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For the first time in the history of meditation studies, scientists have discovered something profound happening inside someone’s body when a simple formula of brain and heart coherence is practiced.
Aries and Nico are now at Medicine Horse on the Front Range...they both are doing great!
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Another special girl has her forever home!
Yay, we'll miss this beautiful girl but we are so pleased she has a forever home!
ADOPTION #42
It can't get better than this! We are on a roll finding our horses "Homes for the Holidays"! Ms. Pebbles has won the heart of another couple! Thanks to Summit Valley Ranch and Kolt Ecoffey for this wouldn't happen without your help! Congratulations to Peebles and her new found family!
It's giving Tuesday. Everything you give goes towards funding programs and helping horses like Pebbles..
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Sunday Funday at the Thrift store. We change our inventory nearly every day so come and check out what new bargains we have in store! 252 Warren Ave, Silverthorne, open 10am till 5.30pm.
Donations accepted 11am till 2pm, and we advise calling first, 970 409 2565 , to check we have space to take your donations.
Thank you!
We are grateful to everyone who donates to, shops at or gives their time to ReSaddled Thrift store. You all support a small local business as well as the horses and programs of Summit Valley Horse Center.
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Happy Thanksgiving from your Summit Valley Horse Center family!
We are so grateful to all of you for being a part of this community.
Thank you for your continued support and dedication
Sky has been adopted! No more details as yet but a great big THANK YOU to all the volunteers who helped with her rehabilitation and training.
We miss handsome Luca!
Do you get super dizzy when lunging your horse?
Tips to keep your head on straight while lunging!
👀 Don't just stare at your horse!
🧍 Your body positioning is more important than the focus of your eyes when guiding the horse
🔀 Get good at switching directions!
🐌 Start out slow. If you can get them to start out at a walk it'll be easier to get used to it than if you're turning while they trot or canter around you
⚪️ Bigger circles = better for you! Get your horse to use up more space so that you're not just spinning in a tiny circle
Hope these tips help!
Do you have any other secrets to avoiding the dizzies?
Pebbles participated in some additional training back at Next Step Horse Resuce. Look how our shy girl has blossomed! So proud of her and of all the volunteers who have helped her to this point.
Many have you have seen from the Summit Daily article on Sunday 30 October, we are evolving and growing as an organization in several exciting ways. As a symbol of that change, we have renamed ourselves Summit Valley Horse Center and anticipate rebranding ourselves in other ways over the coming weeks.
The winter months will be a time for us to continue to refine our plans for 2023 and beyond, and your voice and support will be an important part of shaping that future. How?
First, through several different methods, we plan to reach out to our community to more deeply understand the needs, perspectives, and ideas that individuals and our non-profit partners have to help us better serve the community. This will inform how we shape our programs and the ways we interface with the community going forward. Your input in this process will be essential.
Next, as a key member of our volunteer community, we invite you to help celebrate our transition and evolution by coming to our Volunteer Party Dec. 5, The Yacht Club, 367 Flyline Drive, Silverthorne from 5.30pm till 8.00pm. Sign up to let us know you’re coming, and bring a dish to share, we will supply beer, wine, and soft drinks. We anticipate this will also be a time to answer your questions and share updates with open dialog.
Finally, we ask for your patience and understanding as we rethink who we are and want to become. Communication may be a little choppy, the website will likely go down as we create a new one, and there may be an air of uncertainty as we thoughtfully imagine our future. Please hang in there with us!
That said, here’s what we know for sure about 2023:
We will continue to need your ongoing dedication and support as a organization and ranch that connects people and horses – people helping horses helping people
Our herd will likely shift to include both rescue horses and some more reliable, immediately rideable horses.
We will expand our programming, and experiment with things we haven’t done before.
We will be tailoring some of our programs to more precisely meet our partners needs and time scales.
We will be continuing the wildly popular Horsemanship program where individuals can learn natural horsemanship skills working alongside experienced trainers.
We want to offer more programs for kids 4-17 where they can work with big horses and gain horse skills as well as self-esteem and confidence. But don’t worry - the minis will still be around for Meet the Minis and hands on love!
We hope to expand our membership to include people that want to come out to the Ranch and enjoy the beautiful 80 acres but who do not want to be hands on with the horses. These volunteers will to be able to come and help with maintaining and developing the facilities, potentially building a trail system, expanding the obstacle courses and more!
Horse sponsorship will be evolving so that sponsors have more hands on time with their horses, and we hope to have more rideable horses from the beginning of the season so that we can offer more riding lessons to our volunteers.
We need your continued support at ReSaddled Thrift store, you can donate to, volunteer at, shop at and recommend to your friends; 252 Warren Ave, Silverthorne, open 10am till 5.30pm every day!
With deepest appreciation from all of us for everything you do to support us,
Winter is a great time to recharge and this season will be full of exciting changes for us!
We look forward to sharing all the updates as they come along. In the meantime, as always, thank you for being here and supporting us.
We love our community and are so grateful to have you all here!
Happy Halloween from Chip & Dale! 🎃
Best Thrift store in Summit according to Summit Daily Readers! Thank you for your votes and thanks to the amazing staff and volunteers!
So proud of the amazing staff and volunteers of ReSaddled, we could not operate without you!
The Summit Daily's Best of Summit final voting is open! Let us know who you think has gone above and beyond over the last year to earn recognition in this year’s Best of Summit reader's choice awards. Hurry, voting ends September 1.
We wish we had the horses up here so we could dress them up in a spooktacular costume but we can't wait to see your costumes this weekend! 👻🎃🦄
Have a safe and fun holiday weekend!
Horses are smart, beautiful, powerful creatures. We're lucky to have them in our lives!
When working with horses, it's extremely important to be able to tap into an understanding of the world they live in.
Despite their size, horses are still prey animals. They're hardwired for survival and fight or flight is very real in nature.
Here are a few key things to keep in mind!
👻 What's scary to them might not look like anything to us
🤪 They act first, think second
😔 A scared horse isn't "trying to be bad". Your job as the human is to be patient and use your noggin
Remember, you're the one with the ability to plan ahead, think critically, and exert patience in challenging moments.
Are you missing your Blue River Horse Center family?
Come shop or volunteer at
We can always use some extra hands and we constantly get awesome new stuff in!
252 Warren Ave, Silverthorne, open 10am till 5.30pm every day
Come check it out!
Interested in working at the Thrift store?? We are looking for a self motivated individual who can run the store on Monday's and Tuesdays, or either day on a consistent basis. You will have responsibility for pricing donations , selling, sorting, maintaining the store, managing volunteers, greeting customers and more! This is a fastmoving role that needs someone who will enjoy a retail environment, likes dealing with people and has an eye for a good donation! Store hours are 10am till 5.30pm and you will need to be earlier to open up and stay to ensure the store is as tidy as possible for the next day, so usually 9.30 till 6pm.
Hourly wage starts at $20 with bonuses based upon daily sales. Please email your details and why you are interested to [email protected]
Picture of Sky for your attention!
Bridles are pretty cool when you think about it. You can use some pieces of leather to communicate with a horse! But did you know that there are different types?
There's the one most people think of with a bit in the horse's mouth, but there are other options too!
We prefer bridles that don't have a bit, called sidepulls. There's still a band over the nose and reins back to the rider, but nothing in the horse's mouth.
If you really want to get wild, some people forego the bridle concept altogether and just use a rope around their horse's neck to communicate!
And some take it a step further even and ride without any kind of rope!
I think we'll stick with our sidepull method with the rescues but it's pretty wild to see how deep the bond between horse and rider goes.
What are your favorite tools to communicate with your horse?
Interested in working at the Thrift store?? We are looking for a self motivated individual who can run the store on Monday's and Tuesdays. You will have responsibility for pricing donations , selling, sorting, maintaining the store, managing volunteers, greeting customers and more! This is a fastmoving role that needs someone who will enjoy a retail environment, likes dealing with people and has an eye for a good donation! Store hours are 10am till 5.30pm and you will need to be earlier to open up and stay to ensure the store is as tidy as possible for the next day, so usually 9.30 till 6pm.
Hourly wage of $20 and potential bonuses based upon daily sales. Please email your details and why you are interested to [email protected]
Ranch winterization!
Saturday, October 22 from 11am we will be winterizing the ranch, so cleaning up and ensuring tack and equipment will be safe once the winter comes; come along and help! Sign up at www.blueriverhorsecenter.org/calendar
You! Hey you! Join us for ranch winterization this Saturday!
October 22 at 11am!
We’ll be getting the ranch all set for winter, cleaning up, ensuring tack and equipment will be safe once the winter comes, and getting to see everyone’s smiling faces again!
Come along and help! Sign up through the link in our bio 🥰
348 Jade Road
Silverthorne, CO
80435
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Pebbles participated in some additional training back at Next Step Horse Resuce. Look how our shy girl has blossomed! So proud of her and of all the volunteers who have helped her to this point.
Sweet memories from an incredible season with these special friends ❤️ We’re grateful for each moment with them and all the progress they’ve each made this year. Thank you all for being on this journey with us!
The air is crisp and the seasons are changing in the mountains 🍂🏔 We love seeing different sides of the horses’ personalities coming out! 🐴 Who have you seen a personality change with now that we have colder weather?
Want to volunteer but aren't comfortable with horses quite yet? 👀 Come check out one of our Watch + Learn sessions! Lizzie and Morgan will do a run through of working with some of the horses and all you have to do is watch! 🤍 We love these classes because there's so much to be learned from observing and it's a great starting point if you don't have a background with horses. 🐴 They're also great if you're familiar with horses but not sure how we do things with these rescues. 🗓 Check out the Calendar link on our website to see when our next class is and get signed up!
Last week we expanded some of our round pens to make them more usable for training. But what do we do in the round pens?? Great question! Round pens are a great tool to help us communicate with the horses in a way that they understand. We’re basing this training on how horses naturally interact with each other. The leader moves the other horses’ feet through body language, kicking, biting, or whatever other means necessary. We can’t compete physically with a horse in a big open space though, so we have to be smarter. In the round pen, we have the advantage and can get the horse to work by walking, trotting, or cantering around the edge of the pen. Horses are actually pretty lazy and would rather just stand than work like that, so we reinforce behaviors we want, like spending time with us. If they don’t want to hang out, that’s fine, we won’t force them. But if they’re not standing with us then they have to work. The horses slowly start learning that we’re really not so bad after all and that’s a foundation we can then build on. Round pens give us a safe space to introduce saddles, scary objects, and all sorts of other stimuli. The goal is always to get the horse to realize that we are their safe space and life is easy when they hang out quietly with us. Want to see this all in action? Come to a watch and learn! Head to the volunteer calendar on our website to get signed up.
Today was a good day! 9 horses being ridden at the Ranch; all was calm, everyone, humans included, behaved well, the horses got some good exercise and the sun shone for us! Short video of Luca, Fancy and Raven with Morgan supervising from Edgar!
Today was a good day! 9 horses being ridden at the Ranch; all was calm, everyone, humans included, behaved well, the horses got some good exercise and the sun shone for us! Short video of Luca, Fancy and Raven with Morgan supervising from Edgar!
Every year we work hard to find our rescues their forever homes. They’ve been working hard too getting ready for their future family and can’t wait to meet you! Come get to know our current adoptable horses by sending us a DM or reaching out over email 🤍
Walking out to the grass! www.blueriverhorsecenter.org
One of our lovely volunteers working with Raven, a foster horse. Luckily for Pete she is not up for adoption otherwise he could be making his current horse jealous. Check out our adoptable horses https://www.blueriverhorsecenter.org/about-brhc/meet-our-horses
Keystone Science School horse camp day 3, riding! We managed to get a short ride in for everyone before the thunder and lightning came along. Blondie was such a good girl giving her rider a great experience.
Edgar and his cart, trying out the rig in a trot! We hope to be able to offer cart rides around the property once we ensure everything is safe! Stay tuned...
We all know that Edgar is completely adorable, but he just became even better! We dug out his cart and harness, figured out how to put it together and this is the result! We still need to do some work on both the harness and the wheels but Edgar was a little superstar!
Trying the new obstacle course for the first time! Raven was a star! Many thanks again to Alpine Lumber for the gift of the lumber and to the numerous volunteers who helped to put it all together. And to Board Chair, Craig for spearheading this initiative.
One of todays' new volunteers learning how to lead 2 horses with confidence! Great work. To sign up for classes go to www.blueriverhorsecenter.org Coming up are a Ranch maintenance day, Advanced volunteer classes, helping at a Volunteer day, minis classes, the Golf Tournament and more!
2 of the horses (and volunteers) in action! Mandy and Fancy strutting their stuff!
Last year Tilly (the white one) was a handful, now she is a little prancing pony who seems to be having fun! She is available for adoption via our partners Next Step Horse Rescue; she is around 10, not broke to ride as yet although she has had a rider for a few seconds and last year was wearing tack. She has a way to go but is developing into a good little horse.
4 hours can transform your life. When this volunteer arrived she said she was a tad scared of horses...now look at her! Sign up for New Volunteer Orientation at www.blueriverhorsecenter.org/calendar
Big horses and volunteers with big hearts! May 14 And we know some of these horses are too skinny, we are feeding them up!
We acknowledge the intrinsic value of horses as conscious beings in our world. Without them, the world would be much diminished. Horses can teach us what it means to be an integral part of this world. Through them, we can learn compassion, love, and respect for our world, its creatures, and its natural beauty. For over 25 years John Longhill has taught hundreds of classes with participants and volunteers spending hours in this natural environment working with and for the horses. Each person leaves with a new awareness of his or her strengths, leadership abilities and, perhaps, obstacles to personal growth. Both children and adults face their own challenges, be they emotional, physical, cognitive or spiritual. They experience a sense of personal strength and responsibility while interacting with the horses and leave with the ability to teach others a new respect for our world and its inhabitants. The Center is located in the Lower Blue River Valley on 300 beautiful acres of Colorado ranch land, sustained by irrigation water from the Lower Blue River where hay is harvested to provide forage for our horses. The ReSaddled Thrift Store in Silverthorne, CO is the main funding source for the horses, programs and ranch.
