High Desert Equine and Canine Bodywork.

03/26/2024

Ensure your horse is in top form for the new season by treating them to a spot of Bodywork, which I am happy to provide and are currently accessible.🐴🐴

03/09/2024

03/08/2024

Today I realized I don’t listen enough . I am always battling with myself, feelings and emotions, ego . Frustrated when I don’t get what I want . Whilst doing laundry it dawned on me. Why don’t I just stop stand still and listen. Only if I am listening will I get the answers I seek. 🌸❤️

02/24/2024

Sadly stepping away from bodywork due to disinterest; however, would love to continue seeing familiar faces & meeting new ones by visiting longstanding clientele & close companions at their homes alongside those magnificent creatures they call kin.

02/03/2024

Try a Reiki session for your horse or any animal .
$20 try out price

01/26/2024

Valentine’s Day special

$60 massage for new clients only .

01/13/2024

Anyone interested in a red light pad . Comes with carry case. Used handful of times sells for $450 selling for $350 or best offer.

01/11/2024

Interesting

Organs, Emotions & Lameness

Organs are a leading cause of lameness and they will dominate soft tissue and bone. In osteopathy this well know relationship is called “Visceral Somatic Dominance”.
Every organ when is dysfunction will exert a local and referred physical torsion.
A central theme is that when an organ is out of position, in spasm; its metabolic function is impaired. Or currently more common, when an organ is metabolically impaired, it will go into an inflammatory spasm, and will have reduced movement in all motilities, and create spasms in surrounding tissues, and entrained muscles/bone/fascia. Essentially, organ dysfunctions create predictable physical holding/lameness patterns and the severity of these patterns is proportional to the degree of organ dysfunction.

E.g. when addressing a severe renal dysfunction, the involved kidney will feel like a hardened board or even steel plate, have no motility, and have enormous spasmatic structural spams in a very large area. The psoas muscle on the side of kidney dysfunction will be in spasm not because there is necessarily a psoas muscle strain, but because the psoas muscle is entrained to the kidney. I clear psoas muscle issues 100% of the time and it's rarely a "Muscle" issue, rather an organ issue.
Clearing the “Downstream cascading effects”, helps but does not solve the core issue. In the very common example of an ulcerated stomach, masking the symptoms, or alleviating the acid content with beta blockers, and herbal compounds is and may be necessary, but it will not in any way clear the issue. An ulcerated stomach will severely torsion T12 ventrally making impulsion all but impossible. If one were able to reset T12 (unlikely even with the best of equine DC’s) without resetting the core stomach dysfunction, T12 will retorsion within hours as the stomach absolutely dominates it.

Therefore, any practitioner worth their salt, must have a good understanding of organs and visceral somatic dominance in their repertoire.
By resetting an organ, corresponding muscles, nerves, and bone can reset as well.

The most drastic organ dysfunctions are emotional cysts!
Specific emotions when in imbalance tend to settle in specific organs, hence, organs are the predominate tissue where our unsettling biography settles, or particular emotional/belief impairments hang out.
Many times I'm just working through the body and come upon an organ that is difficult to rebalance. That's a clue that there is likely an emotional cyst holding the organ in spasm. One must then direct intention and intuitive insight into sensing the essence of this particular emotional/belief cyst, and bringing this aspect of "Shadow" to the surface ( IET Equine Craniosacral Courses). Dialoguing with the horse to fully face it, embrace it, understand its message/lesson and ALLOW it to transmute and leave.

It is here that horses will often defer and redirect to their human if they're mirroring the issue. If the horse is mirroring a deep emotional issue, clearing the horse only will never hold, it may release for awhile, but never leg go and be done with it.
Many horses will utilize the hand ting points as a bridge to bring the session focus to this core essence early on (see previous post)
These emotional/belief cysts are the key lameness and metabolic areas. They are representative of where the horse/human got off their path, or their soul's purpose.
These physical/emotional/spiritual areas always contain a central core where they 24/7 emanate noncoherent energy waves in a spherical shape. It is rather easy to teach students to pick up these waves and then locate the exact core space its working from. Then one can easily nudge this cyst and the organ back to vitality.

01/11/2024

How good is your relationship with your horse 🐴

01/11/2024

This year focusing on horse and rider relationships ⛄️

12/24/2023

Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 from Sophia and her best friend Daisy ❤️ Thank you Lisa Edward’s

12/13/2023

This is a great post by Victory Equine Services.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=347465484698700&id=100083057544365&mibextid=adzO7l

11/30/2023

Message me for info on red light therapy . I can come out and help your horse’s soft tissue injuries

📸 Look at this post on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/share/rqMJvXFJp7ZD5Vz2/?mibextid=WC7FNe

Light therapy for treating laminitis and hoof problems.

11/24/2023

Black Friday deals

Book a bodywork session and get a red light or cold laser therapy for free.

Barn bookings get a barn rate of $80 per horse for 3 horses

Four horses or more $75 per horse .

Message for more animal care offer🦃🍁🐴

11/23/2023

11/21/2023

Available for horse care over the holidays , if you are looking to go away and need someone to drop in and keep an eye on your animals let me know. Vet tech experience and over 30 years working with horses. Happy holidays ❤️🐴

11/18/2023

A great exercise and picture . Check out horses inside out some super interesting content .

11/12/2023

This !! Great read🐴❤️

If we assume that the pelvis is a primary structure that facilitates gait and that gait requires integrated muscle activity on two sides of the body, if we have asymmetry in the pelvic area all gaits will be dysfunctional, period.

Movement into any direction will require compensation by other muscles or will not be accomplished. Compensatory muscle activity is less efficient, energy demands increase, and stress accumulates on poorly aligned joints.
Efficient gait requires the right and left sides of the body to be relatively equally competent in both stance and swing phases of gait.

Gait is the best measure of lack of balance through biomechanical asymmetry.

11/07/2023

Holiday deals !! 🦃🎄

Get two 45 minute to an hour bodywork sessions for $120 .

Kt Taping $10 a body part

Red light therapy $15 per area eg Neck or back.

Message me for details

11/07/2023

Crates saddle . 16 inch full quarter horse bars .

$750 or best offer located in Reno area.

11/07/2023

This is so important !

https://www.facebook.com/share/QHrkrTVL8VsXPL5Q/?mibextid=WC7FNe

𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒅
Everyone likes to talk about the harm caused when a horse is ridden behind the vertical... but have you ever wondered why?

One (of the many) problems with a BTV position is that encourages incorrect flexion in the neck. In a healthy horse, the head will flex up and down at the first cervical vertebrae. This bone is known as the atlas or C1.

In an effort to avoid excessive pressure caused by a harsh bit, rider or gadgets (especially draw reins) many horses will begin flexing at the 3rd vertebrae (C3). "Broken at the 3rd" creates incorrect movement throughout the body and will quickly lead to pain and damage. Once a horse begins moving in this manner, it is extremely hard for them to unlearn and they may continue this harmful posture even when at or above the vertical.

11/07/2023

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/tFCA8fQAEAPJhWYt/?mibextid=WC7FNe

Horses are generally content and compliant animals—unlike humans, they don’t typically have “bad days” that negatively affect their personalities due to emotional duress. Furthermore, as a prey animal they are cognitively designed NOT to show stress or injury, or else they will be recognized as a target by a predator, or bumped down the herd hierarchy.

If a horse is acting differently, it is almost undoubtedly due to a medical issue. We can appreciate this as lameness, but typically the behavioral signs preclude an obvious gait abnormality. Sometimes these behaviors seem chronic (e.g., “He/she always pins their ears when we tighten the girth, or bites at my leg when I ask for more effort.”), but it is important to remember that many horses live with chronic pain. It is rare that a horse is angry or cranky as a result of its genetic nature. Admittedly, some horses “train” their people to back off if they demonstrate a particular behavior, but pain absolutely should be ruled out before coming to this conclusion.

Therefore, if your horse is acting differently, or comes out stiff or lame, it is necessary to consider medical reasons for this behavior, even if your equine friend “works out of it.” As pain is generated, the horse’s body releases pain modifying agents in order to perform its job—which once again goes back to being a prey animal.

As the guardians of these magnificent animals, it is imperative that we “listen” to what the horse is trying to tell us and at the very least get a medical expert’s non-biased opinion about what could be going on, in order to rule out injury or illness as a contributing factor. We owe it to the horse.

Brought to you by the AAEP Horse Owner Education Committee
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Want to learn more? Watch the documentary based on Dr. Sue Dyson’s groundbreaking work on signs of pain in the ridden horse here: https://equimanagement.com/news/dr-sue-dyson-featured-in-new-equine-documentary-on-the-24-behaviors-of-the-ridden-horse-in-pain/

10/30/2023

This I think Felicity Davies is spot on ……

10/28/2023

Let’s talk stretches for horses:

Active Stretches

Passive Stretches

“Active Stretches

This is the horse actively contracting their muscle to move parts of the body.
The horse is creating the stretch .
This can be done during groundwork or riding.

Example : Carrort stretch of the horses neck

Passive stretch is when we perform the stretch for the horse. This required the horse to feel relaxed and confident in our presence .

When doing passive stretches you must move at the horse pace and never force the stretch as this could cause injury

Example : Shoulder Flexor stretch

10/26/2023

Taking on new clients :

Get one bodywork session and one of the following for free

30 minutes red light treatment
30 minutes EquiPod shock wave treatment.

Message me for details

10/26/2023

Who’s ready to book their horse or dog some holistic therapy .

Check out what we offer:

Equine and canine bodywork
Red light therapy
Micro current with EquiPod
Kt taping.
Cold laser

Message me for prices

We can tailor make packages