Returning to Your Essence
Letting Go: June 21st - 26th
Bonanza Creek is a place where you can let go. Join retreat participants as you ride on a gorgeous, 25,000-acre Montana ranch and discover personal strengths while connecting with fellow guests and the horses – all in a natural environment that is conducive to inner exploration and growth.
A riding retreat and participants should be experienced riders with the ability to canter outside an arena.
The horses, living in open-acreage herds, bring an opportunity for each individual to experience Equine Gestalt work at its fullest. Participants will find a unique connection between Equine Gestalt group work in the morning followed by the balance with nature and their horses in the afternoon as they ride through the breathtaking landscape. While engaging in group sessions of the Gestalt Therapeutic Model, you’ll work side by side with horses that provide grounding support in uncovering and processing personal insights.
Linda will host a Zoom gathering a month ahead of the retreat in order to meet other guests, ask questions and gather more information. Additionally, Linda will reach out after the retreat with another Zoom gathering to reconnect and reflect.
The Property
Bonanza Creek is a family operated, 25,000-acre cattle ranch in the Castle Mountains of Martinsdale, Montana. There are acres of open meadows, rugged hills, wooded areas, and a sparkling creek. With expansive views of the Montana Rockies and lush vegetation, it is a haven for nature lovers. There’s lots of room to ride and reflect within the backdrop of Big Sky Country. Conclude your days under Montana’s famously clear night skies and enjoy a magical evening of stargazing.
Accommodations
Overnight accommodations will be in one of the four western-furnished, rustic cabins on the ranch, a combination of Montana simplicity and comfort. Accommodations are single, double and triple occupancy, each a unique experience. Bonanza Creek Accomodations
Meals
Relax and enjoy home cooked meals beginning with dinner on Sunday evening and concluding with lunch on Thursday.
Other details
Attendees should be experienced riders with the ability to canter outside an arena.
Maximum Attendance: 10 women
Guests 21 years or older welcome.
Pricing
Retreat Price: $4,450
50% due upon registration
- We encourage you to consider purchasing your own trip insurance for peace of mind and protection if plans change.
- Grants may be available for those with financial need, please Contact Us.
Registration and Cancellation Policy:
See bonanzacreekcountry.com for more information
new perspectives
You will leave with a new sense of hope and direction, awareness of self and clarity of patterns in your life that no longer serve you.
The Experience
Retreat experiences may vary due to changing circumstances, ensuring flexibility and a unique journey tailored to the moment. The retreat runs Sunday through Friday.
Sunday
~ Settle into cabins and meet other guests
~ Welcome bundle
~ Opening connection circle
~ Meet your equine partner
Monday - Thursday
~ Connection circle
~ Guided meditation
~ Gestalt processing
~ Afternoon ride
~ Relax, journal, personal time
~ Evening bonfires, optional massages, stargazing
Friday
~ Morning ride to open fire breakfast
~ Meditation honoring the horses and connections made
~ Ceremonial letting go
~ Remembrance gift
Massage services are available during your stay; additional charges apply.
The premise of Gestalt is that we hold our own answers within and we are completely whole as we presently are. Linda’s Gestalt Practice allows clients to tap into their innate sense of who they are, through awareness. Often, unfinished business from an individual’s past can continue to create a reactionary state within. Through the experiential Gestalt process, this energy can be transformed and clients find the freedom to reconnect with their own inherent truth and wisdom.
Meet your facilitators
Linda Bruce
Linda owns and runs Soulful Prairies. As an Equine Gestalt Practitioner, her passion is bringing humans and horses together to create an environment of self-discovery. When she is not seeing clients, she offers other healing services to the visitors at Soulful Prairies. Learn more about Linda here!
June Voldseth
June Voldseth started Bonanza Creek Guest Ranch in 1993. It was a way for her to spend time with two of her passions, horses and people. But life stepped in with much more. Not only has the guest ranch been a fun adventure, but a learning, inspiring, empowering, life changing one. At the perfect time, along came awareness of the Touched By A Horse life coaching program and the opportunity to truly make Bonanza Creek a place to learn to live your dreams.