Our Events at Highland Ranch

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At Highland Ranch, we like to provide folks with special reasons to get together. Come celebrate a holiday or hone your

riding or cooking skills and enjoy all the beauty and other activities that Highland Ranch has to offer.

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Yoga and Riding Clinics

A Clinic is beautifully designed and balanced to be enriching and complete and yet to allow enough time for participants to enjoy the beauty and peace of Highland Ranch.

Yoga and riding each involve a balanced seat, an open heart, a calm breath, a present mind, and a deep connection with all life. In this workshop you will have the opportunity to focus on and practice actions and awareness of the body on our yoga mats and then call up that same awareness and undertake similar actions later in the saddle. For instance, in the yoga studio, you'll practice hip opening poses and then later in the saddle you'll practice the same hip opening action and see the effect it has on your mount. It is exciting when your horse "gets" what you want to do and where you want to go by subtle cues in your balance and movement. When we can communicate with our horses without relying on the bit or the boot, we truly honor and foster the gift of strength and vitality that our horses share with us. Daily yoga classes will focus on alignment, strength, suppleness and breath that invite the body’s responsiveness and well being. On Saturday and Sunday, you ’ll take your enlivened experience into the saddle for exercises and trail riding fostering a more conscious, open connection with our equine friends.

The retreat is designed for people of all experience levels in yoga and riding.  So, bring your own horse or ride one of ours free of charge.

A weekend retreat of yoga and riding instruction will help to:

• Improve your balance, flexibility and stamina on the mat and in the saddle
• Develop your body’s responsiveness and a more conscious attitude to riding
• Encourage harmonious work and play between horse and rider

Quotes from folks who attended the Yoga and Riding Weekend:

"To all of our new friends at Highland Ranch: Thank you for the perfect weekend. The three of us agreed that we couldn’t possibly have enjoyed ourselves more. Not only is your ranch the most beautiful place imaginable, but you made us feel so welcome and relaxed from the moment we arrived that we feel as though we had a month of vacation rather than a weekend." Deanna M.

"Now I have a complete different aspect and a different level of appreciation of horse riding. I was never conscious about influencing them (instead of commanding or forcing them). I never thought of consciously sending a queue to move different parts of their muscles." Yuko T.

"I had a wonderful visit, and that I felt truly transformed upon my return to Oakland. I look forward to seeing all of you, and the ranch, again. Thanks for making my stay so rewarding." Kaaren F.

Halloween Family Weekend - October 31

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Gather some family friends together and come celebrate Halloween at Highland Ranch.  This is a weekend designed for kids and their parents.  We'll have all the usual activities and some special Halloween projects for children including pumpkin carving, baking and decorating spooky cookies, a candy scavenger hunt, a haunted haystack, a Halloween Costume Party with plenty of Halloween candy and a sumptuous Autumn Feast to get us all in training for Thanksgiving.

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Highland Ranch for the Holidays

November ~ December

Looking for a great place to bring your family together for the Holidays?  Highland Ranch is the perfect size for your family to get together and celebrate your traditions while letting the staff at Highland Ranch do all the dishes!  While you are out with your family riding the exquisite trails through the redwood groves, back in the kitchen, Rob and the ladies are preparing delicious Thanksgiving and Holiday feasts with all the trimmings.  Our off-season weekly rates coupled with our group discounts make Highland Ranch an affordable family vacation creating memories that will last for generations.

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Highland Valentine Special Package!

February

Bring your sweetheart for a romantic getaway at Highland Ranch anytime between February 9th and the 19th and we will have all the usual Highland Ranch activities available and also be featuring a special menu of romantic meals sure to please.

Also, let us know when you would like your complimentary bottle of champagne delivered to your cabin along with our delicious homemade truffle chocolates and other goodies. In addition, we are happy to be able to offer a special discounted rate on massages and please, whether you are a first-timer or an avid yogi, join us for a couples' yoga class that is sure to help bring you closer in a balanced and harmonious way!  Don't miss this very popular package and contact us before it sells out.

Highland for the Holidays:

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Highland Ranch is open for Thanksgiving, the December Holiday Season, New Year's, the Spring Holidays, Mother's Day, Memorial Day Weekend, Fourth of July, and Labor Day Weekend.

Consider . . .

Thanksgiving: falling leaves; majestic madrones ripe with red berries; rides through the fall woods; returning to a roaring fire, hot cider and a sumptuous roast turkey spread.

December Holidays: the clear, crisp air; long walks in the woods; blazing fires, egg-nog, hot chocolate and homemade goodies; champagne, streamers and good cheer to ring in the New Year.

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Spring Holidays: wander through the orchards in blossom, ride over green hills, ponder the daffodils, feed the ducks, and savor a holiday feast.

Fourth of July: boating in the lake, fishing in the pond, splashing in the pool, corn on the cob and fresh tomatoes, a ranch barbecue dinner enjoyed on the deck overlooking our orchards bursting with fruit, fireworks and cowboy music by the fire.

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