Grounded By Nature

02/24/2026

It is such a blessing to me to see how our horses know and adore our clients.

With the recent extreme cold weather, we didn’t get to see Ava for longer than usual. I missed her, and clearly every member of the herd did too.

02/19/2026

Our official Summer Schedule is set! And registration is now open!

What’s the same as last year?

- Our focus is partnering with horses to help improve lives and build, stronger, healthier people. We love hearing from you about what you’re most hoping to get out of a session or a camp, and we personalize camp details to make things as relevant as possible for the group in attendance each day.

- Our popular 5-day camps are back again - Resilient Kids camp will be in June. Strengthen Your Faith camp is the first week of August.

- Our fun one day camps “Working Day at the Horse Barn” and “All About Horses” are scheduled in July again!

- For adults - We are offering relaxing small group adult horse retreats again! And our open-house style “Grounding Horse Time” sessions will continue on the non-camp Wednesdays.

- As always - private customized versions of these camps, retreats or any other types of horse sessions or experiences are available for all ages at a time that works for you!

What’s NEW this summer?

- Grateful Hearts camp will be offered as a 4 day camp! (And yes, it includes riding on the last day.)

- We added three new camps:

1. Advanced Horse Leadership camp - for kids age 10 and older who have participated in our camps or private sessions previously and are ready for “the next level” of horsemanship skills training.

2. Self-confidence boost - one day horse camps are scheduled both to help your family kick off the summer right and also to help ease the transition back to school in the fall.

3. Ninja Warrior camp - If you’ve been to our camps, you know how much fun the kids have playing on our ninja course during free time. So after 4 years of requests… our very own world champion ninja has agreed to host a camp as well as private lessons!

- Ninja Warrior small group and private sessions are available to schedule at a time that works for you - and will make a great way to extend camp days!

- Longer day options - Our one day camps are longer this year and we are offering some flexible schedule options to extend camp days to better accommodate parents’ schedules. If you need an alternative drop off or pick up time, let us know - we may be able to help.

How do you register? Just PM or call or text 414-232-2349.

02/13/2026

Serious commitment! 🙂

(Hopefully the end of the days we need to bundle up like this in 2026 is in sight!)

02/10/2026

I love and encourage all the questions I’ve been getting about our spring and summer horse time opportunities!

We are still finalizing details but here is a SNEAK PEEK at our rough summer plans.

We will start taking registrations after this is finalized and officially announced - in about a week:

5/2, 6/5 and 6/6 - one day Adult Horse Retreats

W 6/17 - Self-Confidence Boost, one day horse camp

TH 6/18 - Ninja Warrior obstacle course play camp (NEW - as requested!)

M-F 6/22-6/26 - Resilient Kids horse camp (9:30-11:30 or extended time till 1:30)

M-TH 6/29-7/2 - Grateful Hearts horse camp (9:30-11:30 or extended time till 1:30)

T 7/7 - Working day at the horse barn - one day camp (9-3:30)

W 7/8 - Working day at the horse barn - one day camp (9-3:30)

TH 7/9 - All About Horses - one day camp (9-3:30)

M-F 7/27-7/31 - Strengthen Your Faith - horse camp (9:30-11:30 or extended time till 1:30)

M-F 8/3-8/7 - Advanced Horse Leadership camp

Late August - TBD - Self-Confidence Boost, one day horse camp

Sept and Oct - Adult Retreats

02/04/2026

Dreaming of summertime days? We are finalizing our summer schedule, and would love any and all input from you - whether you’ve been to our barn before or not.

We will definitely hold a Resilient Kids camp and a Strengthen Your Faith camp for kids. We are also debating some of these Qs:

-Should we hold some one day camps again?
-Should we extend our one day camp topics (All About Horses, Working Day at the Barn, Grateful Hearts) to be 2, 3 or even 5 day camps?
-Should we introduce a Camp with a new focus topic? What would you like to see?
-Should we schedule a camp or retreat specifically for parents and kids to participate together? Or maybe more adult-only horse experience or group retreat opportunities?

As is always the case - We’d love feedback of any type, whether it’s on content you’d like us to cover, experiences you wish we offered, ideal time of day for camps, number of days, etc.

Please comment on the post and share your thoughts in your comment and/or via PM, text or a call to me at 414-232-2349.

02/01/2026

I was not expecting to find this cute, sleepy scene when I went out to do the nighttime chores tonight.

01/24/2026

Although the extreme cold temps feel unbearable, the horses are all doing well.

Their bodies stay impressively warm by digesting hay. They’ve been playful, curious, funny and sweet today - as usual. (And somehow that feels extra special on days like this one.)

Being able to provide a good home for our horses on these extra tough, cold days makes me even more grateful for and amazed by the magnificent beings they are.

01/17/2026

So proud of all the progress this little horse leader is making in such a short time!

Regular horse time has been helping her slow down, focus her thoughts, handle life’s up and downs and be more aware of others and her impact on them.

It’s impressive how much she has been applying our horse session talking points at home and in everyday life.

01/12/2026

Are you taking the time to slow down, breathe and savor the moments in 2026?

Being intentional about slowing down to breathe is so healing, and can be so bonding when you do it with “your herd” as well.

Rhianna has built an incredible bond with our horses just through breathing with them. It helps her release her stress each week, and it helps them relax and realize not everyone has expectations for them. Together they get to just relax, “release” whatever they are holding inside and be themselves.

(If you’d like to “slow down and breathe” with a horse some time, our herd is here for you. PM, call or text 414-232-2349. )

01/04/2026

01/02/2026

HAPPY New Year! Wishing you a wonderful, playful 2026!

01/01/2026

These two silly horses could do this all day…

after they finally leave the ball, they walked over and picked up a hay net to play tug of war with. I didn’t want them to rip it so I took it away. Then they picked up one of our 3ftx2ft heavy foam blocks to fight over…