Everything Horses and Livestock® Magazine February 2017 Vol 2 Issue 1

Everything Horses and Livestock Magazine

“Bug’s” owner is a Sports Massage Therapist her- self and works with muscle issues and deep tissue massage. She is very kind, loving and passionate in her work. I work with the energy in balancing of the mind, the body and the spirit. I use several modalities depending on the assessment for treatment. Com- bining our therapies and our expertise we can facilitate change to assist the body in healing and accomplish more in shorter period of time. On July 13th we

Equine Emotional and Physical Trauma While I was at a friend’s house working on my magazine article, we had a gal come in to visit about her new horse. This horse is a beautiful, 5 yr old brown quarter

assessed her pain level and agreed it was at a 5. I started with balancing the energy centers and she showed block- ages at each of the 7 energy centers. While receiving the

horse mare that was purchased July 2016. The owner explained that “this mare has issues”.

therapy she was very relaxed and cooperative. I then did Acupressure Massage. Starting with opening the bladder meridian, I then worked on the acupressure points on both sides. Moving to mas- saging and photonic therapy on the sensitive areas, I released the tight muscles. I did acupressure on the 12 ting points and closed the meridians to finish this part of her session. Moving to emotional therapy, I worked on the 8 standard points. We had several releases including a few open mouth and body stretching.

She felt that her new horse June Bug was emotion- ally disturbed, not cooperative, obstinate and in a lot of physical pain for some reason. Grooming was a challenge because she was so sensitive to even a gentle touch over her body. She lacked self confidence, trust and could only carry her saddle for a short period of time making riding and working her very limited. So the journey began. We assessed the situation and knew that it was going to take a unity of Spir- itual gifts working together to rehabilitate her. In I Corinthians 12:1-11 the Bible explains Spiritual gifts as unity in diversity, along with the discern- ment of spirits.

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