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Considering the Horse, Mark Rashid Welcome! This is the place to get the most up to date info on Mark.

We will be making every effort to update our page as often as possible, so stop by often, and please tell your friends where we are!

For the New Year, why not join us online as we collaborate with our friends and horse industry colleagues on a wide rang...
17/12/2024

For the New Year, why not join us online as we collaborate with our friends and horse industry colleagues on a wide range of topics. You can either attend the live online event, or watch it for up to two weeks afterward.

We hope to see you there!

Mark Rashid: Considering The Horse

Listen to Mark’s most recent podcast here! Thank you Noëlle Floydand team for this opportunity. We had a great time gett...
03/12/2024

Listen to Mark’s most recent podcast here!

Thank you Noëlle Floyd
and team for this opportunity. We had a great time getting to know you and look forward to more conversations.

This episode was brought to you by Logan Coach Trailers, horse trailers built for today’s rider, and every mile ahead. Visit LoganCoach.com to see the differ...

💥 It’s happening tomorrow!Join us for Mark’s live course “Buying Horses: Steps and Key Considerations.” 🐴 🤩 This online ...
29/11/2024

💥 It’s happening tomorrow!

Join us for Mark’s live course
“Buying Horses: Steps and Key Considerations.” 🐴

🤩 This online course is geared for beginners through advanced horse people, and will be available to those who register for two weeks after it’s recorded.

Click on the link below to find out more!

Evaluating a potential purchase horse for soundness, temperament, physical issues, life experience, overall ability, various skills, etc.

🐴 Happy Dog Ranch has a great way to double your impact when you donate! See below for more information and a donation l...
26/11/2024

🐴 Happy Dog Ranch has a great way to double your impact when you donate! See below for more information and a donation link.

As many of you know, we are mostly finished with traveling to teach clinics. Instead, we are making Happy Dog Ranch our home base for all classes and clinics. We’d sure appreciate any support you could throw their way!

✨ Double Your Impact! ✨

Colorado’s biggest day of giving is Tuesday, December 10.
Happy Dog Ranch Horse Sanctuary is thrilled to share that we have a generous $50,000 matching donor. Now through December 31st, every gift you give is doubled, so your impact goes even further. Donate TODAY!

Donate directly on CO Gives: https://www.coloradogives.org/organization/Happydogranchhorsesanctuary/welcome

Donate on HDR's website: https://givebutter.com/happydogdonations

Featuring Mother/Son duo Dstara & Zeus! Sadly, we lost Dstara earlier this fall due to old age and colic complications, so come visit Zeus to help heal his grieving heart!

We visited the horses out on pasture today. This is the sight we were treated to when we unloaded the pony. 🤠
24/11/2024

We visited the horses out on pasture today. This is the sight we were treated to when we unloaded the pony. 🤠

Exciting news! Mark is kicking off his winter series of online events with his new course “Buying Horses: Steps and Key ...
16/11/2024

Exciting news! Mark is kicking off his winter series of online events with his new course “Buying Horses: Steps and Key Considerations.” In this 1.5 hour course, Mark will walk you through his personal approach to selecting horses, highlighting possible red flags that could signal future challenges. Whether you’re a beginner, intermediate, or advanced horse enthusiast, this course has something for everyone. Spots are limited, and you’ll have access to the recording for two weeks after the event, to revisit the material at your own pace. 🔗 in bio, from Mark’s website home page, click on “More” and “Events.” We hope to see you there!

Evaluating a potential purchase horse for soundness, temperament, physical issues, life experience, overall ability, various skills, etc.

We have some exciting announcements about our new online courses coming up in November and December, along with a ton of...
11/11/2024

We have some exciting announcements about our new online courses coming up in November and December, along with a ton of online collaborations in January. Keep an eye on our socials, or go to our website and sign up for our monthly newsletter! 🔗 in bio.

04/09/2024

My friends DrClayton Sullwold and Petra Sullwold are in the middle of navigating our expensive healthcare system to support Petra's healing from an accident that shattered both her wrists. They are both self-employed chiropractors for horses and people, and two humans who are generous, kind, and a beautiful part of Mark Rashid's and I's world. If you feel called to donate, here's the link. If you feel called to send your love and prayers to them, that would also be appreciated.

Hello California!Did you know that Mark Rashid and Jim Masterson will be teaching their popular clinic, “Considering the...
31/07/2024

Hello California!
Did you know that Mark Rashid and Jim Masterson will be teaching their popular clinic, “Considering the Horse: Mind and Body” in your neck of the woods? It’s happening October 11-13, 2024 in Arroyo Grande, CA.

This clinic is super auditor friendly, and you’ll have the opportunity to watch two world-renowned equine clinicians collaborate to provide physical relief and education to horses and their riders.

Go to our host Anita Parra’s website for more information. We hope to see you there!
https://bighorselove.com/

Love John Denver’s music? If you haven’t heard Cowboy Brad, Mark Rashid, and the rest of this amazing band play it, now’...
27/07/2024

Love John Denver’s music? If you haven’t heard Cowboy Brad, Mark Rashid, and the rest of this amazing band play it, now’s your chance!

Tomorrow night at 6 pm MST the music will begin. This is a major fundraiser for Happy Dog Ranch and all proceeds from this live stream go to the horses and animals in their care. It’s a great cause, and great music, for $20.00.

Use the link below to purchase your livestream ticket. 🎶 🎵 🎶

Watch live, replay or highlights of this event on Sporfie

It’s a wrap! Thank you to  , Jim Masterson, and  for an amazing five days of educational and fun clinics!
14/07/2024

It’s a wrap! Thank you to , Jim Masterson, and for an amazing five days of educational and fun clinics!

July means cool collaborations time at Happy Dog Ranch in Sedalia, Colorado!TL;DRJim Masterson and Mark:July 9-11, 2024J...
26/06/2024

July means cool collaborations time at Happy Dog Ranch in Sedalia, Colorado!

TL;DR
Jim Masterson and Mark:
July 9-11, 2024

Jim Masterson, Dr. Steve Peters, and Mark
July 12-14, 2024

Dr. Steve Peters and Mark
ADVANCED Horse brain course
July 16/17, 2024

Mark will participate in three exciting collaborative clinics. The first is with Jim Masterson of The Masterson Method, Integrated Equine Performance Bodywork. This three-day clinic features evaluations by both Jim and Mark, a one-on-one lesson with Mark, and the opportunity to observe Jim at work. Auditors and riders alike love this clinic for its wealth of information.

Immediately after that clinic, we enhance the learning experience by including Dr. Steve Peters in our popular introductory horse brain clinic, "Your Horse's Brain: A User's Manual." Bring a big notebook and plenty of questions, as this clinic combines brain science with horse training and equine bodywork. Dr. Peters is an internationally known scientist and horseman, and the coauthor of Evidence-Based Horsemanship. Every year he adds new information to these lectures.

And just when you thought it couldn't get any better, we're offering an ADVANCED Horse Brain course with Dr. Peters and Mark for the second time this year. The mornings are dedicated to classroom sessions, diving deeper into the topics covered in the introductory horse brain course. In the afternoons, Dr. Peters and Mark demonstrate how horse brain science can be practically applied to working with horses. This is a course you won't want to miss!

Interested in signing up for one or all of these? Please reach out to our excellent hosts at Happy Dog Ranch by emailing:
[email protected]

Just in time for summer! This design is dedicated to Mark's first and internationally best-selling book. Grab yours toda...
03/06/2024

Just in time for summer! This design is dedicated to Mark's first and internationally best-selling book. Grab yours today - they ship on June 16th!

Grab your limited edition Considering The Horse merchandise before the campaign closes. Featuring Dark Heather Grey Premium Unisex Tees, professionally printed in the USA.

We have a few spots open and would love to see you for our 10 Day intensive (lovingly dubbed “Softness Bootcamp” by our ...
24/05/2024

We have a few spots open and would love to see you for our 10 Day intensive (lovingly dubbed “Softness Bootcamp” by our friend Hans-Michael Schöbinger).

We are incredibly honored to be a part of the amazing  team. Come see us this summer at their new location in Sedalia! W...
18/04/2024

We are incredibly honored to be a part of the amazing team. Come see us this summer at their new location in Sedalia! We have a gigantic outdoor arena, a huge indoor arena, a classroom, catered breakfasts and lunches, places to stay on site, loads of room for your trailer and horses, and/or a Happy Dog horse for you to borrow. There’s so much goodness here, and we’re very excited to begin our Happy Dog Ranch season. For more information ✍🏽 [email protected]

Are we at the beach?! No, this is the new outdoor arena at the new Happy Dog Ranch Horse Sanctuary at Jarre Creek. We ar...
17/04/2024

Are we at the beach?! No, this is the new outdoor arena at the new Happy Dog Ranch Horse Sanctuary at Jarre Creek. We are looking forward to a lot of learning and fun this summer-you can check out our clinic schedule at markrashid.com

We've known Dr. Rosalie Cooper- Chase for a while now, and really enjoyed her book. Congratulations on the re-release an...
08/04/2024

We've known Dr. Rosalie Cooper- Chase for a while now, and really enjoyed her book. Congratulations on the re-release and updated edition, Tom Moates!

"Close Encounters of the Bovine, Recollections of a Rural Veterinarian" is released and shipping, and folks are starting to get their copies! Many thanks to horsemanship clinican Mark Rashid (Considering the Horse, Mark Rashid) for contributing an amazing foreword, and I am delighted to see this book back in print--it's a favorite of mine--with a whole new layout, new cover designed by Emily Kitching of Eclectic Horseman Magazine, and some new drawings by the author Rosalie Cooper-Chase, DVM!

To order a copy just click this Paypal link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=JYUG87UUZZRNN

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Who We Are

Mark Rashid is an internationally known author and horseman known for his ability to understand the horse’s point of view and solve difficult problems with communication rather than force. He began working with horses at age ten, when he met the “old man,” who taught him to work with horses, not against them, and to listen to what the horse is trying to say. Mark’s clinics center on one-on-one work with horse and rider and are immensely popular with people around the world

When Mark decided to study the martial art of aikido as a way to improve his horsemanship, he brought the same quiet determination to it that he exhibits in his work with horses. After years of practice, he has earned a second-degree black belt in Yoshinkan aikido and now teaches the “way of harmony” in the local dojo.

Mark worked full time on ranches for many years gathering herds, managing stock, and training horses. When time permits, he still enjoys working on ranches near his home in Estes Park, Colorado as well as playing guitar professionally with his friends.

Mark has been a guest on NPR’s The Horse Show and was featured on the Nature series on PBS. He is the author of fourteen books including: Considering the Horse, Horses Never Lie, Life Lessons from a Ranch Horse, Horsemanship Through Life, Whole Heart, Whole Horse, Journey to Softness, and Finding The Missed Path, as well as a novel, Out of the Wild. He also has two music CD’s: Song of the Prairie and Making Good Time, recorded with his good friend Brad Fitch.