Dr Anita Shkedi will discuss how clients can be helped to move from survival mode and avoidance towards positive thoughts and feelings, emphasizing how relationships with horses provide holistic healing for those who are suffering post trauma.
Coping with Covid in the saddle of a therapeutic horse
Coping with Covid in the saddle of a therapeutic horse
The Israel National Therapeutic Riding Association, marking 20 years in equine therapy, saw jump in demand during the pandemic.
Therapeutic riding continues at INTRA in Bnei Zion, Israel, even during the pandemic. Photo courtesy of INTRA
But months of the pandemic seclusion plunged Maxim into distress.
“Without INTRA or school, it reached a point where his mother was afraid he’d lost his ability to speak. It was heartbreaking,” says Yotam Sheffy, executive director of INTRA.
As soon as INTRA was permitted to resume sessions last November, Maxim got back on his beloved blue-eyed pinto, Starlight.