Leadership and Horses™
October 7-11, 2026
If you are ready to make a change, take a stand, quit or start anew, join us for our successful 5 day retreat to re-connect, explore and find a renewed sense of clarity. Change is a necessary part of life, you don’t need to navigate it alone. The time with horses helps each of us find answers to our intuitive call dramatically faster than the human activity of ‘talking about it.’
A time of freedom, courage, and forward movement. A time when it really matters what you do and dont do. Leadership is about relationship-how are you relating to yourself, others and what is happening in the world. It is a pivotal year! It’s time to get off the fence and recalibrate who you are and what you care about. The old style of leadership is out, help lead the way for a new paradigm of relational leadership!
Leadership & Horses™ has been going strong for over 35 years and stands the test of time. This class changes lives and creates pathways to turn dreams into reality.
If you are ready to move forward—whether that be finding a new sense of well being in chaos or taking a stand for something that really matters to you—Ariana and the horses are here for you to open, explore, be authentic, find your courage and set yourself free.
Class goes from 10 am to 5 pm each day.
Gluten free, organic lunch is included.
Limited lodging is available upon request, plus many other local options here in the Russian River Appellation
Here at Casari Ranch, Leadership is about relationship. It is about a way of being authentic to self, open to different perspectives and focused on finding unity with self, other and earth. It’s about being connected to something outside of ego and identity.
By spending time with horses, in nature, we explore how we build bonds, find connection with others (animal and human) and what we can learn about being more curious and less quick to judge others and doubt ourselves.
We explore how the old, outdated paradigms of leadership that we have been taught, is de-harmonizing, unstable and acutaley creates more division than unity.
We cannot solve our dis-harmony with more hate, belittling of other people, or simply trying to avoid confilict and reality altogether.
Our model of self leadership, is tried and true. It works. It is powerful and freeing. People who attend our courses are able to make what once seemed impossible, possible.
We are being asked to stretch our consciousness beyond our current paradigm and create new ways of being and new ways of connecting our health to the overall health of the Great Mother.
To accomplish this daunting task requires that we re-evaluate our core values and take courageous action for change and sustainability. It's time to embark on a journey of re-awakening, re-membering our interconnected nature, and intuitive, sensate wisdom. Being in harmony with nature revives the spirit, releases spent emotions, and guides us towards right action in balance with the greater good. By re-connecting people to land and nature, we rediscover what has heart and meaning, forgive what has been broken, find hope in times of uncertainty, and walk a path of integrity and grace.
“It’s been over a year since I took the Leadership & Horses™ program and I still vividly remember my timeat Casari Ranch. Our group was carefully and expertly facilitated by the horses and by Ariana, who has an amazing ability to ask the right question at the right time for maximum learning. I am still amazed at what I took away from the workshop, and buoyed by the growth and understanding of myself and others in my group. Thank you still-“
Amy Kohut, Director, Cornell Team & Leadership Center, Cornell University
“The time I spent with Ariana and the horses had a profound effect on me as a leader. I believe this work is on the cutting edge of 21st century training and development.”
Rayona Sharpnack, founder of Institute for Women’s Leadership
"When we spend appreciative contemplation time in nature, we begin a healing circle within ourselves, traveling outward to the natural world, and back in again connecting to our place of origin.
An endless spiral of connection, like a conduit of energy moving in, moving out and moving in again with no end and no beginning.
Not only does the healing begin within, it extends out as an invisible stream of healing energy to the local, sensate environment.”
-Ariana Strozzi Mazzucchi