The concept of Healing Horses is based on a synthesis of physiotherapy, psychology, encounter therapy, bodywork, healing pedagogy and many more.

Therapeutic riding - as a complete experience-oriented concept - affects all the senses and many areas of life. The focus is on individual support for the child/youth/adult, through the various possible applicability of the horse. Here, the main activity does not stop with riding and assisted riding, but also covers work with the horse from the ground, group and movement games, as well as partner exercises, relaxation and perception on top - and through - the horse.

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Therapeutic pedagogical support through horses is primarily based on the needs of children/adolescents/adults for fundamental experiences such as carrying, warmth, closeness, relationships and the desire for movement and the need for own actions.

Therapeutic riding includes a wide variety of methods such as systemic awareness, social group work, experiential pedagogy, play, nature experience and animal pedagogy.

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The range of services is constantly expanding: in addition to on-site therapeutic riding, equine-assisted therapies are added (where possible) in nursing homes as well as in homes for people with special needs.

 

In the person of Nadia Reid, you have an equine assisted therapist on your side who is trained and certified in the fields of

• pedagogy

• psychology

• physical therapy.

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Riding therapy is applicable to all age groups (1 to 100 years) with pedagogical, orthopedic, neurological as well as psychological and psychiatric aspects and pathologies.

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A therapeutic treatment plan may include individual or group practice as well as perception exercises on or with the horse.

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Nadia Reid has several years of experience as a natural horsemanship horse trainer, and as a riding therapist she is additionally certified in horsemanship, care, training and veterinary maintenance of therapy horses, their diseases and biomechanics, as well as equikinetics.

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Through well known and modern techniques that target the subconscious and conscious mind you an opportunity is created for long-lasting change of trauma-based challenges from a time of your life, that has shaped your view of self and the world.​

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In other words, you will learn to read your very own rule book of life, that was written by your early childhood experiences and conditioning.

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Once your understand the foundation, from which your personal emotion, thought and behaviour originate, you have the choice to begin a slow but steady journey towards eliminating what's causing you to self-sabotage, procrastinate and suffer in your relationships - in all areas of life.

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The science based tools you will receive at the Academy will empower you to

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1. recognise: learned patterns of behaviour that have turned into instinctive reactions

 

2. understand: the root causes of "Why I am feeling the way I am feeling?

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2. receive: a unique and individual program to help you solve those specific root causes

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3. reprogram and detach: unhealthy patterns from your behavioural reservoir

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4. transform limiting belief patterns, so they no longer define your everyday emotions and actions.

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Nadia Reid is certified as an Integrated attachment theory therapist, which includes her education and practice in

• cognitive behavioral therapy

• NLP, somatic therapy

• systematic desensitization

• emotional trauma work

• shadow work.