpacks the multi-tasker trap, offering a clear guide on how to navigate the painful impatience of waiting for the right opportunities instead of forcing them into existence. Finally, she shares a brilliant parenting shortcut, showing mothers how to read their child's natural energy so they feel truly seen without forcing them into a generic mold.

Wherever you are listening from today, press play and discover what it takes to unlock your true nature.

Human Design Topics Explored In This Episode:

Human Design for Empaths: How open energy centers absorb stress and impact self-worth.

Conscious vs Unconscious Charting: Understanding the mirror effect and how the world perceives your energy.

Manifesting Generators and Projectors: Navigating the impatience of waiting to respond versus waiting for an invitation.

Conscious Parenting Tools: Using a child's unique Human Design chart and authority to parent without projection.

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This week's reading moves through a quiet tension many of us are feeling, the pull between rest and momentum, and what wants to soften when we stop forcing the path forward. Patricia tunes into the energy of each day and finds a steady thread running underneath, an invitation to notice what is no longer working and to meet that recognition with curiosity instead of pressure. There is a lightness woven through the harder moments too, a reminder that play and presence are part of the way through. Take what feels true, set down what does not, and notice what resonates.

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For three decades, Carolynn Leaman has been listening to the land. As a landscape architect with a master's from Harvard's Graduate School of Design and ten years of work based in Germany, including projects connected to rebuilding Berlin after the Wall came down, she trained herself to read the patterns of water, soil, and city that most of us walk past. Her consultancy, celadon, takes its name from the Sanskrit word for wealth and health, and she has carried that listening into governments, neighborhoods, and a single grandmother's backyard.

Then came an afternoon at the Flathead River. With her children, an armful of instruments, and the silence that followed their cacophony, Carolynn heard nature speak in frequency. The work she had been doing for thirty years was right next to a conversation she was just learning how to hear.

That afternoon became the seed of Sound Therapy For Nature, her newest venture. But it was also the beginning of a deeper season. The toolkit Carolynn had built her career on stopped fitting the questions she was being asked, and she began studying what she calls expanding her consciousness. The Monroe Institute. Lucid dreaming. Forty Years of Zen, where she watched her own forgiveness register on a brain scan. Each thread is now part of one practice: science, art, and the natural world, woven into the same listening.

In this conversation, she shares the riverbank that started it all, the work she is taking to British Columbia, and the institute she is dreaming up with her grown children. And underneath all of it, a quieter teaching: the path you trained for is not always the path you finish on, and the second half might ask for a different kind of attention than the first.

At the heart of her work is a steady invitation: co-create with nature, build relationships rooted in beauty and balance, and rediscover the harmony between people and place.

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Astrologer Shayn Smith calls this week a real doozy, and he means it!

With multiple four-planet configurations lighting up the skies, you'll move through restless go-getter energy, quiet moments for inner reflection, a standout midweek peak of creativity and spiritual flow, and harmonious community vibes to close things out. Plus, a major planetary shift this week sets the tone for the months ahead.

In under 12 minutes, Shayn shares how to align with these vibrations in supportive, uplifting, non-fear-based ways.

He'll leave you with his signature question: Which frequencies do you choose to frequent?

Take the dive. 🌌

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This week's collective reading with Patricia Beyer of the Reiki Center of Colorado Springs opens with a download received on a moving bridge: hang on tight, keep going, and let the energy move through you.

A powerful current runs through the week, with the heart and throat chakras leading the charge. Midweek asks you to slow down and release what's kept you stuck, while the back half calls you out of fear and into community, adventure, and play. The blessings land on children and new ventures, with a reminder that the storm building is energetic, not ominous.

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This week's collective reading with Patricia Beyer of the Reiki Center of Colorado Springs is an invitation to slow down and listen, because the signs are loud.

She picks up on momentum returning after weeks of feeling stuck, with a steady thread of self-awareness throughout the week. A personal story lands the first lesson early, obstacles and divine feminine timing surface midweek, and the weekend burns through what is no longer yours to carry. The blessings land on water and children, a reminder to flow with your emotions and let yourself play.

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"They have the drumstick. You're the drum. And you bought them the drumsticks."

That's the line that lands halfway through this conversation, and it's the one that stays with you.

In this episode of Tap Intuit, Ravyn RB sits down with Brittney Muñoz of Brittney Fusion for a conversation about what actually happens in a nervous system that's been running on push-through for too long, and what it takes to come back from it.

Brittney is a yoga teacher and trauma-informed practitioner based in Colorado Springs. She teaches gentle and warm gentle classes at Cambio Yoga and works one-on-one with clients through her virtual offerings and 12-week mentorship program. She came to this work through the medical field, where she learned firsthand what it costs to skip lunch, skip the bathroom, and skip yourself for years at a time.

The conversation moves through the moment she realized her reactivity to her kids' noise wasn't actually about the noise. It was about whether she had eaten. Whether the sun had touched her skin. Whether she had given herself 30 seconds that day. She walks through the self-check questions she now asks before she reacts, and why building those 30-second moments ten times a day did what twice-weekly yoga classes couldn't.

She also speaks plainly about what she is and isn't. "I'm not a healer. I don't fix things." Yoga, for her, is the door. Not the fix.

Where this episode lands is in the permission to start small. Not 20 minutes. One minute. Not a perfect sunset hike without the kids. Thirty seconds in the middle of the noise, while the kids are still banging on things, asking yourself one honest question.

Her message is direct. You don't need more time. You need to stop pushing through.

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Website: https://brittneyfusion.com/

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This week's collective reading with Patricia Beyer of the Reiki Center of Colorado Springs is an invitation to come home to yourself.

She picks up on mind chatter and throat chakra activation, with a steady thread of self-reflection throughout the week. Fear surfaces early, a mirror moment arrives midweek, and the sacral chakra opens for play before the weekend closes with a reminder to gift yourself. The blessings point to fresh starts and the mothering energy within you, timely with Mother's Day around the corner.

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Website:https://www.reikicenterofcos.org

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