{"id":4938,"date":"2016-06-08T10:08:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T16:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgs.com\/?p=4938"},"modified":"2016-06-08T10:08:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T16:08:54","slug":"therapeutic-horses-helping-people-in-oak-grove-stable-pathways-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bgs.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/08\/therapeutic-horses-helping-people-in-oak-grove-stable-pathways-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Therapeutic Horses Helping People in Oak Grove: Stable Pathways&#039; Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\">BGS<\/a> Legal Administrative Assistant Sarah Thies has been volunteering with Stable Pathways for five years and serves on their Board of Directors.\u00a0 She became involved with the group after hearing about the need for volunteers to help lead the horses and walk along side the riders.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/stablepathways.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stable Pathways<\/a> is located at Oak Haven Farm in Oak Grove, MN . It provides equine-assisted activities for people living with physical and cognitive challenges under the careful direction of either a Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship (PATH) International Certified Instructor or a Minnesota licensed Occupational Therapist.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4942\" src=\"https:\/\/bgs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stablepathways-300x78.jpg\" alt=\"stablepathways\" width=\"300\" height=\"78\" \/><br \/>\nSarah says that therapeutic horseback riding helps riders \u201corganize\u201d body and brain. Sarah explained that the horse\u2019s gait is most similar to a human gait so riding provides a connection to a natural rhythmic movement from the horse that stimulated the rider\u2019s body and brain.<br \/>\nStable Pathways was recently featured in local television programming CTN Coon Rapids. This coverage is a great way for Stable Pathways to promote its mission &#8220;to empower, strengthen, and inspire those living with disabilities through horse-assisted activities.&#8221; Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O5p4vELxhfM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BGS Legal Administrative Assistant Sarah Thies has been volunteering with Stable Pathways for five years and serves on their Board of Directors.\u00a0 She became involved with the group after hearing about the need for volunteers to help lead the horses and walk along side the riders. Stable Pathways is located at Oak Haven Farm in Oak Grove, MN . It provides equine-assisted activities for people living with physical and cognitive challenges under the careful direction of either a Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship (PATH) International Certified Instructor or a Minnesota licensed Occupational Therapist. 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This coverage is a great way for Stable Pathways to promote its mission &#8220;to empower, strengthen, and inspire those living with disabilities through horse-assisted activities.&#8221; Watch Here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,11],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Therapeutic Horses Helping People in Oak Grove: Stable Pathways&#039; Story - Barna, Guzy &amp; Steffen, LTD.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/08\/therapeutic-horses-helping-people-in-oak-grove-stable-pathways-story\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Therapeutic Horses Helping People in Oak Grove: Stable Pathways&#039; Story - Barna, Guzy &amp; Steffen, LTD.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BGS Legal Administrative Assistant Sarah Thies has been volunteering with Stable Pathways for five years and serves on their Board of Directors.\u00a0 She became involved with the group after hearing about the need for volunteers to help lead the horses and walk along side the riders. 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