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 […]
This year in honor of The Shakespeare Effect Series by Peggy Rubin, there will be a thread throughout all of our Saturday events, weaving Shakespeare’s genius into our exploration of the horse/human connection. This past Saturday, May 20, was entitled Challenging Times Call for New Strategies: What Horses Offer Us. Exploring the large heartedness of […]
Twenty folks of all ages, along with Mystic and the horses of Little Creek Ranch, gathered on May 10 to formally anchor and launch our fifth year of Riding Beyond. After claiming promises for Riding Beyond and our personal lives to the six directions, we planted a blooming pink Dogwood tree next to the arena […]
The Thanksgiving holiday is over, and an attitude of gratitude lingers. In a wonderful way, gratitude is an essential ingredient of Riding Beyond: while our participants are facing enormous challenges, an alchemy occurs between horses and humans at Riding Beyond, and gratitude is always hugely present at those times. In the spirit of this gratitude, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Thanks to Michelle Hobson and the Southern Oregon Hope Chest, their silent auction yesterday netted close to $2000 for Riding Beyond at the Pink Ribbon of Hope Gala. Hurray! People participated in the celebration at the end of the event, claiming promises for next year’s program, after making wish beads for a necklace for Mystic […]