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
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) […]
Horse Buckskin Abby in the rain Mystic in the sun Muscles smooth Ears saying more than I could With only MY body. Eyes wide and aware Empathy and compassion? It surely felt like it. Moments of touch Physical and emotional. Peace, quiet, Deep breath contentment. Who knew a horse would Make such a difference. —Beth […]
May Participants Write Praise Songs to the Horse My Max, My Horse Powerful, magnificent Keeps me in the present, Continually aware of my surroundings. Reminds me to relax my body as I ride and control my fear and enjoy the ride Lessons for life Yes, I think so. — Debra Allen Magical is what […]
Last Saturday, May 25, we began our monthly half days for anyone interested in what horses can bring to their lives. Our focus this time for the overall theme of Challenging Times Call for New Strategies, was to deepen our soul connections and gain a dose of spirit to enliven us for the tasks before […]
Psychology Today posted an article on May 9, 2019: “Longer Exhalations Are an Easy Way to Hack Your Vagus Nerve” which describes in a user-friendly way why many of the practices of Riding Beyond are so beneficial, even joy-inducing. An excerpt: These studies corroborate that longer exhalations are an easy way to hack the vagus nerve, […]