The exercise in question takes place in a riding ring toward the back of the 14-acre property neighboring Flag Pole Hill Park. Standing a few feet away, Wilson watches on as Evie leads two-year-old Balou, an Irish sport horse standing nearly 16 hands (five feet) tall, across the sand. <\/p>\n
Following a few turns around the ring, she asks the student if she\u2019s comfortable letting the horse off its lead for \u201cliberty work.\u201d While both student and horse eventually get on the same footing, at first, there\u2019s some trepidation \u2014 it\u2019s a 1,000-pound animal, after all.<\/p>\n
\u201cReally a lot of it is directed towards having her look at herself, like when she said, \u2018Well, I don\u2019t think he\u2019s going to follow me,\u2019\u201d Wilson says. \u201cThat\u2019s self doubt, and we all walk around that. And with practice, (horses) can teach you to notice that more readily, and then we can change that, or alter that, or show up in a different way.\u201d<\/p>\n
White Rock Stables has been \u201chealing with horses\u201d with exercises like these for about nine months now. It\u2019s not formal animal therapy like programs offered at Equest or Manegait, nor is it a set program. Instead, it\u2019s a casual service available for neighborhood children, seniors and others seeking positive connection with the animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The exercise in question takes place in a riding ring toward the back of the 14-acre property neighboring…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":489912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-489911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-tx","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115832378322602259","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}