Equine Bodyworks By Mary Sargeant

Equine Bodyworks By Mary Sargeant Musculoskeletal, Myofascial Therapist, Whole Horse Therapist
Releasing Tension Improving Performance
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Over the years I have incorporated many modalities to my original qualifications which offers you a unique way of bodywork for your horse
Masterson Method Practitioner MMCP since 2013
Equine Touch level 1 and 2
Saddle fit4life cpd
Mobilization techniques
Rehab (Classical training)
Anatomy and palpation
Veterinarian assessment and biomechanics
Kinesio taping
Myo-Fascial
Cranio-Sacral
Equine Mass

age
3 Whole Horse Dissections and Limb dissections
Tucker bio kinetics
Dr Kerry ridgeway acupressure
Many cpd hours with various webinars

All this with the added bonus of watching the horses responses while I work so your horse is getting the benefit of movement within the joint while in a relaxed state. I am fully insured and a member of IAAT

I NOW OFFER ONE DAY HORSE OWNERS COURSES AND DEMOS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE

BMW,s are not just made for the road, well not when you are owned by someone who owns horses who has a lorry battery to ...
29/04/2026

BMW,s are not just made for the road, well not when you are owned by someone who owns horses who has a lorry battery to haul down the lane for the electric fencing 😅
And nope no indicators were used 😅😅

Sometimes i just dont want to interrupt a horses peace just to do bodywork, he was snoozing through the whole session wh...
29/04/2026

Sometimes i just dont want to interrupt a horses peace just to do bodywork, he was snoozing through the whole session while working on his friend and I just would of felt kinda mean
Luckily his owner Sally Mitchell Equestrian agreed
Another day then snowpo 😅😅

Damn the energy stealing horses 😅😅😅 always getting a freebie😅

1 hr vs many years!!!We are bodyworkers not miracle workers and to expect years of dysfunction to dissapate in a one hou...
29/04/2026

1 hr vs many years!!!

We are bodyworkers not miracle workers and to expect years of dysfunction to dissapate in a one hour session is often a pressure that faces us, not only by a social media standard of unachievablilty but we also put an immense amount of pressure on ourselves to fix everything in that magical hour.

We are coming in often many years after the dysfunction began so now its a functional dysfunction, the uneven Tuber sacrale is never just a bone issue its years of soft tissue changing, compensating, its the trauma that caused such a shift, its the whole horse that was affected, maybe it was a fall as a 3 Yr old and now you are seeing this horse aged 15, do we really want to reach a "perfect" when the whole body is accustomed to another less perfect for the last 12 years??

Has the horse issues that fluctuate?? A gut issue that will change every essence of the horse, it could be ok now, yet next week the "old" returns, thats an environmental often out of anyone's control issue yet still years of fluctuations will change not only the body but the mind.

Horses in pain may not be in pain 24hrs a day, so often we are only addressing the pain response we see on that day, but if the cause is not addressed then the pain will return, look at the changes and flare ups that athritis can cause, we may be able to make a bad day good but if the changes are still ongoing then the pain will return.

We often scoff at a timeline, it took to long for a change🤔 yet can a horse hold such a huge change to its system in one hour?? Where does the horse go if it doesn't work?? It cant go back but it may not be able to cope with the onslaught on its body if we change feet, teeth, body in the golden hour we must allow the body to adapt and adjust our work as the body changes.
We are not just waiting and seeing we are waiting to adapt to the horses acceptance of change.

Years of wrong cannot be conquered with 1 hours of right, its a beginning, its a starting point, its a change while asking the horse if this change is something it can cope with and if it can we can make more changes, but only when the body and mind is ready.

Dont fall into the trap of the pressure to out perform all those that came before you, just do your best in the 1 hour of window of opportunity because often if done right its an opportunity the horse will take.

When you are barefoot walking in your field and your horses are not judging, well i think they are not😅 he did stop eati...
29/04/2026

When you are barefoot walking in your field and your horses are not judging, well i think they are not😅 he did stop eating to watch😅

Ps I am not woo, my eyeballs and feet were not connecting after having covid, it was to regain my balance 😅

I have heard of horses using poo as pillows but Archie uses Thors butt😅😅😅I wonder just how big he will get he is only 8 ...
28/04/2026

I have heard of horses using poo as pillows but Archie uses Thors butt😅😅😅
I wonder just how big he will get he is only 8 months old now !!!!

Find your niche and be comfortable being there.It took me a long time to be comfortable to share information, wether it ...
28/04/2026

Find your niche and be comfortable being there.

It took me a long time to be comfortable to share information, wether it be through what I have learned, my own thoughts on how I view the world for horses, how in my way I could help others in the way I think it may help.

We all have that imposter syndrome somewhere in the back of our heads whispering "say you got it wrong", "what will others think of you", and for those of us who have slighter more complicated minds thoughts like "they are talking about you", they are judging you", they will only laugh at you", and to park those thoughts can be almost as hard as putting pen to paper and if you let them win your silence will help no one.

I am going to be honest as I always am, as in every industry there are those that think they are better, there are those that think only their opinions are the truth, there are those that seek to constantly berate others for simply not doing as we are told, passive aggressive tones telling us to be quiet and tow the invisible line they have created.
The elite in every industry want to stay elite, they want to control the narrative and they do that by "helpful" messages, a counter active post in response to something you wrote, a jab in your direction that if you were to call them out they would feign innocence, but we know because simply we are not stupid😀

The pressure to conform is always there, those of us who choose not be a part of anything are often not ever on the invite list, but to not be part of anything is the freedom to do what we want, wrote what we want, tell you what we want.

If we never write anything for fear of being judged by others then others simply win for only their voice will be heard, only their thoughts will become the truth

My niche is basic, simple and easy to understand for having knowledge is useless if you cannot share it with others in a way everyone can understand, I don't want to write a post on the back of someone else's I try to bring new perspectives to every post, I want to be different because there is to many indifferent.
If I see a topic everyone else is writing about then mine is just another lost in a sea of the same. I look for what no one is talking about, a different take on what is the norm that is my niche.

I am not a thinker i am a doer, I dont have long beautiful philosophies of what it should be like with horses, I give you a reality of what it is like when you spend the majority of the time with horses that need help, how can we help one horse thats needs may be completely different to the next horse standing by it, in a language that everyone understands with tasks you can do at home with your own horse.

I dont want beautiful words that make me feel good I want dutiful action that makes the horse feel good, my life with my horses would never make a Instagram reel yet offers a little reality because I always say I am a therapist second yet an owner first and everything you have gone through I did to, yet I knew how alone it could feel if your horse didn't live upto social media standards. I just couldnt find help, so my information is a giving back to someone who also has or is feeling like I once felt.

Dont be ashamed to not have all the answers, don't feel intimidated that you may have something wrong and you will be judged as long as you can take correction then you will always be open to expanding your knowledge, no one owns rights or exclusivity to the horse for only the horse owns that trademark.

To exist in a world where only a few can spread the word of doing better for the horse is a world where we will never learn to be better for the horse

Much easier to push without the mud 😅But we do need a bit of rain as we want cheaper hay this year and some grass to gro...
27/04/2026

Much easier to push without the mud 😅
But we do need a bit of rain as we want cheaper hay this year and some grass to grow!!!!

27/04/2026

Its ok to have a bad day as long as you make the next day better, we have the choice
Enjoy ###x

There is no I in team.Even though I work alone i am always collabing, always part of a team, always adjusting what I do ...
27/04/2026

There is no I in team.

Even though I work alone i am always collabing, always part of a team, always adjusting what I do by having a conversation about the horse.
Yet no words are spoken, no late phone calls about the horse, no sitting around the table holding long discussions

For simply the horse carries the conversation from the team within their body, every step they take, every postural change, behavioural change, its all a conversation with no words and the horse carries the message from one professional to another.

Ever be trying so hard to correct something yet something is missing?? Yet change one cog in the wheel of wellness and everything falls into place??
Because not one modality, one way of trimming, one way of dental work, training or saddle fit is the answer to everything because in any modality the individual brings a skillset only unique to them.

Not one is more important than the other, we are all equal in the skillset we bring which another cannot do, yet we can not do it alone, if ego gets in the way, if importance of one skillset trumps another then often it begins to fall apart.

We cannot bring harmony to the body if everyone is not listening to what the horse is showing us, nor can we if one of the team is not enhancing the work of the other as everyone will just be catching up but never reaching a goal.

We need to work with others who dont feel like they cannot raise a query, for not one professional is infallible, nobody is perfect, to be questioned is growth, for we can all be on the same page yet we want to keep reading not stuck on one chapter, never moving beyond one persons convictions or sadly ego.

A Good or bad job can rest on all of the team if one is not seeing what others see, we waste time arguing semantics when all we have to do is simply look at the horse for they are the messenger of someones skillset.

When Natalie Sargeant : DAEP Used to stop at the drive thru for her lunch when out riding with friends (her horses ears ...
26/04/2026

When Natalie Sargeant : DAEP
Used to stop at the drive thru for her lunch when out riding with friends (her horses ears are in the pic)😅

Fun, man you know what when did it all get so serious🫣Think back to why we got a horse for some of us they have been an...
25/04/2026

Fun, man you know what when did it all get so serious🫣
Think back to why we got a horse for some of us they have been an integral part of our whole life for others like me we came to meet this wonderful animal a little later on yet we all came into it not wanting a perfect relationship but one where both horse and human sort of enjoy each other's company, we balance our ask by giving them their own time yet if I am honest I look around and just feel like saying just lighten up🫠

We have become so insular in our own way is the best way we are now beginning to close ranks to anyone else's input, our opinions become accusations, our thoughts become truths and we go round the merry go round of he said she said, and for me I am just like jeez can no one remember the feel of that elation after a gallop, the nervous excitement of seeing your first horse, the promise that we made to them that we would do our best???

We used to look around and be inspired instead now we look around and become despondent, that we may not be good enough, not doing enough, not achieving enough when in reality your horse simply wants you to be the person you promised you would when you first met.

We think we need to find a better version of ourselves when probably the horse kinda liked the old you, how many courses have you been on ??? Are you any happier ??? Or are you scrolling for the next one to find the magic thing that often real life just doesn't bring, how many times have you declared this is the best one yet F.O.M.O will keep your bank balance and passion on the empty.

You see we are all looking to be better when often the answer lies in not how others think you should be but simply how your horse responds to you for there is the truth of your inner self, and we can superficially change who we are but we can never change who we truly are and the horse sees it

I want to be the like the horse in the middle, we need to get back to fun because we need to realise the more content we are with ourselves, faults and all the more happier the relationship will be for you and your horse.

Tell me a funny story, a moment when you burst out laughing, a moment when you thought man I love being with my horse lets get some positivity back into the horseworldxx and put your pics up xx

We need to keep learning but not at the cost of losing ourselves and what it meant to us when we realised we own a fricking horse, how amazing is that😍, i often think i yearn back to what it used to like when it was so much easier

Get out and work on horses😉Is social media making your blood boil!!!Are you scrabbling in your tool box to find some kin...
23/04/2026

Get out and work on horses😉

Is social media making your blood boil!!!

Are you scrabbling in your tool box to find some kinesiotape to tape your hands to your sides so you dont hit the keyboard with the words "IN MY OPINION" ??

Are you driving your friends, the postman, the amazon guy mad with conversations they didnt ask to be in and have no clue what you are on about ??

Are you listening to podcasts and terrifying the person in the car next to, shouting at the podcast, when to them you look like you are shouting at yourself (oops thats me😆😆)

Are you doomscrolling, engaging more means you see more so if you engage in what makes you mad , then the algorithm will assume you like being mad 😅

But wait!!!

Does someone on social media really affect your world in which you work in?? Does some dude or lady in some country that would take a long plane to get to actually matter to you, doris the owner and Boris the horse?? I bet they havent even heard of half of the people that makes you react.

If they do infiltrate and effect your work, do something about it, face to face conversations are a lot better than social media conversations, but dont make an owner feel like they are stupid for believing in things you dont!!!

The things that make me mad only make me mad when scrolling and those things dont make me mad for long because I simply block the information that causes me so much irritation, its removing the itch you just cant scratch 🤣

Owners want information not professionals always on the verge of battle, it serves no one to follow those who you just dont get, it doesn't make things better for either side.

Do owners want to listen to you moan or do they want to see you have something different to offer, a counter attack that is useful.

If you feel your rage rising, scroll on, or better still go out and touch some grass, listen to your horses eat the grass, and soak up some equine therapy that often is all we need.

Even if i try to rant, I get gently reminded that my page isnt about anger its about education, I love my followers that they keep me in check 😅

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