Visit the YouTube channels for CADI and Freestyle, and the Bear Spot Foundation!

Saddle Mattress will donate $30 directly to the Bear Spot Foundation for Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy for each purchase of a Saddle Mattress from their website using the code "BSF" (plus FREE S/H!)

From "The Boston Globe": "Sorrows Unsaddled: At Concord’s Bear Spot Farm, Jane Karol and her horses guide students through dressage, patients through therapy." Read more...

Plan on joining us for 2010's CADI and Freestyle...Serious Fun! Learn more on the CADI and Freestyle websites, and .

Bear Spot Freestyle is part of the SIGNATURE DRESSAGE SERIES alliance.
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Horses are so often nutritive to those humans who seek out their company. The work of my foundation honors and draws on the seemingly mystical nourishing quality of the horse. This nourishing quality allows bonds to grow between people of diverse backgrounds, serves as a balm for the disquieted soul, and somehow allows even the most lost to feel at home in their presence.
—Jane Karol

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Events

Bear Spot Freestyle has a new website!
Bear Spot's CADI 2009 Another Great Success!

2009 Children of the Americas Dressage Invitational (CADI)

Our CADI 2009 was a great success, with yet another very impressive showing of young riders from North and South America. We were honored to have Kathy Connelly (S) and Susanne Handler (R) as our judges this year. For more information, visit CADI's new website: bearspotcadi.com and please plan to join us for CADI 2010!


New Website for Bear Spot Freestyle

Please visit our new Bear Spot Freestyle website and read all about Freestyle 2010...Serious Fun! Plan to attend.


To host a benefit event for the Foundation, please contact us.

News & Publications

Featured in The Boston Globe and Boston.com:
Concord Therapist Uses Horse Riding to Get Troubled Youngsters to Open Up
"Sorrows Unsaddled: At Concord's Bear Spot Farm, Jane Karol and her horses guide students through dressage, patients through therapy."

Jane is featured in "Ask the Experts"
Dressage Today magazine, February 2008

The Healing Power of Horses

"Applying a Traditional Individual Psychotherapy Model to Equine-facilitated Psychotherapy (EFP): Theory and Method" (Jane Karol). The Journal of Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Vol. 12, Number 1, January 2007. [Abstract of the article may be viewed here, with options for purchase through the publisher, Sage Publications.]

"Ponies and Possibilities – How Equine Assisted Psychotherapy Harnesses the Healing Power of Horses"
Pony Enthusiast Magazine
Summer 2005 (Reprinted with permission, Green Mountain Horse Association Magazine, Winter 2006)
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