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OHSU Knight Cancer Institute Funds Our 2025 Project
NEWS RELEASE View KOBI Channel 5 coverage here: https://kobi5.com/news/riding-beyond-gets-over-30k-to-aid-rogue-valley-breast-cancer-survivors-263439/ Media Contact: Trish Broersma [email protected] January 18, 2025 Riding Beyond receives funding to address breast cancer burden in Jackson and Josephine counties Project is one of first to be funded through the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute Community Partnership Program Ashland, Ore. – Riding […]
Expanding Our Outreach for Hispanic Women
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 […]
First Nations Radio with Dan Wahpepah
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
Meditation with Our Horses
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 […]
Mothers Day 2022: Mothering Making a Difference
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 […]
A Portal between Two Species
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/
Back with the Horses!
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 […]
Horses Creating HOPE
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 […]
NYTimes: To Break a Horse
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 […]