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New Magic Update! 7/15/08 - Magic has 70% bone fusion in her right hind pastern on x-ray, meaning there is probably even more fusion taking place than actually shows up on x-ray! In two more weeks, she will be able to start light training on the longe line and then bearing a saddle for a little extra weight. She spends her days out with the herd and is in a large corral at night. Her life is pain-free, limp-free and the pastern fusion has been completely successful so far.   UPCOMING EVENTS IN 2008 Saturday, July 27, 2008 - ESCT demonstration and open house at Aspen Creek Large Animal Clinic, Conifer CO. Will include groundwork, rider-up work, and pulser demonstrations, as well as traditional hand method for administering ESCT to fearful horses. Vendors will be selling items to support the horse sanctuary and Aspen Creek will provide lunch and beverages for visitors. Ashleigh Olds, DVM is your host. More info: Barbara Wright at (303) 816-0766.

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, August 15-17, 2008 - ESCT/PEAT 3-day clinic here at the ranch. ESCT for the spooky horse and PEAT for the fearful rider - two energy psychologies that discreate fear at the energetic level, leading to unified horse/human interaction without stress and fear. $150 per day. First day, PEAT for the fearful rider. Second day, ESCT for the fearful horse (you can use ours or bring your own). Third day, riding with ESCT/PEAT. Auditors $30 per day. Limited space available at the ranch for guests.

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, September 19-21, 2008 - ESCT/PEAT 3-day clinic here at the ranch. ESCT for the spooky horse and PEAT for the fearful rider - two energy psychologies that discreate fear at the energetic level, leading to unified horse/human interaction without stress and fear. $150 per day. First day, PEAT for the fearful rider. Second day, ESCT for the fearful horse (you can use ours or bring your own). Third day, riding with ESCT/PEAT. Auditors, $30 per day. Limited space available at the ranch for guests.

VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION - Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. Mondays through Fridays from 3 to 6 p.m. Otherwise by appointment. Weather permitting. All volunteers must sign a non-liability agreement and take a ground safety course. Hard-soled shoes are required (no sneakers or sandals). Riding proficiency must be demonstrated and helmets worn at all times.

Our Mission

Harmony HorseWorks is a horse sanctuary for special needs horses with good dispositions and otherwise general good health. Some cannot be ridden but can serve as companion horses and horses in programs involving humans on the ground in horse/human interactive learning programs. Some horses are rehabilitated for light riding. A few are adopted out to carefully screened individuals who have the capability to care for special needs horses. A few more are completely healthy and serve as riding education horses in our horse/human programs. Periodically, we take on a special rehabilitation case requiring extra medical or rehabilitation attention in consultation with our veterinarian. We focus on making the sanctuary horses comfortable and useful in educational programs involving high school students, local crisis centers, and other community outreach programs.

We teach Equine Stress Control Therapy (ESCT), a method for de-spooking horses using bilateral brain integration with bilateral body tapping. Proceeds are donated to the horses. Our program is conducted by the ESCT teaching and certification division of Harmony HorseWorks.

We also coach fearful riders back to courage using a riding coaching technique called Equestrian Perfomance Coaching (EPC) based on PEAT energy psychology that removes the energetic charge around riding and performance issues. It brings riders to optimum activity and restores them to confidence and courage using methods originally created by Zivorad Slavinski and modified for the horse/human riding relationship. Proceeds are donated to the horses. Our program is conducted by the EPC teaching and certification division of Harmony HorseWorks.

Using these two processes, ESCT for the horse and EPC for the human, we create a sound and trusting riding partnership. Several times yearly, we offer clinics in each of these processes. Clinic proceeds are also donated to the horses.

We help place unwanted horses in cyber-space by networking with the USA horse rescues and sending out special newsletters for these deserving horses to our 15,000 name email list. Because we cannot take on rescue horses here at our property, we try to do what we can for the unwanted horses by supporting the cyber-rescue coalition. We receive no funds from these efforts and do this on a voluntary basis.

We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation registered in Colorado and our IRS FEIN is 200763702. We received our nonprofit status from the IRS on February 23, 2004. Our fundraising efforts bring in almost all our annual revenues to support and maintain our herd with feed, grain, supplements, veterinary care and farrier care. We are run by volunteers.