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Body and Spirit, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing therapeutic riding actvities and hippotherapy to individuals of all ages with emotional, cognitive, physical and/or psychological disabilities within the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming.
A team consisting of an instructor, volunteers, and a referring health care provider or education specialist is necessary in order to provide therapeutic horseback riding and hippotherapy services. Based on input from health care providers, educators and parents, or clients' individual program goals are designed to complement their ongoing therapy and education.
Therapeutic riding and hippotherapy differ in a fundamental way. In therapeutic riding, the client influences the horse, learning basic controls to move the horse as desired. In hippotherapy, the horse becomes the tool and a therapist must be part of the team that directs the process where by the horse influences the client through specific movements and activities.
