🔴BROKEN BOILERS
🔵UK WEATHER
🟤20 CUPS OF COFFEE AND 10 MARS BARS
🟣HAVING A STARTING POINT AND AN END POINT
🟠ACHIEVEMENTS
🟡PROGRESSION
🟢INVESTING IN YOURSELF FOR THE BENEFIT OF YOUR HORSE
❤️THE 8-WEEK EQUESTRIAN CHALLENGE
Booking link 🔗 https://square.link/u/dwTgKhvv
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🐴 Navicular webinar for horse owners 🐴⭐️
🐴 Come along and learn about the structures within the foot.
🐴 What it means when your horse is diagnosed with navicular or degenerative changes of the structures within the foot.
🐴 learn the anatomy of the foot
Book here ➡️ https://square.link/u/XyyaT4sn?src=sheet
Final day in Suffolk. It’s been a busy 5 days.
By the time I head home this evening I will have
treated 13 horses and taught on a two day ‘Essentials of Soundness’ camp with David Sanders and Sarah Williamson.
It’s been great fun.
💥 Everyone who attended the camp has gone home with a programme of rider exercises specific to each individual based on what was picked up during on horse as well as off horse assessments.
💥 Everyone has gone home with gentle bodywork techniques that improve spinal stability in their horses.
💥 Everyone has gone home with ridden exercises to improve their horse function, again specific to each horse.
Nothing on these camps is generic.
We are very much looking forward to the next one on the 28/29th October again in Bury St Edmonds, Suffolk.
Comment ‘interested’ to be sent details of how to book.
This may not look like much. But for this big horse who likes nothing better than to push forward onto the forehand teaching him to engage his thoracic sling,ventral (underneath) muscular chain and take his centre of gravity back, flex his pelvis and stabilise himself has been no mean feat. I have taught him this with my body advancement and the whip as cues. I do not touch him With the whip. I have never touched him with the whip to achieve this. Also, for this big fairy having a whip turned upside down next to him has taken a little bit of getting used to!!. We have built trust and he now tries to take hold of that upturned whip 🙄 🤡 Teaching this horse gentle, careful, mindful cues and movements has been slow progress and hard going. He will always revert to pushing his way through me if he is feels the need. In those moments we quietly stop and regroup. Reset and go again. If an exercise upsets him we move to another and maybe come back to the original exercise later, or not. I never insist. I don’t need to control everything. I am happy for us to make mistakes, after all that’s how we all learn. I am happy to change the plan, scrap the idea and try something else. Since starting this kind of work the pushy moments are getting less and less and he is finding far more balance, proprioceptive control and refinement in his ability to control and move his own body. While some owners cringe at their horses ‘throwing shapes’ in the field I am delighted when this guy bucks, bounces, rears and can hold his own against the others. There was a time when he didn’t do any of those things. He is happier, more confident and more in control of his own movements. My next step is that from the backward shift I am now asking him to step forward without dropping the weight foreword. It’s a work in progress 😆
This may not look like much. But for this big horse who likes nothing better than to push forward onto the forehand teaching him to engage his thoracic sling,ventral (underneath) muscular chain and take his centre of gravity back, flex his pelvis and stabilise himself has been no mean feat. I have taught him this with my body advancement and the whip as cues. I do not touch him With the whip. I have never touched him with the whip to achieve this.
Also, for this big fairy having a whip turned upside down next to him has taken a little bit of getting used to!!. We have built trust and he now tries to take hold of that upturned whip 🙄 🤡
Teaching this horse gentle, careful, mindful cues and movements has been slow progress and hard going. He will always revert to pushing his way through me if he is feels the need. In those moments we quietly stop and regroup. Reset and go again. If an exercise upsets him we move to another and maybe come back to the original exercise later, or not. I never insist. I don’t need to control everything. I am happy for us to make mistakes, after all that’s how we all learn. I am happy to change the plan, scrap the idea and try something else.
Since starting this kind of work the pushy moments are getting less and less and he is finding far more balance, proprioceptive control and refinement in his ability to control and move his own body.
While some owners cringe at their horses ‘throwing shapes’ in the field I am delighted when this guy bucks, bounces, rears and can hold his own against the others. There was a time when he didn’t do any of those things. He is happier, more confident and more in control of his own movements.
My next step is that from the backward shift I am now asking him to step forward without dropping the weight foreword. It’s a work in progress 😆
This Sunday come and learn about equine posture and movement.
🍰 🧁 and ☕️ 🫖 included
Lunch 🥪 included
Let’s get together and have some fun 🤩
Thought it was time to catch up with you all and let you know what we are Planning for 2023.
📲 DM for further details on anything mentioned in the video.
Links to the next two events ⬇️
💻 The Lifted Back webinar- January 25th @ 7pm 👇
https://square.link/u/TFkaA5Tu?src=sheet
January 30th @7pm FREE Rider Warm Up workshop. DM your email address to be sent zoom link.
Thoracic Sling-Full day ridden workshop 4th May 2023 👇
https://square.link/u/HqI1b9UQ?src=sheet
