A Vacation Experience
Spend six days riding, relaxing and strengthening your leadership skills with the Rocky Mountain Horses at Stone Bridge Farm. Whether you are a manager, entrepreneur, educator, parent, or community volunteer; leadership skills are essential. In this 6-day vacation experience you will have a fantastic time riding horses, but you will also learn tools for strengthening non-verbal communication, assertiveness, emotional fitness, and relationship skills which are all essential to successful leadership.
This vacation includes 6 days of riding and learning, 7 nights lodging, and all meals.
Description
For 3½ days, Stone Bridge Farm will be your base camp. Daily riding will be integrated with a variety of Epona tools focused on developing the skills necessary to thrive as a leader in the 21st century. By using The Epona Approach, your facilitators will guide you in new creative ways to connect and partner with horses and humans. Activities with the horses will enable you to see and access the brilliant leader that resides within you. Riding at Stone Bridge Farm will start in the indoor riding arena and progress to the obstacle course, fields of the farm, and surrounding agricultural and wooded land.
In the late afternoon of the 4th day, we will move the trailers and horses to a local campground where we will setup camp for the remainder of your vacation. While camping you will experience cooking over a campfire, sharing the campsite with horses, and hours of riding on trails through secluded woodlands, prairies, and bluff country. We can enjoy an evening ride as well for those who are interested; departing at dusk and returning under the light of a starry sky. It is a memorable experience to ride at dusk, admiring the beauty of sunset and listening to the sounds of the forest as darkness falls.
In the late afternoon on the 6th day, we will return to Stone Bridge Farm and complete your vacation with a final, memorable leadership activity involving your fellow riders and horses.
Each day there will be time for relaxation and reflection. Two optional outings are also available. One is a barbeque and campfire on a beautiful vantage point overlooking Stone Bridge Farm. The other is a short trip to Red Wing, a historic town on the Mississippi River, with dinner at a local winery, Falconer Vineyards.
Rates
- $2,750 per person for 6 days, 7 nights and all meals. Accommodations provided double occupancy in one of Stone Bridge Farm’s living-quarter trailers.
- $2,250 per person for 6 days, 7 nights and all meals if you reserve your vacation with friends/family and are willing to share triple occupancy in one of Stone Bridge Farm’s living-quarter trailers.
Dates Offered
- May 27 – June 1, 2012
- July 22 – 27, 2012
- September 17 – 22, 2012
Your Guides
The Rocky Mountain Horses of Stone Bridge Farm in conjunction with two Epona Approved Instructors will host and guide you throughout your vacation. The horses have spent many miles on the trail and are ready to introduce you to the beauty of the Midwestern United States and the joys of riding a gaited horse!
May and September vacations will be co-facilitated by Felicity Glenister and Tamara Callstrom. The July vacation will be co-facilitated by Marina Parris and Tamara Callstrom. To learn more about Tamara, Felicity and Marina visit the Facilitators page.
Photos
View our photo galleries to see a variety of images of the farm and horses as well as pictures of many activities included in this vacation.