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Fancy an intense weekend camp workshop for horse and rider? In association with Kirsty Edwards from Fit2Ride – specialised personal training for horse riders we a re running a summer camp workshop for horse and rider.  Will include group Equipilates, painted horse demo, back/core and saddle check and learning how to do this for yourselves, individual mounted pilates sessions, learning stretches and massage techniques for your horse, mobility, breath and relaxation for the rider, individual postural assessment, private mounted pole work lessons, ground work with your horse, plus handouts to take home so you can continue the good work back at home.  14 – 16th August in Nantwich, Cheshire. £200 per person which also includes stables &/or grazing, BBQ, breakfast and lunch, accommodation is in your own lorry or you can sleep in the studio, camp in tents or accommodation in local Nantwich town is 5 mins away (not included in the price!).  Contact me or Fit2Ride for availability and booking, hope to see you there 🙂

• Highly qualified
• Vast experience with horses of all ages, breeds, sports, injuries and problems; both physical and bahavioural
• Multimodal whole body treatments – i.e. not just physio, not just massage, not just body work, not just McTimoney, and not just working on the spine area.  We use all of these therapies and many more integrated depending on what your individual horse needs to give a better holistic whole body treatment.  This enables us to get to the root cause of the issue rather than just treating the symptoms.  Therapies include McTimoney manipulation, equine body work, sports and remedial massage, stretching and mobilisation, myofascial release, Reiki, t-touch, kinaesthetic taping
• Also, a qualified and experienced coach, trainer and rider gives further insight to help your overall performance
• We get fantastic results and great customer feedback with horses feeling freer, more supple, more agile and fitter, with improved performance, fewer injuries, better recovery, and improved career longevity.
• Reliable, knowledgable, friendly, professional service, fully insured, competitive prices, group discount available, no travel costs within 5 mile radius of Crewe/Nantwich
• For your convenience early morning appointments, evening appointments, and weekend appointments available
• Appointments available for overall check ups, general maintenance, as part of poor performance invesigations, or to aid specific areas of pain, strain and other issues
• Call, text, email or pm to book or discuss your horse – Michelle Woolrich, 07515 552 694, mcheers@cheshireequinetherapy.co.uk, find us on Facebook & Twitter

Over the last couple of months I have done some great CPD courses to further improve and expand on the therapies and treatments that we already offer, to be able to give animals a better all round holistic treatment encouraging optimal performance and health.

The first one I did was t-touch, which is an effective method of activating the function of the cells by opening the neural pathways, using a combination of specific touches, lifts, and movement exercises helping to release tension and increase body awareness.

The next one I did was advanced stretching and mobilisation which as an already big fan of the enormous benefits of stretching for loosening tight tissue, mobilising joints and easing away adhesions, I was really looking forwards to this one.  Although most of these moves I was already doing it was good to be reminded of a few that I perhaps don’t use as much that can be really useful, or using others in a different way for a different effect.

The last one that I have just done, that I have been really impressed with is myofascial release.  Mind bogglingly effective for physical and some psychological issues, even though it may appear as though you are not doing much the results can be very dramatic.  Fascia is interconnected through the entire body, due to stress (physical & emotional) water is pushed out of it leaving it hard and gel like.  This causes it to shorten and compress the capillaries and nerves causing ischemia, pain and imbalance, which can have far reaching effects over the entire body.  The release techniques cause the collagen fibres to reorganise, allowing more hydration of the tissues and force the adhesions to release, which at the same time can cause a big emotional release and unwinding too.

Where required I have been integrating what I have learned in all these cpd courses, putting them into the treatments I have been doing recently, and getting some great results! For more information or to discuss your animal feel free to give me a call.

We aim to be a part of all horses’ and dogs’ overall health program to improve well-being, welfare, health and performance. We are completely focussed on helping you to get the best from your animal by offering a range of services all individually tailored to your animals’ specific needs at competitive prices, making it available for not only the elite athletic animals but for all horse and dog owners as part of their regular care routine. Services, therapies and techniques include McTimoney, body work, sports massage, spinal therapy, stretching, physical therapy, musculoskeletal manipulation & adjustments to realign sub-luxations, kinesio taping, stress point therapy, natural horsemanship, riding, hot and cold therapy, magnetic field therapy, schooling, training, rehabilitation, coaching, and education. Check out the rest of the website for more information, if there is anything you can’t find or would like more information on please feel free to contact us.

We cover all areas of Cheshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, West Midlands, South Lancashire, Derbyshire, North Wales, South & West Yorkshire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester. You can find us on facebook and twitter or keep a check on this blog, to keep up to date with new services, special offers, where to find us, which shows and events we will be at, etc. We will be writing monthly articles on subjects of interest on this blog, and we are hoping to open an online store very soon for all of your animals alternative therapy needs, keep an eye on the site for more details.