Vision & Mission

The healing interactivity between animals and humans has been known for centuries. Expanding on this knowledge we in the equine fields have developed specialized non-riding activities, programs, seminars, therapeutic riding facilities as well as the traditional riding programs for therapy. Our Vision is to help our people, in all walks of life, to achieve happiness and stability. So they can continue on their journey without being scared to succeed.

Lost Path Stables offers educational clinics, riding clinics, safety clinics, owning your first horse seminars, as well as four different types of therapy for people and operates as a rescue center for large farm animals. Through this our Mission is to educate the people in a way they can benefit within themselves. We will raise money to help those who cannot afford such powerful therapy, and pay for their desire to better themselves! We are the missing link to peoples lives.

Dancing Sky Ranch & Lost Path Stables

  Dude Ranch & Therapy Center

Owner: Glen & Shana Wright

Ohana means no one gets left behind

  It has been our dream to show people a way of life that is being forgotten.  Through the guest ranch and therapy programs we can do this.   Making a difference in people’s life’s, by showing and letting them experience, the things we have enjoyed in life.  To have the closeness of a loving family!  To enjoy the four seasons that make our area so special in so many ways.  To get to experience a special way of life!  Children and adults will learn the joys and charm of farm/ranch life first hand. .  Children can enjoy the freedom to roam the forest and rivers, horses, campfires, canoeing, exploring etc.
To sit around a bonfire after a day fishing, or exploring on horseback, hay wagon, or foot!  To be able to forget the worlds troubles.  What’s it worth? 
We offer horseback riding, canoeing, fishing, birding, nature tours, hunting, many crafts and activities. Those with special needs, will enjoy our made to fit programs. For the elderly the chance to go into the forest and enjoy the sights and smells, pick berries, see the wildlife, is a special treat

A heated indoor riding arena is our goal to offer of year around  help for the community in the form of the therapeutic riding, and equine assisted therapy programs.  Public Safety, charitable, educational, family clinics, child and animal cruelty clinics and treatment, amateur sports competition, professional events.  Are just some of the things this facility can bring and do for the area? 

A country way of life:  Where fun, hard work, honesty, good morals, and your word are as good as your name on paper.

The Four generations of Wrights, at Dancing Sky Ranch have helped the community since the early 1900s providing the rural community with assistance, Always a part of programs helping those who are in need.  We are, Volunteer Fire fighters, first Responders, Helping Churches, & Cemetery care takers. We have Providing machinery, materials, and labor for those who, had a Crisis in life.
The elderly and young now receive help from our Equine Assisted Therapy, learning programs, needed snow removal, emergency care, Community activities from family gatherings, hayrides to pig roasts to youth horse shows, and general help from fixing water wells, elderly one touch emergency response, liaison for county care, to as needed, house repair, and general rural home help.                                                                  

 Lost Path Stables (Non-Profit) Equine assisted therapy center

  The healing Interactivity between animals and humans has been known for centuries.  Expanding on this knowledge we in the equine fields have developed specialized non-riding activities, programs, Seminars, therapeutic riding facilities as well as the traditional riding programs for therapy.   
 Lost Path Stables offers Educational clinics, riding clinics, safety clinics, owning your first horse clinics as well as 4 different types of therapy for humans and operates as a rescue center for large farm animals and are members of the humane society.
                                              
      

Equine Assisted Therapy

Horses, Certified Horse professional, Psychologists and Social workers, create a team who specialize in. Grieving, Anger management, self-discipline, conflict resolution, communication, self-esteem, responsibility, ADD, substance abuse, eating disorders, depression, anxiety, physical abuse create an out standing team.   

Why it works?

The heart of the program is to put a person in motion creating the visual and physical concept of why, how and what you do affects yourself and others. The physical or 'in motion' process creates the cause and effect. The activity of physically doing triggers mental switches of understanding and mental awareness. This is one thing you Cannot create in an office setting.

By putting a person in motion. We create the visual, physical concept of why!  How and what you do affects your self and others. The physical or in motion, process creates the cause and effect.  The programs of physically doing something, trigger mental switches of understanding, and awareness. This comprehension reduces repeats offences, and effectively reduces self mutilations, peer pressures of drugs and alcohol, boosts self esteem, increases communication skills, helps depression, grieving losses, responsibility, self discipline, anger management.                                                  

Programs 

Rescue center for large animals: speaks for its self. The need for a facility in the area for abused animals is a needed program where none exists.  Livestock will receive specialized care, rehabilitation and eventually homes.        
  
EAL (Equine Assisted learning) has been used for many years as an aid in helping humans to build self-confidence, self-esteem, work ethics, and problem solving skills, communication skills.  The power of a horse for abuse victims is unequaled!!  The therapy program assists the area in the protection and care for abused children and animals. The interactivity between animals and humans has and is now becoming the mental health programs in demand because of there effectiveness.  Some statistics showing up to 66% reduction in repeats compared to traditional in office therapy. 

EAP (Equine Assisted Psychotherapy) uses a licensed psychologist, horse professional and horses to make a team. These more serious, cliental benefit from the team of professionals to again create the visual, psychical concept. Helping them understand, and reducing repeat offences, from 40 to 60% Results provided by EAGALA.  From licensed Psychologists. Young adults, juvenile delinquents, foster children, abuse victims, to mention a few are by far the biggest cliental in need of our services.  Unbelievable results are achieved from the hands on physical type of therapy we provide. Specializing in grieving, anger management, self-discipline, conflict resolution, communication, self-esteem, responsibility, ADD, substance abuse, eating disorders, depression, anxiety, physical abuse create an out standing team  

 These community-based programs are used to help everyone, but targeting those less fortunate not meeting funding qualifications but needing help. Those that would other wise fall through the cracks as they say.
Families  who are in need of Equine Assisted Learning and Psychotherapy or handicapped therapeutic riding or other special needs. In the form of, Therapy programs, horse safety clinics, including, horse-handling safety, caring for abused horses, and educating about horses. These also teach communication skills, responsibility, build self esteem and confidence, helping reducing peer pressure to do drugs self mutilations, suicide, conflict resolution which will produce, better attitudes and grades in school.

            Therapeutic Handicapped Riding Center

Therapeutic Handicapped riding, and Hippo therapy fill a special need in our area, for those having to travel several hundred miles for therapy now. We are undertaking the huge task of furthering our certifications and trainings and hope soon to make a reality a indoor riding facility to offer year-long programs. With the assistance of grants we will be able to help assist financially, those who we know fall through the cracks to pay, and receive treatment.   Ohana  Our goal is to turn no one away that needs help!  If you have ever saw a parent cry because they saw a spark of life in there handicapped child due to horses and horse therapy, you will know how important the program is to the children.

 Programs and clinics; Lost Path Stables offers to the community programs and clinics designed to create community interactivity, family harmony, offer effective therapy programs. Safe horse handling, clinics, first horse, clinics, riding programs, beginning horse lessons, as well as holding horse shows, free to the public, hay rides, with pig roasts food and drink to create community interaction. Designed to show parents the benefits of being and having their children around nature and horses.  The programs show how we create self-esteem, work ethics, communication skills, problem solving, self-discipline, and conflict resolution to name a few. These programs will help children better cope with problems at school and home. Keeping them away from peer pressures, to: depression, self-mutilations, drugs and alcohol.     

  Modern times, the age of electronics, poor wages.  Both parents working to survive, children schooled by others!  The change in our lifestyles is not good! Ohana

Help us make this a reality for those in need
Our programs will help people not only in our local area, but people from anywhere in the world, who could use help from our therapy center, Handicapped Riding Facility and Guest Ranch.  EAP & EAL are 90% non riding programs, using a licensed psychologist, councilors, horse professional, horses to create the team, to Assist in finding problems, and solving them, in a special way.  This powerful therapy is fast becoming popular, in the world, because of its effectiveness!  Extremely effective with at risk youth. And school children  

 Our goal is to be an asset to the community, in a time of changing lifestyles!  To help those in need and to show others that it’s the simple things in life that give us the greatest treasures. To save a life, to put a smile on a Childs face, to help an elderly person can you put a price on these things?  Please help by donating and participating, and enjoy all we have to offer. It may be your child we are helping? In several years it would be our goal to be recognized as one of the cutting edge facilities serving the people in northern Minnesota, and the surrounding area.                                                                        

Lost Path stables
Glen Wright
Shana Wright
Sandra Harju