Horse Play at Mountain Spring Farm

Horse Play Equine-Assisted Learning for Children

Some of the most important things a child can learn don't happen in a classroom.

They happen in a pasture, on a quiet morning, in the presence of a horse who responds not to what you say but to who you are.

Horse Play is an individual equine-assisted experience for children that uses the relationship between child and horse as a living classroom for emotional awareness, self-discovery, and the kind of confidence that comes from being truly seen.

Sessions are not about riding or horsemanship. They are about relationship. Relating with the horse, and with yourself. Within that relationship, something remarkable tends to happen naturally: children become more aware of their emotions, more compassionate, more communicative, more themselves.

Each session runs approximately one hour with Julie and one or more horses from our herd, in our round pen or horse activity pasture.

"My son looked forward to going to the farm with the horses and Julie more than any other activity in his week. He could have had a bad day at school, but the environment at the farm seemed to soothe him and he always left with a smile on his face." — Mother of a past participant

"I just love Nate!" — participant