Equine Athlete Therapies

01/01/2022

This was and will always be one of my favourite moments with Jasper. Jasper was my first horse and the reason I became a qualified equine massage therapist 😍🥰💞

When I was still completing my Equine sports massage, Equine tissue mobilisation and photonic therapy course, Jasper was often my practice horse. 🧐😁🥰🤓

This was one of my practice videos for palpation and body checks. Jasper though, had another thing he wanted to practice instead 🥰🐴😍🌈💞

01/01/2022

Beautiful Griffin falling asleep at his last session 🥰😍 🐴 thank you Michelle for the video!!

01/01/2022

Happy New Year's everyone 🎇🥳🌈🎉🌺💞💐

Hope you all had a great night and are enjoying the first day of 2022!!! 😁

Hope you are all enjoying your ponies and the beautiful summer weather 🌈☀️🐴🦄

Sharing the love with my mare 💖🥰 Rosie 🥰🥰😍🐴

12/09/2021

I have always said horse's are here to heal us. They are wiser than we think 💓🥰🐴

Estudios recientes realizados por el “Institute of Heart-Math” proporcionan una pista para explicar la" curación "bidireccional que ocurre cuando estamos cerca de los caballos. Según los investigadores, el corazón tiene un campo electromagnético más grande que el cerebro: un magnetómetro puede medir el campo de energía del corazón que irradia desde 2.4 metros hasta 3 metros alrededor del cuerpo humano. Si bien esto es ciertamente significativo, quizás sea más impresionante que el campo electromagnético proyectado por el corazón de un caballo sea cinco veces más grande que el de un ser humano (imagina una esfera en forma de campo electromagnético alrededor del caballo) y este pueda influir directamente en nuestro propio ritmo cardíaco.

También es probable que los caballos tengan lo que la ciencia ha identificado como un ritmo cardíaco "coherente" (patrón de frecuencia cardíaca) que explica por qué podemos "sentirnos mejor" cuando estamos cerca de ellos. Los estudios han encontrado que un patrón cardíaco coherente o HRV (siglas en inglés) es una medida sólida de bienestar y consistente con estados emocionales de calma y alegría, es decir, exhibimos tales patrones cuando sentimos emociones positivas.

Un patrón cardíaco coherente es indicativo de un sistema que puede recuperarse y adaptarse a situaciones estresantes de manera muy eficiente. Muchas veces, solo necesitamos estar en presencia de caballos para sentir una sensación de bienestar y paz. De hecho, la investigación muestra que las personas experimentan muchos beneficios fisiológicos al interactuar con los caballos, incluida la disminución de la presión arterial y la frecuencia cardíaca, mayores niveles de beta-endorfinas (neurotransmisores que actúan como supresores del dolor), disminución de los niveles de estrés, disminución de los sentimientos de ira, hostilidad, tensión y ansiedad, mejor funcionamiento social; y mayores sentimientos de empoderamiento, confianza, paciencia y autoeficacia ".

Autor pintura: Svatava Hueberová

22/08/2021

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Grateful for these moments - happy Monday 💕

12/08/2021

‼️IMPORTANT NOTICE!!!!‼️

Due to the current lock down in Canberra all Equine and human massage services will be cancelled until we are given the all clear by the government that we can resume normal activities and services.

Any clients that are booked in over the next 7 days will be contacted to rebook. Please be patient with hearing from me as there are a lot of you that I am having to reschedule. Any client that has had there appointment bookings over the next 7 days will be given priority on rebooking. I am also currently in the process of contacting you all individually as well.

Stay safe everyone and see you on the other side of this lock down.

17/07/2021

Anyone's horse look like this after all the rain we have had? 🤣🙃😅🐴

06/07/2021

So true 😍🌈💓

Truth. Happy Monday! 💕

08/06/2021

Let's all get behind Little Oak Sanctuary to raise the much needed funds to continue their fantastic work at looking after all the animals in the care. 😊

WE'RE SO CLOSE! CAN YOU HELP US GET THERE?! PLEASE SHARE

Last week we put the call out for your urgent help - and we can't believe the response - we've raised 80% of our goal with donations from just 393 amazing people - an incredible level of support; we are so humbled.

But now, donations have dropped off so much that we are not sure we will reach our goal (even after such a strong start). We are pleading right now for your support to get us there.

The strong show of support enabled us to save another animal's life, a young steer named Gavin. Gavin was to be sold for slaughter but will now be safe for life with us, thanks to the kindness of someone who knew him and those 393 donors. We can't wait for you to meet him when he arrives.

With winter arriving and many of our residents being frail and elderly, we are in the most challenging time of year for our sanctuary. We are already seeing an increased need for emergency vet call outs and age-related interventions. If we don't reach our target, we will have to turn more animals away. It is just reality, and we need to let you know.

We have 17,000 supporters across our social media platforms, and we ask that if you support our work and can afford to, please donate.

If you can, please donate $25, no more.

We only need 400 people to donate $25 each, and we will reach our fundraising goal.

After becoming aware of the suffering of farmed animals, we changed our lives to help them, care for them and advocate for them. Our lives revolve around running the sanctuary. We wouldn't have it any other way, but we can't do it without you.

We don't receive any government funding; we rely entirely on the kindness of our community. So right now, I'm asking you for your help to get us to our goal of $50,000.

$25 buys a bag of feed for the 100 birds in our care; $25 helps a lot.

Please share this post far and wide. We're counting on you for your help. Please help us. http://ow.ly/PuMS50F57DJ

Photo: Bing, whose mother, pregnant with him, was saved from slaughter

08/06/2021

Even on a cold winters night in the middle of a thunderstorm, I still brave the cold to ride my beautiful girl 🥰🐴🌈🥰 only way to warm up my heart and soul ❤️💖💓💗💖💞,🐴🏇

24/05/2021

Yesterday afternoon, Rosie and I spent some quality one on one quality time together. We had a great ride out in the jumps paddock, she got a pampered bath and a extra pick of fresh green grass as the sun was setting. The perfect end, to a perfect day 🥰🐴🌈

It is so nice being able to ride my own horse again ☺️ sometimes, it is the simple things in life that mean the most. 🏇🌈

Very blessed to have found Rosie 😌😍 she truly is a beautiful soul.