SERVICES

Why Horse Therapy Connection?

HTC was founded in 2016 by Fabiana Martin and Paola Cortes after seeing the need of connecting children to nature. According to a poll done by “Nature Conservancy”, only 10% of the children interviewed spend time outside on a daily basis. For this reason, we want to create that mind-body-nature conscious awareness. It is important for us to keep children exposed to nature as part of their childhood development and treatment in order to explore, develop social relationships, and groundedness that typical clinic settings do not provide and instead of letting all the electronics rule their lives.   

Horse Therapy Connection is made up of a team of passionate and dedicated occupational, physical, and speech therapists, student interns, support staff, parents and incredible volunteers.

Benefits

Hippotherapy addresses impairments of tone, range of motion, attention, timing, level of arousal, sensory processing, coordination, balance, and postural control. The horse’s movement provides multi-sensorimotor experiences that are precise, rhythmic, and repetitive, all of which is necessary for most human behaviors. In addition, the multi-dimensional movement of the horse produces pelvic and spinal movement in the patient that is similar to human gait.

Who can participate?

With a wide variety of diagnoses that this is beneficial to, recent studies have determined that Hippotherapy is appropriate for specific diagnoses including:

  • Cerebral Palsy
  • Autism
  • Down Syndrome
  • Cognitive disabilities including brain and spine injuries
  • Language and sensory processing disorders
  • Developmental delays
  • Genetic disorders
  • Depression

Additional services

YOGA

Yoga means unity within self. This union can be called God, Light, or Supreme energy from the Universe. After practicing yoga for more than ten years, it is well recommended for any children.

The physical benefits of yoga are:
– Increase flexibility
– Keep a good posture and vertebral column support
– It stregthenes articulations, joints and muscles

The mental benefits are:
– Increases concentration
– Increases self-control
– Increases self-esteem
– Increases and encourages good sleep patterns
– It promotes relaxation in the body

Andreina Escalante is the expert on Baby Led Weaning technique (BLW). For those of you who do not know, BLW is a method of adding complementary foods to a baby’s diet. It’s a method of food progression. BLW facilitates the development of age appropriate oral motor control while maintaining eating as positive as possible and interactive. Babies self-feed solid food from the very beginning of their experiences with food. Andreina has had a secret formula to make children eat and that is Flavor + Happiness + BLW.

Her recipes are designed under three basic characteristics:
– It prevents making a bolus in the mouth
– It presents rich nutrients foods
– Define the optimum presentation and flavor for the babie’s acceptance of food.

Andreina offers products and services that range from classes about this method to parents, cooking classes including delicious recipes, and a panci market where she sells food. The benefits of having Andreina and offer her BLW classes are:
– It helps kids hold objects better
– Increases concentration and attention
– It creates independent individuals
– It creates the freedom of using recipes along with what the doctors permits to the child.

Andreina guides you in terms of which food are rich in nutrients such as calcium, zinc, iron, among others.

COOKING CLASS / FEEDING FOR BABIES​

ENERGETIC THERAPY

Treatments are safe and non-invasive. They are achieved through aromatherapy and sound therapy. Energy therapy has been helpful in the treatment of ADD/ADHD, inattentiveness, irritability, emotional issues, hyperactivity and defiance.  Since Reiki works on all levels of the body-physical, mental/emotional and spiritual, the body will be able to use the energy to find balance in its own way.

Health benefits are:
– Less likely to show signs of excitability and depression.
– Improves concentration.
– Enhances relaxation and sleep.
-Calms and promotes balance.
-Enhances self awareness and self esteem

Did you know that activities related to planting can help increase concentration and the observation capacity in children? Involving children in this practice give them contact with nature which has been lost nowadays. It teaches them to acquire respect for mother earth, develop responsibilities, and reinforce their self-esteem. The purpose of this program is to create the importance since children are very small about eating healthy.

The soil is not treated with any pesticide or chemicals. This translates into respect for the planet and themselves. It means care for their health.

PLANTING

ART

Art helps children express themselves. It is a language that will make the child express through different elements specially imagination and creativity. Art for kids is a way of living and has tremendous benefits.

Motor Skills: Many of the motions involved in making art, such as holding a paintbrush or scribbling with a crayon, are essential to the growth of fine motor skills in young children.

Strengthens problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.

Visual Learning: Drawing, sculpting with clay and threading beads on a string all develop visual-spatial skills.

Inventiveness: When kids are encouraged to express themselves and take risks in creating art, they develop a sense of innovation that will be important in their adult lives

It is an outdoor program for children 0-7 years old. Its mission is to get the community more connected with nature by interacting with the four elements: Water, air, Earth, and Fire.

It’s a 4 week session program. Every session is a celebration of an element. The first session “I FEEL”, celebrates element of water: our feelings and our emotions. With the session “I THINK”, they celebrate element of air: and our ideas, our imagination. The session “I DO”, celebrates element of Earth: Our routine, our here and now. With the session “I AM”, they celebrate element of fire and our identity. Every person has his/her own composition of elements in excess and others in lack.

We can empower children by finding the balance, introducing the 4 elements in their diet and by playing with intention trough activities that include the 4 elements.

MYBALANCE KID