Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Reithof Horse & Spirit is a riding yard in Seckau, Styria, that breeds and raises its own foals in a herd with plenty of turnout. It trains young horses through to sport horses, offers schooling and riding lessons, and brokers proven show jumpers. The yard is home to the Reitclub Murtal. It also runs awareness courses and an archery course on site.
Reiterranch Rodeo is a riding ranch in Singsdorf near Rottenmann, Styria. It offers riding lessons, groundwork, gymnastic schooling and circus lessons on its own horses, plus guided hacks along the Hufeisentour for riders with a Reiterpass. The facility has stables with boxes and an active stable, an outdoor arena, an indoor school and paddocks, and is linked to a riding club. The Pferdeblick-Hütte can be booked for holidays with your own horse.
Pferdetherapie Innerstetal is run by Melody Skawran, a licensed trainer in the Michael Geitner methods, based at Reitanlage Mahner Berg in Salzgitter. She offers equine physiotherapy with initial and follow-up treatments. She also trains horses and riders with Dual-Aktivierung and Equikinetic. Riders in competition and leisure riding can book individual lessons and courses on site or at their own yard.
Hacklhof is a family-run organic farm at 1260 m in the Lungau that breeds Icelandic horses. It offers qualified riding lessons in its own arena and trail rides on its sure-footed Icelandic horses. The farm also keeps dairy cattle and rents holiday apartments.
Feriendorf Ponyhof is a family-run holiday village in Fusch an der Großglocknerstraße in the Salzburg Alps. It keeps its own ponies and has an indoor riding arena, where riders from beginners to advanced can learn riding and horse handling under professional instruction. Guests can also bring their own horse and stable it in paddock boxes. The village additionally offers rooms, a wellness area, a petting zoo and a ski lift.
Equi-Excellence is the practice of equine vet and dressage rider Nina Luisa Höck, based in Bad Häring and serving Tyrol, Bavaria and Salzburg as a mobile horse practice. Veterinary services include general medicine, dentistry, internal medicine, orthopaedics and lameness work-ups, respiratory diagnostics and manual therapies such as chiropractic, physiotherapy and dry needling, and she works as an FEI official veterinarian at shows. Its riding facility, with an indoor arena, outdoor arena and round pen, offers dressage training, riding lessons, schooling and young-horse training. It also runs sport-horse rehabilitation with rehab stalls under veterinary supervision.
Lernen mit PS offers horse-assisted learning for children in Dornbirn and Frastanz, Vorarlberg. Founder Eva is a horse-assisted learning trainer for dyslexia and dyscalculia and a riding pedagogue. Programmes include learning training with horses, a horse play group for the youngest, and "Deutsch lernen bei den Pferden", which combines language lessons with riding and horse care. Riding lessons and holiday camps are also offered.
Reitstall St. Lukas is a dressage centre in Sulz im Wienerwald, run by Hans and Eva Riegler. Johann Riegler trained at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna from 1969 and rose to chief rider before passing on his experience to international sport riders and instructors since 2008. The yard focuses on classical dressage training aimed at keeping horses healthy through correct riding. Riegler has also published a book and an instructional film on the rider's seat.
Reit- und Therapiezentrum Regenbogen is a small family riding stable and integrative riding and vaulting club in Ternitz, Lower Austria. It offers riding lessons including lunge work, dressage, jumping, hacks and preparation for rider badges, plus guided pony rides. Vaulting is offered both as a sport and as therapeutic vaulting, alongside hippotherapy. The facility has an indoor arena, an outdoor arena, 17 boxes for school and guest horses and nine grass paddocks.
Dragahof is a family horse farm in Parndorf, Burgenland, run as an association for horse-assisted support since 2019. It offers horse-assisted coaching and training, including leadership training and team building for companies, youth coaching and stress and embodiment training. It also provides social-pedagogical support with horses for children, teenagers and adults with special needs, and Lolino riding pedagogy. Training courses in horse-assisted coaching are offered as well.
Golden View Ranch is a riding facility in the vineyards above Mörbisch with views over Lake Neusiedl. It is run by a state-certified western riding instructor and offers weekly riding courses, the Hufabzeichen and Western Riding Certificate, day rides and children's birthday parties. The stable has boxes for 16 horses, eight with their own paddock, and school horses live in an open stable. Boarding places are offered, with daily turnout for the horses.
Equi Novum is a small riding school in Maria-Anzbach near Vienna run by Mario and Katrin Bodendorfer. It teaches children of roughly 5 to 12 years in a playful setting without performance pressure, and runs a Mini Club for children aged 4 to 7. It also supports adult beginners and returning riders. Further offers include a horse summer camp, pony days, therapeutic special-needs riding and coaching.
Zuchtstall Zwinger is an agricultural horse-breeding farm on the edge of the Neusiedler See national park in Podersdorf. It offers carriage rides into the surrounding landscape, riding lessons, ride-along sessions and boarding for horses. Horses from its own breeding are occasionally offered for sale. The farm is also home to the Reit- und Fahrverein Podersdorf Edelgrund, founded in 2003, whose riders can start in competitions.
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.
