Since 2021 when Riding Beyond reached out to women in the Rogue Valley impacted by the Almeda Wildfire by losing their homes during the COVID pandemic, we have begun serving Spanish-speaking people in our four-week sessions, as well as our Saturday sessions. Recently, with the help of Victoria Bencomo, we have published our informational materials […]
Listen to Director Trish Broersma discuss Riding Beyond and horses from the Native American perspective with Dan Wahpepah on First Nations Radio 89.5 and 94.1 KSKQ 2-3 pm Fridays, Ashland, OR in March, 2023. https://archive.org/details/first-nations-202302171400
Join us for one hour on Thursdays throughout the year, time varied according to seasonal temperatures, for Meditation with Our Horses. We meet in the field where they live and enjoy sharing time with us in meditation. Our meditation practice cultivates inner resilience and calm while relating to a complex outer world with challenging people […]
This month we honor the mothering dynamic in our world, a primary force driving Riding Beyond’s work: helping to mother people back to vibrant well-being, attending to the challenges of the pandemic and other stresses like breast cancer treatment, fire ravages, and global unrest. HOW THEY CLAIM THEIR NAMES Mystic Moon was given her name […]
This moving article tells of the gifts that a horse offered a corporate executive and echoes what many of us have experienced in our connection with horses. Enjoy!https://earthfireinstitute.org/opening-a-portal-between-two-species-a-powerful-story/
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]