Well-known horse trainer Chris Lombard is working with the non-profit Healing Through Horses to direct the inaugural Horse Professional Demonstration Expo at their facility in New Gloucester, Maine. It will take place all day, September 30.
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Healing Through Horses is a non-profit counseling service that offers Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) in a private indoor horse facility in New Gloucester, Maine. Horses are known for their unique blend of gentle disposition and compassionate power. EAP is animal assisted therapy that incorporates human interaction with horses as guides. Used for decades, it is a proven form of therapy that effectively employs a horses’s innate ability to connect and bond with people in a non-judgmental manner. Horses are sensitive, compassionate and gentle animals. They are able to perceive the needs of humans and act on those needs with unconditional love which makes them a perfect partner in a therapeutic setting.
Admission is just $20 for the day and children under 8 get in for free. There will also be a food booth and The Village Store is close by for lunch.
There will be three different venues holding demonstrations simultaneously. “Think of it like a mini, one-day Equine Affaire. There will be equine professionals from all types of specialties – dressage, jumping, centered riding, natural horsemanship, driving, farrier/hoof care, dental, veterinarian, holistic medicine, energy work, performances, body work, saddle fit, animal communication and more,” said the Healing Through Horses site.
Chris Lombard
Presenters include:
SANDRA BEAULIEU (Performance/Trick Training)
JUDY CROSS STREHLKE (Centered Riding)
SAYRE ENGLISH (General Training and Horsemanship)
MICHAEL FRALICH (Equine Assisted Therapy)
ASHLEY HUTCHINSON (Saddle Fit/Massage/General Training and Horsemanship)
NIKALINE IACONO (General Training and Horsemanship)
DR. DAVID JEFFERSON (Equine Veterinarian/Chiropractics)
ADRIEANNE JOHNSON (Holistic/Herbal Horse Care)
RON JOHNSON (General Training and Horsemanship)
DR. TOM JUDD (Equine Veterinarian/Chiropractics)
JAN LAMONTAGNE (Dressage)
DEBBIE LITTLE (Youth Horsemanship/General Training and Horsemanship)
Judy Cross-Strehlke
CHRIS LOMBARD (General Training and Horsemanship)
GWYNETH McPHERSON (Dressage)
LOUISE POPPEMA (Animal Communication)
MICHAEL POULIN (Dressage)
KRISTIN PRETORIUS (Hoof Care)
STACEY SCOTIA (Holistic Horse Care/General Training and Horsemanship)
SUSAN WALKER (Hoof Care)
DAVID WHITAKER (Hoof Care)