Destiny's Ride Therapeutic Program Inc.

06/18/2024

🐴🍔🎁Join Us for a Day of Fun and Therapeutic Lessons!

Come join us for a day of fun and therapeutic lessons! We will be showcasing lesson demonstrations on the half of every hour, and one lucky attendee will be chosen to ride one of our amazing ponies!

Don't forget to grab a delicious hamburger or hotdog from our food vendors and check out our gift basket raffles. It's a perfect opportunity to learn more about therapeutic riding and enjoy a day in the sun with your friends and family.

06/11/2024

A HUGE SHOUTOUT to our volunteers who are giving up thier spare time to help get the outdoor arena fencing painted on both sides, as we prepare for our Open House on July 6 10 to 3 Rainer shine. - Thank You Jane Sherwood Ashley Hoffman Salamida Michelle and AnnMarie you ladies ROCK!!

06/01/2024

Mark your calendars! Join us as we celebrate 15 years of enriching lives with our incredible team of horses and volunteers. Don't miss this unforgettable event!

Would you like to sponsor a rider visit us at https://www.destinysride.org to make a tax deductible charitable donation to help us provide services to those in surrounding communities in NY and Berkshire County Ma

05/25/2024

1st time I’ve taken Memphis out on a trail ride solo for a little hacking - Complete Angel 😇 🩷😇🩷

05/23/2024

Working with your youngest trying to teach him to walk over the poles sideways - With 1 hand 🤚🏻 😂😂🤚🏻 this was our 4th attempt

05/23/2024

I think this is something that everyone needs to read and think about.. 🩷🩷

Let’s repeat it for the ones in the back - or front, depends how you see it:

We can train and manage and condition our horses - but we can’t change the fact that they are horses.

Horses are prey animals. Their whole existence is wrapped around the ever on going play in nature between prey and predator.
Their whole being has evolved around the behavior and skills they need to play this game.

They played this game more than 50 million years.
The 5000 years of domestication won’t change that soon.

Your horse is supposed to spook from noise and sight.
Your horse is supposed to bolt when it feels threatened.
Your horse is supposed to buck off what’s on his back.
Your horse is supposed to search for food.
Your horse is supposed to be buddy sour.

All what we call „vices“ is simply a surviving mechanism, implanted deeply into the DNA of every horse.

Your horse lives in a human world, where he has no handbook for in his genes. He is just being a horse.

It’s your task to show him trust, patience, calmness, strength, assertiveness and fairness. But you have to be like this yourself.

You cannot expect what you are not ready to give.

It’s your responsibility to help your horse navigate.

Acts of aggression, confining him, calling him names, defining him as „naughty“, does not teach or proof any horse to behave the right way. It only shows your capability of teaching a horse.

There are so many techniques, methods, tools and trainers all defining „bad behavior“ and their solutions, all hustling and managing around a horse to bend and press it into a form. All of them, that claim to be so knowledgeable, so experienced, so wise, have forgotten, that the horse is just a horse.

05/20/2024

When you are one of those horse Mom’s - Matching fly sheets and fly boots 🩷🩷😂😂🩷🩷

05/11/2024

How much little girls love Cayden 🩷🩷

June 1st will be 15 years ago he came to me as a five-year-old and Took on his important role as we launched Destiny’s Ride…

An amazing little pony here who maintains the mission of helping children and adults find the healing power in horses 🩷

04/14/2024

Attention friends in the Saratoga, New York area! There’s a sister program hosting a golf tournament to raise funds and keep their valuable program running smoothly. As fellow founders and directors of a nonprofit therapeutic riding program, we understand the challenges of maintaining such initiatives. From horse care to overhead costs and more, every contribution counts. If you’re able to participate or lend your support, it would mean the world to them. Thank you to all who continuously support nonprofits like ours – your generosity is deeply appreciated!

Providing healing, support and recovery is the goal of a local organization that helps both humans and animals.

04/04/2024

It’s never about how quickly you can accomplish milestones, but the patience in perfecting, proper balancing coordination is all that matters

03/26/2024

This little peanut Started almost 2 years ago and we had to get her this special little western saddle and she needed a vest so that we could hold onto her while we build up her core strength. Today, she is riding independently, able to turn her horse all on her own, and set up nice and tall. I LOVE these moments

03/16/2024

Destiny’s Ride is looking for volunteers.. Are you available Mondays from 12-2:00?

We are looking for volunteers who have horse experience - willing to train… Duties to include grooming, and tacking horses, and helping with a three person therapeutic lesson. Please contact Jodie at 518-610-4408 for more information.

We do have other times slots available if you are interested .

Thank you for helping us to enrich the lives of all of those that we serve Step-by-Step

03/08/2024

Destiny's Ride merchandise shop with Bonfire now has all our Tshirts & Sweatshirts in various styles and colors - A portion of all sales comes back to Destiny's Ride Therapeutic Program Inc. so we can offer scholarships to those who would benefit from the healing power of horses

Welcome to our online store! We are a 501(c)(3) therapeutic riding program, harnessing the power of horses for healing.

02/24/2024

02/19/2024

The Chestnut Triplets 🩵💜🩵

02/15/2024

When one of your rider’s surprise you with flowers - Thank you Ms Em they are beautiful- Although Memphis was trying to smell and eat them 😂💜😂

02/02/2024

On top of working and completing my OT fieldwork I managed to get certified as a Horse Powered Reading facilitator - Stay tuned Destiny’s Ride .will be offering Horse Powered Reading and Math programs 🤩💗🤩

02/01/2024

I completed my 2nd Horse Powered Reading simulation - Thank you Tara for letting me use her.. She did amazing & Memphis decided to act as a barrier to her reading - cone and all 😂😂😂

01/24/2024

Last night with the help of this little girl I did my 1st simulation requirement to become certified in Horse Powered Reading. For being completely unsure of what I was doing her and Cayden made it look so easy.. Lots to learn and lots of skills I need to enhance within myself. Thank you Tara she did amazing ☺️💜🥰

01/21/2024

Took crazy boy for a little walk - So much energy!! It was only a feels like of -5° 😂😂🥶 - I was there almost 2 hours at least there was sun but chilly 🥶🥶

01/15/2024

This is something to always remember - I hear many riders blaming the horse rather then looking within themselves as the potential communication barrier.. Taking a step back and taking a deep breath is sometimes the best thing we can do for ourselves and our horses 🐴 💗

01/07/2024

Book your lessons online for easier convenience.

12/25/2023

From All of us at Destiny’s Ride we wish Everyone a Merry Christmas. We are very Grateful to all our riders and their families.

12/07/2023

T-shirts, sweatshirts, and mugs, all proceeds help to sponsor children in our community.

Welcome to our online store! We are a 501(c)(3) therapeutic riding program, harnessing the power of horses for healing.