Inhand Equine Therapy
Tina Offers A Variety of Clinics including:
If you have any questions or you would like to book a clinic with Tina please contact us!
Note: Therapy is not a replacement for Veterinary Care.
- Equine Postural Assesment Clinic
Ever wonder why your horse just won’t bend to one direction? Have you been working on one lead and it just doesn’t get any stronger? Learn how to tell where your horse’s strengths and weaknesses are. Receive easy tips on evaluation of symmetry, balance and gait analysis. This clinic is interactive with a short lecture phase and a long lab phase where the students are working with horses doing hands-on evaluation. The student will go home with an understanding of posture, and the skill to evaluate their own horses at home. Why do we need to understand posture? Realizing your horse’s current posture will explain current training challenges, and walls that the horse is running into. It will allow you to target weaknesses before a major problem arises.
Requirements – Our Postural Assessment clinic takes about 4-5 hours plus 1 hour of preparation time. The morning lecture requires 1 quiet horse to stand during this time. It would be preferable for this horse to have some sort of postural abnormality for the students to view. After lunch, 4-5 example horses would be ideal, depending on the number of participants and 1-2 handlers would be required.
**Please have all the horses designated as paint horses clipped and clean for the clinic.
As with all clinics from Inhand Equine Therapy questions are encouraged. Tina’s goal when teaching is that each participant will leave with the knowledge and belief that can apply what they have learnt to their horse and increase the wellness, fun and athletic potential of their equine partner.
- Saddle Fitting Clinic
Want to learn about the basics of saddle fitting? Saddle fitting is a true lifelong learning topic, and in the end the horse is the final judge! This saddle fitting clinic is taught from the horse’s perspective, discussing the bones and how the saddle should relate to them. This is a horse owner and trainer clinic that will give you the basic skills to know whether
or not your saddle is working. Behavior change is one of our first indicators that our horse’s saddle is not right; wouldn’t it be great to have the basic knowledge to check if something is not right? This clinic has a small lecture component and a large lab component at your barn, looking at saddles and putting them on the horses.
Requirements – Our Saddle Fitting clinic lasts approximately 3-4 hours, plus 1 hour preparation time. The morning lecture requires up to 5 demonstration horses and 10 saddles of the discipline in question. After lunch, depending on the group size, each participant is welcome to have their saddle evaluated with Tina time permitting.
**Please have all the horses designated as paint horses clipped and clean for the Clinic.
As with all clinics from Inhand Equine Therapy, questions are encouraged. Tina’s goal when teaching is that each participant will leave with the knowledge and belief they can apply what they have learnt to their horse and increase the wellness, fun and athletic potential of their equine partner.
- Bio Mechanics’ Clinic
Ever wondered how your horse works? Ever asked yourself why when my horse lifts his head straight in the air his back goes down? Let’s explore your horse from the inside out with one of Tina’s biomechanics clinics. Tina will take you through the bones and muscles of the horse in a brilliantly visual way by painting the bones on one side and the superficial muscles on the other. In the morning Tina will have a painted horse and a full skeleton to show students how things move and where things are in the body. In the afternoon we start a lab our portion. Do you jump, slide stop or piaffe? Have you ever wanted to see the skeleton of the horse doing this? The second half of this fun clinic shows a trainer riding the painted horse and explains the movement. Watch the muscles and bones come alive!
Requirements – Our Bio Mechanics’ clinics last approximately 5-6 hours, plus 3 hours’ preparation time. The morning lecture requires 1 quiet painted horse to stand, and 1 handler. After lunch, 3 painted horses are required; 1 beginner level, 1 intermediate level and 1 advanced level horse to show the differences in the muscle development and ability. We will need 1 handler and 3 riders in the afternoon.
**Please have all the horses designated as paint horses; clipped and clean for the clinic.
As with all clinics from Inhand Equine Therapy questions are encouraged. Tina’s goal when teaching is that each participant will leave with the knowledge and belief that can apply what they have learnt to their horse and increase the wellness, fun and athletic potential of their equine partner.
- Stretching Clinic
Want to help your horse with his/her flexibility? Do you know how to stretch them safely? Stretching is an amazing way to help your horse to stay limber; however incorrect stretching can hurt your horse. Come and learn about safe stretching practices and have some fun as well.
Requirements – Our Stretching clinic lasts approximately 4 hours plus 1 hour of preparation. In the morning 1 quiet horse with sound joints and full range of motion in all four limbs is required. After lunch, each participant is encouraged to bring their own horse to stretch with Tina’s help and observation. A limit of 5 participants please to enable enough time. Tina can bring a qualified teacher’s assistant for groups with larger numbers (please contact Tina for pricing on this).
**please have all the horses designated as paint or demo; clipped and clean for
As with all clinics from Inhand Equine Therapy questions are encouraged. Tina’s goal when teaching is that each participant will leave with the knowledge and belief that they can apply what they have learnt to their horse and increase the wellness, fun and athletic potential of their equine partner.
