Video is a powerful learning tool for dressage
In support of Rien van der Schaft (DressagePro.nl), Jane Karol explains why video is such a powerful learning tool in dressage. Watch...
Equine Facilitated Therapy for Complex Trauma (EFT-CT)
Check out the new article Jane co-authored with a team from Justice Resource Institute (JRI) on how Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy...
5 Steps to Let Your Dressage Horse Train You
Dressage Today Magazine - http://dressagetoday.com/instruction/5-steps-to-let-your-dressage-horse-train-you Learn how to feel what your...
Helping Children Develop Empathy Through Therapeutic Riding
One of the skills essential to mental health is the ability to access empathy and compassion for others and ourselves. Without empathy...
Can a Pony Help With a Terrifying Giant Within
Before I begin work with a child, adolescent or adult I have a “consult” meeting to describe what this odd therapy is like. I give the...
How Horses Help Children with ADHD
It is often difficult for people (clinicians, parents, equestrians, etc.) to picture the way I use horses and ponies as co-therapists to...
Crossing the Bridge from Horses to Humans
Our interactions with our horses can teach us important things about how we might better interact with humans. While there a plenty of...
How Horses Can Help Change Our Self-Perceptions
The most common way we organize our thoughts and experiences is through language. Our perceptions of ourselves both influence and are...
Farewell to Jake
My remarkable therapy horse Jake has been my co-therapist for 16 years. He was five when I bought him. I almost didn’t consider him...
The Power of Riding: Heart, Brain and Body
I am constantly asking myself what it is about the human/horse relationship that can be so profound. A few years ago I worked with a...