| Our Therapeutic Riding Program
We give individuals with disabilities the opportunity to participate in physical activity and recreation, to reach inside themselves to achieve their potential.
Our therapeutic riding program can provide healthy exercise for individuals living with disabilities and improve quality of life through participation in an activity that challenges capabilities and instills a sense of accomplishment
Our program is based on 9 week lesson sessions. Each lesson program is individually tailored to our clients goals. Progress reports can be provided quarterly to individuals, families and caregivers. The intention of this integrated approach is to carry over the benefits of therapeutic riding into the students’ daily lives.
Our therapeutic riding program can create ripple-effects into other aspects of daily living-promoting confidence and independence, improving communication skills and peer interaction, enhancing concentration and memory, stimulating cognitive thinking and problem-solving, and providing achievable-and ever-increasing-goals.
The mother of one of our student’s writes:
“Christy was a foster child at age 4 ½. She had scissor legs. She was diagnosed as Progressive Le Amelia Spastic Paraplegia. The Doctors at Children’s Hospital said as soon as her legs got to a certain growth level they would cut through her bones in her upper thighs, they were straightened when she was about 10 years old. They gave her leg braces and the improvement was so great, but her balance was so off it was hard for her to walk. Children’s Hospital recommended the Horse Therapy. The walking and swaying gate of the horse took the curve back and straightened up her sway back, plus the self-esteem she got from not looking so awkward put her life in a different light. She been with the Horse Therapy for 15 years, and is well adjusted mentally. Christy comes to Bonita Equestrian for quality of life therapeutic riding. She smiles and smiles when she rides her horse on trail rides which benefits her in her daily living actives.”
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