PASTURE PALS/Free horses to good homes: we have several horses that are free to good homes. See Sale Horse page for more info.

We Rescue Horses, train, take care of their medical needs & rehome and sell them, or will take donations for them. See Rescue Horses for more.

Job Opening! We are currently looking for working student, part-time catch rider and/or part-time instructor, see Job Opening page for more info.

Icssoma Farm is a full range equestrian facility nestled in a serene country setting. We offer lessons, training, mini lessons, Pony parties, summer camps, and sales. Our focus is on dressage and jumping with a natural horse training perspective.
Boarding is available for students and horses in training.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS:

Susan Jan Hornstein serves as our head instructor. She has been a dressage and event rider over the last 25 years. Since 1978 she has taught hundreds of students. She currently teaches and trains from her stables in Sebastopol while regularly teaching clinics in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has a successful show career in dressage and eventing. Her students have shown successfully in the dressage, event, and hunter/jumper areas.

"I have ridden with numerous clinicians and Olympians, but I drive four hours to ride with Susan Jan. She was able to restore my confidence and skills, and put the joy back in my riding and training. Anyone would be lucky to ride with her ." "My first experience with Susan Jan was as an adult beginner. She is extraordinarily insightful and sensitive to the unique challenges with which adult learners struggle. Her tenacity and dedication to my success and mastery of the skill and the fine art of classical riding have persisted to this day, 15 years later."

–Mary Fallon, Student

"As a student, I not only feel safe, but honored and respected. Susan Jan is the finest trainer I have ever encountered in the past forty years." "My horse went through a major transformation in the first two weeks of training."

–Judith Plant, student

"My skill level and confidence has improved immensely through Susan Jan's instruction. I highly recommend her to any level student"

–Diane Perro, student

"No one could be more sensitive to the client and the horse"

–M. Bishop, Rohnert Park