Mctimoney Animal Chiropractor and Equine cranial sacral therapy for a whole body treatment
21/11/2025
what an amazing way to start the festive season!! 🤩🎄🎅
🎄Christmas Wreath Workshops.🎄
We'd love you to join us for our Christmas Wreath Making Workshop on Friday 5th and Saturday 6th December.
Bookings will close middle of next week (27th Nov) to ensure we have enough supplies so don't miss your chance and book your place now ⬇️ www.trybooking.com/uk/98257
Really want to treat yourself? Combine it with a same day massage, holistic facial or reflexology appointment and get a discount on your treatment!
Friendly small group atmosphere - as we create Christmas wreaths together to get in the festive spirit. Single person bookings welcome - so either bring a friend or come alone and make new ones!
All materials provided along with expert tuition and a drink and edible festive treat. Taking place indoors at our relaxing rooms by the river in Kendal with free on site parking, a short walk from the train station.
I'd like to think Ralph was giving me a "thank you" lick.... but in reality he was just trying to figure out how to get my head band off 🙄
17/11/2025
DECEMBER APPOINTMENTS 🎄
Not much but here is what i have left before i finish for my Christmas break x
Dec 1st(mon) kendal area a. m.
Dec 15th (mon) FULL
Dec 17th - (weds) Carlisle/N. lakes
Jan 7th- (weds) - Appleby/east cumbria
if you want to book an appointment, contact me in WhatsApp 07841525217 xx
17/11/2025
lovely start to today, treating little Ragsy 😁. I've been looking after Ragsy for a while now, she has spondylitis, which unfortunately hads started to affect her ability to walk.. Her owner has cut her walks right back, and even though this has made her a lot more comfortable she still needs a little help in the rest of her body so she can maintain a good quality of life 🥰
we had a lovely morning 🤗💚
07/11/2025
😶🌫️For over week a I've had a continuous headache where normal pain relief just took the edge off. I carried on working through until yesterday when it turned into a migraine and i was forced to take the day off and get some proper medication.
💃Today i feel like a new woman, because head pain had started to become normal and i hadn't realised how much it had dulled my senses...
💚Now I'm no walking sumatriptan, but in this moment i feel very blessed that i can provide some form of relief for those horses also suffering with headaches.... because they do you know!
🐴We take it for granted, but horses heads are continually subjected to pressure and forces most day's, from bits, bridles, standard headcollars, control headcollars, handling etc
and that's not including accidents pull backs, rotational falls, novice riders learning to ride, etc etc
Craniosacral is a gentle but powerful modality, From the outside it looks like I'm not doing much, but on the inside? ALOT can change 🙏🏻 💚
Interested in booking a session? WhatsApp me 07841525217
have a lovely headache free day 😁
02/11/2025
what's the cheesy saying? ... motion is lotion.....but it's true!
01/11/2025
31/10/2025
Happy Halloween everyone 🦇
I've been suffering from man-flu recently so forgive me if I am behind with my admin. I shall be back on it as soon as ❤️
so for now, here is saffy having a flying lesson...
31/10/2025
Are you looking to find a qualified Equine CranioSacral therapist for your horse!?
Then check out our list of international students on our website for your horse!
Contact us with any questions by email or DM us if you are looking for a qualified and trained Equine CranioSacral in your area!
Photo copyright 2022 Dr Jessica Landa of Cracker Trail Veterinary Services
20/10/2025
Same with horses! I do talk alot about this to my clients 😊
Try clenching your own jaw and see if you can feel the tension radiating through to your pelvis... you should be able to!
Your jaw controls your pelvis - here’s how:
When your jaw clenches, your pelvis compensates.
The cascade:
1️.Jaw imbalance pulls your head forward
2️.Your neck muscles tighten to stabilize
3️.Your spine compensates by shifting
4️.Your pelvis tilts to maintain balance
5️.One-sided back pain, hip tightness, or SI joint dysfunction appears
Why this happens:
1.Your jaw connects to deep neck muscles that attach directly to your spine.
2.When jaw muscles stay tight, they create a chain of compensations that travel downward.
3.Your brain tries to keep you balanced, so when your head shifts forward from jaw tension, your pelvis shifts backward.
👉🏽This is why jaw clenchers often have chronic lower back issues that don’t respond long term to hip stretches or core work.
The pattern: Stressed → Clench jaw → Head forward → Pelvis compensates → Chronic pain
Most people treat the pelvis or lower back. But the trigger is higher up - in the jaw.
Fix the jaw tension, and the pelvic compensation often releases automatically.
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Animals suffer from back, neck, pelvic and musculoskeletal problems and they can benefit from McTimoney and Craniosacral treatment.
Both The McTimoney and CranioSacral therapy are gentle techniques that look at the body as a whole focusing on any tension and discomfort rather than the symptoms the animal presents. Mctimoney chiropractic helps your animal to restore its natural range of motion by realigning the spine and balancing the musculoskeletal system, CranioSacral therapy compliments this further by helping alleviate areas of muscular tension within the body paying particular attention to the head, which aids in restoring balance and optimising health and performance. Like people, all animals are susceptible to injury or musculoskeletal problems throughout their life, no matter what age or discipline they are in and there are a variety of reasons why this may occur.
The McTimoney treatment is a gentle holistic technique, it looks at the body as a whole focusing on any pain and discomfort rather than the symptoms the animal presents. A chiropractic session can help the animal to restore its natural range of motion by realigning the spine and balancing the musculoskeletal system, optimizing the ability of the individual by reducing discomfort and tension.
The musculoskeletal system comprises of the skeleton, which is essentially the framework of the animal, and the muscular system which also includes other soft tissue (ligaments and tendons), both providing structure and stability. The skeletal framework houses the spinal cord within the spinal column, exiting between each spinal vertebra are nerves that innervate the muscular system. In conjunction with each other, the two systems are responsible for movement and well-being. A misalignment of a joint will cause restriction within that area impinging the nerve and reducing blood flow causing discomfort and changes of behaviour.
A lot of human Chiropractic manipulations include “bone cracking” and I often get asked how do I manage to “ bend a horse and crack its spine”. Well the simple answer is I don’t!! Not only would this be completely impractical and gravely difficult i’m not sure it would be much appreciated either!! Therefore gentle manipulations are applied to areas of spinal dysfunction in order to restore the natural balance and improve optimal performance by removing discomfort and releasing tension in the body.
Whilst relatively new to the equine world, CranioSacral therapy has found purpose in helping equine patients throughout. The therapy itself has been part of human practice for many years and was developed from osteopathy. In the late 1990s pioneering US expert Maureen Rogers developed the human treatment for horses and has been travelling the world since, providing a unique set of courses to educate future practitioners on this amazing technique.
Equine CranioSacral work is a holistic healing practice which uses extremely light finger pressure to optimize body movement. When applied correctly, this gentle and subtle technique can be highly effective in addressing a number of conditions in the horse.
Mctimoney chiropractic pays special attention to the spine and pelvic area whereas CranioSacral therapy focuses on the head enabling the animal to literally receive a whole body treatment.
