Welcome
to Hairy Henry
Therapeutic Riding and
Care Farm!
We offer a safe space for people of all ages and backgrounds to engage with us, our animals and nature - so that learning, growing and healing can happen at everyone's individual pace.
Our place gives people a chance to slow down and relax, to form new friendships, to have fun and feel-good moments, and to explore and develop their abilities, their understanding of themselves and the world around them.
We give people the time to reflect as well as plan forward, and to let themselves be challenged and succeed. Interaction and communication with our therapeutic team, which consists of people as well as animals, helps people to learn new skills, reach their potential more fully and enhance their well-being.
Our mission
~ To use a holistic, person-centred, non-judgemental
and inclusive approach.
~ To aim to overcome the barriers that hinder some of us
in participating in life to a fuller extent.
~ To offer opportunities to gain more awareness of ourselves
and the world around us.
~ To open doors to experience life in a different
and more fulfilling way.
~ To use a holistic, person-centred, non-judgemental
and inclusive approach.
~ To aim to overcome the barriers that hinder some of us
in participating in life to a fuller extent.
~ To offer opportunities to gain more awareness of ourselves
and the world around us.
~ To open doors to experience life in a different
and more fulfilling way.
What we offer
Hairy Henry Therapeutic Riding is based on a secluded small farm in the rural setting of West Cork, just within one hour's drive from Cork and Killarney.
Our two main activities are:
Therapeutic Riding
Therapeutic Riding is an activity which uses the horse as a partner in the therapeutic process. The focus lies on gaining benefits from the unique neuromuscular stimulation whilst riding and handling the horse, and from building a relationship with the horse as part of the therapeutic team.
Therapeutic Riding promotes strength, balance, good posture, confidence, coordination and flexibility. It offers physical, psychological and educational benefits to children and adults of a wide range of abilities and conditions.
Care Farming
Care farming is the therapeutic use of farming activities. The purpose of care farming is to promote mental and physical health and emotional well-being by giving people the opportunity to spend time with, and work with our farm animals such as sheep, donkeys, pet rabbits, dogs, hens, ducks and geese, and by exploring and experiencing the natural environment on the farm.
Find out more about what we do in the videos below and in the menu under 'Our Services':
Hairy Henry Therapeutic Riding is based on a secluded small farm in the rural setting of West Cork, just within one hour's drive from Cork and Killarney.
Our two main activities are:
Therapeutic Riding
Therapeutic Riding is an activity which uses the horse as a partner in the therapeutic process. The focus lies on gaining benefits from the unique neuromuscular stimulation whilst riding and handling the horse, and from building a relationship with the horse as part of the therapeutic team.
Therapeutic Riding promotes strength, balance, good posture, confidence, coordination and flexibility. It offers physical, psychological and educational benefits to children and adults of a wide range of abilities and conditions.
Care Farming
Care farming is the therapeutic use of farming activities. The purpose of care farming is to promote mental and physical health and emotional well-being by giving people the opportunity to spend time with, and work with our farm animals such as sheep, donkeys, pet rabbits, dogs, hens, ducks and geese, and by exploring and experiencing the natural environment on the farm.
Find out more about what we do in the videos below and in the menu under 'Our Services':
Text and images and film footage: Copyright Sandra Schmid 2016
