EQUESTRIAN THERAPY

(this a approximative traduction of our french definition of equestrian therapy)

That is, the utilization of the horsemanship as therapeutic application. This while taking account of difficulties and the rider's handicap.

To horse, the individual is respected in his/her/its expressions:

- MOTRICITY

- EMOTIONAL

- CEREBRAL

The equestrian Therapy has for objective to bring the rider to be most active possible while asking him to put acts and to exercise an influence on the horse.

The equestrian Therapy also offers him the possibility to live in better conditions, to discover the pleasure, to reach the relation to the other, to acquire a bigger independence,

Sittings:

In a first time, sittings are individual. This in order to value the potential and needs of the person bet in saddle.

In a second time, if the aimed objectives ask for it, sittings can make themselves in group.

The hold in charge made the object of a contract with interested parties.

Horses:

If the horse remains a big and powerful animal, it is necessary to note however that horses put to our disposition are perfectly adapted to the use that we make some. Their features: Attentive, generous, tolerant and reflexive. (Handicap and horse)

The material:

For our horses, we use a standard material. Often surfaix of aerobatics, sometimes English saddle (mixed). We use some very soft mouths (rubber). A stool is often necessary to put in saddle people with whom we work. As regards to protections, we require the harbor of the bomb.

We begin to use the video as support.

Merry-go-rounds:

Several merry-go-rounds of our region (canton of Neuchâtel)  welcomes us and puts their infrastructures to our disposition.

Sittings can take place:

- inside.

- outside (on a square of schooling)

For whom:

The equestrian Therapy addresses himself to all people anxious to live a complicity, to lead a work with the horse to repulse limits imposed by their difficulties. The equestrian progression, to the strict sense, is not a goal in one.

We work with adults and children, their difficulties go from the physical handicap (cerebral motor infirmity, infirmities, malvoyance, etc..) to the psychic handicap (neurosis, psychosis, difficulty comportementale, anguishes). We also work with people victims of accident (road, illness,...)

The equestrian therapy indication can be given by a physician, parents, an institution either asked by the person herself.