{"id":1223,"date":"2007-10-09T19:26:09","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T12:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2007-10-09T19:26:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T12:26:09","slug":"using-horses-to-enhance-human-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/using-horses-to-enhance-human-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Using horses to enhance human health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<strong>Equine therapy gives kids confidence to deal with physical and emotional difficulties<\/p>\n<p>By Sarah Zabel, 14; Pratik Cherian, 16; Celia Ristow, 15; and Cathy Mangan, 17<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Strides to Success in Plainfield is one of 25 accredited equine-facilitated riding centers in Indiana. The center offers a wide variety of classes to school groups and private clients. They engage in programs that teach life skills and use equine-assisted psychotherapy to help clients.<\/p>\n<p>While horses and horseback riding play a major role in equine-assisted therapy, so does teaching and mentoring. Students learn to apply all these lessons to everyday life &#8212; often without realizing it is therapeutic or educational.<br \/>\n&#8220;A lot of the kiddos that we see, they&#8217;re in therapy three and four and five times a week, and they go to clinical settings, and this is the one place where they come and have fun,&#8221; said Raquel Ravinet, executive director at TherAplay, a nonprofit center in Carmel that is one of the largest of its kind in the country. &#8220;We don&#8217;t talk about what we&#8217;re going to do in therapy, how we&#8217;re going to use the movement of the horse. . . . It&#8217;s all, let&#8217;s play!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20071007\/OPINION03\/710070337\">click here\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Equine therapy gives kids confidence to deal with physical and emotional difficulties By Sarah Zabel, 14; Pratik Cherian, 16; Celia Ristow, 15; and Cathy Mangan, 17 Strides to Success in Plainfield is one of 25 accredited equine-facilitated riding centers in Indiana. The center offers a wide variety of classes to school groups and private clients. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}