BEGINNERS WELCOME ! Classes have begun! Every Tuesday from 7:00 – 8:00 PM This Accessible Yoga Class is Specifically Designed for Horse Enthusiasts Across Disciplines with All Levels of Yoga Experience. YOGA IN A HAYLOFT? Practice yoga to the sounds of munching horses an ... Continue Reading
At first glance, yoga on horseback may seem like an impossible and potentially unsafe merging of opposites. However, it is important to consider some of the core principles of yoga, for it is in these principles that what truly unifies riding and yoga can be found. Yoga is n ... Continue Reading
Sugar, a usually grumpy horse, transformed throughout the week into a pleasant, happy mare! From my blog for Sanborn Western Camps. After such a successful first Horse Yoga Long Trip, I could not imagine it getting even better. With a new group of 9 campers, two staff and a total ... Continue Reading
A post for the Sanbon Western Camps Blog. By far the most gratifying part of my third summer at Sanborn has been the opportunity I’ve been offered to teach girls yoga on (and off) horses. On our four-day pack trip, seven ladies and two counselors joined me in a quest to fin ... Continue Reading
I decided to move to Chicago for school because of the promise of escape from my mediocre Midwestern upbringing. If I was going to be a writer, I needed to “experience Culture;” I needed to carve a new identity for myself that was more interesting, less average than my bori ... Continue Reading
I did chores this morning at the barn in my pajamas–fairly certain that after I filled water buckets, pulled our herd of 10 horses out of turnout to feed them, let them back in, doctored a few wounds and fed the goats, I would head home to my cabin and crawl back into bed. ... Continue Reading
“Horses help overcivilized people reconnect with the wisdom and rhythms of the natural world.” —Linda Kohanov Pete, my wintertime project horse, tried out his new bridle today. Before deciding to work as a wrangler at Sanborn, I hadn’t been on a horse in over four ye ... Continue Reading