Week by Week Healing: Consistent Equine-Assisted Solutions Year-Round
Regular, predictable time with equines changes individuals. Not overnight, not in one wonderful session, but in the quiet rhythm of showing up week after week. The barn scents the exact same, the gravel grinds the very same, and a gelding who viewed you from the much fence last Tuesday fulfills you at eviction this Tuesday. That type of uniformity is where therapeutic horsemanship and other equine-assisted solutions beam. The work is experiential and somatic, based in the p
Hands, Hooves, and Heart: Experiential Learning That Lasts
The gelding before me, a dewy-eyed sorrel with a crescent of white on his temple, is breathing like a bellows. Beside him, a teenager named Eli is working hard to be still. It is not working out. His feet touch a fast rhythm, his hands turn completion of a lead rope, his eyes skitter throughout the sector. I ask Eli what his breath is doing. He shrugs. The steed snorts and turns an ear toward him. We count together, 4 in, four out, and I reveal him how to widen his position