Stable Insights (Equine Assisted Learning)
Pony Power Therapies has identified a need for an equine assisted activity program that allows participants to work with our therapy horses in a safe, nurturing environment. After ten years of experience working with horses in the therapeutic environment, Pony Power’s staff of equine specialists and social workers have customized a treatment program utilizing the vast benefits of equine assisted activities on the ground and in a paddock.
Benefits:
- Working with horses provides an emotional benefit we have come to associate with therapeutic riding programs.
- Participants come away with enhanced self-awareness, mental clarity and the ability to set healthy boundaries.
- Participants gain insights into habitual patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving that no longer serve them and experience how possible AND powerful it is to change those patterns that keep them from thriving at home and at work.
Why Horses are SO Good at This:
- As prey animals, horses are incredibly sensitive to our intentions.
- Horses can read our heart rates, muscle tension and breathing from 30 feet away because in nature, their survival depends upon it.
- If we’re grounded and clear, they’re free to engage with us.
- If we send them mixed messages and they have a choice, they’ll move away.
- As most horse people know, “How they feel is what they do.” So, they let us (and our participants) know exactly how we’re coming across by what they “tell” us with their bodies.
- Horses are also incredibly generous and patient. They don’t have egos, judgments or hidden agendas so people who carry invisible wounds can trust them.
- Available as group or private sessions, and recommended in a series of six.