Thunder Heart Haven, 455 S. Amelia Street, Ridgway, CO (2026)

4-night overnight retreats, full and half-day programs, cabin rental, design-your-own, custom adventures. With the Horse Lady, Alice Billings on her Thunder Heart Haven Ranch.

05/18/2025

Last night and this morning. Terrible wind 💨

12/31/2023

Those of you who know Debra Poneman from “yes to success “ well this poem was written by a friend of hers named Rosie.

Be powerful.
Be huge.
Be grand.
Be awesome & amazing & extraordinary.
Be mighty.
Be gloriously proud.

Go for broke.

Smash the ceiling.

Stand tall. Stand taller.
Speak up. Speak out.
Be loud. Be louder.
Be seen. Be heard.
Be gorgeous.
Be messy.
Be complicated.
Be vibrant. Be different. Be unique.
Be bold & audacious & wear your scars like feaking stardust.

Make mistakes.
Fall down, get up, fall down, get up.

Fall UP.

Stand up.
Stand up & flutter your gorgeous wings.

Take risks.
Take chances.
Make choices.
Good choices, bad choices, a million plus choices.

De-clutter. Recycle.

Floss.

Love yourself. Love yourself mightily. Love yourself with every fiber of & in your being.

Live your truth.
Wear your truth.
Speak your truth.

Walk away from bad.
Walk away from toxic.
Walk away from anyone who doesn't get you, or love you, or want you, or think you're the whole freaking enchilada.
Walk away from folks who wish you well but, you know, not too well.
Walk away from anyone who demeans you, belittles you, hurts you, harms you, begrudges you your joy & happiness & success.

Walk away from nasty & cruel & unkind.

Live your life on your terms.
Cower to no one.
Do not crawl or beg for less than.
Do not settle for mediocrity.
Do not hope for the best - demand the best.

Do not believe for one-second that you are not worthy, deserving, lovable, necessary, important, vital, blindingly beautiful and fierce. Really fierce.

Do not go back to the end of the line - start a new line.

Period.
Beginning of story.

11/27/2023

5 bays and a paint 🎶🎶🎶Penny and Gus in their stalls. ❤️🐴

09/12/2023

An afternoon ride ❤️🐴

10/30/2022

Today I wanted to talk a little about family. A wild horse band is made up of the stallion, his mares and the offspring. I keep hearing that these horse don’t care about being with their mares. I live out with the wild horses 7 months out of the year. I can tell you for a fact they do care. Some stallions stay with the same mares for years and years. Yes the young ones do move on. I am focusing on the stallion and his mare. Another argument I keep hearing is once they are gelded they longer care about their mares. I was involved in reuniting two family bands last year and I can tell you that is false. The first photo is Ares and his mare Gracie when they saw each other. A once confident band stallion was cowering in the corner of the corral at the auction. His mares were very skittish and terrified. The second we reunited these horses you could see a hundred pound weight just drop off their shoulders. They knew they were safe back together. The mares relaxed for the first time and Ares got his pride back. This band is closer than ever and living together in peace at Return To Freedom, Wild Horse Conservation. Another stallion was reunited with his mares from the range after being apart for 7 years. They immediately recognized each other and ran to meet up. Yes in the wild bands split up. That does not mean that when we have the opportunity to reunite a over 20 year old gelding and his older mares we shouldn’t try. Windwalker Ridge opened last year with a goal to reunite one family band and let them live out their lives together in peace. They are being targeted because of that. I really do not understand all this hate for sanctuaries. Several small sanctuaries started in the last year. Windwalker Ridge Mustang Sanctuary, Banditas Wild Horse Promise , Steadfast Steeds and For the Love of Aria are a few. The loving people who opened their hearts and land were ones who had followed the Sand Wash Horses for years. They fell in love with the horses and made a promise to try and keep bonded mares and gelding together. I have watched several bands at a sanctuary and they stay together and the geldings still fight to keep their band together. So many false narratives out there and mostly said by people who have not spent one day watching a wild horse in the wild. Why not let these horses who have lost everything have a little bit of comfort in their golden years being with the ones they love. Windwalker already has a few of Snips longtime mares and they just want this 20 year old gelding to enjoy his golden years with his longtime mares. I hope that whoever is jacking his price up to $ 7000 knows what you are taking away from a great stallion we have all loved for years. Have a heart and support the sanctuaries. You may think it’s about what these horses look like but it has nothing to do with that. It is about who we fell in love with. A few more boys come to mind on this adoption. Brothers Indigo and Turqoise and Cesar and LaRoux. Cesar and LaRoux were foals in the same band. They grew up together. Stayed together as bachelors and when they did win a band of their own they still did not seperate and kept the band safe together. We never knew which one was the band stallion but it worked for them. I just hope whoever is bidding on these horses consider keeping them together. Mustangs are not solitary animals and need to be with a herd.

Address

455 S. Amelia Street
Ridgway, CO
81432

Telephone

(970) 729-1848

Website

http://thunderhearthaven.com/

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