Medicine Horse Ranch, a learning center for Equine Guided Education incorporates horses in human self development by offering group and individual programs designed for adults, adolescents, youth at risk and women's business development.

Experiential learning engages participation in partnership with horses and offers opportunities to explore personal/professional issues and achieve success in a safe, nonjudgmental and supportive environment.

Our spirited teaching methodology fundamentally assumes that we each have unique gifts, talents and contributions to discover, claim and potentially express.

Being on land, in nature and around the horses quiets the mind, restores the spirit and offers a way to rediscover, reconnect and reclaim the heart and soul.

Horse Sense for Women™ Feb 13 - 14th program

“You can search the whole world over and never find anyone more deserving of love than yourself.”

Medicine Horse Ranch is located on the Thornton Ranch, a 1000 acre fifth generation family owned and operated working cattle and sheep ranch in Tomales, California.

“Medicine” in the Native American way refers to the gifts and challenges that one carries and includes personal power, strength, and understanding. When we honor our ‘medicine gifts’ we walk in the world in a way that improves our connectedness to all life. Horse Medicine is both physical power and unearthly power.

Kings and commoners, heroes and villains, saints and sorcerers, have all ridden into history on the back of a horse. Equines bring human beings as close as we will ever come to flying on our own.

And yet, for as long as horses have been in our consciousness, they remain a mystery—perhaps, because no other creature in our lives holds the sweet paradox quite like the horse.

These powerful beings are at once mysterious yet knowable, wild but manageable. Horses evoke in us a fierce love, and unique relationship that, once discovered, never dims with age or fades with time.

There are as many opinions on how to train a horse as there are horse trainers to give them, but most will admit that to spend any meaningful time with a horse requires one to be in a state of self-reflection.

Today we listen to horses not only to train them but also to train ourselves; to learn from their exquisite and perfectly returned silence whether we are in harmony with our true nature or if the stories we tell ourselves are distorted and foolish.

MEDICINE HORSE RANCH
POB 224
TOMALES, CA 94971

Ranch phone: 707-878-2440
Email: alyssa@medicinehorseranch.org

 

NEWS & EVENTS

Please enjoy A Gift of Horses e-book which includes three stories
written by Alyssa Aubrey.

UPCOMING EVENTS AT
MEDICINE HORSE RANCH

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Alyssa is in the right place, at the right time, doing the right work. She is an extraordinary teacher and her work with horses opens closed doors and half opened windows for her clients. Her intuition and honed skills combine with her connection to the clients and the horses. This leads to astounding results time and time again.

For teambuilding, leadership skills and interpersonal work, Equine Guided Education as put forth by Alyssa is creating a new paradigm for growth and transformation.

— Cynthia Riggs
Business Diva

 

Horse Sense for Women™ , a unique blend of horse wisdom, nature, art and supportive women has helped me to see myself more clearly, to claim my strengths and release my fears.
Mid-way through the six month program I left the weekend feeling energized and bursting with forward momentum. One of the most powerful things for me about the program are the ways that each months workshop builds on the one before it, creating bonds with the other women in the class and a self learning path that is not always smooth and easy but always valuable. The Medicine Horse Ranch horses are helping me uncover the truths that I need to know in order to take the next steps forward in my life.

— Anne-Marie Flynn
Horse Sense for Women™ Participant 2009-2010

 
 

PUBLIC CLASSES:

HORSE SENSE FOR WOMEN™

Enrolling now for April 2010

HORSE SENSE FOR WOMEN™
Curriculum (pdf)

Open to women of all ages who want to rediscover and reawaken themselves to being 'on purpose' in their lives

PROGRAM DATES: BEGINNING APRIL 2010- ENROLLING NOW

* April 17-18
* May 22-23
* June 19-20
* July17-18
* August 21-22
* September 11-12
Space is limited to 8 women!

Call the ranch 707-878-2440 or
Email: Alyssa for curriculum
discussion and enrollment details

Space is limited!

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Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth's
Rite of Passage?

His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it.

He cannot cry out for help to anyone. Once he survives the night, he is a MAN. He cannot tell the other boys of this experience, because each lad must come into manhood on his own.

The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely be all around him. Maybe even some human might do him harm.

The wind blew the grass and earth, and shook his stump, but he sat stoically, never removing the blindfold. It would be the only way he could become a man!

Finally, after a horrific night the sun appeared and he removed his blindfold.

Itwas then that he discovered his Father sitting on the stump next to him He had been at watch the entire night, protecting His son from harm. We, too, are never alone.

Even when we don't know it, the Spirit is watching over us, sitting on the stump beside us. When trouble comes, all we have to do is reach out to Him.

     
 
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