Airmid Equine Bodyworks

08/09/2024

Alright Airmid peeps, I am looking for suggestions and volunteers to have their horse bodywork done as a presentation. Here is the background. Airmid has been invited to have a booth at the new Wellness centre of the New Brunswick Provincial Exhibition. I am looking for any photos or videos taken during bodywork sessions. If anyone is planning to be at the Ex with a horse, it would nice to do a session as a presentation. So, hit me with your ideas. Please.

07/29/2024

We have had a busy season this year competing as well as bodywork. A few days rest then back to it.

07/05/2024

07/05/2024

Equine massage therapy and vertebral realignment services, including kinesiology taping, specializing

04/29/2024

So easy for anyone to do. Please follow this bodyworker if you, like me, wish to continue to learn and help horses.

04/18/2024

Full treatment of racehorse with Christian, explaining treatment and magnesium supplements & answering live questions.

04/11/2024

When we look at diet both in the human and equine world it is a minefield
Feed for top line
Feed for laminitis
Feed for healthy gut
Balancers, supplements, and a whole array of other stuff

If you put a white coat on and sit at a desk on social media you become an expert (I kid you not I just watched a man telling all us ladies that menopause is caused by fat blocking our fallopian tubes🤔) and while this may seem ridiculous, the food and supplements industry across all species is huge

I do not give Feed advice because in simple terms I am not qualified to and while I know what works putting a nutriionist hat on however helpful I may think I am being is outside my lane and as always for me to err on the side of caution often is better than giving out advice which maybe wrong

But I am going to talk about my personal opinion and what I see in day to day

It's simply it's often not only what they eat but also it's the state of mind that decides where and how those nutrional benefits are rewarded

Stress is one of the biggest issues with horses wether it be through pain, perceived pain, injury, illness or environment
You could Feed the most expensive Feed to build topline but posture, pain and stress dictates shape so if you have an ill fitting saddle then no matter how much you feed the muscle it will not be able to build while the brain is stuck in pain

The digestive system is complicated dictated by the AUTNOMIC and ENTERIC system which is involuntary so while we can regulate our breath to kick in a system we like the horse are a slave to outside enviroment affecting internal workings, I mean how many of you are internal worriers yet simply all those ice baths you take only relieve that internal worry for a short time, it's your nature which in a moment of crisis will always take over

I often work on horses and the first thing the owners notice is their horse is putting on weight, it's the first sign and a good sign to me that the stressors that were in place before have lessened

Horses often do not have one huge stress factor but by merely being in our world they can build up small micro stresses from the outside in and it's upto us to notice and limit as much of these as possible

Again this is my opinion (and I do not wear a white coat 😀) but we must ask ourselves if our horses are not utilising the nutrients they are in taking correctly then what is going on with either them or their world that is causing the imbalance

03/22/2024

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03/12/2024

Looking forward to the Bodyworks stretching clinic at Elite Equestrian this coming Saturday.

Yoga and carrots are a horse's best friend!

03/10/2024

03/10/2024

03/10/2024

New little course just released
So I thought I would take you on a journey through the horses body in the ethos of
Easy Equine Anatomy there is going to be four of them and we are starting off with the
The Equine head

It's 10 steps but breaks down into around 24 parts including Quizzes, A downloadable guide, Exercises and all you need to know to have a basic understanding of the structures of the head
Wether you are an owner wanting to know more or a therapist just coming into Anatomy There is something for everyone

My main aim has always been to break down the barriers of learning with fun (not to hard quizzes), picture references and videos

We will eventually by the end of this series of courses worked through the whole body and gathering tips and techniques as we go along

Learning is fun (unless you have been putting it all together and then worrying it's not good enough lol)

As its a compilation the price each one is 24.99 so affordable information at your finger tips

There is also a little free taster quiz on there

Link in comments

02/27/2024

All appointments for my Gaspesie trip are set. Please contact me if you have any questions. See you soon.

02/07/2024

Cesar Parra. If you have not seen the videos of his “training” surfaced yet, I hope you don’t.

I hope you continue to live in a safe place, surrounded by good images of good practices. I hope you continue to make the world a better place with the horse you have in front of you, right now. I hope you and your horses are safe.

If you saw those videos and were appalled, I nod my head with you.

If you saw those videos and were appalled, but not surprised, I’m nodding my head and holding your hand.

If you saw those videos and were appalled, but not surprised and have been FOR YEARS screaming into the wind about the egregious practices occurring behind closed doors in some of (not all) the most elite and prestigious equestrian organizations all over the world, trying to advocate, trying to get everyone to stop, and think about what is going on… but nobody listened… I stand with you. As one of you.

I tried to raise the alarm with whatever following I had at the Tokyo Olympics… before Saint Boy. I watched the first tests and saw bodies that did not lie. Well disguised hints that told a story of training that the horses were fundamentally confused and hurt by.

I reached out to friends who had connections within competitive riding to begin opening a dialogue, on the record, about what we were seeing

“I don’t want to alienate my clients who compete”

So, I screamed into the wind for a while. Until people said “stop being negative you’re making me uncomfortable”

When will it be time for us to be willing to get uncomfortable to force change? If we, ordinary equestrians, don’t roll up our sleeves and get our hands immersed for the work needed to push through change from the grass roots to the top, we risk someone else, someone who is not a horse person stepping in a doing that for us.

What does this look like? It looks like animal rights groups lobbying for removal of competitive riding from the Olympics, and the systemic collapse of competitive riding all together, over 2-3 decades, this may have already begun. Such dramatic shifts have occurred around horses before. It happened in the past- Henry Fords internal combustion engine ended, almost totally annihilated the carriage horse industry between 1910-1930. We have historical precedence for such dramatic shifts.

It looks like a Netflix or similar documentary showing not just the egregious practices of radicalized and localized individuals, but the broad spectrum culture of welfare corruption that continues to permeate the lives of horses across almost every sector, from amateur to professional, from continent to continent.

It looks like such a documentary creating enough leverage to force legislators to rule horse riding, or even horse ownership an illegal or restricted activity, requiring licenses and all the corruption and confusion that goes with that. Or outlawing riding unless one passes tests. We have historical precedence for this; during the house confinement of The Big C, the Spanish government made an overnight ruling forbidding horse riding and even horse care unless one was a registered agriculturalist or needed to ride to continue working for essential activities. About 10 years ago, five decades of lucrative capture, display, and close contact training of Killer Whales came to a screeching halt in the USA after a head trainer was eaten by her best whale at Sea World and a Netflix documentary illuminated the dark and questionable practice of the domestication of these large intelligent animals. This ended an industry.

Do we want to see the same happen with horses and horse riding?

Until the ordinary horse person finds a calm, clear, intelligent and kind voice to say “No, this is not right”, I watch us all run like lemmings in jodhpurs to the cliff of potential broad spectrum annihilation of not just the sport, (I personally could give or take the sport) but also of the recreation and hobby of horses

Think I’m exaggerating? We have historical precedence for less extreme things happening. A cursory visit to animal welfare hardcore lobbyist groups on social media (which I just spent the evening down a rabbit hole reviewing) reveals that this is exactly the momentum they are building. It is certainly not my message or my way. I am filled with a sacred, burning, self contained rage on behalf of the horse species that I love to my bones. But I don’t use that burning rage to watch the world burn. But I don’t shy away from speaking to the truth either.

If we do not step up, eventually someone else will. Because by doing nothing? Through exhaustion and apathy we send a message, one single clear concern where the answer “Probably not” is implied;

On our own, can we be trusted to do right by the horse?

02/04/2024

I always want to be home (Nova Scotia) but, I didn't realize NS wanted me to stay. Been snowing for 3 days.

01/26/2024

– I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉 Poppy Webber - Qualified Saddle Fitter With

01/25/2024

Update: All have found homes!
SHAID has 7 beautiful black mini panthers available now for adoption by visiting Tuesday to Saturday from 11am-3pm. We currently only have one male, and that is the handsome Licorice who is 9 months old and full of playful kitten energy with a big bouncy purr. SHAID has 6 gorgeous females all with short haired silky coats and piercing golden eyes. These beauties range in age from 4 months to 1 year and they vary in confidence levels and personalities. Feel free to visit and meet all these lovely felines and see if one is the purrfect companion for you!