After over a year of meeting virtually, starting April 6, 2021, we returned to Riding Beyond with the horses and a donkey, to everyone’s joy. Here are enthusiastic reflections from our participants. This word cloud captures the final gifts claimed by our April participants following four weeks’ explorations of the Riding Beyond themes for each […]
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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/
Although we were not able to be together with one another face to face during the pandemic, we still actively provided sustaining creative connections heart-to-heart with horses. Please view our stay-at-home adventures where we explored gifts that horses offer us during challenging times. Welcome to the journey. Interaction • Creativity • Sustenance • Wisdom Previous […]
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