Gisela offers NARHA approved Interactive Vaulting workshops & Internships, which may be customized to your individual needs.

She is available to travel to your farm or you may decide to visit Gisela and her herd at Fair Tide Farm in Maine. She will help you start your Interactive Vaulting Program and prepare you for the NARHA Interactive Vaulting Instructor certification.

Her workshops and internships are approved as the educational component of the NARHA Interactive Vaulting Instructor certification.

What is Interactive Vaulting?

Vaulting is an equestrian discipline, in which dynamic and static exercises and transitions are performed on and around a moving horse on a lunge line.

In a group setting of 4 - 6 vaulters, the children learn how to groom and prepare a horse for the lesson before they enter the riding arena.  During warm up they play games on and around the horse.  After the horse and the children are warmed up the exercises on the horse begin. At the end of the lesson the children untack the horse, groom and return him to the pasture or his stall.  The session takes about 60-90 minutes.

Besides the physical benefits of improving strength, balance, sensory-motor skills and coordination, vaulters will learn teamwork, consideration for their partners (horse and team mates), increase their attention span and gain an increased self-esteem.  Interactive Vaulting gives an incredible sense of achievement.

Children or adolescents with:

• minor physical disabilities
• developmental disabilities such as ADD and ADHD, autism, mental retardation, eating disorders and learning disabilities
• problems to adapt in social settings like school, family and peer groups

For further information please read on: 

• Imagine the Possibilities ...
• Vaulting - a dynamic approach to TR