Equine Touch for Horseowners

Students in Lanzarote

As caring horses owners we are always looking for the best for our equine friends; the best fitting tack, nourishing feed, regular visits from both the skilled farrier and equine dentist; lessons for ourselves from good instructors etc. In addition we ensure our equine friends get visits from the vet, physio, ‘back lady’ as and when they need it.

Equine Touch is a simple and effective form of bodywork that you can learn and add to your toolkit for your horse.

Top ten reasons ET can be your gift to your horse:

  1. Equine Touch can better your relationship and bond with your horse.

  2. With your regular ET sessions you would be able to keep an eye on any subtle changes in your horse’s muscles that might indicate a tack fitting issue before it becomes a problem.

  3. You could use an ET body balance after a competition or long ride to help your horse’s aching muscles relax and recover.

  4. You can ET your horse after the farrier’s visit to help their body rebalance following a new hoof trim and, if they’re shod, after the percussion of shoeing.

  5. You can perform Equine Touch before and after the dentist’s visit in order to relax their TMJ (jaw joint) especially following the use of the gag.

  6. If you travel your horse to clinics and competitions you’ll be able use ET to help your horse settle quicker and recover from the journey, after all how did they cope when that lunatic in a flash car pulled out and cut you up?

  7. If your horse has regular chiropractic and physiotherapy sessions you can help maintain their soft tissue with ET sessions between these.

  8. If your horse has regular chiropractic work, you could carry out an ET on your horse prior to the chiropractor so that their soft tissue is relaxed, so enhancing the chiropractic work.

  9. If your horse is confined on box rest an Equine Touch body balance will provide some TLC.

  10. If your horse is coming back into work, or his work programme has stepped up a gear, soft tissue work of the Equine Touch may help with any aches and pains. I’m sure as you use Equine Touch you’ll find more to add to this list…