Goodnight Signature: Riding & Resilience

Build confidence, strengthen your riding skills, and deepen your connection with horses.

Formerly the Julie Goodnight Riding & Wholeness Retreat

Develop confidence in the saddle and beyond at this four-night, all-women’s educational retreat in the Colorado Rockies. Practical horsemanship instruction, daily empowerment workshops, and mountain trail riding come together in a supportive environment where learning and personal growth go hand in hand.

What You’ll Experience

• Choose your own learning path – Sign up for the lessons that fit your riding interests and goals.
• Groundwork sessions – Strengthen your partnership with your horse.
• Guided mountain trail rides – Practice your skills in the ranch’s spectacular setting.
• Daily empowerment workshops – Explore confidence, resilience, and self-improvement at every stage of life.
• Evening reflection and connection – Ask questions, share discoveries, and reflect on how your time with horses informs your riding and personal growth.

Learn from Julie Goodnight

The retreat opens with a special horse-behavior demonstration by Julie Goodnight, exploring how communication, relationship building, and leadership create trust and a more connected ride. Additional presentations throughout the weekend offer insights into confidence, communication, and partnership.

Tanya “T” Cody leads the instructional team and directs the retreat, bringing the Goodnight Horsemanship philosophy to life through practical lessons and engaging activities.

Who Should Attend

This retreat welcomes adult women of all experience levels and riding backgrounds who are seeking:

• A deeper connection with horses
• Greater confidence in and out of the saddle
• Improved riding skills
• The support and camaraderie of a learning community

You do not need to own a horse or have attended a clinic—just come with openness to coaching and a willingness to explore.

Between sessions, enjoy C Lazy U Ranch’s exceptional accommodations, dining, hospitality, and mountain setting.

Come ready to ride, reflect, and return home with skills, memories, and friendships that last a lifetime.

• DATES: April 29 – May 3, 2027
• RATES (per person per night):
  • Adult Double Occupancy: from $739*
  • Adult Single Occupancy: from $863*
• MINIMUM STAY: 4 nights

This event always sells out, book early!

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Julie Goodnight is the Founder & Content Director of Goodnight Horsemanship. She is best known as host of Horse Master, which aired weekly on RFD-TV for eleven years. Julie’s clear and humorous teaching style and her enlightening insights on horse behavior, inspire and educate audiences everywhere. A certified Master Clinician, Julie travels the globe teaching riders and giving horse training demonstrations. She’s a published author with a syndicated column, a monthly blog and podcast, a keynote speaker, and is an active social media influencer. Julie is CEO of 2Horse Productions, an equine, nature and adventure lifestyle production company. Goodnight is the recipient of the Exceptional Equine Educator Award and CHA’s Partner in Safety Award, and resides on her horse farm in the mountains of Colorado.

Tanya “T” Cody is Lead Clinician and Program Director for Goodnight Horsemanship’s in-person programs. She has worked alongside Julie for more than 25 years as a colleague, assistant clinician, producer, and on-camera talent, and Julie chose her to carry the Goodnight Horsemanship teaching forward. T has a long history with both Goodnight Horsemanship and C Lazy U. She brings decades of broad-based horsemanship experience and a clear, practical, upbeat teaching style to riders of all levels and disciplines. Her instruction emphasizes safety, confidence, clarity, kindness, and practical horsemanship that helps riders better understand their horses.