Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Falkihof is a pony yard in Velden am Wörthersee, Austria, run by Gerrit Grossmann. It offers pony riding for children from four years old and riding weeks for children. The yard also hosts children's birthday parties with horses, fun shows and other events. Hacking out in the surrounding countryside is available.
Familienreithof Gore is a family riding farm near the Urbansee in Carinthia, Austria. Guests on farm holidays get daily riding and riding taster sessions included. The farm also has alpacas, petting animals, holiday flats and a sauna.
Lake-View Ranch is a family-run western riding yard above Lake Ossiach in Carinthia, Austria. It offers individual riding lessons and schooling of horses for riders who bring their own horse, from leisure riders to competitors. Services range from western riding lessons for children to competition preparation. The yard also provides livery boarding, rents out its indoor arena and lets a holiday flat.
Reitakademie Sálarhestur is a non-profit family riding association in Carinthia focused on the relationship between people and horses. It runs riding-pedagogy programmes such as a Mini Pony Club for children from age two, pony groups for older children and offers for women. Its teaching combines riding, groundwork and horse knowledge. The association also offers therapeutic riding, camps and pony birthday parties for children.
Ferienranch Wernhof is a family riding ranch in Glanegg, Carinthia, aimed at riding holidays. It offers group lessons, intensive and private lessons in the arena, led rides for small children and trail rides of about two hours. Lessons are given by a certified western riding instructor. The ranch also rents self-catering holiday flats.
Philhippies is a small horse yard in Glanegg, Carinthia, run by a certified riding educator and animal-assisted coach. It offers holistic riding lessons for children and adults in single or paired sessions, covering groundwork, horse care and riding. The yard also runs a pony club, holiday camps and horse experience days. Further services include therapeutic riding, animal-assisted education and horse-assisted team workshops for companies.
Reiterhof Einetter is a family-run riding farm above Kirchbach in the Gailtal, Carinthia, run by Erwin and Martina Einetter. It offers arena riding, jumping sessions, taster rides and guided trail rides from two hours up to day-long rides on about 30 km of forest tracks. The farm keeps its own riding horses and horses for sale, and welcomes guest horses for a daily fee. Riding camps and holiday flats are also available.
KAMARI - Ranch in Techelsberg, Carinthia, combines riding pedagogy with nature experiences. Run by a social worker and certified riding pedagogue, it offers horse-assisted sessions for concentration, dyslexia and dyscalculia, ADHD, school readiness and burnout prevention. Individual and group sessions, trail rides, adventure days and holiday camps are available. Adults returning to riding, holiday guests and beginners are also welcome to ride the ranch's horses.
Team Pony-Schule Poppichl is a pony riding school in Poppichl near Klagenfurt that works according to the Team Pony Concept. Its courses introduce children from age 2 to ponies and horses through play, with care and partnership put ahead of riding. Age-based groups range from toddler sessions with a parent upward. The school also hosts themed birthday parties, workshops, events and holiday care. Regular courses are currently paused, while birthday parties and workshops continue.
Pferdehof Römerweg is a children's riding school and animal experience farm in Eggersdorf, Styria, founded in 2002. It offers weekly riding lessons at several levels, horse knowledge, animal playgroups and hacks. Holiday camps with or without overnight stays and children's birthday parties are held on the farm. The founder teaches therapeutic riding and vaulting (heilpädagogisches Voltigieren) and natural horsemanship.
Lindenhof in Hausmannstätten combines a small children's riding school with breeding of Pura Raza Española (PRE) horses. The riding school teaches children aged 3 to 12 on four ponies and small horses, covering leading, grooming, saddling and bridling as well as riding. The farm breeds PRE horses, hosts breed inspections for the Spanish breed association and sells home-bred and imported horses. Its trained show and film horses are booked for events, photo shoots and film productions, and the yard runs clinics with international trainers.
Konjeniški center Hariet is an equestrian centre in Notranje Gorice near Brezovica, less than 10 km from Ljubljana. It teaches riding at beginner, recreational and professional levels and runs week-long summer riding camps for children. Riders can take the Jahač I and Jahač II exams and earn competition and instructor licences. The centre also schools horses, prepares them for competition and helps clients find a horse to buy. Livery horses are kept in airy boxes with turnout, a large arena and pasture.
Konji v naravi is a small horse yard in Slovenia offering riding and horsemanship programmes in a natural setting. Children's programmes for ages 7 to 16 cover horse behaviour, care, leading and riding, with summer holiday morning programmes in July and August. Adult sessions focus on reading horse body language, groundwork and basic riding, presented as horse-assisted personal development. The yard also rents stable boxes with twice-daily feeding, mucking out and daily turnout. Programmes are led by a certified riding instructor with long experience in show jumping and training young horses.
Ranč Mufko is a horse ranch near Ljubljana, Slovenia, offering family-oriented experiences with ponies and horses. It hosts children's birthday parties with grooming and pony rides, and family sessions with three ponies and two large horses. Its individual programme combines horse care, groundwork and balanced riding, and it also offers therapeutic time with horses and rides in nature. The ranch operates seasonally on weekdays by prior arrangement.
Konjeniški center Logar is an equestrian centre in the village of Lokarje near Vodice, Slovenia. It runs a riding school for beginners as well as riders who want to improve their skills. Young children can enjoy pony rides, and the centre also offers horse care, summer camps for children and birthday parties with horses. It is located on the Logar farmstead, which practises organic farming.
Jahalni center kmetija Janhar is a family riding centre in Hraše near Smlednik, focused on horses since 1994. It offers horse boarding, a riding school, trail and experiential riding, and pony rides for young children. The farm breeds Lipizzaners and its own horses for riding and driving, and offers carriage rides. Summer workshops and riding camps are run for children.
Konjeništvo Pika is a riding school in Ljubljana led by Anja Zupančič, a veterinarian focused on horses. It offers individual and group lessons for beginners and advanced riders, a pony school, birthday parties, riding camps and seminars. Through Equi VetRehab Pika it provides veterinary-supervised horse care and rehabilitation with therapies such as ESWT, Ice-Vibe, BEMER and laser therapy.
Jahalni center Kurovt is a riding centre on the Sorško polje near Škofja Loka, developed from a family farm with over 30 years of horse keeping. It has room for more than 30 horses and offers boarding with extensive trail riding. Riding courses and lessons are given by instructors, and summer camps are held for children. A small farm zoo with alpacas, goats and rabbits is also on site.
Konjeniški klub Park Sava is a riding club on the banks of the Sava river in Ljubljana. It runs a riding school, summer riding camps for children aged 5 to 15 and riding birthday parties. Horse boarding includes transport, starting young horses, turnout, stall cleaning and regular feeding. The centre has two large barns, a pony barn, two indoor arenas, outdoor sand arenas and a horse walker.
Reiterhof Landhaus Podesser is a riding farm in Kötzing above Seeboden on Lake Millstatt. It offers lunge lessons, arena lessons on school horses or the rider's own horse, small-group jumping lessons and hacks of one to three hours. Riding holidays for girls, school sports weeks and horse training on request are also offered. The farm additionally lets four holiday flats, with discounts on riding for house guests.
Ride outside the box is run by Kerry Spiess-Loane, a Tellington TTouch practitioner and Centered Riding instructor near Feldkirchen in Carinthia. She works with horses and riders across riding styles to build a calmer, more trusting partnership. Private lessons of about 45 minutes are offered in the Feldkirchen area, with group tours and intensive sessions for those further away. She also organises courses.
Pferdehof Rupitsch is a family-run horse farm at Lake Weissensee in Carinthia. It offers riding lessons for beginners and advanced riders, including lunge lessons and individual dressage lessons. Experienced riders can join slow or fast trail rides as well as half-day, full-day and two-day rides around the lake. A children's riding programme is offered, and the farm also lets two holiday flats.
Steinerhof is a family-run riding farm of the Leitner family in St. Marein near Neumarkt in Styria, in the Zirbitzkogel-Grebenzen nature park. It offers riding lessons, natural horsemanship and horse training led by trainer Anna. Riding weeks are held for children aged seven and up. Guests can stay in the farm's apartments and rooms.
Posestvo Blata is an equestrian estate in Žaga near Bovec in the Soča valley, whose main activity is horse riding. It offers trail riding, pony rides for children and individual riding lessons. The yard is run by Greta Štor, a qualified riding instructor with a show jumping background. Tourists can explore the valley landscape on horseback.
