Red Roan Reiki, Energy Bodywork, and Animal Communication

06/21/2025

Skip in his Happy Place 💚 Wishing you all a wonderful weekend!

06/14/2025

https://youtu.be/eLsaR69uRKA?si=d-RS0zkp8Au6yW6-
Great information in this video! Dr. Tucker does encourage you to learn her TBT bodywork method at the end - but the information is great!

These 50 horse Secrets are a collection of short “hints” and horse care tips that I originally sent out via email and that you won’t find in an equine veteri...

06/05/2025

05/27/2025

The Nervous System is a Continuum.

I tend to focus quite a bit on "regulation" of the nervous system, but I fall short of describing my perspective on what that means outside of the verbal interaction with clinic and session participants. Regulation isn't a fixed point on a scale of good/bad states of being. The nervous system is necessary to keep us alive, to learn, to thrive, to reproduce and to rest and repair. This complex system gets even more tricky when you start to dive deep into its intricate internal "weights and measures" system where it interacts with and responds to hormones and other chemicals, almost like clicking switches on and off.

The internal and external landscape of our physical, emotional, spiritual, and energetic beings to name a few all play a part in communicating with this finely tuned nervous system. Am I safe? Am I tired? Am I excited? Am I too hot? and 'click, click, click' goes the switches, sending electrical impulses, communicating with hormones, and letting the rest of the systems and structures in the body know what is needed to find a state of being which is necessary to respond to the current internal and/or external landscape. Due to how we tend to live in our existing cultures, we are typically closer to the fight/flight side of our nervous system on a daily basis. We have to be on our game, alert, aware, ready to respond, quick-witted, multi-taskers with looming deadlines.

This state of being is brought with us to the horses, and they can often be seen responding in-kind in a "What are we so excited about?! Should I be worried?!" approach. This is often why I emphasize down-regulation of our nervous system. Not because being "up" is bad, but that if we spend too much time "up" there, we forget how to climb down out of the tree and find a more relaxed state. We need the "up" side of the continuum just as much as we need the "down" side. Without the ability to be "up" we couldn't experience joy and excitement.

A regulated nervous system isn't a fixed state, but flexible and able to move along the continuum adequately and appropriately for the situation, ready to shift again when the stimulus changes.

05/23/2025

There is something magical about the way a horse touches our soul. Without words, without demands — just through its presence. It not only teaches us to trust but helps us discover our truest selves. Its patience, strength, and gentleness bring out the best in us. Because a horse is the mirror of our heart. 🤍🐴

05/23/2025

🤎 Always be the person who loves the horse more than the sport.

Because sport is about results, medals, competitions…
But a horse — that’s about trust, tenderness, and breathing side by side. It’s a heart that beats next to yours not for trophies, but for the bond you share.

Your horse doesn’t know what “first place” means.
He only knows how to be happy when you’re near.
How to try — because you asked.
How to be your partner, even when the world is cheering for someone else.

🏇 Love for the horse must always be stronger than the desire to win.
Because the sport will one day end — but a true connection lasts forever.

05/06/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19cweShtnM/

“When a horse gets in trouble, if you'll listen, he's saying, “I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do, and besides that, I was scared.” ✍️Buster McLaury

05/02/2025

04/18/2025

04/03/2025

While I would like to say that Skip had all these marvelous releasing yawns due to a great bodywork session - I can’t. I was just standing next to him at the time he started to yawn. I did however have an hour and a half long energy work session earlier in the day followed by an hour long acupuncture session. I believe he was feeling all the good flowing, moving energy from those sessions ❤️ Thanks to Ali for the great energy work:)

03/31/2025

03/24/2025

A must read for anyone who will be moving a horse to a new barn ❤️

https://www.calmwillingconfidenthorses.com.au/blogs/new-home-syndrome #:~:text=Horses%20do%20not%20generalise%20in,sleep%20deprivation%20and%20increased%20difficulty.

new home syndrome; horses, stressed horse; difficult horse; new horse; buying a new horse; how to help a horse settle in