12/01/2025
Organs, Emotions & Lameness
Organs are a leading cause of lameness and they will dominate soft tissue and bone. In osteopathy this well know relationship is called “Visceral Somatic Dominance”.
Every organ when is dysfunction will exert a local and referred physical torsion.
A central theme is that when an organ is out of position, in spasm; its metabolic function is impaired. Or currently more common, when an organ is metabolically impaired, it will go into an inflammatory spasm, and will have reduced movement in all motilities, and create spasms in surrounding tissues, and entrained muscles/bone/fascia. Essentially, organ dysfunctions create predictable physical holding/lameness patterns and the severity of these patterns is proportional to the degree of organ dysfunction.
E.g. when addressing a severe renal dysfunction, the involved kidney will feel like a hardened board or even steel plate, have no motility, and have enormous spasmatic structural spams in a very large area. The psoas muscle on the side of kidney dysfunction will be in spasm not because there is necessarily a psoas muscle strain, but because the psoas muscle is entrained to the kidney. I clear psoas muscle issues 100% of the time and it's rarely a "Muscle" issue, rather an organ issue.
Clearing the “Downstream cascading effects”, helps but does not solve the core issue. In the very common example of an ulcerated stomach, masking the symptoms, or alleviating the acid content with beta blockers, and herbal compounds is and may be necessary, but it will not in any way clear the issue. An ulcerated stomach will severely torsion T12 ventrally making impulsion all but impossible. If one were able to reset T12 (unlikely even with the best of equine DC’s) without resetting the core stomach dysfunction, T12 will retorsion within hours as the stomach absolutely dominates it.
Therefore, any practitioner worth their salt, must have a good understanding of organs and visceral somatic dominance in their repertoire.
By resetting an organ, corresponding muscles, nerves, and bone can reset as well.
The most drastic organ dysfunctions are emotional cysts!
Specific emotions when in imbalance tend to settle in specific organs, hence, organs are the predominate tissue where our unsettling biography settles, or particular emotional/belief impairments hang out.
Many times I'm just working through the body and come upon an organ that is difficult to rebalance. That's a clue that there is likely an emotional cyst holding the organ in spasm. One must then direct intention and intuitive insight into sensing the essence of this particular emotional/belief cyst, and bringing this aspect of "Shadow" to the surface ( IET Equine Craniosacral Courses). Dialoguing with the horse to fully face it, embrace it, understand its message/lesson and ALLOW it to transmute and leave.
It is here that horses will often defer and redirect to their human if they're mirroring the issue. If the horse is mirroring a deep emotional issue, clearing the horse only will never hold, it may release for awhile, but never leg go and be done with it.
Many horses will utilize the hand ting points as a bridge to bring the session focus to this core essence early on (see previous post)
These emotional/belief cysts are the key lameness and metabolic areas. They are representative of where the horse/human got off their path, or their soul's purpose.
These physical/emotional/spiritual areas always contain a central core where they 24/7 emanate noncoherent energy waves in a spherical shape. It is rather easy to teach students to pick up these waves and then locate the exact core space its working from. Then one can easily nudge this cyst and the organ back to vitality.
