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 […]
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) […]
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, […]
My latest favorite poem: How to Triumph Like a Girl I like the lady horses best,how they make it all look easy,like running 40 miles per houris as fun as taking a nap, or grass.I like their lady horse swagger,after winning. Ears up, girls, ears up!But mainly, let’s be honest, I likethat they’re ladies. As […]
I am increasingly convinced that breast cancer survivors and thrivers are keystones for our planet’s future wellbeing. Like the little-seen prairie dogs are a keystone species whose presence in a field is vital to the survival of the entire ecological system, so breast cancer survivors and thrivers are front-line ambassadors of the rise of the […]