How to Support Your Local Riding Center
You do not need deep pockets or a free weekend to keep a riding center running. A wish-list item, a shared post, an afternoon at a fundraiser — here are the many ways to help, big and small.
Camille Iwata
The Physical Benefits of Equine-Assisted Therapy
A walking horse asks the body for hundreds of tiny adjustments. Within skilled care, that movement may support balance, posture, and coordination — here is what it helps with, and what the evidence shows.
Progression in Equine-Assisted Programs
Good programs never push. They add one small challenge at a time — a faster step, a tighter turn, a single ground pole — only when both rider and horse are ready. Here is how it works.
A Non-Clinical Guide to Equine-Assisted Activities
You do not need a diagnosis, experience, or even much confidence to spend time with horses. Here is how to tell whether non-clinical equine activities are the right fit for you — before you ever set foot in the barn.
CanTRA: Canada’s Home for Therapeutic Riding Education and Standards
If a Canadian riding centre calls itself accredited, one national charity stands behind that word. Since 1980, CanTRA has set the standards, trained the instructors, and vouched for the programs.
History of Animal-Assisted Activities: From Moral Treatment to Modern Practice
Two hundred years before anyone called it therapy, a Quaker asylum kept rabbits on its lawns because the patients seemed calmer around them. The rest is a slow, surprising history.