Adaptive Riding

Hope Reins offers adaptive riding lessons to a wide range of individuals with special needs. Our PATH Intl. Certified instructors have years of experience, and each of them have a sincere desire to see living hope restored in people’s lives through the use of horses.

Adaptive riding is designed to benefit a rider’s 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. Though this service is not considered a medically prescribed physical, occupational, or speech therapy, it does provide physical and mental benefits. These lessons also provide the rider the ability to enjoy God’s Creation in a peaceful and rustic atmosphere.

Our therapeutic riding instructors are certified through PATH Intl.’s year-long certification program. Through this program, our instructors have gained more in-depth knowledge on horsemanship and disabilities, as well as safety and other guidelines stipulated by PATH Intl. that pertain to the adaptive riding industry.