Building resilience through equine assisted activities including riding lessons, equine assisted learning, and equine assisted counseling.
Building resilience through equine assisted activities including riding lessons, equine assisted learning, and equine assisted counseling.
Equine Assisted
Counseling
Equine Assisted
Counseling
Fall Festival
Fall Festival
Thundering
Hoof Beats 4-H
Thundering
Hoof Beats 4-H
Longmire Ranch is a 501c3 non-profit public charity, dedicated to building resilience through equine assisted activities. We offer beginning horsemanship and safety lessons, beginning riding bareback, western, and English styles, equine assisted counseling with a licensed mental health counselor, 4-H equine program, summer camps and annual fall festival.
Our goals are to develop trust, build confidence, promote healing, strengthen communication, and deepen self-awareness. Our approach to accomplish these goals is encouraging, positive, proactive, and patient. The ranch is supported through sessions fees, monetary donations, item donations and grants. After coming to the ranch riders and their families report improved confidence in themselves, and their abilities, a deeper connection to their world and an increased ability to stay calm and focused.
As the sun begins to set, creating a spider web of shadows on the ground from the round pen panels, what light is lost from the vanishing sun seems to be replaced by the gleaming wide grin of the young girl mounted on the horse at its center. “All right, one more time around and we’ll call it good,” says the young girl’s guide from her spot next to the horse. The guide is Tracy Longmire, and the pen is located on her property at Longmire Ranch, a non-profit organization dedicated to the use of horses to heal psychological wounds and help foster resilience in the young people who come to make a connection with the equine partners the Ranch offers.
Tracy knows first-hand the pain of childhood trauma and the power a horse can have in helping the vulnerable find strength and comfort. Fostered by her own experiences with horses as a child in Kentucky combined with her passion for young people and her commitment to serving those in need, Tracy has worked for years building the program that would eventually be Longmire Ranch. The Ranch is loosely based on the work of Crystal Peaks Youth Ranch in Bend, OR, but retains a unique perspective due to Tracy’s work and involvement with the growing field of trauma-informed education, based on the ACES study done by Kaiser-Permanente in San Diego, CA. This work informs the mission of Longmire Ranch – to foster resilience using the unique connection between a horse and its rider.
Longmire Ranch functions on donations and volunteers. Experience with animals is also not a prerequisite. Any child who may benefit from the program and is willing to learn how to communicate with an equine partner is welcome at the 12-acre facility near Touchet, WA. In its brief history, the Ranch has served children and adults, boys, and girls, wealthy and poor, people who rode years ago and complete novices to the world of horseback riding. All that is required is a willing heart.
Longmire Ranch is a 501c3 non-profit public charity, dedicated to building resilience through equine assisted activities. We offer beginning horsemanship and safety lessons, beginning riding bareback, western, and English styles, equine assisted counseling with a licensed mental health counselor, 4-H equine program, summer camps and annual fall festival.
Our goals are to develop trust, build confidence, promote healing, strengthen communication, and deepen self-awareness. Our approach to accomplish these goals is encouraging, positive, proactive, and patient. The ranch is supported through sessions fees, monetary donations, item donations and grants. After coming to the ranch riders and their families report improved confidence in themselves, and their abilities, a deeper connection to their world and an increased ability to stay calm and focused.
As the sun begins to set, creating a spider web of shadows on the ground from the round pen panels, what light is lost from the vanishing sun seems to be replaced by the gleaming wide grin of the young girl mounted on the horse at its center. “All right, one more time around and we’ll call it good,” says the young girl’s guide from her spot next to the horse. The guide is Tracy Longmire, and the pen is located on her property at Longmire Ranch, a non-profit organization dedicated to the use of horses to heal psychological wounds and help foster resilience in the young people who come to make a connection with the equine partners the Ranch offers.
Tracy knows first-hand the pain of childhood trauma and the power a horse can have in helping the vulnerable find strength and comfort. Fostered by her own experiences with horses as a child in Kentucky combined with her passion for young people and her commitment to serving those in need, Tracy has worked for years building the program that would eventually be Longmire Ranch. The Ranch is loosely based on the work of Crystal Peaks Youth Ranch in Bend, OR, but retains a unique perspective due to Tracy’s work and involvement with the growing field of trauma-informed education, based on the ACES study done by Kaiser-Permanente in San Diego, CA. This work informs the mission of Longmire Ranch – to foster resilience using the unique connection between a horse and its rider.
Longmire Ranch functions on donations and volunteers. Experience with animals is also not a prerequisite. Any child who may benefit from the program and is willing to learn how to communicate with an equine partner is welcome at the 12-acre facility near Touchet, WA. In its brief history, the Ranch has served children and adults, boys, and girls, wealthy and poor, people who rode years ago and complete novices to the world of horseback riding. All that is required is a willing heart.