What We Do
Hope Reins in Texas is a 501c(3) non-profit equestrian center located in Bulverde, Texas. We serve the greater San Antonio, Boerne, and New Braunfels areas, desiring to provide professional equine assisted activities that reflect the living hope that we have found.
Hope Reins is a member of the Professional Association for Therapeutic Horsemanship (PATH Intl.), and our instructors are PATH certified. Learn more about our partners.
Our History.
The Hope Reins project launched in 2014 to establish a professional equestrian riding center. The project was designed to provide hope and encouragement by sharing and living-out compassion through the use of horses and God's Creation. Hope Reins now provides horseback riding lessons, therapeutic riding lessons, hippotherapy sessions, summer camps, and Bible retreats. In 2020, Hope Reins relocated to a new facility in the Spring Branch area on Tkohiah Ranch & Land (TRL).
Our Goal.
Hope Reins in Texas provides professional equine assisted activities such as hippotherapy and therapeutic riding lessons to individuals with special needs, as well as serve the needs of Wounded Warriors and their families by providing interactive activities designed for the restoration of the entire family. We also provide horse-back riding lessons for any persons desiring to learn the skills of riding a horse in a variety of disciplines and interests.
Our mission.
The equine assisted activities that we provide are intertwined with the intention of providing hope and joy to the clients, students, and their families that make up Hope Reins. This is done through the use of horses and God’s Creation as we strive to help others discover a living hope.
Our Services
Adaptive Riding Lessons
Adaptive lessons provided by Hope Reins are offered to individuals with special needs and Wounded Warriors in order to benefit their emotional, spiritual, physical, cognitive, and social well-being. In these lessons, the sport of riding and horsemanship are taught by certified professionals and adaptations are guided by our Director of Physical Therapy, Dr. Jessica Porter, DPT.
Horse-back Riding Lessons
Hope Reins provides horse-back riding lessons in support of the vision at Hope Reins. These lessons are available to family members of our special participants. We provide education in both English and Western riding disciplines and various sub-disciplines and activities.
Hippotherapy
Hippotherapy, deriving its name from the Greek word for horse (“hippo”), provides physical, occupational, or speech therapies with the assistance of equine movement. At Hope Reins, we provide physical therapy through our Director and Doctor of Physical Therapy.