Croí Go Croí Equine Assisted Services

27/03/2026

🌿✨ Find Your Strength This Easter ✨🌿

This Easter, take some time for you.

Join us for a 2-hour adult equine-assisted session designed to help you slow down, reset, and reconnect with your inner strength.

🐴 Connect with the horses
🥚 Let go of what’s holding you back
🌿 Reflect, reset & recharge
💛 Gentle, supportive, no pressure environment

This isn’t your typical Easter event…
It’s a space to breathe, reflect, and move forward feeling lighter.

📍 Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick
📅 Friday 3rd April 10.30am
📩 Limited spaces – message to book

Give yourself the gift of a fresh start this Easter 🌼

26/03/2026

✨ A few spaces available next week ✨

Are you or your child or teen feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or struggling with confidence?

Our equine-assisted sessions offer a calm, supportive space where they can slow down, feel understood, and build confidence — at their own pace 🐴💛

🌿 How it works:
Sessions are mostly ground-based (no riding required), where clients interact with the horses through simple, guided activities. Horses naturally respond to emotions, helping build awareness, confidence, and emotional regulation in a gentle, non-judgemental way.

No horse experience needed. Just a willingness to show up.

💬 Message me to chat or book a space

Sometimes the smallest step can make the biggest difference ✨

22/03/2026

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17/03/2026

🌿Many autistic people are strongly drawn to animals

In a webinar presented to the US-based Autism Research Institute, Dr. Gray Atherton, PhD, suggests that autistic individuals often prefer interacting with animals rather than people.

For autistic individuals animals may feel easier to relate to because they communicate more directly through behaviour rather than complex social cues.

Studies have found that autistic individuals who own pets often report better mental health and emotional wellbeing, and strong attachment to their animals.

Research with children shows that having a pet or interacting with animals can increase social behaviours and engagement. For example, children with autism sometimes show more social interaction after playing with an animal compared with a toy.

Animals offer non-judgmental companionship and consistent responses, which can make interactions feel safer and less stressful for some autistic people.

The Biophilia Theory hypothesis humans have an innate, genetically based need to connect with nature and other forms of life.

This biological inclination suggests that affiliation with nature is essential for human psychological and physical well-being, fostering reduced stress and increased cognitive function.

16/03/2026

15/03/2026

According to a study by Sara Kwon and colleagues published in the journal Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine (2019), therapeutic horseback riding (THR) may help improve language and cognitive abilities in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or intellectual disability (ID). In this study, children aged 6–13 participated in an 8-week program where the therapy group received conventional therapy along with 30 minutes of therapeutic horseback riding once per week. Researchers measured changes in language using standardized tests such as the Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary Test (REVT) and the Preschool Receptive-Expressive Language Scale (PRES), and assessed cognition using the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) and the Bayley Scales of Infant Development.

The findings showed that children who participated in therapeutic horseback riding experienced significant improvements in receptive language, expressive language, vocabulary skills, and cognitive functioning after the 8-week intervention. Although both the therapy and control groups showed some improvement, the horseback riding group improved in more areas. Researchers concluded that therapeutic horseback riding may be a promising complementary therapy to support communication, learning, and cognitive development in children with ASD and intellectual disabilities.

PMCID: PMC6637059 PMID: 31311249

15/03/2026

Hope all the mums had a lovely day today ❤️❤️

14/03/2026

A lovely day of sessions, horses, craic, community and a delicious cake brought by a lovely mum 💞

12/03/2026

22 followers away from 600! We are grateful for every one of you 🥰 Share our page link and see can we make it to the 600 mark 🥳

11/03/2026

Surprise flowers from a lovely client today 💐 made my day 🥰

10/03/2026