The Starlight Awakening Ranch

          Starlight Ranch's Therapeutic Riding Center

Therapeutic Riding Center Provides: Therapeutic riding to children and adults with disabilities. Classes take place in an environment that emphasizes abilities rather than disabilities. Riding a horse gives something very profound to a person with disabilities. The feeling of achievement that comes from riding and maneuver a 1,100 pound horse is strong medicine. It turns defeat into victory, and self doubt into confidence.

Who can benefit: A therapeutic riding program can benefit children, youth and adults with physical, emotional and/or developmental disabilities. it improves the rider's physical health, by causing their tight muscles to relax, it increases their balance, it builds up their strength, it sharpens their hand/eye coordination, it improves their social skill, and the rider ends up gaining a sense of control and self-confidence and freedom they have never felt before.