New Hope therapeutic horseback riding center provides lessons and teaches riding skills or ground work skills to participants aged 4 to 90+. Our program is designed for people with physical, cognitive, emotional, and developmental disabilities.
At New Hope every participant is treated with dignity and encouraged to reach previously unattainable goals. The walking motion of a horse results in 100+ balance adjustments per minute. These adjustments strengthen the core, aiding balance ... Read More
New Hope therapeutic horseback riding center provides lessons and teaches riding skills or ground work skills to participants aged 4 to 90+. Our program is designed for people with physical, cognitive, emotional, and developmental disabilities.
At New Hope every participant is treated with dignity and encouraged to reach previously unattainable goals. The walking motion of a horse results in 100+ balance adjustments per minute. These adjustments strengthen the core, aiding balance and posture. A strong core helps respiration and circulation, appetite and digestion, sensory integration, muscle tone, strength & stamina, endurance, and relaxation. Riders with physical disabilities have freedom of movement; as the horse moves, so does the rider. On the back of a horse, riders have a level of freedom from crutches, wheelchairs, and braces.
Directing a thousand pound horse successfully builds self esteem and confidence. As riders learn to communicate with their horse, they are learning patience, self-discipline, and the emotional control riding requires.
Students see improvements in visual memory, sequencing, patterning and motor-planning, problem solving, spatial relationships, strengthens ability to follow directions, and improved eye-hand coordination.
Therapeutic horseback riding is proven to be a highly motivational therapy because it is fun!
New Hope’s Horses Helping Heroes program offers a progressive therapeutic horsemanship program for military personnel, veterans, and first responders, especially those experiencing symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress.
Horses have shown the ability to read, understand, and relay emotional and physical stresses that people are experiencing. That ability to reflect and relay emotions creates an environment between horse and handler where individuals are able to build a stronger sense of security, confidence, and strengthening of coping mechanisms. To help create that environment, New Hope employs both Natural Horsemanship and Horse Speak philosophies.
New Hope’s Horses Helping Heroes program focuses on participants learning to be an active communicator, not a reactive handler. During this process the horse’s ability to read, understand, and relay emotional and physical stresses that people are experiencing provides an opportunity for the participant to naturally find the truth and reality of their own actions and reactions, discoverable by reason and derived from the nature of the horse.
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