The experiences that changed everything

Despite having regular interactions with horses since a young age, I found it wasn't commonplace to learn how to support them with what they were experiencing, physically, mentally or emotionally.

Even when I got my own horse and started exploring natural horsemanship, I still found this area was wildly untouched.

However, during the pandemic, I noticed my gap in expertise and felt inspired to complete a course in equine massage therapy. But what unfolded was several unexpected experiences that changed how I understood and engaged with horses forever. 

I started to notice that during each massage, that the horse would show different feelings, signals, signs and interactions. A blink, a turn away, a flinch, a change in how they felt. Each time I noticed, I shifted my response to let them know that I had seen them. This seemed to unlocked a deeper emotional shift within, with unusual releases that rippled through their physical and emotional body. 

After their session, many horses felt more renewed, like a new door had opened. Their capacity to connect, communication and ownership of their bodies and thresholds had grown. Their guardians reported changed behaviour, resolved blocks, lighter eyes, ease in defensiveness and tension. The humans who were a part of their horse's sessions often had changes and realisations themselves. For some, it inspired a new path for them, one that felt more equal, where the horse's experience was valued and understood far more. And was weaved into their conversations with their horse.

Eventually, the sessions changed shape, with more energy work, intuition and emotional rehabilitation. Many didn't consist of much touch at all, with very few horses saying 'yes' when given a choice. In fact, saying 'no' felt like a turning point in their process, and when this was honoured, they came alive. 
 

This lead me on a path of exploration, to discover more about...

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• The nervous system: moving from survival to connection

• How the body holds the score card of what it has been through

• How important safe relationships are to us and our horses

• The magic of attunement, and how it facilitates the processing of what's got stuck, and bringing together what has lost.

• The concept of integrating these parts, so that the self can become more whole.

• The importance of releasing and realigning the tissues in our bodies (fascia), to release the emotions, injuries and traumas that are held there.

As our horses live in such an unnatural domesticated human world, always giving, or being asked to serve others, with very few spaces safe enough to ask them 'how are you... really?' What do you need?'

This is what this session endeavours to be. A space where your horse can put down their bags, and share how they are unapologetically. 

I decided on the word 'release' for these flavour of sessions, as to me, it encapsulates the process of letting go of what no longer serves them. This can span many dimensions like emotional, physical, mental, and also the more abstract ones like expectations, pressure, trauma, patterns and domestication.

I hope that the session provides you and your horse this space, to feel seen, heard and understood. And is a door to a new kind of relationship together.

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To book a release session, simply get in touch, and if you want to learn more about the theory and concepts behind release sessions, check out the online courses page.