Yesterday evening, Sunday, August 28, 2016, we celebrated our 2016 year with Riding Beyond with a gathering of participants, supporters and volunteers. Besides honoring key volunteers: Merrily Curtis, Jenn Lieber, Rosa Lee Maple, Caroline Jost, Susan Bennett, and Debbie Hansen-Bernard, we had an extraordinarily abundant potluck. Together we inscribed river stones with images that held […]
Dear Friends of Riding Beyond, We have a small request to make that can have big benefits in securing Riding Beyond’s future. It’s a surprisingly small time commitment. It simply involves you making a personal contact with your own hair stylist to request their participation in a raffle benefiting Riding Beyond during October’s Breast Cancer […]
Medscape Medical News > Oncology Breast Cancer Triggers PTSD Symptoms in 80% of Women ‘They either adjust or go into despair’ Hearing the words “you have breast cancer” triggers symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the vast majority of women and these symptoms often linger, according to a study from Germany of 166 women […]
Spring, Summer. One-Day Group Sessions at Royal Crest Ranch,4750 Royal Crest Road, Medford, OR For Family and Friends, Medical & Equine Professionals, and All Cancer Survivors We will explore a new story for our future, the Living Earth story, with creative expression, stories, and interactions with our horses as ambassadors of the new story for […]
Last week Chad Moyer said that one of his greatest challenges with Chi Gong is to move out of “doing” into “following.” I am used to considering “doing” vs “being”, so this language caught my attention. He explained that it is easy to fall into “doing” the movements of Chi Gong, to intend for his […]
A blog radio show out of Canada with Paula Slater, all about Riding Beyond.
Volunteer Training for Riding Beyondat Little Creek Ranch, 2900 Siskiyou Blvd, Ashland, OR Tuesday, March 8, 1-4 pm Hands on and behind the scenes, join the team of those who make Riding Beyond happen and who enjoy a taste of the magic along the way. Read personal accounts and details about volunteering and more, HERE. […]
To See Myself More Clearly Relax, What am I afraid of; To see myself more clearly? Not through the clouds of the cancer, But rather through the doors opened by it. Blank pages scare me, As if there is a right or wrong word to Put down on a page, and, Once on […]
A Morning in the Life of a Therapy Horse One morning while munching on breakfast I looked up and saw a friend walk by. Ah, time for work, breakfast can wait. Together we walked down the hill enjoying the crisp morning. Now in the paddock it was time meet another stranger so I stood patiently […]
Ten of us gathered on October 22 for a packed day of training equine professionals how to implement a program similar to Riding Beyond in their own programs with horses. It was held at Borderlands Center by Ann Alden, and it was conducted by Trish Broersma.