Double Rocking R

02/10/2023

Unfortunately, due to major farm projects and new job schedules, Double Rocking R will NOT be holding Easter pony rides this 2023 Easter. we may look at postponing/rescheduling the event later in the year or for 2024. Sorry for any inconvenience. or disappointment. 

09/08/2022

07/23/2022

This was the challenge for my student today. Not only did it put her hands in the right place, and organized her arms in a way that I could have never explained it better, it gave her a real feeling of feeling the bit connected to her ring fingers.

07/16/2022

05/20/2022

Most of the lesson ponies got baths today, to rid of that winter dirt 💕🦄

04/24/2022

It’s officially horsin’ season here at the barn!

04/10/2022

04/10/2022

Feel free to steal any of the pictures that you want! Tag yourself too if you’d like! We’re so thankful to have seen you all today and hope for a wonderful turnout again next year 🦄

04/10/2022

We got Big Bertha up and running today! Hopefully she’ll help us fight some of the cold off!

03/19/2022

We’re inviting the community again to have the opportunity to share our love with our horses!
Remember anyone under the age of 18 is legally required to wear a helmet while riding a horse.

☀️☀️we are making a slight change! We’d like to see if we can get people coming to register on our scheduling link so we can know who is coming when! Please let us know when and how many are coming in your group by scheduling through this link : choose the Easter egg option under Jacqui or Amanda’s names! Feel free to message use with questions! https://www.vagaro.com/doublerockingr ☀️☀️

02/12/2022

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01/02/2022

Ring in the new year with the 133rd Rose Parade presented by Honda! Southern California’s annual Jan. 1 holiday tradition returned after being canceled last year because of the coronavirus pa…

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12/19/2021

Ramona (a Christmas story)
It was almost Christmas and I was 5 years old.
My parents had divorced and we were living in an old house off a side street close to downtown Cottonwood.
In all the turmoil I became very withdrawn and recall missing the ranch and having horses around.
For some reason I asked God to give me a donkey for Christmas… I even knew where I would keep him…the old wooden lean-to carport behind the house was empty and I decided it would be the perfect place for my gift. I didn’t tell anyone except God what I wanted and with childlike faith I knew He would answer my prayer.
Early Christmas morning I got up and quietly snuck outside into the cool morning air, certain that a donkey would be waiting to greet me….the carport was empty. I searched for a few minutes and then slowly walked back inside the house a little sad and a lot confused.
It wasn’t long before the old house caught fire in the middle of the night. We made it out through a window and it wasn’t long before the authorities got involved and we were all taken from the home.
The next Christmas there were only 2 of us (out of 6) still together and we were living with my dad off a dirt road away from the busyness of town.
Christmas morning arrived and my dad had arranged a scavenger type hunt with each note leading you to the next one.
The last note said “go into the back corral and your gift will have a red ribbon on it”.
Running to the corral I saw a beautiful donkey eating the last few inches of what had been a red ribbon. Her name was Ramona and for the next year she carried me everywhere I asked her to.
About a year later I was sent to the ranch and farm with my grandparents where we had a dozen horses, cattle and miles of countryside, but Ramona will always have a special place in my heart. She was my first answer to prayer and the beginning of a journey loving and training animals and knowing that God hears our prayers even when we think He has forgotten us.

Photo and Story is By Randy Helm . If you don't know who Randy is check him out he runs the Mustang program with Inmates at the Florence Prison In Az. Quite and Incredible Person
Just a new note about Randy since I love this story and repost it every year Randy retired from the prison but now continues his Cowboy Ministry helping and changing lives.

12/18/2021

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image from blabster.com

11/25/2021

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11/08/2021

Recent studies conducted by the Institute of Heart-Math provide a clue to explain the two-way ′′ healing ′′ that occurs when we're close to horses. According to researchers, the heart has an electromagnetic field larger than the brain: a magnetometer can measure the energy field of the heart that radiates from 2.4 meters to 3 meters around the human body. While this is certainly significant, perhaps more impressive than the electromagnetic field projected by the heart of a horse is five times larger than that of a human being (imagine an electromagnetic sphere around the horse) and it can influence straight into our own heart rate.

Horses are also likely to have what science has identified as a ′′ coherent ′′ heart rate (heart rate pattern) that explains why we can ′′ feel better ′′ when we're close to them. Studies have found a coherent heart pattern or HRV to be a solid measure of well-being and consistent with emotional states of calm and joy-that is, we exhibit such patterns when we feel positive emotions.

A coherent heart pattern is indicative of a system that can recover and adapt to stressful situations very efficiently. Many times, we just need to be in the presence of horses to feel a sense of well-being and peace. In fact, research shows that people experience many physiological benefits by interacting with horses, including lower blood pressure and heart rate, higher beta-endorphins (neurotransmitters acting as pain suppressors), decreased stress levels, decreased feelings of anger, hostility, tension and anxiety, better social working; and greater feelings of empowerment, confidence, patience and self-efficacy ".

Pintura author: Svatava Hueberová