Natural Gait Equine Sports Massage

10/10/2024

It’s a beautiful moment when you see a horse who’s quite clearly uncomfortable with the mere thought of you working on them, surrender themselves to you. When a sclera stare becomes a soft eye and a high head drops down to knee level. This beautiful girl holds so much tension through her neck and shoulders and treatment wise it was quite a challenge….. but the moment she started to release, she did not want to stop. Even after I finished and stood back the releases continued 🥰🥰

04/10/2024

This gorgeous girl, completely zoned out after her neck, trigger point therapy 😁😁

08/08/2024

28/06/2024

There’s no better feeling than being guided through a treatment by a horse, but today was on a whole different level. This gorgeous boy Bertie, actually gave me goose bumps and feel so much emotion throughout the time I was with him. He showed me constantly what he wanted and where he wanted my hands, he lifted legs, dropped hips and at one point almost folded himself in half to tell me what I needed to do and how long he needed me to do it and believe me when I say he was not letting me leave until HE was done with me. The expressions on his face throughout, were hilarious …… today I had 3 different horses with different personalities and different treatments but it was a pleasure to spend time with them all and to see the obvious difference’s in the way they moved, after the therapy. So thank you Bertie, Sonny and of course my old mucka Duncan 🥰

28/06/2024

One of the horses I treated today really hammered home to me that every horse is an individual, with individual needs and as time is going on I’m realising that I never do the same treatment on any horse twice. …….90% of the time I follow a certain routine but adapt it to each session. Then other times, like with this precious girl, the usual routine has to go out the window and a completely different approach is needed. She’s an OTTB that sometimes lets her anxiety get the better of her, so a new plan was needed. Today we worked on her tactile response along side trigger therapy and the results were amazing. Having yet another horse that gave me goosebumps during a treatment is a precious thing 🥰🥰

30/04/2024

As a therapist, part of my job is to help encourage your horse to be easier to deal with when it comes to “behaviours.” What a lot of people don’t realise is that if your horse having a hard time doing something, they’re not doing it purposefully.
I see people who tell me, “my horse won’t pick up a limb.” Guaranteed that this is not your horse being difficult, there’s just too much tension on the muscles and it requires looking at the body first, as the body controls the limbs.
In horse that you can’t pick up a hind limb, this could stem from pain in the iliopsoas muscle and the lumbosacral area is not working correctly. That being the reason means that your horse is in pain and its body won’t allow you to pick up the leg, then if you do manage, they just want to slam that leg back down. That’s due to the pressure it puts on the spine and surrounding muscles.
In a horse that is reluctant to pick up a front limb, can be because of pain in the scapula, ribs or the lower neck compressing the nerves, which can be very painful.
So next time you think that your horse is being difficult, maybe it’s just having a hard time performing the act you require from it…….
I can help …..with palpating your horse to find areas which are painful and tight and to encourage the partnership between you and horse with less stress.

30/04/2024

Natural Gait Equine musculoskeletal and sports massage therapy