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 hippotherapy principles designed for licensed professionals interested in utilizing equine movement as a treatment tool in therapy. The course is equivalent to three days of training and focuses on movement and sensation, equine sensorimotor function, human sensorimotor function, and the powerful effects of connecting a horse and human.
Topics covered in Part 1 include:
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 horse
recognition of desirable confirmation, soundness, movement quality, and gait
appropriate training, conditioning, and humane treatment of the therapy horse
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
The second half of our Hippotherapy Treatment Principles Course gives licensed therapists a deeper 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.
