After a somewhat perilous maneuver, Alexia Boisdron, an equine therapist based in Landelles, arrives safely, in front of the Philippe-Desportes residence, in Chartres. But she didn’t come alone. At the back, in the van, Rivière, a 19-year-old mare with an ocher coat and golden blonde mane, is also preparing to reverse, to extricate herself from the vehicle.
River?? This is Alexia Boisdron’s “all-risk insurance”. The mare was trained in equine therapy, this psychological and physical discipline with the horse as mediator, at the same time as its owner.
And a pair who taught each other everything. “I got her when she was only 2 years old. She was basically a wild horse, we did a lot of work together and I’m very proud of her development. We have a very close relationship, it’s is my little baby”, slips, a little moved, the equine therapist, before entering the door of the residence alongside her mare.
“It puts us in good shape to see her”
If the rider, qualified in equine therapy, and her lifelong sidekick go to the Philippe-Desportes residence, it is as part of an equine mediation program, within the nursing homes dependent on the Chartres Hospitals. After starting with the Val de l’Eure residence and before ending these eighteen months of equine and human adventure at that of the Hôtel-Dieu, it is once again with “Mr and Mrs Duda, Mme Lacombe or even Mme Berast”, that Rivière will pour out its swell of calm and serenity.
