Retreats, Clinics & Volunteering
Structured, professionally supervised programs with our rescued horses.
This is where Caribe Horse is headed next: a structured, professionally supervised program built around our rescued horses, growing as our own facilities do.
Retreats, clinics and volunteering are temporarily suspended due to renovation works in the facility.What makes this different
A dedicated stable
Purpose-built facilities, not a rental yard shared with a tour string.
Nutrition designed with a veterinarian
Every horse's diet is set and adjusted with professional veterinary input.
Ongoing veterinary care
Rescued horses stay under veterinary programs well beyond their initial recovery.
Academic, European-style training
Grounded in formal technique, not just years of empirical experience.
A collaborating psychopedagogist
Supports hippotherapy and horse-communication work alongside our team.
A certified athletic trainer
Prepares retreat and clinic participants physically before they ride.
What the programs involve
This is what each one involves when it's running. We're renovating the volunteer and guest lodging first, so message us on WhatsApp if you'd like to be notified when they reopen.
Retreats and clinics
Natural Horsemanship, equine psychology and human-horse communication. Discover a deeper way of understanding horses.
Caribe Horse offers Natural Horsemanship and Human-Horse Communication clinics, together with Equine Psychology, behavioral science, biomechanics and veterinary principles, as well as specialized Hippotherapy clinics.
Our programs are for people who want to improve their relationship and communication with horses, and understand more about how horses think, learn, communicate and respond.
Although Natural Horsemanship is the term most commonly used today to describe a respectful, relationship-based approach to horses, the principles behind it have much deeper roots. For more than 5,000 years, humans have studied, trained and developed relationships with horses, and many of the fundamental principles of sensitivity, balance, communication, respect and understanding of the horse were already deeply developed within the classical equestrian tradition.
The work of masters such as François Robichon de La Guérinière, Federico Caprilli and Nuno Oliveira shows a deep understanding of the horse and of the human-horse relationship, one that predates the modern term Natural Horsemanship.
At Caribe Horse, we treat this equestrian heritage as a whole, enriched with knowledge from equine psychology, behavioral science, communication, biomechanics and veterinary principles. Modern scientific research offers real evidence and new perspectives, particularly in the study of behavior, learning and cognition, while much of what experienced horsemen have observed and practiced for generations remains an essential foundation of good horsemanship.
For this reason, we do not believe that every horse can, or should, be approached according to the same formula. There is no universal recipe for communication with a horse. Every individual has its own temperament, genetics, breed characteristics, history, experiences, learning processes, physical condition, environment and social background.
This is why our approach is individualized rather than mechanical. The goal isn't to teach a set of techniques: it's to develop the ability to observe, interpret and understand the individual horse and adapt communication accordingly.
Our clinics explore the horse as a whole: mind, body, behavior, learning, communication, biomechanics and well-being.
All programs are built on a psychopedagogical framework that combines educational and psychological principles with practical horsemanship and real respect for the horse.
Natural Horsemanship may be the starting point, but understanding the individual horse is the real journey.
Volunteering
When it's running, volunteering here is a minimum two-week, hands-on stay working alongside our rescued horses, not a drop-in visit.
Volunteers stay on site at a discounted rate and work through both theoretical and practical training hours.
We're setting the exact rate and the training structure as part of the renovation, so we'd rather not publish numbers we'll have to change. Message us and we'll tell you where it stands.