Hello Shea clients, families and friends! Here is a video by physical therapist, Randi, with an easy daily stretching routine that you can do at home to improve your flexibility and improve your position on the horse. These stretches are also helpful to improve...
In addition to riding in the arenas, some Shea Center clients, depending on their riding ability level, ride on a variety of different trails located behind The Shea Center barn. Instructors have the option to take riders on a path from The Center down to the wood...
A tremendous thank you to all the client families, volunteers, and friends who voted for The Shea Center in The Capistrano Dispatch's People's Choice Horseshoe Awards! In all we won five awards! Gold - Best Local Nonprofit Organization Gold - Best Camp for Kids Silver...
Shea Center intern, Ainsley Berringer, is an occupational therapy student from Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She received her bachelor’s degree in biology from the same university and is currently working toward her Master of Occupational Therapy...
In order to become an instructor in a therapeutic/adaptive riding program, there are a number of requirements that must be met to ensure safe and effective teaching for riders with disabilities. At The Shea Center, all instructors are credentialed as Certified...
On Saturday mornings, Lesson Treatment Assistants (LTAs) arrive at The Shea Center at 7:30 a.m., to get horses ready for the long day’s work. Working horses before their lessons is an important responsibility of the LTA position and a crucial part of the Shea horses'...
Emerson is a Labrador/Golden Retriever mix who has been “on staff” as The Shea Center’s facility dog for 10 years this November! Trained by professional instructors at Canine Companions for Independence to work in a health care, visitation, or educational setting,...