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Colorado Post Frame Barns to Propel Your Own Horse Therapy

Order any sized Colorado post frame barns to propel yourself into the equestrian lifestyle. Formal or informal horse therapy helps many physical and psychological ways. So, if you have been looking for ways to break out of cabin fever or PTSD and other stresses, consider making friends with horses. Working with horses can be magical.

Post frame barns provide the necessary shelter and space for the equestrian lifestyle. Good ventilation, safety features, lighting, access, and durability. These modern engineering feats will give you a lifetime of Western beauty, all turnkey and warrantied.

Benefits of Working with Horses

Unbeknownst to many ranchers, the horse/caregiver relationship provides many benefits. Do you know that grooming, feeding, and caring for horses reduces stress? It lowers blood pressure and improves overall health. It can improve self-discipline and the work ethic. Like caring for pet dogs—taking them on walks, feeding, interacting—horse owners often do more for the animal than they would do for themselves. This helps tremendously with improving general well-being.

Students also benefit from owning horses. They get up early to bring food and water, clean stalls, earn money for tack. They ride the horses and often participate in competitions and trail rides. All the while, they are building confidence and relationships.

PATH International

Horses indeed help people to establish close bonds and improve relationships. The Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship, or PATH, describes equine-assisted activities—those with a person and a horse. In a formal sense, they outline specific goals and work to achieve them. Professionals hired for this purpose often refer to it as hippotherapy.

A professional equine therapist promotes positive outcomes. These professionals the therapeutic value of horses and take clients through sessions, step by step. It starts with caring for the horse. And if you want your own horse, the horse needs a horse barn, stable, pasture, food, water, and grooming.

Horse Therapy Lessons

Lessons continue as the horse responds to interactions. One equine therapy lesson has to do with setting boundaries, others could be overcoming fears, processing feelings, building trust, and healing old wounds.

Because horses readily sense emotions, they react. And the rider can see the cause and effect relationship. For example, an angry or aggressive rider may discover his/her horse has become obstinate. Likewise, a skittish horse may have picked up on his rider’s anxiety. When the rider develops trust, the horse gracefully falls into alignment.

Equine therapy works for rehabilitation, MS, trauma, soldiers, and other issues. And it can be a preventative unguent for the everyday horse lover.

Colorado Builders – Post Frame Barns and Buildings

For information about Colorado post frame buildings and steel buildings for Equestrian, Storage, Hobbies, Farm & Ranch, contact Sapphire Construction, Inc. at (303) 619-7213. Our team custom designs each building using high-quality, engineer-tested materials from Lester Buildings.