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Visit the YouTube channels for CADI and Freestyle, and the Bear Spot Foundation! Saddle Mattress will donate $30 directly to the Bear Spot Foundation for Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy for each purchase of a Saddle Mattress from their website using the code "BSF" (plus FREE S/H!) From "The Boston Globe": "Sorrows Unsaddled: At Concord’s Bear Spot Farm, Jane Karol and her horses guide students through dressage, patients through therapy." Read more... Plan on joining us for 2010's CADI and Freestyle...Serious Fun! Learn more on the CADI and Freestyle websites, and . Bear Spot Freestyle is part of the SIGNATURE DRESSAGE SERIES alliance. Horses are so often nutritive to those humans who
seek out their company. The work of my foundation honors and draws on the
seemingly mystical nourishing quality of the horse. This nourishing
quality allows bonds to grow between people of diverse backgrounds,
serves as a balm for the disquieted soul, and somehow allows even
the most lost to feel at home in their presence. |
The Bear Spot Foundation
The Bear Spot Foundation to Benefit Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (the Foundation) was established in 2004 to provide therapeutic services for children, adolescents and their families. The Foundation's programs address the needs of clients with affective disorders (like depression), ADD/ADHD, anorexia, bulimia and concerns related to low self-esteem, separation and loss and anxiety and phobias. The Foundation offers a unique combination of traditional psychotherapy with dressage riding and horse care See our YouTube video below explaining the activities of the Bear Spot Foundation. Meet Dr. Karol
Jane Karol, Psy.D. is the Foundation's executive and program director. She is a psychotherapist with extensive experience treating children and adolescents. She is also an accomplished dressage rider, trainer, instructor and competitor. The Foundation combines Dr. Karol's professional training and interests in a way that is distinct from other programs in the field. Equine Assisted PsychotherapyA powerful and effective therapeutic approach, equine assisted psychotherapy harnesses the horse's ability to be both loving friend and patient teacher. Equine assisted psychotherapy is traditional treatment in an untraditional setting. Practitioners like Dr. Karol have been able to use horses as co-therapists, and have found them to be powerful catalysts for emotional and psychological growth, development and change. 
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