Supporting Science
Studies and Articles in support of Equine Assisted Experiential Learning and Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy
There are many articles and studies done on this subject. Below is a list to get you started. Included here are studies about Coherence and Heart Rate Variability (HRV). This is important to understand because since 2006 to present, Dr. Ann Baldwin (and team) studies measuring both horse and human Coherence and HRV, are demonstrating how the horse’s heart-field and the human’s are interacting and influencing each other.
A Change of Heart: New Meaning to “Horse Sense”
http://www.equusatori.com/Body/HeartMath_artcle.pdf
Effects of a Form of Equine-Facilitated Learning on Heart Rate Variability, Immune Function, and Self Esteem in Older Adults 2018
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=paij
Heart - to - Heart Connections with horses are not all that sentimental
http://eponasoul.org/?p=132
People and Animals: The International Journal of Research and Practice
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/paij/vol1/iss1/5/
Effects of Short-Term Human-Horse interactions on Human Heart Rate Variability: A Multiple Single Case Study
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/paij/vol2/iss1/2/
Biomagnetic Communication Within and Between People
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429228575/chapters/10.3109/9780203021651-42
14 The Energetic Heart
https://store.heartmath.org/e-Books/energetic-heart.html
by Rollin McCraty
Effects of therapeutic horseback riding on post-traumatic stress disorder in military veterans
https://mmrjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40779-018-0149-6
Horses and Humans, Researchers use horses to help humans challenged by Alzheimers’s disease
https://www.elderconsult.com/dementia/2019-5-30-horses-helping-seniors/
Horses May Improve Quality of Life for Alzheimer’s Patients
https://www.alzheimers.net/horses-may-improve-alzheimers
Study Confirms that Guided Therapy with Horses Helps People with Dementia
https://www.prweb.com/releases/elderconsult/horseconnection/prweb13828322.htm
Working with Horses to develop shared leadership skill for nursing executives
ScienceDirect Organizational Dynamics (2016)
https://isidl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/E4958-ISIDL.pdf
Equine Activities Influence Horses’ Responses to Different Stimuli: Could This Have an Impact on Equine Welfare?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6616897/
Emotional Transfer in Human-Horse Interaction: New Perspectives on EquineAssisted Interventions
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31779120/
New Perspectives on Physiological Mechanisms, Assessment of Self-regulatory Capacity, and Health Risk
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25694852/
An Ambulatory Electroencephalography System for Freely Moving Horses: An Innovating Approach
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5411420/
How Walking in Nature Changes the Brain
https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/22/how-nature-changes-the-brain/
A Healthy Heart is not a metronome: an integrative review on the heart’s anatomy and heart rate variability
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25324790/