Reflections on the interactive practice in equine-assisted therapy in the light of motor praxiology

Abstract

This article focuses on the study of equine-assisted therapy within Motor Praxiology. In our analysis, we highlighted the theoretical and operational foundations of Motor Praxiology with the task of analyzing in equine-assisted therapy at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). In this way, praxiological research was carried out permeating the praxis of equine-assisted therapy in space, time, motricity, interactions, structure, norms and in the semantics of motricity codes, developed by UFRRJ's equine-assisted therapy professionals. This motor situation initiated a praxiological outlook on making motor based on the concept of sociomotricity, which showed us the main operating models of hidden knowledge that were observed within a therapeutic practice. Thus, the praxiological lenses forged by Parlebas (1987, 1999) mark the operative models for the unveiling of the internal structure of a motor encounter between humans and horses.