Bringing horses and humans together to enhance the lives of all…

Come enjoy a visit to the Borderlands Center for Equine Assisted Services located in scenic Sonoita, Arizona, a quiet, welcoming place for those interested in learning and healing with the help of horses. Explore and expand the boundaries of your mind, body and spirit while engaging with the experienced therapy horses and staff at the Borderlands Center for Equine Assisted Services.

What is included in our Equine Assisted Services?
We provide traditional therapeutic riding lessons, equine facilitated learning sessions and host training workshops for those who want to learn how to work with horses as sentient beings to provide equine facilitated learning, coaching, leadership training and psychotherapy. Our faculty members are pioneers in this work and provide safe, mutually beneficial, equine assisted activities and therapy (EAA/T). Individual intensives can also be designed to meet your specific needs.

No previous horse experience is required for most of our programs. We work within a safe and peaceful environment where horses and humans alike are allowed to develop their full potential. We follow all applicable PATH International standards of practice, safety guidelines, ethics and precautions and contraindications. We use effective, safe methods of human-equine interactions that are supportive and non-confrontational. Our horses are respected, gifted colleagues and are never teased, frightened or forced to do any exercise they are not comfortable with. For both horses and humans, we believe in challenge through choice to help ensure emotional as well as physical safety.

Click on Borderlands Banter, right, to receive our free newsletter. Borderlands Director Ann Alden, MA, CEIP-ED, PATH International Certified Instructor and Equine Specialist in Mental Health and Learning, offers articles related to equine assisted activities. She has presented on the subject at several PATH International conferences and Equine Guided Education Association conferences.