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.
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
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.
