PRIVATE SESSIONS FOR INDIVIDUALS, COUPLES, AND FAMILIES

Private equine-guided development sessions are available for:
  • Stress reduction and emotional self-regulation
  • Improving communication and leadership skills
  • Interspecies spiritual exploration

Monday – Thursday 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. by appointment
Some weekend days available.
Contact: Beverley Kane, MD
Sessions are held at Webb Ranch, Portola Valley, CA
FALL 2025

Journey On Retreat with Warwick Schiller

Thursday, September 18th — Sunday, September 21st
Paso Robles, CA
Register here.
Listen to Dr. Kane’s Journey On podcast with Warwick Schiller on Apple Podcasts


Stanford Medical Tai Chi

Wednesdays, September 24th — December 3rd
4:30 to 6:00 p.m.
Stanford Campus
Palo Alto, CA

Tai chi (taiji) is a recognized form of integrative and complementary medicine. This class promotes health and well-being by teaching how to decrease stress, depression, and anxiety through the practice of moving meditation. The course also includes a journal club segment to study the peer-reviewed research on the health benefits of tai chi and qigong.

Stanford students register in FAMMED 213.
Registration opens Thursday, September 4th, 2025 at 6 p.m..
Credit: 1 unit for Stanford students.

FREE for Stanford employees, faculty, staff, and community members.
To register, contact: Beverley Kane, MD
SPRING 2026

Stanford Medical Tai Chi

Wednesdays, April 1st — June 3rd
4:30 to 6:00 p.m.
Stanford Campus
Palo Alto, CA

Tai chi (taiji) is a recognized form of integrative and complementary medicine. This class promotes health and well-being by teaching how to decrease stress, depression, and anxiety through the practice of moving meditation. The course also includes a journal club segment to study the peer-reviewed research on the health benefits of tai chi and qigong.

Stanford students register in FAMMED 213.
Registration opens Thursday, March 5th, 2026 at 5:30 p.m.
Credit: 1 unit for Stanford students.

FREE for Stanford employees, faculty, staff, and community members.
To register, contact: Beverley Kane, MD

Stanford Medicine and Horsemanship —
A Communication Model for the Doctor-Patient Relationship

(Tentative for Sundays April 26th – May 3rd.)
10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Webb Ranch (10 minutes from campus)
Portola Valley, CA

Medicine and Horsemanship is a medical school elective for healthcare students, physicians, nurses, and other patient care providers from Stanford and outlying areas. Learn effective communication, team work, leadership & followership, and self-care skills with magnificent, gentle horses. Business, law, and engineering students have also attended and are welcome. See Medicine & Horsemanship Program Page for additional information.

Limit: 12 participants
Free for Stanford students. Register in FAMMED 252.
Registration opens Thursday, March 5th, 2026 at 5:30 p.m.”

$250 for non-Stanford students
$400 for healthcare professionals
Credit: 1 unit for students


Stanford Equine-imity —
Stress Reduction and Emotional Self-Regulation in the Company of Horses

(Dates TBD)
4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Webb Ranch (10 minutes from campus)
Portola Valley, CA

Do you wonder what it means to be "healthy as a horse"? This 4-week course uses the horse-human relationship to enhance our ability to breathe deeply and relax, to regulate our emotions, and to reduce stress. Horses help us develop these skills through their magnificent strength and grace and through their ability to be in the Now, immediately releasing traumatic incidents. They teach us to use all our senses plus breath and movement to release stress, heal, and invigorate the body.

Using techniques from mindfulness meditation, tai chi, qigong, yoga, Reiki, and nature-based therapy, you will learn to ground, center, and relax by touching and breathing with horses. The Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi cites medical studies showing the value of tai chi and qigong on long-term stress reduction and improvement in cognitive function. Horse-assisted somatic, meaning of the body, learning, in combination with daily practices offered in class will help you establish a lasting and healthy integration of your physical movements and senses with your intellect, emotions, and intuition.

Weeks 1-3 are playing with horses on the ground. The last class is an optional meditation ride performing qigong on horseback. No previous horse experience needed.

Suggested reading: Equine-imity & Stress Reduction and Emotional Self-Regulation in the Company of Horses.

$300
STAP eligible for Stanford employees
Register online starting Thursday, March 5th 2026, on the Stanford Healthy Living website.
See the Equine-mity Page for additional information or contact me, Beverley Kane, MD.