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- Certification & Instructor Training
- Teaching
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- Disabilities
- Horse Management
- Veterans
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- Links to interesting articles
Certification & Instructor Training
- When To Quit
- Watching A Therapeutic Riding Lesson
- The Next Step: Advanced Instructor Certification
- Teaching Your First Therapeutic Riding Lesson
- Should I get Certified?
- Overwhelmed with Instructor Training
- New Page for Certification & Lesson Planning
- Long Distance Mentoring and Certification
- Keep a Notebook and the Self Evaluation
- Instructor Certification Scholarship
- How to Supplement Preparation for Instructor Certification with Video Practice
- How to start preparing for PATH Intl Instructor Certification
- How to become a Certified Therapeutic Horseback Riding Instructor
- The Lesson Plan – Detailed
- The Lesson Plan – Basic
- The Intake Assessment
- The First Lesson
- The Cool Down & Review
- Teaching The Skill
- Riding Lesson Planning – template by Amanda
- Mini Lesson Plans
- Lesson Planning: The Practice & Activity
- Lesson Plan Template
- Lesson Plan Series: Trail
- Lesson Plan & Evaluation Templates
- Lengthening and Shortening Lesson Plan and Evaluation
- Intake Assessment II
- Incorporating Life Goals Into Riding Lessons
- How to Mount and Dismount
- How to Lesson Plan and Create Game Ideas
- Goals & Objectives
- Gingerbread Man Lesson Plan
- GallopNYC’s resource for Rainy Day Activities & Groundwork Lesson Plans
- Feed the Horses Activity and Lesson Plan
- EAL Activities from HorsePowerTR
- Creating SMART Goals
- Components of a Great Lesson
- Warm Ups
- Up Up Down
- Improving the Seat
- Fun Video Friday: Exercises for Balance
- Eric Carle Animal Warm Ups
- Clips for Exercises and Steering
- Change of Bend Exercise
- Annie’s Warm Ups and Exercises
- Adaptations and Teaching Techniques for Riders with Severe Disabilities, Part 4: Skills & Activities
- Activity Ideas
- A Few Links – Bombproof, Ground Pole Exercise, Games, Clicker Training, Gift List!
- 5-5-5 Repetitions
- Zigzag Cone Pattern Progressions for Lateral Balance
- Trotting Pattern
- Trot down center line to Halt at X
- Trail Pattern & Leg Yield
- Trail Lesson Plan 2 & The Gate
- Trail Lesson Plan 1
- Trail Class, Obstacles and Patterns
- T Ground Poles Activities
- Stations
- Special Olympics Trail Pattern 1
- Special Olympics 2016 Trail Course & Barrel Pattern
- Simple Steering Patterns
- Shapes Pattern
- Riding a straight line to 3 trot poles
- Patterns and Stations
- Patterns 2.0 – for both horse and rider
- Outside Rein & Diamond Pattern
- Obstacle Course Shapes
- Obstacle Course + Grooming Tools
- Lesson Plan: Butterfly Pattern for Woah and Direct Rein Steering
- Gymkhana Lesson 4: The Flag Race & The Egg and Spoon Class
- Gymkhana Lesson 3: Cloverleaf Barrels…and a Circle Exercise!
- Gymkhana Lesson 2: Pole Bending, Washington Poles, Butterfly Poles
- Gymkhana Lesson 1: Single Barrel, Turn N Burn, Birangle
- Gymkhana Games and Patterns
- Ground Pole Patterns
- Figure X Pattern for Sitting and Posting Trot
- Figure 8s Gymkhana Pattern
- Cone Weaving Pattern
- Circle Exercises for Steering, Rating Speed, Bending and Canter Departs
- Bending and Straightening Activity
- Arena Figures
- 6 Step Pattern
- 5 Basic Patterns
- 4 Part Pattern
- 4 Obstacle Course Patterns
- 3 Step Pattern
- “Outdoor Trail” Lesson Plan 2 & The Branch
- “Outdoor Trail” Lesson Plan 1
- When to Use Games (and When Not To)
- Unmounted Horsemanship Activity Ideas
- TR Games Book – “Games for All Seasons”
- The Ultimate List of Equine Groundwork Lesson Activities
- The Train Direction Change Activity
- The Pony Express
- The Laundry Game
- The Honey Bear Obstacle Course
- The Dice Game I
- The Barn Map Game
- The 6 Stations Activity
- Teddy Bear Picnic / Weaving / Serpentines
- Tactile Activity Book
- Simon Says
- Sensory Boards
- Senior Citizen Program Activities (groundwork)
- Save the Babies Game
- Saddle Parts Game
- Rings Games
- Red Light Green Light Extreme
- Rainy Day Activities
- Prop Ideas: Barrel Extender & Pony Express Mailbox
- Pony Picnic
- Ping Pong Pow Game
- Off Horse Activities
- Nan’s Games and Activities
- Music in Lessons
- Mother’s Day Activities for Therapeutic Horseback Riding
- Matching Games
- Magnet Groom & Tack Games
- Magnet Farm Animals Game
- List of Games for Therapeutic Riding
- Lessons In TR Activities Book Is Now For Sale!
- Lesson Plan: Matching Cards & Pole Weaving Activity
- Horse Trivia Game
- Horse Skeleton Parts Puzzle
- Horse Parts Puzzle
- Horse Parts Games
- Horse Parts & Colors
- Horse Parts
- Horse Football
- Horse Camp Ideas
- Horse Bridle Parts Puzzle
- Horse Breeds Game
- Horse and Tack Parts
- Holly’s Horses (Activities with Plastic Horses)
- Halt Between the Poles Activity
- Halloween Horse Costume Matching Cards Game
- Groundwork Activities for Grooming, Tacking and Leading
- Grooming Tools & Tack Games
- Grooming Supplies Game
- Gingerbread Man Lesson Plan
- Games 4.0
- Games 3.0
- Games 2.0
- Game: The Barn and The Hut
- Game: Horse Basketball Drills
- Game: Character Cups
- Fun Video Friday: Teaching Children to Train Ponies
- Free Time During Riding Lessons
- Four Corners
- Flower Pot Game
- Fishing Games
- Fish Camp Activity
- Feed the Horses Activity and Lesson Plan
- Equine Assisted Activities for Peace and Reflection
- Crack the Code Game
- Christmas Garland Activity
- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Lesson Plan
- Carrie’s Treasure Chest of Activities
- Calf Roping Game
- Book Winner! + Halloween Matching Cards
- Birthday Scavenger Hunt
- Birthday Game
- Ball, Egg and Spoon for Steering Using Your Legs
- Annie’s Therapeutic Riding Mounted Activities
- Alphabet Animals Game
- Activity Ideas
- 4 Ground/EAL Activities
- Witch Hats Halloween Game
- Valentines Activities 2.0
- Valentine’s Day Games
- The 6 Stations Activity – Holiday Version!
- Thanksgiving Turkey Activities
- St Paddy’s Day Activities
- Spring Activities
- Secret Santa
- Pumpkin Game
- Pumpkin Activities
- Holiday Game: Over the River
- Halloween Games
- Christmas Matching Game
- Christmas Games on Horseback
- Christmas Games from Nan
- Christmas Games
- Candy Cane Game
- Autumn Leaf Activity
- Autumn Games
- “5 Themed Lesson Plans that Work” article
- Working With Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
- When To Use A Bareback Pad in Therapeutic Riding
- The Horse’s Movement and Therapeutic Riding
- TBI Adaptations for Therapeutic Riding
- Order of Mounting and Dismounting Riders
- L’Apogee Lambskin Bareback Pad
- Dear Reader: Ladder Reins
- Cortical Visual Impairment Adaptations
- Adaptive Equipment
- A Modified Independent Mount
- What to Teach – Riding Skills List
- What to Teach – Horsemanship and Groundwork Skills
- Using your body to steer, and stabilizing the hands
- Two Point Lesson Plan
- Tips & Quips: for Basic Riding Skills
- Theories on Riding Progression
- The Release: Lesson Plan for Group with Cognitive Disabilities
- The Purpose Behind Thumbs Up
- The Natural Aids
- Teaching the Canter tips from Julie Goodnight
- Stride Lengthening at the Walk: Lesson Plan for Group with Physical Disabilities
- Slow Down and Speed Up (Rating Speed)
- Skills: Basic Hand position
- Skills List
- Skills Articles
- Skill: Timing the Application of Aids
- Sitting Trot: Lesson Plan by Linda
- Seat Aids – to energize & slow down
- Resources from the Special Olympics website
- Quiet Hands
- Posting on the Correct Diagonal: Lesson Plan for Group with Cognitive Disabilities
- Posting on the Correct Diagonal
- Posting
- Mounting: Left vs. Right
- Mounting: Comfort vs. Independence
- Lesson Plan: Posting Trot
- Lesson Plan: Direct Rein Steering
- Lesson Plan for Walk Halt Transitions
- Leg Yield: Lesson Plan for Group with Physical Disabilities
- Leading
- Independent Seat
- Improving the Seat
- How to Pick Up the Reins
- Heels Down
- Hand Position and Stabilizing Exercise
- Hand Position and Independent Seat tips
- Good Hands and Arms
- Fun Video Friday: Tips on Contact by Jane Savoie
- Fun Video Friday: The Sitting Trot
- Fun Video Friday: Rein Connection at the Trot
- Fun Video Friday: Posture
- Fun Video Friday: Posting Trot and Diagonals
- Fun Video Friday: Leg Aids
- Fun Video Friday: How to Use Your Seat to Ride
- Fun Video Friday: How to Canter
- Fun Video Friday: Exercises for Balance
- Fun Video Friday: Cloverleaf Pattern for Inside and Outside Rein
- Fun Video Friday: Ahead of and Behind the Motion
- For a Rocking Upper Body: Beanie Babies on Shoulders
- Feel The Horse’s Footsteps
- Extending and Shortening the Walk (again!)
- Correcting a Rocking Upper Body
- Change of Rein
- Bending at the Walk: Lesson Plan for Group with Physical Disabilities
- Bareback Riding
- 3 Step Turn – direct rein steering, bending
- Your motivation for teaching
- What To Do: Responding to Challenging Behaviours In Your Adaptive Riding Lesson
- Volunteer Selection For Horse and Rider
- Volunteer Management
- Visual Schedules
- Using the horse as a personality
- Turn ’em Loose
- Transferable Skills
- Token System Lesson Plan
- The Training Wheel
- The Silent Stop
- The Practice, Progression, and Activity
- The Practice Horse
- The importance of waiting
- The Impact of Horse Movement and Handling on the Rider
- The Equicube
- The Benefits of Therapeutic Riding and the Influences of the Horse
- Teaching Tips: Using Words
- Teaching Tips: Social Stories
- Teaching Tips: Social Skills
- Teaching Tips: Coaching Your Riders Through Their Big Emotions
- Teaching tips: Beginners
- Teaching tips: “First…then…”
- Teaching Tips III
- Teaching Tips II
- Teaching Tips I
- Teaching Tips for your Back Pocket
- Teaching Tips for Competence and Praises
- Teaching Tip: Use Beanie Babies
- Teaching the Skill 2.0: What, How, Why, Where
- Teaching Techniques: The Basics
- Teaching Techniques: Task Analysis
- Teaching Techniques: Hows & Whys
- Teaching Techniques: Effective Feedback
- Teaching Techniques: Communication Strategies
- Teaching Techniques: Arena Management
- Teaching From the Center of the Arena
- Teaching Competitive Game Skills
- Teach to the Highest Level
- Tattletale Reins
- Straddle the Horse
- Sharing Laughs and Singing Songs
- Selecting the Horse for a Rider with Disabilities
- Ring Stretches + A Good Example of Teaching
- Rider Asymmetry Article
- Reward the Try
- Responding to Transference: Opening up Relational Moments
- Reins on Halter vs. Bridle
- Region 5 2012 Handouts
- Record Keeping Introduction
- Q&A: Refusal to Mount
- Progress Notes
- Preventing Instructor Burnout
- Preparing for New Riders
- Praise vs. Acknowledgement
- Posture While Instructing Riding Lessons
- Podcasts: Learning while you drive (and ride!)
- Perspective
- Paying Attention
- Passive Learning vs. Active Learning
- Order of Mounting and Dismounting Riders
- Observing & Developing your eye
- Note Sheet for Observing a Lesson
- Multisensory Teaching Approaches For Adaptive Riding
- Methods of Record Keeping for EAAT
- Male vs Female Saddle Fit for EAAT
- Lessons from Sean Patrick
- Intentionally Compliment Your Students
- Instructor Training: Practice Teaching the Skill
- Instructing While Pregnant
- How To Talk To Your Students
- Horse Selection for Therapeutic Riding 2.0: Exceptions to the Rule
- Hit the Dirt Trophy
- Hierarchy of Support for Leaders & Sidewalkers
- Hierarchy of Prompts
- Helping Students Focus
- Group Arena Management
- Gallop NYC Volunteer Training Video – things to look out for as an instructor
- Fun Video Sunday: Leaning, Strong and Weak Sides
- Fun Video Friday: How Not to Teach a Lesson
- Fun Video Friday: Assisted Mount and Dismount Videos
- EAP Articles by Jane Karol
- Developing Empathy As An Adaptive or Therapeutic Riding Instructor
- Decision Making Skills
- Data Tracking
- Consistent vs. Changing Lesson Plans
- Communication Tools & Strategies
- Colored Wristband for Right & Left
- Colored Arena Letters
- Clips for Good Behavior
- Clips for Exercises and Steering
- Assessments
- Arena Letter Memorization
- Arena Etiquette & Protocol
- Advance Your Skills
- Addressing Volunteers
- About Asking Questions
- A word of encouragement
- A Few Links – Falling Off, Teaching Tips, Saddle Pads, On the Bit, Safety
- 99 Ways to Say “Good Job”
- “PATH Intl’s What, Why and How Method” Handout
- Working With Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
- Weak Sides and Adaptations
- Vision Therapy and Riding
- Speech Disabilities in Therapeutic Riding
- Riders with Autism Part 8 – Medical Info and More Ideas
- Riders with Autism Part 7 – Teen and Adult Riders with Autism
- Riders with Autism Part 6 – Behavior Management and Meltdowns
- Riders with Autism Part 5 – Communication Techniques
- Riders with Autism Part 4 – Teaching Techniques
- Riders with Autism Part 3 – Lesson Planning & Activities
- Riders with Autism Part 2 – Preparation
- Riders with Autism Part 1 – Understanding Autism
- Rett Syndrome
- Movement Development and Stability
- Lesson Eval of a Rider with CP
- Language Delays Part 3 – The Importance of Play
- Language Delays Part 2 – Responsive Communication
- Language Delays Part 1 – The Stages of Communication
- Fun Video Friday: The Aspergers “Sensory Funnel”
- Fun Video Friday: Breaking through autism
- Fun Video Friday: “Imagine What It’s Like to Have High Functioning Autism”
- Free Online “Perspectives on Disability” Class
- Example Rider: ASD & Low Self Confidence
- Disabilities Teaching Tips for Therapeutic Riding – 2015 PATH Intl Conf
- Dementia, Alzheimer’s, and Seniors
- Dementia Adaptations for Therapeutic Riding
- Dear Reader: Prosthetic Limbs
- Communication Techniques for Low/Nonverbal Riders
- ASD Behavioral Communication Article
- ADHD Tips
- Adaptations and Teaching Techniques for Riders with Severe Disabilities, Part 6: Example Riders, Cont.
- Adaptations and Teaching Techniques for Riders with Severe Disabilities, Part 5: Example Riders
- Adaptations and Teaching Techniques for Riders with Severe Disabilities, Part 4: Skills & Activities
- Adaptations and Teaching Techniques for Riders with Severe Disabilities, Part 3: Cognitive Challenges
- Adaptations and Teaching Techniques for Riders with Severe Disabilities, Part 2: Physical Challenges
- Adaptations and Teaching Techniques for Riders with Severe Disabilities, Part 1: Introduction
- Veterans: “Recon: Unbridled” Documentary and Article
- Veterans Stories
- Veterans Program Resources
- Veterans Program Business Plan
- Veterans Insight
- UC Davis Hooves for Heroes program
- Skills Curriculum for Veterans Program
- Radio Interview: A Struggle with PTSD
- Instructing Veterans in Therapeutic Riding
- A Few Links – Honoring Veterans
- Year End Evaluation and New Year Goals
- Wound Care Articles
- When To Cancel Riding Lessons Due To Cold
- Welcome!
- Tips for the CTRI Maintenance Process & Test
- Time Management, Part 3: Lesson Timing
- Time Management, Part 2: Tips and Techniques
- Time Management, Part 1: Perspective
- Therapeutic Carriage Driving Lesson Plans
- Thankful Quote
- Terminology II – “The New Optimal Terminology for Services that Incorporate Horses to Benefit People”
- Terminology
- Staying Involved in EAAT When You’re Not Instructing
- Sensory Trail Resources
- Sensory Trail Ideas
- Sensory Trail
- Riding Helmets vs. Bike Helmets
- Review of the ATR Webinar “In Case You’re Not A Doctor”
- Review of “Ground School Curriculum” by EAAT Curriculums
- Resource: PATH Intl. Equine Managers Facebook Group
- Program Sustainability Concepts
- Program Retreat to the National Abilities Center
- Pool Noodle Stick Horses
- Pony Sock Puppets
- PATH Intl Virtual Conference!
- Notes – Diet, Bone Adaptation, Infectious Disease Control
- Newborn horses give clues to autism
- Movement Development, revisited
- Monthly Themes
- Managing Horses in the Heat Wave
- LessonsInTR Holiday Wishlist
- Lessons in TR Pinterest Board
- Instructor Scholarship!
- In Memory
- How To Transfer Your Blog From WordPress to GoDaddy
- How to Start a Therapeutic Riding Program
- How to Repair a Horse Blanket
- How to Make Your Blog Pay for Itself
- How to Balance Being a Riding Instructor and Having Kids
- How much weight can a horse carry?
- How Instructing Therapeutic Riding Has Helped Me Be A Better Parent
- Horse Birthday & Treat Recipes for Fine Motor Skills
- Helmet Safety
- Gone on Vacation
- GallopNYC ASD Transition Job Skills Study
- Gallop NYC Volunteer Training Video – things to look out for as an instructor
- Fun Video Friday: What do horses think?
- Fun Video Friday: War Horse the broadway
- Fun Video Friday: Tonk and the Grizzly Bear
- Fun Video Friday: Tack Checks
- Fun Video Friday: Stuff Riders Say
- Fun Video Friday: Stadium Jumping from the Rider’s Perspective
- Fun Video Friday: Rabbit Jumping
- Fun Video Friday: Mini Lion
- Fun Video Friday: How horses eat their food
- Fun Video Friday: Getting your horse to lower its head
- Fun Video Friday: Clydesdales
- Fun Video Friday: Bareback Jumping
- Fun Foto Friday
- Favorite Quotes
- Extraordinary Horses
- Extra Large Helmets
- Equine Therapy Horse Care Standards
- Equine Spa Currying Sessions
- Dear Reader: Instructors with physical limitations
- Crafts for Rainy Day or Horse Camp
- Book Review: The Tale of the Dancing Slaughter Horse
- Book Review: “Hooked: Lessons of the Heart From a Little Horse in Cabo”
- Book Giveaway! “Joey: How a Blind Rescue Horse Helped Others Learn to See”
- Book & Facebook!
- Alternative Programming During COVID: Renew Educational Camp
- A Few Links – Pole Work, Core Exercises, CHA book, 2016 Conference Handouts
- 2022 State of the Blog Report
- 2018 State of the Blog Report
- 2017 State of the Blog Report
- 2016 State of the Blog Report
- 2015 State of the Blog Report
- 2014 State of the Blog Report
- 2014 PATH Intl Conference VIDEOS!
- 2013 Wrap Up
- 2012 Wrap Up
- COVID-19 Resources for Adaptive and Therapeutic Horseback Riding
- A Few Links: Resources, PTSD in kids, The Green Barn, Inventions, Good Reads
- A Few Links: Resources, Leg Position, Seat, and Ideas
- A Few Links: Recommended Blogs
- A Few Links: March 2019
- A Few Links: EAAT blog, podcast, activities, State of the Blog, and CTRI Transition
- A Few Links & Updates
- A Few Links – Veterans, Disability Etiquette, Posture Chart, Tack Cleaning, Perspective
- A Few Links – Safety, Memorials, Horse care, Amputees
- A Few Links – Programs, Gloves, Trot Poles, Transition Exercises, The Aids
- A few links – Knees, Hips, Fear, Skills List
- A Few Links – Farm tour, Trotting, Poles, Trail Patterns
- A Few Links – Fall ideas, Leg yield, Turning aids, Teaching kids
- A Few Links – Diversity in the Equine and EAAT Industry
- A Few Links – Books, Newsletters, Trailers, Whoa, One Stirrup, & Turning Aids
- A Few Links – Bombproof, Ground Pole Exercise, Games, Clicker Training, Gift List!
- A Few Links – Autism, Turned Out Toes, Skills Resources, Great Instruction
- A Few Links – “Joey” Raffle Winners, leg to hand, sitting trot, a good seat, on the bit
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What a wonderful resource! Glad I stumbled upon this!! Thank you!
I’ve shared this with all our instructors! Thanks!
This website is awesome! I am recently certified and so excited to utilize this site for my program! What a great idea!
Thanks!
Heather
Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada
This website is wonderful! I have just stepped out on my on as an instructor and this is a great help. I have found myself with alot more autistic students, it’s all been a wonderful blessing. I can’t wait to see where God leads us! I do have a question, I have a 3.5 year old student, that tends to have bursts of energy and his eyes wander, any suggestions on ideas for an hour lesson? I’ve incoroprated games, but I don’t want it to get boring. Thank you and God bless!
Thanks for the compliments, I’m glad the blog is helpful 🙂 An hour long lesson can be long for those little guys, they get bored fast. I would use short games alternated with trotting. You can also spend time at the beginning grooming the horse, and help lead the horse out to the lesson, and help lead the horse back to the stall when they’re done, even if it’s just a little ways or you are carrying them while they hold the lead rope. If you have access to going on a trail ride those are wonderful as well. If he is in other therapies you could inquire with his primary therapist what goals they are working on and activities they are using, to keep things similar and give you new ideas. I hope that helps! Let me know if you have any good breakthrough ideas as I’d love to post about them!
Hi Cindy,
I’ve been subscribed to your blog for more than a year now, as my long term goal is to set up a small therapeutic riding program in rural New South Wales, Australia. I have now just found the time to methodically go through your blog and print out sections for future reference. Its is truly a great resource.
Hi Heidi, thanks for your comment! I’m so glad you find the blog helpful. It’s fun to hear that people read it from the other side of the planet! I wish you the best of luck starting up your program! Cindy
Thanks for your articles – they are all very informatable and great ideas!
What a wealth of information! Thank you for doing this. I’m headed to my PATH Certification next week and this has been a great resource.
Awesome resource page… thank you.
Cindy, I really don’t no how to thank you. I appreciate your hard work and your time to give us this wonderful resource. I am a psychologist who interested in becoming a therapeutic riding instructor in Saudi Arabia. I found your blog very helpful and I am glad that we have you! God bless you.
Thank you so much for your comment, that means a lot to me! It is so neat to hear from people in other countries. I wish you all the best in Saudi Arabia.