🧠 Teaching Tuesday: Why We Cross the Midline 🐎

You might hear our therapists say “reach across” or “touch the opposite side” during a riding session — but what’s really happening is something powerful: crossing the midline.

✨ What does that mean?

Crossing the midline is when a person moves a hand, foot, or eye across the center of their body to the other side — like reaching the right hand across to touch the left stirrup.

💡 Why it matters at Butterfly Dreams:

This simple movement is crucial for brain development, helping build connections between the left and right sides of the brain. It improves:

✋ Coordination

📚 Reading and writing skills

🧠 Cognitive processing

🎯 Focus and attention

In our equine-assisted sessions, we build these movements into fun, purposeful activities — like reaching for rings, tossing beanbags, or high-fiving!

🌈 These moments may look like play, but they’re laying the foundation for lifelong skills. One midline cross at a time, our riders are making incredible strides.

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