Michigan Equine Facilitated Learning

Mindful, Serene Horse Classes in Lansing, MI

Do you want your kids to learn better coping and stress reduction skills?

You want something different from regular riding lessons, but you still want your child or teenager to have a chance to be around horses.

Our equine facilitated learning classes aren’t therapy, but they are taught by therapists and certified instructors. They are a good fit for you if:

  • Nature and animals seem to ground you and bring you peace

  • You prefer interactive and trauma-informed teaching

  • You learn by practicing and experiencing, rather than hearing

You can connect with a kind and beautiful animal and experience peace.

Our equine team is here for you.

How Our Experiential Learning Classes Work with Licensed and Certified Providers

Our Experiential Learning program and therapeutic horse classes are taught by staff that bring decades of experience with horses and PATH training and certification. Our students report that there are a lot of options out there, but that we are one of the only options in the area that uses PATH’s best practice of a licensed mental health professional and certified equine specialist (or a therapist that holds both credentials) in our classes. PATH is the Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship International, the organization that has set the standard since its inception in 1969 and currently serves over 60,000 participants per year.

Equine Facilitated Learning can help you find wellness and balance…

  • with stress or anxiety

  • with subclinical ADHD

  • with self image

  • with focus

  • with school or life transitions

  • with grief and loss

  • with motivation

  • with self esteem

You don’t have to keep guessing at what might help your child grow.

We have a kind horse and a caring instructor in our

Equine Facilitated Learning program waiting for you

to begin your equestrian journey.

FAQs about Equine Learning

Photograph by Morgan Bailey

  • Typically $55 for an unmounted class, on sale for $40/class in March.

  • No! We welcome clients ranging from experienced riders to those who have never met a horse.

  • Most often, no. See below for more information on our riding lessons.

  • The different stables where we offer EFL also offer riding lessons, and we can connect you with one of those instructors if you’d like.

  • Therapeutic horsebackriding is focused on riding a horse to improve social, emotional and physiological goals. Students with medical or mental health needs may qualify for therapeutic riding with us, but this is done individually so you miss the benefits of building community and group interaction. If you’d prefer therapeutic riding, contact us to get set up for that instead and please note that we have a 2-3 month waiting list.

  • Our program also offers equine facilitated therapy, and we have openings for that beginning next month. Click here to get started with equine therapy.

  • Click here (or visit https://forms.gle/TRLdhC4t9FocNT2T9) to fill out our interest form, and our staff will contact you shortly after that to get you signed up.