Make your clients your trainers. Transform your horses. Deliver healing.
A cutting edge intervention for addressing adults with trauma, therapy horses that need care, training and rehab, and children needing the best possible horses for their equine therapy all in one package.
Ground-based horse training as it's own human therapeutic intervention.
A horse training intervention that teaches people with neuro-psychiatric conditions to rehabilitate, train and maintain horses for therapeutic programs. Lunging and long reining to build muscle, rhythm and balance. In-hand work (shoulder-in, counter shoulder-in, travers, half pass and renvers) to build suppleness and trainability. Softening groundwork (jaw, poll and lumbar flexions) to create a horse that moves fluidly, feels physically and emotionally good, and who can therefore impart its own wellbeing to a client whether working in the saddle or on the ground.
Takhin has been especially successful with wounded warriors preparing horses for special needs children. The program was pioneered through New Trails Learning Systems at the Ride On Center for Kids (the PATH training center in Austin, TX), The Remount Foundation of the US Airforce Academy, and with the German Bundeswehr. But you don’t have to be a veteran or a young adult with neuro-psychiatric conditions. Any one who wants to train, improve, maintain or rehab a horse should learn Takhin.
Many therapeutic riding centers struggle finding time to maintain their horses’ training and physical condition, and this impacts their ability to serve clients. Takhin provides the solution by creating trainers out of the adult and young adult client group – thus getting the horse trained while also serving those clients selected as trainers – because the training process has it’s own therapeutic value. Then, in turn, the better muscled and suppled horses can better serve the second set of riding clients.
To see in depth what we do, watch the video below:
The Takhin Certification Workshops and Process
Takhin (TEI) 1: The system to building and maintain the horse's wellbeing
TEI 1 shows you the easy to follow steps to produce your schoolmasters at home. Once the horses know the steps you can teach your clients to maintain them. In this course you will be working with schoolmaster horses.
Takin (TEI) 2: Creating your schoolmaster
This course is done via remote coaching. You will be teaching your horse the exercises learned in TEI and we will guide you to customize the exercises to ensure your horse's well being.
TEI 3: Teaching others to maintain the horse's well-being
In course TEI3 you will come back to the schoolmasters at a training center and learn how to teach others to maintain these horse's well-being. Here we don't teach new techniques but instead learn to teach a person with trauma, depression and similar conditions to train or maintain the horse for us.
Becoming an Instructor - completing the Certification
This is the final step. Here you will submit videos of you working with your clients on your horse on the exercises you learned before.