Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Mit Pfote, Huf und Herz runs the Reittherapiehof Eichbüchl in Katzelsdorf near Wiener Neustadt. It offers riding pedagogy and riding lessons for children, teenagers and adults following the Dell'mour methods, including FEBS for young children and GRIPS holistic riding education. Its HIPS programme provides therapeutic riding for all ages. The team also offers mobile dog-assisted therapy.
Pony Crew is a small family-run riding stable in Schwadorf, Lower Austria, operating since 2019. It offers riding lessons for beginners and advanced riders in small groups of up to four or five riders, as well as private lessons and lunge lessons. Children from five years can start in the Ponyclub Mini and Ponyclub Maxi groups, and children aged three to five can join the riding kindergarten. The stable also hosts birthday parties and sells gift vouchers.
Pferdepark Nöstach, also known as Reiten mit Tina, is a riding yard in Nöstach near Altenmarkt an der Triesting, Lower Austria. The instructor holds qualifications as a riding and vaulting coach, as an instructor for riding for people with disabilities and in remedial riding. The yard emphasises building a partnership between horse and rider. Its approach covers riding, competitions, cross-country, jumping and therapy work.
Lebensfreude am Weghof is a farm in Sankt Veit an der Gölsen, Lower Austria, run by Anita Vonwald. It offers riding lessons in dressage and jumping as well as integrative vaulting and riding pedagogy for children from age three. Further services include remedial therapeutic support with the horse and animal-assisted learning support. The farm also offers camel experiences, animal-themed birthday parties and animal visits to schools and care homes.
Alexanderhof is a horse farm in Blindenmarkt, Lower Austria, run as a non-profit association since 2003. It offers riding lessons, athletic lunging, in-hand work and coaching, with or without the client's own horse. Qualified therapists provide therapeutic and remedial education with the horse (HTFP) and vaulting therapy. The farm also rents paddock boxes with portioned hay feeding and daily turnout, and runs seminars and an online school.
Reiten am Hollerblütenhof is a riding farm in Gramatl near Neunkirchen, Lower Austria. It offers riding education (Reitpädagogik) for children, teenagers and adults of every level, as well as guided rides and multi-day trail rides. Horse owners can board their horses in an open stable with 24-hour hay, heated drinkers and a 20 x 40 arena. The farm also offers gymnastic groundwork training, either with its own horses or at the client's stable.
The Wiener Neustädter Reitverein is a riding club based on the Akademiegelände in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. It runs a riding school operation for lessons. The club also hosts children's birthday parties and organises events.
PonyRundum is a stable in Wimmersdorf, Lower Austria, connected to the riding club RV Drei Linden. It runs week-long camps for young riders, such as a horseshoe camp and a film camp. It also offers preparation weeks for the Austrian riding badges (Reiterpass and Reiternadel). Current stable news is shared on Facebook.
Reiterhof Althof is a family-run riding stable near Frauenkirchen in the Seewinkel, Burgenland. It offers riding lessons for children and adults, dressage and jumping courses, riding camps, and day and multi-day trail rides to Lake Neusiedl and into Hungary. Vaulting and carriage driving are also available, and the yard has a 20 x 60 m indoor arena. Horses can be boarded with large grazing paddocks, and holiday flats are offered alongside.
Lisi Hinterberger offers coaching, bodywork and riding lessons for women and their horses. Services include energetic constellation work, trauma-sensitive body and energy work for horse and rider, and process coaching with psychotherapeutic counselling in the presence of the client's horse. Her individual lessons, in person and online, cover seat training, groundwork and lunging, work in hand, and communication with the horse, aimed especially at sensitive or anxious riders, beginners and returners.
Pferderanch Steiner is a horse ranch in Kaisersdorf offering western riding lessons and riding-pedagogy activities. It runs day and overnight riding camps for small groups of children, with sessions in western, dressage, jumping, vaulting and trail riding. Other services include guided hacks and day rides, pony walks for children from age two, pony rides at events, groundwork and desensitisation training for horses.
Horse Center Austria is a riding school offering lessons for children and adults. Its services include riding lessons, horse training, competition support, video analysis and marketing of clients' horses. It also runs an associated club with memberships, experience days and themed pony birthday parties.
Reitschule Dörfl is a small riding school in the Wienerwald with direct access to the local bridleway network. It offers individual and group lessons, lunge lessons, pony rides, guided hacks and holiday camps. Lessons are tailored to each rider and include grooming before the ride and caring for the horse afterwards. The school's horses live in an open stable for most of the year.
Westernstar HD Schulz (H & D Schulz Quarter Horses) is a Quarter Horse yard in Wiener Neustadt. It stands breeding stallions and offers insemination as well as shipped chilled and frozen semen. Sale horses include all-round and leisure horses, reining and futurity prospects, and foals. The yard also offers livery, training, courses and lessons, and hosts events, with a western riding accessories shop on site.
Islandpferdeverein Hestabyli is an Icelandic horse club on a family farm in Felixdorf, Lower Austria. It offers specialised riding instruction for gaited-horse riders, with courses for young children, beginners and advanced riders. Seasonal camps in summer, autumn, winter and at Easter, and clinics with external trainers, are also offered. The horses are kept in open stabling in small groups.
Reit- u. Fahrverein Donau-Auen is a riding and driving club with its own yard in the Lobau area of Vienna. It offers riding lessons in dressage and on the lunge on its school horses, starting from the age of eight. Riders groom, bridle and saddle their horse before each lesson to learn correct handling from the ground up. Theory sessions on saddlery, arena figures and horse handling are held regularly, and membership is not required for lessons.
Reit- Fahr- u. Voltigierverein St. Johann is a riding, driving and vaulting club based at the Reitstall St. Johann in Ternitz. It offers riding lessons for beginners and advanced riders, vaulting for children and young people, and lessons on the lunge. Instruction covers dressage, show jumping and hacking, and the club prepares riders for tests and competitions. Club life includes events, group rides, shows and celebrations.
Reitstall Lehner is a riding stable in Hetzmannsdorf near Korneuburg, about 20 minutes from Vienna. It offers boarding in inner boxes, paddock boxes and open stables, with daily turnout, hay three times a day and arena maintenance included. Boarders can choose their own trainers, and the yard hosts dressage, jumping and Parelli courses. It also offers children's riding, riding pedagogy and vaulting led by qualified instructors.
Stefanie Stumpf is a riding instructor in Kirchstetten, Lower Austria, working in classical riding. She gives individual classical lessons for beginners to advanced riders, including show and exam preparation. She also offers seat and movement training, classical in-hand work, groundwork, pole and cavaletti work, and schooling of horses. Her training approach includes biotensegral horse training.
Pferdehof Königbauer is a family-run riding farm near Mariazell in Styria, Austria. It offers riding lessons by phone appointment. Each summer it runs riding exams, camps and children's afternoons around the horse. The farm has its own riding club, Reitverein Mariazellerland, through which riders can take badges and the rider's pass.
Reiterhof Edtbauer is a family-run riding farm above Weyer in Upper Austria. It offers riding lessons for beginners and advanced riders all year, both as courses and for day guests. For more than 30 years it has run supervised riding weeks for children and teens aged about 8 to 17, and it hosts school classes. The farm keeps 18 Haflingers and has an indoor arena, a dressage arena, a jumping ground and large paddocks.
Isabella Bognermayr is a Parelli Professional horsemanship trainer working with horse and rider pairs at the SISU training centre in Haag, Austria, and at courses across Europe. She trains horses in residence over several weeks or months, including young horse starting, groundwork, behaviour issues and corrective work, with owners receiving regular lessons. Her teaching covers horse psychology, liberty, seat training, classical dressage, trailer loading and competition nerves. She also runs a 12-month masterclass course and intensive training days.
Reiterbauernhof Schartner is a riding farm in Altaussee. It offers pony-led rides for small children, lunge lessons for beginners, and qualified riding lessons and trail rides for advanced riders. The farm breeds riding ponies, from Austrian ponies to full-size riding ponies and sport Haflingers, and sells young horses. It also offers animal-assisted sessions and holiday flats.
SaGaRaBi is a small, child-friendly horse business on the southern edge of Linz, based at Stall Kiener in St. Florian. It offers riding-education sessions, holistic riding lessons in the GRIPS and Centered Riding approaches, and parent-and-child riding. Horse-assisted programmes also cover sensorimotor perception training and learning support. The team works with a small group of Haflinger, Icelandic and mixed-breed horses.
