Our Courses
Elevate your practice with expert-led courses designed to deepen your skills and enhance client outcomes. Our courses provide practical, evidence-based training that makes a real impact!
Hippotherapy Treatment Principles-
Part I
This course is an overview of the principles of hippotherapy designed for licensed professionals interested in utilizing hippotherapy as a treatment tool within a therapy session. The subsequent equivalent of three days of training encompasses equine related topics including the importance of the quality of the horse working in hippotherapy; interpreting the body language of the horse; essential equine skills such as grooming, tacking and leading the hippotherapy horse; recognition of desirable confirmation, soundness, movement quality, and gaits; and appropriate training, conditioning, and humane treatment of the hippotherapy horse. This course will focus on movement and sensation - equine sensorimotor function, human sensorimotor function, and the powerful effect of connecting horse and human together.
Fundamentals of Equine Movement
This two-hour virtual course offers a comprehensive overview of the safe use of equine movement as an intervention tool for licensed healthcare providers in many areas, including mental and behavioral health, neuromotor, sensory, cognitive, and communication impairments, or developmental delays. Starting with equine biomechanics and expanding to how equine movement impacts human neurophysiology, participants will learn basic principles supporting the impact and
purposeful manipulation of equine movement on sensory, neuromotor, and cognitive systems to promote functional outcomes, whether that is hippotherapy within an OT, PT, or SLP treatment or mental health/medical professional treatment in discipline-specific applications.
Hippotherapy Treatment Principles-
Part II
It is the intention of the AHA, Inc that this course gives licensed therapists a greater understanding and appreciation of hippotherapy. Equine knowledge and skills, theoretical models of treatment including the hippotherapy conceptual framework, and practical hands-on experience will all be explored to further the understanding and provision of effective and safe hippotherapy as part of a therapy practice. This 4-day course provides therapists the opportunity to treat live patients in a multidisciplinary setting with faculty supervision and dynamic problem solving.
Connection Course Series
The Connection Course Series inspires therapists to take a deeper dive into topics that grow their clinical decision-making skills while connecting the significance of the effect of equine movement. Current offerings in the Connection Course Series include:
The Core Connection
The Horse Connection
The Neuro Connection
The Sensory Connection
The Treatment Toolbox
Course Calendar
Certificates of attendance will be provided to attendees at the conclusion of the course. Contact hours vary depending on the course. If lost, course certificates can be requested to be reproduced at $15 per copy. Contact info@theahainc.org for more information.
No certification will be granted upon completion of an AHA, Inc. course. For more information about certification, please visit the American Hippotherapy Certification Board.
