The igogo Academy for Equine Assisted Therapy

A  sense of being supported - movement - activating healing resources

Horses are excellent therapists! Therapeutic riding is a natural alternative to classical forms of therapy and can also provide very effective supplementary therapy.

Profit from the experience of one of the pioneering training centres for riding therapy and turn your passion for horses into your profession!

igogo's professional training courses provide you with the ideal combination of theory and practice so that you can deal with both patients and therapy horses in complete confidence.

Since 2003, over 400 participants have successfully completed the institute's one-year, day-release course to become qualified Equine Assisted Therapy Practitioners (igogo Academy).

igogo horseback riding therapy represents a combination of all the educational, psychological, psychotherapeutic, medical and socio-integrative aspects of therapeutic work which make up the various types of horseback riding therapy. The aim is to provide a holistic range of treatment in which the therapy horse has its rightful place as a partner for the patient and indeed as the true therapist. Because in fact it is the horse itself which provides the decisive impulses in releasing blockages and activating the patient's powers of self-healing.

To this end, the courses offered by the igogo Academy place the main emphasis on showing the trainee riding therapist how to enable the therapy horse to fulfil its role in the best possible manner. For whatever specific field of activity you may choose within the broad range of opportunities for riding therapists, your success as a riding therapy practitioner will depend on the quality of the relationships which you build up with your equine 'colleague' as well as with your human clients.