The Legacy Ranch provides equine-assisted therapy, including mental health, occupational, physical and speech therapy that involves interaction with horses. It offers therapeutic riding classes and riding lessons in private and group settings. The ranch also hosts corporate team-building sessions with the horses. It describes itself as a privately owned PATH International member center.
Cedarwood Healing offers Equine Gestalt Coaching, a coaching approach that works with horses. It also offers Horse Connections, where people can spend time with the horses. The business is based at a farm and invites visitors to meet Stetson. Its stated mission is to promote wholeness and healing through connections with oneself, others, horses and nature.
Equine Dreams is a non-profit organization in Illinois that provides equine assisted services to children and adults with special needs. All services are free of charge. The program is a PATH Intl. Premier Accredited Center, and its staff includes PATH Intl. Registered Instructors and an Advanced Instructor. The organization describes its aim as improving independence and quality of life for people living with special needs.
Smith Horse Company is a horse farm in Kankakee, Illinois, specializing in Quarter Horses and Arabians. It offers training for horses and riders, including western pleasure, horsemanship and all-around events. The farm also provides breeding, horse sales, rehabilitation and boarding with individualized nutrition and daily turnout. Its facilities include heated barns and indoor and outdoor riding arenas.
Sunrise North Therapeutic Riding offers therapeutic riding lessons for people with special needs, disabled veterans, and seniors. Its instructors are certified under PATH Intl. and customize lesson plans to each rider's goals. The program owns three horses and serves riders from the Will and Grundy County area and beyond. Its mission is to enhance the cognitive, physical, and emotional well-being of participants through horse therapy and equine-assisted activities.
On Course offers equine-assisted psychotherapy, where clients work with horses in experiential sessions to address issues such as anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship difficulties. The sessions are non-riding, and no horse experience is required. The practice also runs equine-assisted learning, groups, classes and summer camps. Services are offered to children, teens, adults, couples and families.
Central Illinois Riding Therapy, Inc. (CIRT) is a non-profit organization in East Peoria, Illinois. It serves children, teens and adults, including U.S. Veterans, who have mental, physical, emotional or behavioral disabilities. The program offers therapeutic and recreational horseback riding. Classes are taught by PATH Intl. Certified Instructors, and volunteers help with the horses and participants.
Holistic Riding Equestrian Therapy is a 501(c)3 charitable non-profit organization based in Lemont, Illinois. It runs therapeutic riding and horse-based programs that aim to empower people with varied physical, emotional, cognitive, and social abilities. The organization keeps a herd of horses of different sizes and skills, from ponies to large half draft crosses, to meet clients' needs. Its programs also include a veterans program, farm experience, and e-learning.
Eastern Iowa Horse & Pony Camp is a week-long overnight residential camp for youth interested in horses, open to students in 3rd through 12th grade. Campers take small group riding lessons with experienced equine instructors, along with interactive learning sessions and evening activities. Each afternoon, campers can sign up for an elective of their choice. Campers must bring their own horse or pony. The camp is run by a non-profit organization and relies on volunteers and mentors.
Ready Set Ride provides therapeutic riding and equine assisted activities for people with physical, emotional and developmental challenges. The organisation has offered horseback riding services for children with special needs since 2001. Sessions use horses as a means of mobility, and therapy is delivered as games on horseback that incorporate physical, speech, occupational, developmental and recreational therapy. Certified therapeutic riding instructors guide each student and monitor individual needs.
Sojourn Therapeutic Riding Center offers therapeutic horseback riding and other equine-assisted activities. Its programs aim to support balance, strength, postural control, speech, communication and cognition. The therapeutic riding program is supervised by an Illinois State Board Learning Behavior Specialist and a PATH Certified Therapeutic Riding Instructor. The center also offers equine-assisted learning and invites people to meet its trainers and horses.
Equine Assist Farrier Service is a farrier business providing hoof care for horses. Its services include basic trims, corrective shoeing and pre-purchase hoof assessments. The farriers work with horses across many disciplines, including trail, western, rodeo, dressage and drafts, and also trim donkeys, mules and goats. The business has been operating since 2009 and works alongside vets and trainers.
VERITAS Equestrian Center is a full service facility near Grimes, Iowa, dedicated to the care of individual horses. It offers a variety of boarding options, including heated and non-heated stalls, dry lots and pasture. Facilities include box stalls, an attached indoor arena, an outdoor arena, a round pen and a hot water wash rack. Owners live within walking distance and check herd health as part of daily routines.
The Iowa Equestrian Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is an equine show facility. It has an indoor show arena, an outdoor show arena, and a stall barn with rubber-matted stalls and warm water wash racks, plus a north barn with additional stalls. The facility hosts horse shows, qualifying competitions, demonstrations and clinics throughout the year.
Wishing Wells Performance Horses is a horse training operation based in Mechanicsville, Iowa. It works horses Monday through Friday with occasional weekends, with training offered for a minimum of 60 days. The training covers Western disciplines such as Ranch Pleasure, Ranch Trail, Ranch Riding and limited cow horse work, plus yearling in hand events. The business also offers colt starting for horses three years or younger of stock type breeding, and beginner and intermediate riding lessons.
Elk Ridge Farms is a family-run horse boarding facility in Eldridge, Iowa. It offers boarding with individual runs, pastures or lots with connecting paddocks, tack rooms, an outdoor wash stall, and indoor or outdoor arenas. The farm also offers riding lessons for all skill levels and runs onsite clinics. The site describes it as a welcoming horse community for enthusiasts from experts to beginners.
Pine Hollow Stables is a horse boarding and training facility in Altoona, Iowa. It offers full care and self care stalls in several barns, with unlimited pasture turn-out on the full care options. The facility provides horse lessons, horse training and exercise riding. It has indoor and outdoor riding arenas and a trail riding area.
Shenandoah Riding Center offers horseback riding for riders of all ages and experience levels in the Galena area of Illinois. Its services include riding lessons, trail rides through meadows and woodlands, camps, lead line rides and wagon rides. The center also provides horse boarding, with pasture and stall options, and horse owner events. Non-riding horse activities are offered for visitors who want to interact with horses without riding.
Tuscany Hill Equestrian is a hunter, jumper and equitation training business. It offers riding lessons, training programs for horses and riders, and pro rides. The business also helps clients buy, sell and lease horses. Its owner and trainer, Cassie Gannon Beighle, works with individual horses and riders at its facility in Eldridge, Iowa.
Cedar Valley Stables offers horseback trail rides in Iowa, led by guides, and sells them by the hour. The stable also runs a girls' horse camp and a women's weekend. Riding is offered on Saturdays and Sundays from May to mid-November, weather permitting. Riders must meet age and weight restrictions, and the stable may refuse any rider for the well-being of its horses.
Kunde Performance Horses is a full-service boarding facility with stalls for up to nine horses and outdoor paddock boarding available. It offers beginner and intermediate riding lessons in its indoor and outdoor arenas. The yard also runs 30 and 90 day training programs for horses. The business specializes in Western Pleasure horses.
Lewis Bottoms Farms is a horse farm that offers pasture boarding with sheltered paddocks, sick bays and personal tack closets. The farm has indoor and outdoor arenas and round pens. It provides lessons and training, and organises trail rides through private timber and nearby state park trails. The owners describe the farm as a safe, clean and friendly environment for both clients and their horses.
Haven Hills Ranch is a horse ranch in Oxford, Iowa. Riding lessons are provided at the ranch by Maggie Dale Horsemanship, with instructors including Maggie Dale and Ethan Krieger. The ranch is run by owner Sara Krieger, who has owned and ridden horses since 1982. The website lists lessons, a meet-the-horses page and a barn code of conduct, and lessons are booked online.
Alluring Equine offers equestrian lessons for riders of all levels, from first contact with horses to advanced students. Lessons use the program's own lesson horses, and riders can also trailer in their own horse. The facility has a heated tack room, an outdoor all-weather arena, a beginner-friendly field jump course, paddock turnout and trail obstacles. The business also sells and leases horses.
