Sally Harvey CESMT

07/11/2025

Hey vets! This is a great opportunity to improve lameness diagnostic skills!! Check it out!!

This post-graduate course for equine veterinarians approaches all aspects related to the clinical application of quantitative gait analysis in horses.

03/01/2025

So I’ve done countless courses - with or without certifications. My attitude about certifications comes from having paid good money for recommended courses only to be disappointed and feel scammed. For instance I took a course in tuning forks and singing bowls from someone pretending to be knowledgeable. Having taken legitimate courses from more reputable sources, I recognized almost instantly that this person was misquoting and/or poorly plagerizing leaders in the field. The course was a joke. The only thing I learned was two different ways to sound a singing bowl- something I could have learned in 30 seconds from one of my friends in the field. The course did not require the student to own or borrow a singing bowl and the only time I’ve ever (gingerly) touched a crystal one was at a private session. Those things cost a fortune and I can’t imagine taking one to a barn. Anyway the completion of the course resulted in my certification as a practitioner of tuning forks and singing bowls, the handling of neither being a course requirement! Junk certification.
That said and with great trepidation, I signed up for a certification course in energy work. It is quite comprehensive so far - so much so, that I can’t imaging someone not already well-versed in anatomy including all the individual body systems AND the meridian systems would be able to progress without YEARS of study. Fortunately I DO have those years under my belt - including over eight years study and practice of acupuncture points and meridians.
Hoping to learn some new techniques to add to my tool box.
Do I care about a certificate? Absolutely not. But I care passionately about learning new ways to help horses feel and perform their best.

01/19/2025

For some reason Facebook won’t let me update my bodywork description. So I’ll try to do it here. Concentration is on bringing the brain, heart and gut into neural coherence, releasing tension and bringing the horse’s nervous system into a parasympathetic state in which the body can self heal. Along with this, muscle and scar adhesions and fascial restrictions are reduced and released, resulting in freer, fuller range of motion and enhanced performance.
Current Modalities used are:
Equine Myofascial Kinetic Lines
Positional Release
Photobiomodulation (aka Red Light Therapy)
Photo-puncture (like acupuncture only uses red light instead of needles)
Sonopuncture (like acupuncture, only using one or more Otto-tuner tuning forks instead of needles)
Acupressure (finger pressure on Acupoints)
Biofield Tuning
Biomat
Far infrared field
Low power/low gauss PEMF “VIBE” Resonant Frequency Therapy (RFT)
Sound bath
Vagus Nerve release
Myofascial Release
TTouch
Sportsmassage
Vibrational modalities are the future and are here now. Meanwhile, whatever it takes to make your horse more comfortable naturally, should be found here.

10/25/2024

So the Neuro Mastery Summit, which includes speakers from other summits like “Rewire Your Brain,” covers some interesting science which could be applied to horses. I was hoping for more useful modalities, but it’s mostly talking heads talking about trauma with very few speaking about somatic approaches. However, the term “epigenetics” was frequently mentioned, so I finally decided to look it up:
“The study of how environmental factors and lifestyle choices can influence gene expression without altering the underlying DNA structure. … These epigenetic changes can be reversible and may be passed down to future generations”
It’s weird being here on the cusp of a paradigm shift from purely Newtonian physics with its chemical/mechanical approach in biology and medicine to the new Einsteinian quantum physics/energy approach.
It reminds me so much of the paradigm shift from print marketing/advertising to internet marketing/advertising which I more or less navigated like a ship in shallow waters back in the late 90’s/early 2000’s.
People are just as suspicious, confused and wary about this shift as they were about the other.
Nevertheless, my interest is more in how emerging science and modalities can help horses.
Today in a conversation with a couple of owners about trauma in people and in horses someone mentioned a particularly troubled horse whose history may have included being rounded up as a Mustang, because he was fine once you got on but was stressed and frightened as long as you were on the ground doing anything like grooming or picking hooves.
That reminded me of a study I read years ago about how crows, which were taught that a non-common, certain trigger caused them harm, produced offspring who instinctively knew to avoid that trigger. Epigenetics!
So
In this Neuro Mastery Summit and in sound healing trainings taken earlier this year, a number of methods of reversing the negative effects of trauma were explored. Sound and vibrational medicine are particularly useful at minimizing the effects of trauma in the cells and the fascia. I have no way of measuring epigenetics, but outcomes such as reduced anxiety, increase in range of motion, sudden reversal of symptoms, release of tension and a more robust immune system point to the efficacy of energetic and vibrational modalities.
Thank you for reading my geeky deep dive of the day.

10/05/2024

Anyone interested in the future of medicine and health needs to read this book!
Vibration, frequency, resonance are fundamental to health, reaching the body at the quantum level. Just discovered this book during recent attendance at the 2024 Quantum Biology Wellness Summit.
I feel blessed to know several practitioners of Frequency Specific Microcurrent and even more blessed to have received sessions from same. Am I going to add to my bag of modalities? Probably not, but I can hook you up!
Also got to hear the author speak!

07/22/2024

Took a deep dive into cellular biology over the last few days. Also into the latest studies on fascia and inflammation. Amazing insights into so much useful data applicable to the modalities I use in my practice plus has me doubling down on my critcism of how certain devices actually increase inflammation despite all the manufacturers’ and the practitioners’ claims to the contrary.

06/15/2024

06/15/2024

These kids at D&D ranch were so receptive and great to work with

01/27/2024

I’m learning new tuning fork protocols, science and theory from Dr. John Beaulieu who is essentially the father of sound healing. Today I gave sessions to my own geldings which resulted in unblocking a lot of stiffness. Testing the wave flow before and after is mind blowing. Maybe will get a as video soon. I’ve practiced on people as well. Just amazing as is the depth of relaxation.

12/06/2022

I have two who were lame from heel cracks and became sound when treated with NoThrush. I’m a believer.