A multiple-day retreat can help you learn how to quiet your mind, reconnect to your senses – engaging in each moment. Truly experience a distinct freedom from fear, reconnect to your true self, feel empowered and renewed, and go back into the world transformed. Whether searching for personal development and healing, or working towards leadership and team building goals, you will experience change.
What Happens at a Retreat?
Our experienced and passionate guides journey alongside participants as they settle into a beautiful natural setting. We are all committed to reintroducing the healing power of the outdoors to every human on this journey, firmly grounding each with mindfulness work, meditation, breath work, expressive art, mindful movement and time spent with our equine partners. Throughout each day intentional time is spent together and separately, experiencing rhythm and regaining a felt sense of self and purpose. Truly the time spent together is transformational.
Why Horses?
Horses do not lie. Their feedback is instantaneous and authentic, in a beautiful peaceful and safe atmosphere, free of the sounds of civilization. Once our participants experience what true connection feels like, their lives are transformed.
Our retreats are all professionally facilitated by well-trained and experienced compassionate experts who are able to provide participants a truly life-changing experience. Each workshop is unique!
Currently offering retreats with horses both in Western Colorado and the Hill Country of Texas.
***No experience is expected or required with horses; we do not ride the horses, but work in relationship with them on the ground. (Riding is offered as an optional activity during retreat “free time”)
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2024 Offerings
EquiSomatic Experience
April 12-14, 2024
Bertram, Texas
Kelly Jones and Dr. Mary Traverse
Introducing the EquiSomatic Method of healing. With a groundbreaking combination of Network care and equine-assisted learning, we create life-changing transformations in nervous system regulation, somatic awareness, and mindful embodiment. Read the latest testimonial.
Included this time will be Soulshine Rhythm Experience – an incredible healing drum circle! Soulshine interactive rhythm programs are designed to break down barriers, reignite alignment and inspire strong connection!
Joy of Connection
This wellness retreat weekend experience offers five customized Network sessions with Dr. Mary, blended with Kelly’s five transformational mindfulness and somatic experiences with horses, gently and beautifully supporting each participant by invigorating the senses and the central nervous system, creating calm awareness while disrupting embedded mental, physical, and spiritual patterns in order to awaken vitality, resilience, and dynamic authenticity.
In the powerful energetic presence of horses, we seek to heal and transform lives by transforming the current operating principles of mind, body, and spirit. We release limiting patterns of trauma, beliefs, and physical resistance. and powerfully create a lived experience of calm embodiment, self-awareness, and resilience.
“This weekend with Mary and Kelly was extraordinaire, combining deep
knowledge of horse interaction with improving the nervous system so that
each modality increased the effectiveness of the other. Thank you Kelly
and Mary for a memorable weekend.” —MH
“The retreat was an amazing weekend full of activities and information
designed for physical and mental health and improvement. My personal
favorite was the process of using the senses of hearing sight, touch and
smell to develop a connection with the earth and energize the body and
calm the mind.” -—TD
***No experience is expected or required with horses; we do not ride the horses, but work in relationship with them on the ground. (Riding is offered as an optional activity during retreat “free time”)
The Great Escape: An Exclusive Women’s Wellness Retreat
Summer 2024
Driftwood, Texas
Kelly Jones and Sandra Dee Robinson
The role of a leader has shifted in the recent times of uncertainty and change. Adjusting to so many “new normals” and remaining forward-focused for others can seem more personally draining than ever. It may seem challenging to take the time to rejuvenate when it sometimes feels hard to take the time to breathe in a busy day.
A woman business owner recently said to me, “I sometimes feel guilty for needing some space.”
If that sounds familiar at all, we are so glad that you are reading this right now.
This is an opportunity to make that time, take that space for a personal reset so that your future decisions and conversations come from your most powerful and centered place.
No experience is expected or required with horses; we do not ride the horses, but work in relationship with them on the ground. (Riding is offered as an optional activity during retreat “free time”)
Trailblazers Executive Leadership Retreat
May 2-4, 2024
Kelly Jones, Sandra Dee Robinson and Jeffrey Hayzlette
High Country Guest Ranch Black Hills of South Dakota
Join a select group of ambitious professionals for an immersive and spiritual experience that seamlessly blends strategic collaboration, innovative thinking, and the rustic charm of the Wild West, forging connections that will shape your success against the backdrop of of nature’s majesty on a working horse ranch in the shadow of the Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse Monuments. . .showing you that things can be bigger!
BHAVA Retreat
July 2024
Western Colorado TBD
Kelly Jones and Hannah Tollefson
BHAVA is a Sanskrit noun describing a state of vitality, wellness, and inner peace. BHAVA Retreats offer a healing space and mindful practices that allow you to go deep within and reconnect to your true self so you can experience profound healing and true transformation. We offer this experience to those in the healing professions, nurses, doctors, mental health professionals and natural healers.
Find your inner sense of peace and safety during an intimate weekend retreat with experienced supportive facilitators, horses, nature, and art. Rediscover your passion and strength to joyfully and intentionally continue to provide healing services to humans on this beautiful planet.
During this weekend, set out in nature, with horses, you will experience mindful movement, equine-assisted learning, expressive art, mindful nutritious meals, have plenty of free time and have the opportunity to participate in discovery discussions, opening up the opportunity to share grief, burnout, joys, struggles, accomplishments and dreams with one another.
It is vital to take time to retreat, recover, rest and feel renewed, in order to authentically care for yourself and others. Allow yourself the opportunity be taken care of…
No experience is expected or required with horses; we do not ride the horses, but work in relationship with them on the ground. (Riding is offered as an optional activity during retreat “free time”)
Life Purpose Wellness Retreat – Rediscover Joy and Purpose
A Gentle Walk Through Menopause
Summer 2024
Texas
Kelly Jones, Christine Szepesi and Becky Kelly
Menopause is here and what a wild ride! Our bodies and senses of identity are drastically impacted and all women are affected. It can feel like our bodies, minds and spirits are under attack! Let’s stop ignoring it, attempting to make it stop while feeling isolated, and get much needed support in a beautiful and safe way.
This retreat begins the journey to revealing your soul’s longing, and along the way learn some great tools to not just fast forward to the other side, but to spend some time noticing what we need along the way of this beautiful life change.
With so much uncertainty in our world in recent history, personal longing to create a life of purpose has never been stronger and this is your invitation to step into yours. We believe you are fully equipped to engage in the mission of your heart and intuition. After spending the first half of life creating an ego and performing roles, suddenly we realize, that is not enough. There is so much more.
This desire to pursue that intuitive desire to reconnect to our True Selves, may require more clarity, a dose of increased self-awareness, perhaps a liberation from previous beliefs and movement forward with pure intention.
We combine working with horses with personal coaching, mindfulness, somatic experiencing, bodywork, nutrition support, journaling and art to rediscover your unique gifts and get you into focused action. Feel empowered to own this new you!
No experience is expected or required with horses; we do not ride the horses, but work in relationship with them on the ground. (Riding is offered as an optional activity during retreat “free time”)
Unbridled Warriors
September 2024
Western Colorado
Kelly Jones
Many challenges in life leave us feeling stuck. Most of these revolve around life stages including marriage, divorce, parenting, career, illness, retirement, menopause, empty nesting, and trauma. It is necessary to recognize that within each of us is a warrior. That powerful purposeful soul given to us at birth, that was designed to lead us through our lives on this planet.
Yes, it is still there, and only through walking away from the busyness of the everyday, are we able to gain insight and perspective into how we reconnect to our power given to us by a mighty Creator, to be feminine, nurturing, protective, fierce, gentle, intelligent, creative and kind. We are the embodiment of love, and our lives are a constant movement towards union with God.
Within nature we find wonderous beauty, and it instills within us a sense of awe. Focusing on the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, within the unbelievable beauty of the Rocky Mountains, brings into our grasp, the ability we have within to experience vitality, wholeness, peace, joy and patience no matter the circumstances. “You know him because he is with you and he is in you!” (John 14:17)
Through a combination of mindful walking and exercise, nutritious food, silence, journaling, prayer, expressive art and time with horses, we will gently support you along the pathway of rest, resilience and renewal. Join us for the beautiful collaboration!
No experience is expected or required with horses; we do not ride the horses, but work in relationship with them on the ground. (Riding is offered as an optional activity during retreat “free time”)
Each Weekend Includes:
Mindful Movement
Equine Assisted Coaching
Art
Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner
Free Time – Optional Activities TBD
Rhythm
Circle Up Time
Fire Under the Stars
Local Winery Tour – Colorado Location
Accommodations and Meals – Great Awakening, BHAVA and Life Purpose in Colorado