Shaking Wind Ranch
Classes & Workshops
This fall - winter season, while we are focussing on sanctuary and eco-educational initiatives, we will not have a selection of offerings until spring, 2011
Check back for our 2011 Schedule
for more information go to: www.shakingwindranch.com
to register call: 505-466-3240 or e-mail: equineashram at gmail.com
Transitioning Wild Horses To Domestication
Dramatic photographs of wild horses running and fighting discourage adoptions and lead people to incorrectly presume that mustangs are inherently violent or dangerous. Come and meet some newly adopted wild horses. Hear their stories and learn about their progress. Learn how facility design, care, and handling help the horses become acclimated to a domestic environment. Thousands of beautiful, cooperative, and willing American Mustangs live in holding pens at BLM facilities, awaiting adoption. Many are gentle enough to halter and lead away. The BLM and other mustang support organizations now offer incentives for New Mexico residents. Your mustang may be eligible for 90 days of professional training at no cost to you. Other incentive programs include a BLM issued $500.00 rebate at the end the your first year. Discover the true nature and spirit of the wild horse! Shaking Wind Ranch, Santa Fe
Equine Alliance Team Training Level I : Enhancing the Equine Alliance Through Animal Communication
Two Day Workshop 9:00am - 4:30pm
Horses are prey animals. They are natural collaborators for whom cooperation and clearly defined leadership within the herd insures safety and survival. The Equine Alliance Team Method is a system for building highly effective horse- human relationships that improve performance and enjoyment for both horse and human. The Equine Alliance Team Method explores human leadership without dominance and develops trusting collaboration without force. This allows the horse to fully engage in a willing alliance with a human in the role of a cooperative, intelligent partner. You will:
• Learn to redirect inappropriate or undesirable behaviors
• Learn to focus and quiet your mind so your horse can relax and receive clear direction
• Enjoy exercises and visualizations, learn to soften your gaze, and learn to open your heart for increased receptivity to horses
• Encourage awareness, understanding and trust in your horse
• Utilize your own natural intuitive abilities to listen to and speak with your horse
• Develop a deeper appreciation of your horse’s character, personality, abilities and gifts
• Learn skills to help your horse improve his/her attitude, cooperation and performance ability
This two-day course is designed to enhance non-violent communication skills and improve the effectiveness of the training methods that you currently use. You will practice hearing and speaking to your horse(s) and learn from demonstrations on how you can utilize intuited information to help improve your horses’ attitude, performance, athletic ability, behavior and willingness. Handling techniques that support clear communication and safe interaction will be demonstrated and you will leave the workshop prepared to hone your new skills towards developing a better and more pleasurable horse-human partnership. Bring paper and a clipboard w/pen, a closed container of water (refills available), bag lunch, photos of your horse or animal family. Please come fragrance free.
Natural Feeding & Holistic Horse Care
Confused about selecting the best hay and supplements for your horse? Explore hay samples and learn about small acreage-natural horse keeping with instructors Alicia Nation and Luis Romero. Ag instructor and hay expert, Luis Romero will discuss quality, types of grasses/forage, climate and regional influences, and discuss laboratory analyses relative to food value in different hay and forage. Find out how natural supplements and natural horse-keeping build a strong immune system and maintain digestive health. The course will address colic prevention, causes and issues regarding medical intervention including surgery, and natural vs. medical treatments to promote digestive health and longevity. Learn how natural feed protocols to maintain optimum health, correct weight and conditioning and add years to your horse’s life. This class provides practical information to support a natural feeding and care program to keep your horse active, healthy, fit and in optimum condition. Shaking Wind Ranch, Santa Fe
Care and Feeding of the Older Horse
Weight loss and poor body condition are often attributed to the process of aging. In reality, this loss of condition is usually a function of slow starvation when nutritional protocols fall short of meeting the changing needs of older horses. While older some horses respond well to senior feeds, these highly concentrated feeds can challenge internal organs such as pancreas, kidney and liver and many horses on these formulas continue to decline. Dental care can be a factor, however more often, the quality of nutrients available in formula feeds does not allow for adequate absorption of nutrients. Switching to a natural feeding protocol can prevent age related disease and help restore health. This course presents information on supplement and feeding options for older horses to help them be healthy, fit, and active through the winter months and in their later years.
Inter-species Communication: A Model for Creating Peace
Equine Facilitated Counseling and Expressive Arts Workshop
In this transformational one day workshop, you will experience the power and insights that horses bring to our journey of growth and self healing. Through facilitated group interaction, art and equine experiential group counseling, you will find harmony and balance to resonate peace in your world and create peace in your relationships and world.
This workshop explores the role of communication, using the model of inter-species communication as a model for developing congruence, integrity, and heart centered relationships. We extend this to non-violence within ourselves, between members of families and community/global relationships. Our process involves interactive experiences within a group, individual and group exercises/experiences with horses, safety agreements, individual art /creative expressive arts activities as a means of improving self-awareness and communication. By validating ourselves, and our reality, specifically in developing and nurturing self-awareness and sensitivity to others, we model principles of congruence, right action, and personal/spiritual empowerment as tools for working in the world and promoting peace and goodwill. Therefore, we practice heart-centered communication throughout the day, and by inventorying our own feelings, awareness, thoughts and beliefs we own and affirm our authentic feelings and experiences in a supportive, affirming environment. Limit 6 participants.
Northern Stars 4-H Club
And
New Mexico Mustang & Burro Association
Hug - A - Mustang
Kids Ages 9-18 and Parents to
HUG-A-MUSTANG
Learn how friendly and kind wild horses are when we treat them kindly.
Wild horses are usually pictured running and fighting but here’s the real truth!
They are sweet, gentle, smart, Smarter, Smartest -- and kind. See for yourself how friendly and well behaved they are and how willing they are to partner with people. This is a good Q& A opportunity for our Adopt a Trained or Untrained Mustang and our Youth-Yearling Adoption programs.
About Mustang Incentive Programs
The following information includes programs that are offered by the New Mexico Mustang and Burro Association, by Shaking Wind Ranch, the BLM or other non-profit organizations. This information is an overview. Be aware that:
• They may have specific rules and fine print.
• Some restrict the color of your horses to solid colors such as bays, chestnut/sorrel, browns, blacks, which are most common.
• Others require that you pick up your horse from a particular facility
• All require an approved BLM Adoption Application
The New Mexico Mustang and Burro Association may be able to facilitate in making arrangements with the BLM for transportation or finding a nearby location for a facility for horse selection. The New Mexico Mustang and Burro Association, in cooperation with Shaking Wind Ranch, offers educational classes and workshops to help you have a successful experience with your own mustang.
Mustang & Domestic Equine Education Incentives
Shaking Wind Ranch and The New Mexico Mustang and Burro Association offer extensive courses and workshops to help you safely and successfully adopt, train and bring your mustang into full partnership with you. Browse the course offerings at www.shakingwindranch.com/education/workshops to see the full list of offerings.
Adoption Incentive Rates apply to all group classes and workshops. Inquire about arranging private training and consultations, or special presentations for your club or group.
Adoption Incentives
Adopt a Mustang Rebate for New Mexico
New Mexico Residents qualify for the BLM $500.00 adoption rebate. Adopt a BLM horse for the standard adoption fee of $125.00 and the BLM will rebate five hundred dollars when you take permanent ownership at the end of one year.
6 foot fencing, minimum 400 square feet – 20x20 enclosure and shelter are required.
http://www.blm.gov/nm/st/en/prog/wild_horse_and_burro.html
Youth with Parental Permission and Adults
Adopt A Mustang of a solid color and you may receive 90 days free training for your horses. Adoption fee $125.00. All other BLM regulations apply, including 6 foot high fencing, 20x20 minimum enclosure, shelter, etc., required. A cooperative project of New Mexico Mustang & Burro Association and Northern Stars 4-H Club. Training provided with the sponsorship of the Mustang Heritage Foundation. Contact: info@nstars4H.com
Youth Adopt a Yearling
With parental permission, youth ages 9-18 adopt a yearling mustang. Assistance is provided in gentling and handling the young horse during a 90--day trial period. After 90 days, the youth and family can be formalized the adoption or decline the adoption. A $200 care/feed stipend is provided during the 90 days. If the adoption is completed, the youth and yearling participate in a show-and-tell event with other young people and may qualify to receive awards, gifts, scholarships or other incentives towards continued work with his/her yearling. Suitable facility for the young horse is required, including shelter and 5 foot high safe fencing and a minimum space of 20x20 feet.
Adoption fee: $25.00
Adopt a Halter or Saddle Trained Mustang
This is not actually an incentive program, but is just as good, in my opinion. The Colorado Correctional Institute and the BLM Wild Horse facility, outside Boulder holds 2,000 mustangs. Their wild horse inmate program trains mustangs to halter for nominal additional fees. Saddle trained horses cost more, but are still very competitively priced for well-trained horses. To view adoptable horses with training, visit: http://www.coloradoci.com/
Contact us to arrange a guest presentation about mustangs, a special workshop, or tour of Shaking Wind Ranch for your club or organization. Donations to the New Mexico Mustang and Burro Association www.nmmba.org are tax deductible and appreciated.
