Equine Sports Massage

30/07/2025

This image shows how even slight misalignment in your seat, hands, or legs can send your horse off balance! 🚲

On the left: the rider treats the horse like a bicycle, steering with their hands and turning their body, causing crookedness and uneven pressure. Look how the horse’s body twists out of alignment as a result.

On the right: the rider is centred, balanced, and riding with even contact. Their aids are aligned with the horse’s body, leading to straightness, relaxation, and connection through the back.

💡 Your horse mirrors your position.
Ride in harmony not control. The goal isn’t to steer like handlebars, but to guide from your core and seat.

( image found off pinterest )

15/05/2025

Please help this amazing organisation, and donate for Mack’s surgery🙏🙏

13/05/2025

‼️️We need your help️️‼️️

UPDATE 6.08PM TUESDAY:
Mack has come through his surgery really well and is slowly waking up - expected to make a full recovery!!!! Thank you to those who have donated. We've raised about $1000 so lots still needed. Please keep sharing 🙏🧡
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On Monday afternoon, our beautiful goofball Mack suffered a serious, life-threatening health scare. While an initial vet visit seemed to provide an almost miraculous recovery, his condition continued to deteriorate overnight, and we began to prepare for the worst. He was seen again by the vet at 1am and again at 8am. Our beautiful boy remains very, very sick with some sort of colic.

Mack is currently on his way to the UQ Equine Hospital at Gatton to undergo emergency surgery to investigate the cause and hopefully fix whatever is going on.

We’ve been quoted up to $25,000 for this emergency surgery, funds which we simply do not have on hand at the moment. We are confident that under the expert medical care at Gatton he can make an excellent recovery, but we urgently need help to secure this for him.

Any contribution, no matter how small, will go a long way to securing Mack’s wellbeing.

Thank you for your generosity. https://hoofbeats.org.au/news/campaigns/macks-appeal/

Please share this post far and wide. 🙏

23/04/2025

21/04/2025

CAN HORSES BE RIDDEN AFTER A MASSAGE?

However your horse may be tender in some target areas after their treatment, in which case they may require a 24hr or even 48hr rest before ridden exercise however turnout, in-hand walking and/or light unrestrained groundwork will benefit your horse following treatment.

22/02/2025

Equine Sports Massage Therapy is the therapeutic application of hands-on massage techniques for the purpose of increasing circulation, relaxing muscle spasms, relieving tension, enhancing muscle tone, and increasing range of motion in high performance horses.

Most working horses are treated monthly or 6 weekly to maintain a healthy muscoskeletal system.

21/02/2025

Horse body language.

06/02/2025

Give Your Horse the Nutrition & Fitness It Deserves
Tailored Solutions for Optimal Health
Your horse is one of a kind—shouldn’t their care plan be, too? At Stride Ahead Equine, we provide independent equine nutrition services and customized fitness training plans designed to bring out the best in your horse.
🐴 Why Choose Us?
• Unbiased Expertise: We're not tied to any feed brands, ensuring your horse gets exactly what they need, not what someone wants to sell.
• Tailored Nutrition Plans: From performance athletes to retired companions, we design diets to meet every horse's unique needs, addressing health concerns, weight management, and more.
• Individual Fitness Plans: We provide personalized general fitness training programs to keep your horse in peak condition, whether they’re recovering from downtime or building performance.
• Precise Weighing: We offer on-site weighing services for accurate diet and fitness calculations—no more guesswork about your horse's weight.
• Cost-Effective Solutions: Save money by optimizing your feed and fitness plan—no unnecessary extras, just results-driven recommendations.
• Education & Support: We empower owners with knowledge, so you understand every part of your horse’s care plan and its impact on their health and performance.
Whether you’re looking to boost performance, improve fitness, or support recovery, we’re here to help.
📞 Call us at 0438049967 or PM to schedule your personalised consultation today.
Because every horse deserves the perfect balance—inside and out. 🐎

04/02/2025

Knowing how much your horse weighs is useful in determining how much daily feed is needed. Also, dewormers and other medications are designed to be dispensed at specific levels relative to a horse’s weight. Unfortunately, most horse owners do not have easy access to a set of scales and must often resort to visual evaluation for estimating weight. A simple formula to help you more accurately estimate your horse's weight.

04/02/2025

TIME FOR AN UPDATE - Key Points As Of Today:

🔸Sunshine Coast Council is forcing us to move from our Doonan home of the last five years to make way for the Yandina & District Pony Club (YDPC) that already has over 30 acres next door to us

🔸Council has offered that we can move to the YDPC former grounds in Yandina

🔸The site is flood-prone and less than half the size of our current site – both of which will impact program delivery

🔸Council has committed (subject to funding availability) to provide some infrastructure at that site (is it a ‘commitment’ if it’s subject to funding availability?) so that it can meet our basic needs

🔸The site is available on a 12-month permit only with no guarantee that the permit will be renewed

🔸Works at the site have started in the last week but we have been advised that they will not be completed until May/June

🔸Council is still refusing to allow us to stay at our current location until the works are completed at the new location – we must vacate the current site by February 28th

🔸We have escalated this issue to every level within council – as far as CEO, John Baker – with no change in position

WHAT THIS MEANS

🔸Our mental health programs will be forced to stop until the new facility is ready

🔸Our (already too long) wait list for mental health programs will grow to an unmanageable size

🔸Our staff will be severely impacted financially as they are all paid on a casual basis because we never have guaranteed future funding. No programs = no wages.

🔸Our team will need to endure the mental, physical and emotional toll of moving twice and being homeless in the interim

🔸We will need to continue with our capital raising campaign to raise the funds needed to purchase our own home so that we can be assured that the Sanctuary has a safe home from which we can continue to serve the amazing women and children in our community

HOW YOU CAN HELP

🔸Donate to the capital raising campaign (on the home page of our website)

🔸Make a general donation to help us with the moving costs (on the donate page of the website)

🔸Email us ([email protected]) if you have time to help with packing up at Doonan between now and Feb 28th (we’ll add you to a Facebook group that’s been created for this purpose)

🔸Contact us if you know someone who can move a 40ft shipping container for us (for free would be amazing but any discount welcome) from Doonan to Yandina.