Equine Touch
What is The Equine Touch?
The Equine Touch™ is a non-diagnostic, non invasive, gentle, hands-on discipline that works at a complete holistic level, in that it addresses the equine as a whole without any particular focus on any individual problematic areas of the body.
The Equine Touch™ is a discipline or technique consisting of a series of unique gentle moves performed in choreographed patterns over specific points on the body. These moves are interspersed with observation periods which affords the horse time to recognise the input and to process it.
Equine Touch addresses the body’s soft tissue - fascia and muscles, with a view to releasing restricted fascia and hypertonic muscles, improving blood and lymphatic circulation, reduction in pain and a greater range of movement.
The moves directly relate to meridian lines and acupuncture points, thereby addressing energy blockages and encouraging and restoring the flow of the natural energy.
Does your horse have a problem?
Many problems can be categorised within the breed or conformation of the horse and the particular work, sport or activity that we humans decide to subject them to. It is therefore logical as a general rule that horses who compete as show jumpers would exhibit different problems and undergo different stress and injury than for example those who were used for dressage, racing, eventing, therapeutic riding etc. The horse was not designed to compromise its natural gifts with the restrictions of bits, bridles, neglected teeth, badly fitted saddles and poor hoof care.
The active horse is under continual stress, emotional as well as physical due to acute injury or chronic compensatory work, when one part of the body is overloaded due to injury, pain or stiffness in other areas. Horse behaviour can be greatly affected by pain and discomfort, making the horse argumentative, agitated or just acting “unusually”.
Other than obvious injuries, a dominant influence in a performance horse being unable to work in harmony with a rider is the rider. The more the rider is out of balance the more difficult it will be for the horse to achieve its own balance. In addressing any concerns in a performance horse the physical balance of the rider must be taken into consideration.
A major problem also exists with the horse, which in humans is referred to as “character armour” wherein the animal will store the emotional memory of its injury within the soft tissue and will not accept the fact that the injury has healed due to the constant resurfacing of that emotion and the memory of the pain associated with it.
In all these areas as well as in all musculoskeletal injuries, e.g. Bruises, sore stifles, bowed tendons, splint, sore backs/necks, hocks and feet, stiff joints, sluggish movement or nervousness, The Equine Touch™ has a long and unblemished record of successful address. There is no horse too old or foal too young that cannot benefit from an Equine Touch session.
The Equine Touch™ is a non-
Equine Touch addresses the body’s soft tissue -
Does your horse have a problem?
Many problems can be categorised within the breed or conformation of the horse and the particular work, sport or activity that we humans decide to subject them to. It is therefore logical as a general rule that horses who compete as show jumpers would exhibit different problems and undergo different stress and injury than for example those who were used for dressage, racing, eventing, therapeutic riding etc. The horse was not designed to compromise its natural gifts with the restrictions of bits, bridles, neglected teeth, badly fitted saddles and poor hoof care.
The active horse is under continual stress, emotional as well as physical due to acute injury or chronic compensatory work, when one part of the body is overloaded due to injury, pain or stiffness in other areas. Horse behaviour can be greatly affected by pain and discomfort, making the horse argumentative, agitated or just acting “unusually”.
Other than obvious injuries, a dominant influence in a performance horse being unable to work in harmony with a rider is the rider. The more the rider is out of balance the more difficult it will be for the horse to achieve its own balance. In addressing any concerns in a performance horse the physical balance of the rider must be taken into consideration.
A major problem also exists with the horse, which in humans is referred to as “character armour” wherein the animal will store the emotional memory of its injury within the soft tissue and will not accept the fact that the injury has healed due to the constant resurfacing of that emotion and the memory of the pain associated with it.
In all these areas as well as in all musculoskeletal injuries, e.g. Bruises, sore stifles, bowed tendons, splint, sore backs/necks, hocks and feet, stiff joints, sluggish movement or nervousness, The Equine Touch™ has a long and unblemished record of successful address. There is no horse too old or foal too young that cannot benefit from an Equine Touch session.
