SERVICES

Services

Connecting with each horse is a different experience with diverse results.

Marigold is the mare I work with weekly. In our first sessions months ago, her attention span would last 30 minutes before she starts fidgeting.

Now the endorphins kick right away. Marigold gets into a deep parasympathetic state almost from the start. 

In this particular session in May, after 20 minutes, she rounded her neck and then her back in a cat pose position, the opposite of the down dog position she did couple weeks ago. Then couple minutes later, she literally dropped down on the floor; a first for me.

I didn’t want to interrupt the flow so I continued my energy work and she laid down completely on the floor on her side, felt asleep and went into a deep REM sleep.

The level of trust was incredible, the connection quite deep, her level of relaxation, off the chart.

EQUINE BODYWORK is first a partnership with the horse. 

Aside from helping your horse to gain better mobility, to enjoy liberty work, trail rides, to perform or to simply live a comfortable life, regular bodywork including touch, massage, energetic balancing, nervous system regulation can also enhance communication and relationship skills, as well as trust with your horse.

Depending on your horse's special needs, Cheyenne Equine Therapeutic Bodywork LLC is committed to respect your horse’s magnificent awareness and sensitivity to outside stimuli.

Maryline’s primary goal is to detect the right amount of pressure to apply for each horse bypassing the bracing response to access the specific part of the nervous system that will release tension.

Note: techniques inspired and guided by the Jim Masterson Method.

At Cheyenne Equine LLC, we address:

The Poll-Atlas Junction

The poll-atlas junction is a vital part of the horse’s anatomy. The nervous system passes through this junction to enter the brain.” Pain, tension and discomfort anywhere in the horse’s body shows up as tension in the poll.”

Cash

The lateral cervical flexion

After applying the Bladder Meridian Technique to connect with the entire body and depending on your horse primary needs (they can differ from session to session), the lateral cervical flexion is the chronological step to release tension in the poll-atlas area.

Head down

Head down technique helps working with large and small muscles attached to the poll, atlas and other vertebrae of the upper neck.

Released tension in the poll-atlas junction results in relaxation in neck, shoulders and hind end (gluteals, hamstrings and sacrum), and vice versa.

Yukon

Head up

Real progress happens when endorphins kick in.

Scapula release

Accessing under the scapula with specific stretches will help release tension in the cervical-thoracic junction.

Thunder

The thoracic sling

Releasing tension in the sacroiliac joint, lumbar area and Sacro lumbar junction can help your horse lift his core and regain a healthier posture while practicing different gaits reducing excessive pressure in the thoracic spine.

Cash — Before and after

Cash – Before and after

Releasing the hind leg

This technique in few sessions can help your horse’s hind leg mobility and range of motion while performing different gaits but also simply improving the limb’s range of movement.

Tension release in the head

Your horse’s head weighs approximately 10% of his/her body weight and tension easily accumulates there. A 1000 lb. horse’s head weighs 40 lbs. Your horse can not release tension there on his/her own.

The forelimbs

The forelimbs bear the majority of the horse’s weight: 60 to 65%.

Healthy and strong limbs are extremely important considering that horses do not have muscles from their knee (carpus) to their hoof.

Thunder

Cash

Addressing performance issues and pre-event bodywork

With her 17 years of world class athletic history in triathlons and Track & Field, Maryline is highly interested in working with performing horses in a healthy environment that promotes excellent care and respect of the horse’s integrity.

Rehabilitation

At Cheyenne Equine Therapeutic Bodywork LLC, we also can support and help your horse after injury and/or surgery. Rehabilitation takes time, patience and love. Maryline concentrates on tension build-ups in the body, scar tissue reduction and new adhesions removal.

Scarlett

Day of Injury

5 weeks later