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Who Does StableStrides Serve?

Who Does StableStrides Serve?

by | Jan 23, 2020 | Uncategorized

There’s little else that needs to be said about horses helping people, but how do horses help individuals of different ages or abilities? It is believed that the origin of theory around horses helping people can be traced back to Hippocrates (460 BC-370 BC), an...
A Volunteer’s Perspective

A Volunteer’s Perspective

by | Jan 17, 2020 | Uncategorized

By: Vicki, StableStrides Volunteer One day about three years ago I drove past a pasture with several horses grazing. They reminded me of the horses I knew as a child, and I felt a longing to reconnect in some way with horses, something I did not think possible since I...
What is Hippotherapy?

What is Hippotherapy?

by | Jan 3, 2020 | Uncategorized

You may have caught on, hippotherapy doesn’t involve hippopotamuses. So, what gives?   Hippo is the Greek word for horse. Hippotherapy refers to how therapists incorporate equine movement purposefully as a therapy tool during treatment...

StableStrides In The News

by | May 8, 2019 | Uncategorized

StableStrides is striving not just to improve the lives of individuals in their community, ranging from children with physical adaptive needs to veterans and active-duty service members from nearby military installations, but to promote equine therapy as a whole for...

Exciting News…

by | Sep 18, 2018 | Uncategorized

Pikes Peak Therapeutic Riding Center is now StableStrides! As horse lovers, we know there’s something truly profound about a bond with a horse…and as we’ve witnessed over and over, these special animals are catalysts for healing and empowerment. For 37 years, Pikes...