Calming Canter Equine Therapy

03/01/2023

If you gave your pony a winter break you need to rebuild that muscle and stamina! These are some great tips to to get your pony back in shape!

06/03/2022

Can anyone else tell Miss Hershey is enjoying her massage? ❤️🤣

06/02/2022

04/26/2022

Little Joey was the perfect little patient! 🥰

04/23/2022

⭐️Benefits of Massage Therapy⭐️

▪️Pain Relief
▪️Stress Relief
▪️Increased Range of Motion/Flexibility
▪️Injury Prevention
▪️Improved Posture
▪️improved Muscle Tone
▪️Improved Circulation

⭐️Will your horse benefit from massage therapy?⭐️

Your horse does not need to have an existing injury/issue to benefit from massage therapy. Massage therapy is a great preventative measure to keep your horse happy and healthy. Massage is a great way to encourage blood circulation to ensure muscles remain healthy and stimulated. In addition massage therapy is great for the lymphatic system. Massage encourages lymph to continue flowing towards the lymph glands, eliminating toxins and waste. Massage therapy can also benefit other systems, such as the nervous system, respiratory system, and digestive system.

Send me a message if you are interested in booking!

03/16/2022

How do you know spring is on the way?

This is how!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

02/28/2022

Clinics are hard on horses to begin with, often placing them in circumstances they are not conditioned to, like us sitting on their back for extended hours at a time.

The most popular clinic hosting time is spring, with a plethora of amazing clinicians being brought into many stables over the coming weeks.

I personally never attend these clinics because my horses are rarely fit, and after signing up for an early April clinic many years ago, slugging it out in the outdoor arena after work in the dark, lunging, riding, freezing… I have since chose to sit these clinics out. 🤷‍♀️

But even though I miss a lot of great education opportunities, I see many horses participating who have just been pulled from the pasture, hauled to the clinic, put up in a box stall, and rode for 4 hours a day.

On top of not being fit they are also being asked to perform something new, often with increased effort.

This can cause strain and confusion for both their mind and their muscle memory, and can start the season under stress and discomfort. To me, it’s not a situation that boasts a positive experience for the horse.

I’ve always wished that the most popular time for hosting clinics was in October, a time where my horse and I would be at our absolute best. Wrapping up the riding season, fit as a fiddle, and in a great mind space to take in new information, tips, and techniques. We would leave the clinic with a few weeks to practice what we learned, and then I would turn them out to soak on it for their winter break.

But – if you love spring clinics and want help getting your horse in shape, we have created a guide to help get your horse ready to learn this spring! Check out our Pasture To Performance eBook
here: www.primeequine.ca/shop

02/22/2022

02/22/2022

01/19/2022

Hey friends! I’d love for you guys to check out my website! Liking and sharing to your page would be very appreciated! I’d love to start meeting new people and their horses!

https://ccetherapy.wixsite.com/calmingcanter

My name is Madison Croissant! I am currently enrolled in the Natural Touch Therapy Institute’s Equine Sport Therapy program.

01/18/2022

01/07/2022

Meet the Therapist!

My name is Madison Croissant! I am currently enrolled in the Natural Touch Therapy Institute’s Equine Sport Therapy program.

I’ve been riding horses for about 8 years, both in English and Western. While my main focus is the English world, more specifically jumping, I do enjoy throwing a western saddle on and pretending to be a cowgirl! I fell in love with riding at a pony party when I was about 8 years old. I very vividly remember sitting on a grey pony, holding onto the saddle horn, getting led around, and being terrified at every little movement the horse made, thinking "I’m going to be a barrel racer." After a couple of years of western lessons, I decided jumping horses over colourful sticks might be more fun.

Over a year ago, I was put on a newly started 18-year-old lesson horse. I called her my happy little field potato because that was essentially her life before my coach bought her. The trainer did an amazing job teaching her, but she was still an inexperienced, not very athletic horse when I got on her. In the year I knew her, she went from barely being able to bend into a circle, not walking a straight line, and not even being able to hold a consistent canter, to jumping a course like she had done it her whole life. That transition was made possible, first and foremost, by an exceptional trainer, but also by the various therapies she received. I got to watch and feel that transition with every ride. That was just the coolest thing to experience for me. I never knew what I wanted to be when I grew up, but Nala made it very clear what I was meant to do. My number one goal is to one day be able to inflict that kind of change and healing on horses and their riders.