We signed up for an Equus training in Tucson, Arizona, in November 2018, not realizing that the healing power of horses was about to flip our world right side up.

We attended our first Equus workshop at Big Sky Foxtrotters in Tucson, Arizona in the fall of 2018. We left there moved and inspired by our own personal experience with the horses and their healing power, knowing we had to find a way to build a place where we could harness the profound power of the human-equine relationship to help those in our community who need it most, and those who are closest to our hearts: trauma survivors & other underserved populations. We started scouting properties and collecting our team of dedicated professionals, knowing one day we would find the perfect place to launch the HorsePlay Collective.

Then, in the fall of 2022, through a serendipitous path of kismet, we met Chad Harris of SeaBreeze Family Farms, who happened to be searching for someone to return the last remaining acres of his family’s farm to horses, both to offer the seniors of Westmont a peaceful & pastoral view, as well as to serve the surrounding community in perpetuity as the enduring legacy of Seabreeze.

And thus, the HorsePlay Collective at Reciprocity Ranch was officially brought to life. In beautiful, living color. With more opportunities for reciprocity than we could have ever imagined.

In the fall of 2023, we officially became stewards of the property and we have been making plans and inroads ever since. We are building our infrastructure in the last quarter of 2024 through the first half of 2025, with the intention of opening our pasture fences to start serving trauma survivors and the surrounding Carmel Valley community in the summer of 2025.