Bowen Therapy For Horses - Toni Pilcher -Bryant

31/05/2025

This incredible quote was given to Manon Bolliger founder of Bowen College in Canada from Gabor himself.
What a quote to consider…

Share it far and wide! 🔈

30/05/2025

This delightful older dog I was asked to help since she hadn’t been her usual happy active self since they moved houses. Abby had lived most of her life at the other place and the move to a new home has plainly rocked her boat. Blood results were all fine and the vet prescibed pain relief incase she had pain but they made no difference. The owner figured its more of emotional issue to treat & asked for me to try some Bowen Therapy .
It was clear she knew I was there to help her straight away. She stood perfectly still infront of me throughout both her treatments almost falling asleep on her feet.
She was tight through her lumber, hip flexors and glutes at 1st treatment. Quite blocked through hind end really.
A week after 1st treatment Abby was back to sleeping through the whole night , she was spending more time outside in the garden and showing a bit more animated interest in things happening around her along with moving more freely.
2nd treatment, photo attached , this time she was lovely and soft through hind quarters and lumber, so much more fluid feeling.
She lay in her bed at the end and slept soundly . Looking forward to hearing about her progress in the next couple weeks 🙂

Emotional stress & the tension that comes with it, can cause plenty of body imbalances. The Bowen Technique ( CCMRT or EMRT when used on animals ) will help a lot to bring balance again for a happier body & mind 🙂

25/05/2025

In Bowen Therapy, we don’t chase symptoms.

We work in a sequence that helps the nervous system reorganise (to the best of its ability.)

Because the body knows what needs to come first.

01/05/2025

28/01/2025

Pleased to be able to give my foal a variety of spacious paddocks of rolling terrain, trees, hedges,humps and hollows to enjoy hooning around and develop eye to foot co-ordination and confidence .
It’s so interesting to watch her curiosity and the choices she makes in the herd dynamic. She is cheeky and smart 🙂
A series of photos from a video of her letting loose and stirring the mares up this arvo !! 😃

06/01/2025

Here is an explanation I think will be useful to post from time to time to keep people informed on how this modality works in the body 😊

EMRT - the authentic and original Bowen technique for Horses is a gentle yet very dynamic and powerful body balancing modality.

Equine Muscle Release Therapy stimulates the horses very own healing pathways which will continue to work throughout the body for a number of days releasing tightness and tension for full therapeutic effect.

Horses are highly sensitive to touch, feel and energy. EMRT work is especially gentle since the horses brain provides astounding touch detection.
Receptor cells in their skin l, fascia and muscles transduce or convert external pressure, temp and body position to neural impulses that the horse can understand.
They accomplish this with exquisite sensitivity, the average horse can detect less pressure than your fingertip.
An "EMRT move" is pressure that gently moves the skin and Fascia beneath creating a little friction and that pressure is felt via poprioreceptor cells which detect body position and movement. Those signals are transduced from mechanical pressure to electrochemical impulses and conducted up peripheral nerves to the horses spinal cord.
Finally it reaches the region of the brain that interprets sensory information.
Bowen Therapy requires a 2 min break between a set of " moves" to allow time for these responses.
The brain will then send information back along the same channels to initiate nessessary changes in muscle tissue and body posture.

So many other changes can happen along the way and as a result of the muscle releases.
To watch a horse being treated it may appear like very little is being done due to the light touch. The horse however does become deeply relaxed and sometimes very obvious signs of change can be quickly seen. The body will though, do as it needs in the time it needs 🙂

Horses are very receptive to this therapy enjoying it's gentleness and the calm energy we as pracitioners are trained to be perceptive in providing.

I simply love helping horses and seeing the improvements they make 😊

I very fortunate to have been taught by the amazing Ali Goward-developer and founder of EMRT & CCMRT

19/12/2024

The photo is of my 4 week old foal after I gave her a little EMRT treatment ( Bowen for Horses )
She stood quietly absorbing the releasing she felt.
Growing foals benefit so much from this body work . It’s helps keep their bodies supple and in balance while developing bone and muscle . Also helps them accept human energy as therapeutic and enjoyable 🙂

04/12/2024

Another horse whose posture changed beautifully after receiving EMRT ( Equine Muscle Release Therapy )
The first photo is pre treatment which was only a shorter band aid session since she had a comp coming up.
Second photo is 2 weeks later showing how well her lumber , pelvis , hip flexors and hamstrings have released so she no longer has an elongated looking back, tensed up lumber and tight pulled back hind end.
All from just a few Bowen moves ❤️

This mare is particularly intuitive and knows what’s good for her. As soon as I put my hands on her she starts releasing in lots of visual ways.

A couple of other photos added showing the increased blood flow that occurs during treatments seen in vein enlargement and strong jugular pulse 🙂 Often horses will urinate during or after a treatment due to the stimulation of a the eliminatory system

25/11/2024

A reminder to busy riders is that if you are having a wee break over Xmas , let your horses enjoy the break with a muscle release treatment onboard 😊

I am available for bookings up to Dec 21st

The photo is of a new horse I treated recently that had a big full body release and seeked the comfort of his person to be quietly right there during it.
Huge change in this horses posture and muscle tension after one full treatment 🥰

18/11/2024

Decided the rider needed a treatment too 😊 Didn’t have my table with me so we improvised , worked well 😁

Quite a number of people have asked lately if I am back working post my surgery.
YES I certainly am , been busy for a good month so don’t hesitate to make an appointment.
Express treatments which can be used as often as you want and allow you to keep riding with out resting them is ideal at this busy time of year.
Mares and foals benefit so much from post foaling therapeutic and it’s that time of year too 🤗