After years of searching and researching what helps our therapy horses to process what they have experienced, the emotions and challenges, we have developed the concept of snorting correspondence.
Horses often tend to bottle up their emotions, and despite the ever-optimized keeping conditions of our therapy horses, we have noticed health problems in some of them. These have affected both psychological and physical health. Of course, the horses had exercise to balance themselves out and build muscle, because that has always been an integral part of our “horse supervision”. 
Breathing is even more important for horses than for humans, they communicate with each other through their breathing, their senses are extremely sensitive and they don't miss anything that is invisible to us humans. That's why Mag. Roswitha Zink had the idea of ​​starting with breathing to help the horses communicate their emotions to us.
We began to classify the “Schnaubers” and a complex construct emerged from this. We'll have one in 2023 Further education offered on site and started with online training in autumn 2023. Current dates for the next events can be found at: HERE or with direct registration HERE.
 
In an initial pilot study, we were able to show that it is possible to teach horses to snort and integrate it into their training and therapy environments. All horses, regardless of age, training experience or previous experience in a therapeutic environment, were able to learn and apply the snort correspondence concept. Incorporating snorting correspondence provides a simple way to improve animal welfare by helping therapy horses reduce stress and improve relaxation, thereby increasing client safety. In addition, the snorting correspondence offers numerous opportunities to address important topics that contribute to improving therapeutic processes.
In summary, it can be said that the use of snorting correspondence is possible and that both clients, therapy horses and therapists can benefit from it. Further research into this pilot to address these limitations could lead to more comprehensive findings. You can access the study via: PDF Naber et al., 2023, Audible Exhale Communication and the German summary from APA can be found at: https://science.apa.at/power-search/8187313838276259095

To read on:
PDF Naber&Zink, 2023, Snout correspondence