Physio, osteopathy, bodywork and rehab — keep them sound and moving well.
Verein Freizeit und Pferd in Frohsdorf is a non-profit association that works with horses in nature. It offers horse-assisted awareness work, burnout prevention, dementia training and education for seniors. Its 3-hectare site has open stables, a riding arena, a round pen and pastures.
NK – Pferdegesundheit is an equine health service run by Nicole Katsek, a trained equine husbandry specialist and qualified nurse from Wiesen, Burgenland. It offers brine inhalation for horses, including mask-free trailer inhalation, and MagnaWave treatments. The main location of its equipment is in Wiener Neustadt.
Pferdevitalcoaching is the mobile practice of Barbara Rosenthaler, a certified horse health coach and horse masseuse based in Bergland, Lower Austria. She offers holistic health sessions with massage, mobilisation and fascia work for horses. She also trains Equikinetic and Dualaktivierung, including rehab training, and gives mobile riding and groundwork lessons. Appointments, day and weekend courses take place at the client's yard.
Lega Pferd offers horse-assisted learning training for children in Dreistetten near Markt Piesting. Sessions combine handling horses with exercises from dyslexia and learning training to build concentration, motor skills and self-confidence. It offers 50-minute individual sessions, blocks of ten, themed group events and intensive summer learning weeks. The trainer is certified in EREL, dyslexia training and integrative riding.
Vitale Pferde is run by Isabella Novak-Preisinger in Jetzing near Würmla. She offers lessons with the client's own horse, training of horses, intensive training days and longer-term training stays. She also gives craniosacral omnipathy and massage for horses and people, and courses at clients' yards.
Reitstall Schatz is a riding stable in Perg run by riding instructor and riding pedagogue Bianca. Its school horses live in an open stable. Lessons cover dressage, jumping, lunging and groundwork in groups of at most three riders, starting on the lunge for beginners. The stable also runs FEBS sessions where children learn about horses and farm life in a playful way.
Reinhard Mantler is a horse trainer based in Wolfern, Austria, and founder of the Austrian Horse Center. He works with horses in leadership and team development, using them to make themes such as presence and collaboration tangible for managers and athletes. A former FENA western trainer and reining competitor, he trained in natural horsemanship in the USA.
Bianca Schuh is an animal masseur and movement trainer based in Micheldorf, Upper Austria. She teaches health-oriented groundwork for horses and their owners, including in-hand work, Equikinetic, liberty work and desensitisation training, at the client's own yard. Her practice also offers bioresonance, TCM-based energy work and laser treatments for horses, people, dogs and cats.
SF Stables is a riding facility in Gampern, Upper Austria, run by Sigrid and Florian Forstinger since 2018. The yard has 15 indoor boxes with paddocks, a 60x25 m indoor arena, a 70x30 m outdoor arena, an aqua trainer, a horse walker, sand paddocks and pastures. Sigrid, a show jumper placed up to S level and a state-certified riding instructor, offers individual training for horses and riders. Since March 2023 the yard has also been an official provider of hippotherapy.
mobile Pferdewaage is a mobile horse-weighing service run by Cornelia Müller-Panzl that travels across Austria, Hungary and Bavaria. Horses are weighed on a calibrated, battery-powered scale directly in their own stable, with different floor surfaces to keep nervous horses calm. Each appointment also includes measuring the horse's height and issuing a weight pass. Prices are tiered by the number of horses per stable, and weighing tours remove travel charges.
Pferde Physio Fit is a mobile equine physiotherapy service run by Katia Kreuzhuber, a certified PHYSIO-FIT trainer for horses, horse masseuse and movement trainer. Each visit starts with a detailed PHYSIO-FIT check covering the horse's musculature, movement, gait and history. Treatments include mobilisation, massage and physical applications such as heat, cold and water, for young, old and rehabilitating horses. She also shows owners simple exercises to build into their training and works in the Vöcklabruck district.
Pferdetherapie-Gugel offers equine osteopathy combined with saddle fitting. Treatments include osteopathic sessions, follow-up treatments and craniosacral therapy for horses. As an osteopathically trained saddle fitter, the practitioner also checks saddles, adjusts tree widths and re-flocks or re-pads saddles. Services are provided around Munich, with travel costs charged beyond 30 km.
WandelRaum is a non-profit therapy farm in Frasdorf in the Chiemgau. It offers therapeutic stays and seminars, combining nature, animals, art and body therapy. Horse work includes holiday camps with riding, horse coaching and therapeutic and educational riding sessions.
Caroline Willer runs a psychotherapy practice at the Sunnamoar Hof in Tuntenhausen that works with horses. She offers horse-assisted psychotherapy, trauma therapy, systemic constellation work and horse-assisted personal development. She also offers attachment-based training for riders and horses, along with courses and webinars. She is a qualified Reitwart FN and business coach.
Eve Saglietto practises classical homeopathy for animals in the Fünf-Seen-Land area. She treats horses, dogs, cats and small animals, with a focus on chronically ill, behaviourally difficult and senior horses. Services include classical homeopathy, Matrix therapy and feeding-plan advice. Appointments are by arrangement, including evenings and emergencies.
Susan Georgi is an animal naturopath offering natural therapies for all animal species, including horses. Her treatments include acupuncture and acupressure, magnetic field therapy, homeopathy and Bach flowers. She also offers barefoot hoof care and animal grooming services.
Tierpraxis für ganzheitliche Therapie is a naturopathic animal practice run by animal healer Monika Stadler. It specialises in treating dogs, cats and horses. Therapies include animal homeopathy, acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. The practice is based in Utting am Ammersee and also holds consultations in Munich.
EQUIPET is a mobile veterinary practice run by vet Jacqueline Göhle, making house and stable visits around Munich and on the eastern shore of Lake Garda. It provides general medicine for horses and small animals, and chiropractic for horses and dogs. Further services include acupuncture, laser therapy, leech therapy, Bemer magnetic field therapy for horses and inhalation therapy. It also offers training therapy and rehabilitation for horses and online consultations.
EASY TIERPHYSIO OBERLAND is run by Isabell Schlesinger-Flachmann in the Bavarian Oberland. She offers physiotherapy, osteopathy, acupuncture and nutrition advice for horses as well as dogs, cats and rabbits. Physiotherapy covers musculoskeletal problems, rehabilitation after surgery and pain relief. She also offers sound-wave vibration therapy.
Tierarztpraxis Faber is a veterinary practice in Weingarten focused on osteopathy and acupuncture for horses. It treats issues such as unexplained lameness, muscle tension and problems with collection. Treatments include osteopathy, fascia therapy, craniosacral therapy and acupuncture. An initial consultation is offered free of charge.
Ponyhof Essling is a non-profit association running a pony farm in Vienna's 22nd district. It offers holiday camps for children from age six with riding, hacking out and farm activities, guided pony rides and birthday parties. It also provides riding pedagogy, letting children from a very young age experience horses. The horses live as a herd in an open stable.
Dialog mit Pferd offers horse-assisted psychotherapy and personal development work in Groß-Schweinbarth, Austria. It runs day seminars, intensive seminars, ongoing self-experience groups, a teen day and individual settings with horses. No prior horse knowledge is needed, and the sessions do not teach horse training or horsemanship. The team includes psychotherapists and a state-certified riding trainer.
Alexandra Hirsch offers horse health services for horse owners and professionals. Her offering includes bodywork workshops, cranio-sacral and energetic sessions at the owner's stable, and feeding consultations. She also provides horse-appropriate training online and on site, and sells online courses on back techniques, body language and hay assessment.
Via Equi offers bodywork for horses according to the Masterson Method. Sessions aim to gently release blockages and movement restrictions, with the horse taking an active role in the process. The practice is run by Tamara Preatoni and serves clients in the Vienna area. A client testimonial describes improved gait in a trotting racehorse after sessions.
