{"id":245252,"date":"2023-11-24T10:27:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T15:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rochesterapps.com\/rochestereduco\/lions-honor\/hand-in-hand-with-equine-therapy"},"modified":"2023-11-24T10:27:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T15:27:18","slug":"hand-in-hand-with-equine-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rochesterapps.com\/rochestereduco\/lions-honor\/hand-in-hand-with-equine-therapy","title":{"rendered":"Hand in Hand with Equine Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Horseback riding has been shown to help self-confidence. Riders increase their self-esteem and self-image, in addition to several other mental and physical benefits.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A study completed by The British Horse Society (BHS) concluded that horseback riding stimulated positive psychological feelings, reducing depression by 30%, as well as lowering the chance of dementia by 30%. In addition, communicating and interacting with horses has been shown to have a positive effect on people<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> generating a feeling of relaxation.\u00c2\u00a0 Therapeutic riding programs, such as a treatment called Equine-Assisted Therapy or EAT, have been widely used to improve ADHD, anxiety, autism, depression, and other mental health conditions. As a sport, equestrianism was first included in the 1900 Olympics and reappeared in 1912, but it was not until 1952 that civilians and women were allowed to participate.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Congratulations to two members of our Rochester Community <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">discovered they share the same passion for horses and attend the same horseback riding academy<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> La Academia, to achieve personal goals, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> strengthening their abilities and emotions! Mar\u00c3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horseback riding has been shown to help self-confidence. Riders increase their self-esteem and self-image, in addition to several other mental and physical benefits.\u00c2\u00a0 A study completed by The British Horse Society (BHS) concluded that horseback riding stimulated positive psychological feelings, reducing depression by 30%, as well as lowering the chance of dementia by 30%. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochesterapps.com\/rochestereduco\/lions-honor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochesterapps.com\/rochestereduco\/lions-honor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochesterapps.com\/rochestereduco\/lions-honor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochesterapps.com\/rochestereduco\/lions-honor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochesterapps.com\/rochestereduco\/lions-honor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rochesterapps.com\/rochestereduco\/lions-honor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochesterapps.com\/rochestereduco\/lions-honor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochesterapps.com\/rochestereduco\/lions-honor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochesterapps.com\/rochestereduco\/lions-honor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochesterapps.com\/rochestereduco\/lions-honor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}