equine bodywork – Happy Healthy Horses

Focus not on body or feet, but teeth!

I have the good fortune to know an excellent horse teeth specialist after a lifetime in the UK of fantastic tooth care from my local equine dentist. I am consistently surprised to meet clients here in the place where I live who are unsure when their horse last had his or her teeth done! I’mContinue reading “Focus not on body or feet, but teeth!”

Thoracic sling

Maintaining the correct function of the system and the development of muscle enables you to ride your horse without doing any damage. Horses work in a horizontal balance from poll to tail in spinal alignment, which is effectively two slings with a hanging basket in the middle supported by four pillars. THERE ARE FOUR PARTSContinue reading “Thoracic sling”

What is it like? This job I do for horses….

The stresses on the horse have changed and grown with competition in equine sports becoming increasingly intense……… In the UK alone there are more horses than there were before mechanisation and the first world war! Most horses do not live as working animals but rather as animals which are required to work sometimes, often withContinue reading “What is it like? This job I do for horses….”