RHYTHM OF THE REIN IS a 501(c)3 public charitable organization formed exclusively to provide therapeutic riding services to physically, emotionally and mentally challenged children and adults, particularly those who are from financially distressed households, in Central Vermont and the Northeast Kingdom.

RHYTHM OF THE REIN'S MISSION is to enhance the physical and psychological abilities and well being of individuals with special needs through the physical and emotional interaction with horses through Equine Assisted Activities and Therapies (EAAT).

These activities and therapies utilize therapeutic riding and even unmounted activities to positively contribute to the physical, cognitive, emotional and social well-being of individuals with disabilities, thereby positively impacting their life skills and enhancing their quality of life. Equine assisted activities are incredible boosts to self esteem, confidence, and emotional healing. The therapeutic riding discipline provides medical or rehabilitative goal-based treatment/therapy outcomes, facilitated by the rhythmic, symmetrical movements of a horse, with the assistance of properly trained or certified professionals to provide multi-sensory input (movement, touch, sight, smell and sound), repetition and variability as a treatment tool. The participant’s subconscious efforts at working trunk muscles and staying balanced as a horse moves in the same multiplaned fashion, as we walk, produces therapeutic gains not easily accomplished in a sterile clinical setting.

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