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Starr Horse Retreats (SHR) is a venue for healing retreats, training, and equine-assisted education using positive reinforcement (R+) ridership techniques. We work with horses, advocating for their needs and care, and we work with humans through the horses. We understand that healing humanity heals the earth.
We offer both healing retreats and positive reinforcement ridership workshops and clinics. We have opened the first hands-on positive reinforcement certification program and provide 4-week programs throughout the year.
Our unique equine healing retreats illustrate parallel issues of trust, forgiveness, and threshold limits. Through our retreats, we explore emotional intelligence skills for mindful decision-making and past grief healing. Some of our unique modalities include free liberty meditation with the horses, sound healing, ecstatic dancing with horses, barnyard yoga, animal Reiki, sweat lodge, and Ice or flower baths.
We invite participants to explore the possibilities with us as we tap into the horses' innate healing abilities and honor them as shamans who awaken our consciousness.
Our retreats teach holistic healing modalities surrounding mindful living and respecting the planet. We learn about equine behavior and psychology and how those concepts can be applied to our mental and emotional skills. We bring the medicine of nature back to the people.
Our three-night retreat allows guests to work closely with the horses' shamanic abilities to rewrite their narratives and clear blockages. In addition to equine interaction, we offer yoga, a sweat lodge, sound healing, a cacao ceremony, and a flower bath.
At Starr Horse Retreats, we honor the horse spirit. We ask permission for the experience of getting on the backs of any animal and express gratitude for the privilege. We provide a sanctuary to horses that honors their ability to heal and awaken.
We invite participants to tap into the horses' innate healing abilities and honor them as shamans in their role of awakening our consciousness.
At this retreat, participants will rewrite their narrative and release blockages to make space for new energy. They are guided to set intentions for insights, solutions, and clarity while expanding confidence and competence through movement and bareback partnership. The horses illustrate parallel issues of trust, forgiveness, and threshold limits and illuminate emotional intelligence skills for mindful decision-making and past grief healing.
We work in stewardship with the horses, advocating for their needs and care, and we work with humans through the horses. We understand that healing humanity heals the earth.
This 3-night Shamanic Horse Healing Retreat is for participants who want to experience profound healing through yoga, sound, sweat lodge ceremony, movement, and horse medicine. Participants will receive meals, lodging, and tremendously powerful healing modalities.
Starr Horse Retreats offers a Positive Reinforcement Horse Training Certification through our 4-week training program in Minden, Nevada.
Positive reinforcement training (R+) is an ethical approach to horse training that replaces the traditional methods of using fear and pain to motivate a horse to do what you want with a reward-based approach.
This program combines the knowledge and application of honoring horses and healing humans. The course dives into science-based, holistic horsemanship training with our Whole Horse, Whole Human program.
The Whole Horse-Whole Human program is a unique endeavor that covers natural horse care, Least Intrusive, Minimally Aversive (LIMA) principled horse handling and care, R+ focused training, and lesson instruction, as well as the mental, emotional, and practical skills needed to productively work with horses, work with people, and launch and maintain a business.
About the Center
Starr Horse Retreats is a holistic equestrian retreat center. We teach awakened-consciousness healing modalities surrounding mindful living and respect for the planet. We care about the air we breathe, the health of our oceans, and what we do with our waste. We are bringing the medicine of nature back to the people.
Our retreat center has three guest houses, four arenas, a 10-stall horse barn, a workshop room, Gathering Grounds, and 30 acres of pasture with multiple obstacle courses and moguls for walking and riding.
Our retreats are for families, corporations, groups, and solo.
Although we are a fully functioning farm with hay fields, tractors, horses, and chickens, we are only 30 minutes from South Lake Tahoe and 45 minutes from Reno (international airport), so you can enjoy the convenience of modern life while staying in a dream farm oasis.
We are on a 30-acre property with multiple gathering grounds, a tipi, a sweat lodge, a fire pit, an immersion tub, arenas, obstacle courses, moguls, and trail rides. The area includes all that Lake Tahoe has to offer.