Equine Assisted Sensory and Relaxation Exercises
Learn breathing, grounding and sensory exercises with horses to enhance relaxation and promote connection.
Equine Assisted Sensory and Relaxation Exercises free download
Learn breathing, grounding and sensory exercises with horses to enhance relaxation and promote connection.
Are you a professional who works with horses and people and you want ideas for sensory integration or relaxation activities that you can incorporate into sessions with clients? Perhaps you are a horse owner who just wants to find out how to relax and connect with your horse. Whoever you are, this course can provide you with a toolkit of exercises to try.
Horses are the best purpose-made sensory apparatus in the world. They provide stimulation for all the senses. Their bodies have so many variations of temperature and texture that we cannot help but touch them. Their coat colour, physical form and movement draws the eye effortlessly. They even come with their own in-built olfactory stimulation. No one spends time around horses without noticing a few unique smells! Being on a moving horse or learning to move a horse from the ground provides some heavy-duty proprioceptive and vestibular sensory input too.
We think of sensory input as something that people with learning or processing difficulties need but actually all people need and can benefit from sensory input. Sensory processing helps with new learning. If there is a breakdown in this process, people may not respond appropriately to the information they are receiving. Many ‘behavioural problems’ actually come from a craving for sensory input. Equine assisted practitioners and horse owners can make use of these simple sensory integration activities and exercises.
