Strides Equestrian Therapeutic Center

11/11/2024

We salute all Veterans and their families. 🇺🇸Happy Veterans Day🇺🇸

11/10/2024

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🇺🇸 🇺🇸Honoring our Heroes🇺🇸 🇺🇸

In appreciation of our veterans, Freedom Ranch at Strides Equestrian Therapeutic Center will be exclusively open for veteran tours from November 11-26. Veterans are invited to experience the ranch and its facilities.

To arrange a tour, please contact Heidi at [email protected] or call 715-316-7704.

We are looking forward to seeing and honoring you this Veterans Day!

11/06/2024

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11/05/2024

✨Explore how our Equine Assisted Services (EAS) and skilled providers create meaningful and transformative experiences! www.stridescenter.com ✨

🐴Transitioning from conversational methods to experiential work offers deep, integrative healing that supports clients in connecting with themselves on multiple levels.

🐴EAS engages sensation, emotion, movement, and relational dynamics beyond verbal processing, helping clients access parts of their experience that are often overlooked in traditional approaches.

🐴Practitioners face new demands, requiring knowledge of somatic approaches, human development, and attachment, which enables them to better support clients’ diverse needs.

🐴The spontaneous nature of EAS brings unique opportunities for client growth, fostering resilience, self-awareness, and emotional regulation.

🐴Flexibility, creativity, and a personal wellness practice are essential for practitioners, allowing them to be fully present and attuned to their clients’ healing journeys.

10/31/2024

🎃👻Have a SPOOKtacular Halloween! Lisa,Tammi and the equines sure did!👻🎃

10/28/2024

Every horse that comes into our program will experience some form of obstacle desensitization, from young horses to seasoned ones. Using trail obstacles, tarps, flags, balls, noodles, and more, we incorporate these exercises for several reasons:

⭐ Building Confidence: Obstacle work encourages horses to face new challenges, building their confidence. As they encounter different objects and learn to problem-solve, they grow in trust with us, strengthening their connection to their partner and enhancing their ability to handle “scary” situations.

⭐ Strengthening Communication: Working through obstacles requires clear, precise cues—whether through voice, body language, legs, or reins. This not only refines the connection between horse and partner but also reveals any gaps in understanding, creating opportunities for growth and moments of mutual accomplishment.

⭐ Providing Mental Stimulation: For horses that seem disengaged, restless, or unfocused, obstacles offer a meaningful task to work on. This fosters focus on their partner, engages their mind, and nurtures a shared sense of purpose, reinforcing the bond between horse and partner.

⭐ Building Emotional Resilience: Exposure to obstacles in a controlled environment develops a horse’s “emotional fitness.” With continued practice, they experience less stress, carrying this emotional stability into other challenging situations while trusting their partner as a source of support and calm.

Obstacle work is adaptable and versatile, with exercises ranging from groundwork to mounted activities, ensuring that each horse gains unique benefits. Ultimately, this process not only enriches the horse’s experience but deepens the connection and trust they feel toward their partner.

10/25/2024

Breakfast, Clinical, and Horse Team Building Cinic all in the same day! Blessed to have an amazing group!☺️☀️🐴

10/17/2024

☀️🌕Morning Views ☀️🌕

10/16/2024

❄️🍁Happy Frosty Morning 🍁❄️

10/12/2024

Great Opportunity to help others in need after the disasters they have experienced 💞

Freedom Ranch Inc. and Strides Equestrian Therapeutic Center is joining forces with Hurricane Relief Central Wisconsin in support of those who where affected by the storms.
We will be taking donations at our address: W6801 Colby Factory Rd, Greenwood WI 54437
We are accepting donations from today's date through October 17th 2024.

Items we are collecting:

WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING USED ITEMS

Water
Non perishables
Personal hygiene items
Tampons & pads
New blankets
New towels
New socks
New underwear
New clothes
New tennis shoes
New t-shirts
Diapers
Toilet paper
Kleenex
Paper towels
Dog and cat food
Kitty litter
Diapers Infant all the way up to Adult
Baby Wipes
Baby Formula
Cleaning Supplies
Tylenol, Aspirin, Ibuprofen, Benedryl
First Aid Supplies
Shovels
Buckets
Brooms
Disposable Gloves
Storage containers
Can Openers
Flashlights
Batteries
Bug Spray
Hearing aid batteries
Tarps
Work Gloves
Gas Cans
Totes with lids
Tools
Instant Coffee
plastic cutlery
paper plates
plastic cups
Packing Tape
Trash bags
Tents
Sleeping bags
Dehumidifiers
Generators
Metal cups
Metal pots & pans (cooking over a campfire)
Medical supplies

New Sweatshirts
Hand Warmers
Vapo Rub
Warm Gloves (not stretchy kind)
New Flannels
New Thermal Underwear
Hot Chocolate
MRE’s
Oxygen tubes
Epi Pens
Insulin and needles
Emergency blankets
Hand Sanitizer

Need more pallets and pallet wrap! Also packing boxes!

Thank you for your support in helping those in need, it is greatly appreciated!

10/09/2024

💚 Toki & Dutton 🖤

10/09/2024

💖Doing things for others can carry us through the toughest times 💖

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10/08/2024

🌼~Self Regulation Tips~🌼

09/30/2024

🖤Love the Ears 🖤

09/23/2024

🍁Fall is in the air🍁

09/18/2024

💦☀️Buzz cooling off!☀️💦

09/17/2024

‼️📚Updates on the last two weeks of horse powered reading! Thank you to our Sponsor A&W in Withee for supporting this amazing program! 📚‼️

Day 6: Group started with seat work defining an outline of stories. Each participant wrote out a story with a title, body, conflict, and resolution. After a snack everyone headed to the arena to work with horses and more stories. In the arena the kids divided into teams and searched the four corners of the arena for different parts of stories and made a story with their teammates and horse.

Day 7: Everyone started the time with talking through more stories and other ways they can be told. After a snack all kids worked together to apply story telling to creating a play. In their own group everyone worked to create, write, and performed their play for the their group. During time in the arena every participant rotated in groups writing words they had learned over their time together and riding one of the three horses that was in the arena.
Author-Shanae

‼️Thank you Shanae for facilitating the sessions as well as Carmen and Bailey for your help with the horses!‼️