During this time of dislocation, fear, and trauma, people are struggling mightily.The pandemic and economic collapse constitute an existential threat. Riding Beyond’s horses were fortunately missed by raging wild fires on September 8 that leveled over 2000 homes in our community. Everything is uncertain. Everyone is on edge.How do we find hope in times of […]
This recent article from the New York Times illuminates some interesting aspects of the horse/human connection. It includes Monty Roberts whose fund-raisers for HOPE Equestrian Center over 18 years ago introduced to several thousand residents of the Rogue Valley much of what developed into Riding Beyond’s approach to horses. This article focuses on the author’s […]
The Saturday Evening Post recently published this overview of the equine services emerging the past 60 years here in the US. There are thousands of practitioners, though, not just hundreds, around the world. Before Devon Combs (pictured above) stepped into the arena at Mirasol Recovery Centers, she felt lost. At just 21 years old, she […]
This research review in the Journal of Oncology targets the role of the vagus nerve in tumor modulation, examining the relationship between heart rate variability and prognosis in cancer patients. Riding Beyond’s program has at its core, activities which activate the vagus nerve for a variety of benefits. https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jo/2018/1236787/
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A message from Trish Broersma, Director of Riding Beyond: In the absence of our Riding Beyond face to face sessions with our horses in the coming weeks through April, and perhaps longer, I’ve been contemplating what we’ve harvested together these past years with our horses that might hone our response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Never […]
How Could I Know? How could I know. . . I could trust someone and they wouldn’t try to hurt meI could lovingly connect so quickly without even tryingI could receive silent understandingI could necessarily be so focused in the Present Moment How could I know. . . Someone so big could be so big-heartedOne […]
A Magnificent Being the Horse One can be fearful of its poweror in awe of its majesty. I choose the latter.The horse had shown me the way toa beautiful light and love. —Zoe Livingston
Our thanks to Julia Babb for her gracious and skilled interviewing of Trish Broersma regarding Riding Beyond in spring, 2019, on RVTV, our local community television station. Julia has volunteered her talents in a number of ways for Riding Beyond: grant writing and on the ground with the horses.
July is our annual appeal month. You are invited to support the work of Riding Beyond in Opening Doors to the Future for breast cancer survivors. Each week, we’ll add insights about doors opening to the future at Riding Beyond. And a new photo of doors from around the world by Carolyn Jost. (See below) […]