Rebalance With Bev

When you’re being watched 👀👀

A little bit of al fresco study before I head off to teach this afternoon/ evening….

Limited spaces in July for massage … contact now to avoid disappointment…… also taking bookings for both human and equine in August …….

Massage …… relaxation, injury prevention, freedom of movement, fascial release, improved lymphatic drainage……

Stop viewing massage as a luxury and start to see it as an investment in your mental and physical wellbeing.

Maintenance top up for Patrick and Lola today as they are both off for a jolly to Field Farm at the weekend … I also got to use my new assessment sheets from Emily Whitbread Equine Sports Massage Therapist today as well … what a great difference they’ve made to me !!!!..

I am totally loving my new treatment forms from Emily Whitbread Equine Sports Massage Therapist.. these will make appointments so much easier . I can’t wait to start using them next week ….

I’m extremely pleased and proud to be accepted for second year onto the I.A.A.T( international association of animal therapists)…. To be accepted you have to show evidence of continued professional development amongst other things.i was able to submit over 30 hours of cpd work, a clinic with @ andrea o Connell highlighting pole work for fitness and rehabilitation as well as basic massage techniques for owners and my sign up to be a strangles ambassador for Strangles Awareness Week…

Strangles awareness week in May helped us bring awareness to the rise in strangles and help us to understand just how vigilant we need to be as horse owners , yard owners, equine transportation and event organisers… continued conversations, good bio security protocols and sharing knowledge can help us to better control the spread…. Knowledge is power.

💛🐴 Did you know EIDS has a strangles information sheet for horse owners?

🔹EIDS has produced information sheets for owners summarising key information for EHV, equine influenza and strangles. Today we our introducing our strangles resource:

How can our information sheet help you?
➡️Understand how to spot strangles
➡️Read about key outbreak management plans and vaccinations
➡️See how you can to keep up to date with disease outbreaks

👆 Find and share the resource following this link:https://equinesurveillance.org/landing/resources/EIDS_Strangles_info_sheet.pdf

Today is certainly going to be warm, as has the whole week! 🔥

Next week is beginning to look a lot cooler, and it can be super tempting to start planning to work your horse a bit more regularly given that a lot of them would have had a quiet week this week.

However, we must consider a series of different factors that all most certainly we are affecting our horses even post – heat wave.

– Very hard compacted ground
– consistently dry, dusty air
– loss of fitness
– high pollen counts
– a lot of time spent bracing and swatting away flies!

So before returning to any faster work, or work that will demand cardiovascular fitness, consider all of the factors above and also have a really good look at this diagram to really appreciate the extent to which our horses have to exert.