Originally posted on Equestrian Reality:
How make up is never really ‘stay all day’ or ‘budge proof’ unless it doesn’t rub off your forehead after wearing a hat and can withstand twelve hours of mud, wind and lashing rain. Extra marks if it stays on after you get a branch to the face on a…
Yesterday I wrote about kinesio taping for rehabilitation after sacroiliac strain. While searching my old diary for the notes to include in the said post I found the above photo which I thought deserved to be shared 🙂 The vet, Richard Gillatt of McGonnell & Gillatt Veterinary Practice, was the one who carried out the…
From September 2009 to 18th April 2012 I had a great pleasure to be around a very special horse. One of the many medical and rehabilitative subjects (!) he acquainted me with was the use of kinesio taping when working with proprioceptively challenged horse. You have probably noticed kinesio taping in one form or another…
This video pretty much sums up a training environment I grew up in, trained and aspired to stay working in between 1995-2002 (minus state of the art surfaces, matching outfits for grooms and high calibre of horses). It was a structured, fairly regimented horse life dealing mostly with stallions at a stallion depot/stud. Ten years…
Since Princess Anne spoke at the annual conference of the charity World Horse Welfare suggesting changes to how Britain thinks about horse meat, the equestrian world has seen some ongoing debate on the subject. To watch the speech, go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24954892 ______________________________________ In my childhood and early teens I spent many months in Italy and…
It so happens that I am helping three lovely riders at the moment who are each battling with their own minds and this has inspired me to write this post. Unless you are going through serious emotional issues that cause you distress and which might need professional attention, hear me out. There is nothing fabulous…
Originally posted on Avandarre In Dressage:
I have a friend who is 16 this year. We’ll call her R for this post. R and I have never really talked about what she wants to do when she grows up, but her mom let it slip that she wants to have a career in horses. Not…
“In the winter of 2011/12, amid the turmoil of the Egyptian elections, a group of horse breeders by the Pyramids pursue their own rivalries.” Jessica Kelly
Some time ago I got given a voucher for yoga sessions. Having done Pilates and various exercise programmes over the years I didn’t think this would be much different but I have always wanted to give it a go. The reason for this and for my general interest in various posture, body awareness and breathing…
