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About The Series

The Core 5 Sessions

Unleash Your Horse's Full Potential

Session 1: Building Trust & Getting Acquainted

PURPOSE

  • Build a foundation of trust with the horse
  • Assess and release tension on body surface

BENEFITS 

  • Accustoms horse to my presence and methods
  • Jump starts the body's unwinding process
  • Provides a baseline to plan future sessions

AFTER CARE

  • No hard work for remainder of day, ideally 24 hrs. Turnout is fine.
  • Schedule Session 2 one week out.

Session 2: Rebalancing Shoulders & Hips

PURPOSE

  • Continue to build rapport with horse
  • Release deeper restrictions in shoulders, neck, hindquarters and legs

BENEFITS

  • Increased mobility through the shoulders and hinds. 
  • Frees up tendons and ligaments in all four legs
  • Enhanced proprioception

AFTER CARE

  • No hard work for remainder of day, ideally 24 hrs. Turnout is fine. 
  • Schedule Session 3 two weeks out.

Session 3: Freeing the Barrel

PURPOSE

  • Opening and releasing restriction in the barrel
  • Decompressing the topline

BENEFITS

  • Releases barrel to allow deeper breathing
  • Opens and mobilizes the back and lumbar regions
  • Enhances front-to-back connection

AFTER CARE

  • No hard work for remainder of day, ideally 24 hrs. Turnout is fine.
  • Schedule Session 4 three weeks out.

Session 4: Reassess & Deep Dive

PURPOSE 

  • Assess movement patterns and identify remaining areas that need work
  • Deeper work to release remaining major imbalances

BENEFITS

  • Trust has developed to where we can really dive deep into problematic areas
  • Integrates changes from previous sessions
  • Enhances whole body awareness and fluidity of movement

AFTERCARE

  • No hard work for remainder of day, ideally 24 hrs. Turnout is fine.
  • Schedule Session 5 four weeks out.
Session 5: Integrate All Changes

PURPOSE

  • Find and release any residual stuck areas
  • Finish any remaining deep work from Session 4
  • Integrate all changes and map out maintenance, if applicable

BENEFITS

  • Assists horse in settling into their new, rebalanced body
  • Improves body awareness, proprioception, range of motion
  • Releases any previously addressed tension that has "snuck back in"
  • Confirms the changes that have been achieved so far

AFTERCARE

  • No hard work for remainder of day, ideally 24 hrs. Turnout is fine.
  • Schedule Maintenance Sessions, if applicable