For those of you avid horsemen and horsewomen who enjoy massage and other types of bodywork to keep you tuned up mentally and physically, I imagine you might understand my viewpoints around bodywork for our equine partners. I had the good fortune to have the critters in my backyard for a good portion of my journey on this water planet. The sounds of their munching to my ears was worth the price of admission. It transports you back to a different era of time; when the pace of life wasn’t quite as ferocious. The prey animal that hangs out with and accommodates the predator, quite a concept. I can watch them for hours!

So, back to the concept of equine bodywork and partnership. Because I have been practicing and teaching bodywork for over two decades it was a no brainer to work on my horses throughout the years. The Arabian mares received the lions share (no pun intended) because of my relationship with them as an endurance rider which I dabbled in. They never went lame. Now I can’t definitively say that it was the bodywork that they received from me, or the free feeding of great grass hay with bits and pieces of alfalfa sprinkled here and there. Or maybe it was the straight oats. Or, the fact that they rambled freely, unconfined to a 12’ x12’ stall/prison cell. Sorry to offend some of you, but in my humble opinion, I believe a herd animal deserves to move about at will, head down, grazing or rolling without fear of casting. Just an opinion and as you know opinions are like pubococcygeus muscles, everyone has one (hopefully).

Anyhow I ramble. Can you imagine running over hill and dale with a pair of shoes that are a bit confining, a backpack that you bought hopefully not at Walmart that didn’t fit very well, and a load that was constantly shifting? Think you might enjoy receiving some Structural Integration or trigger point therapy, or cranial sacral therapy?