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ConTact C.A.R.E is a hands-on practise that releases trapped pressure at the level of the bone.

It can help with sports injuries, mental/emotional shock, co-ordination problems, breathing disorders, migraines, old unresolved injuries and more...

26/09/2025

This Sunday at Trinity Valley's Market Day 😃🐴

Restore balance in the saddle with a 30 minute ConTact C.A.R.E drum horse session.

Book your 30 minute slot by emailing counterbalance.nz@gmail.com or drop in on the day 😃

For more info on the market itself see:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1GQwUbXuXn/

15/09/2025

Looking forward to Trinity Valley's Market Day — a celebration of all things Horsie! 🐴 Sunday, 28th September at 10am.

I’ll have a stall there offering 30-minute ConTact CARE sessions for both riders and non-riders. Each session is $30 cash. Places are limited, so I encourage you to pre-book to secure your spot.

📅 To pre-book, just send me a message or comment below! I’ll also be taking some bookings on the day for walk-ins.

Come and experience how ConTact CARE can tune you up and support your horsie connection!

For more information on the Market:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1GQwUbXuXn/

12/09/2025

Welcome to the Bothy Clinic in Ohauiti!

Offering ConTact CARE for people and dogs—helping you move with ease and comfort in daily life.

ConTact CARE is a gentle bodywork approach that releases tension and supports recovery from aches, pain, or injuries. If you or your dog are experiencing pain, stiffness, or just want to improve wellbeing, I’m here to help.

Sessions available for:

Everyday pain & mobility

Stress release

Post-injury support

Gentle therapy for pets

Located in a peaceful garden setting—private and easy parking.

Curious how ConTact CARE might help you, your family, or your furry friends? Feel free to message with questions or book a session. All ages and needs welcome.

Like and share to support local healing & wellness in the Bay :)

28/07/2025

Here's a little challenge for a trained eye!
Which photos are before a session and which photos are after?

Horse and Rider sessions are a unique event where human and horse are perceived as one beast - a centaur, if you like. Working as one unit, flinchlocks (places of trapped pressure) are found throughout the 8-legged animal, as person and horse work to balance each other, and each other's injuries.

18/07/2025

Baby Kitten passed away tragically from kidney failure a couple of weeks ago.

Dr Keith Houston at Care Vets supported us through this tough time. He was most compassionate, understanding, and patient. The kind of vet you could wish for.

A long-time canine client of mine visited me again today, and I discovered that Keith is also his vet. I heard a similar story of Keith's utter care for both animals and owners alike.

I highly recommend his services to anyone in the Tauranga area. I very much appreciate what he provides.

15/07/2025

Here's a post and and a toast to dear little Pip who is back to her joyful self 🥳

(She is my master teacher for lessons of precision in observation. Thank you Pipidee-pip!!🤩🥰)

The story, from Pip's mother:
"Pip was in severe pain. Taken to a vet and given pain relief which helped but we were told Pip had a probable degenerative disease and would need an MRI scan to confirm and possibly surgery. I took Pip to see Margaret instead. She was so respectful of her. She let Pip move around the room until she felt safe and settled. Pip let Margaret work her magic, releasing locked in pressure.
After three sessions Pip is back to her happy pain free self and doing really well. No pain in her spine.

26/03/2025

The new year brought me in contact with a new herd out in Pyes Pa. I was also out in Morrinsville with a trio again that I haven't seen for three years. It has been a delight working alongside these groups and their guardians, watching the interconnectedness between horse and human.

There's something extraordinary that happens when a client knows it's being heard with a chest that listens to density. Communication is direct with words, gestures, and contact through a language of spacial orientation, timing, and pressure. Everything is speaking. A release is noticed throughout the local gathering, and often I am directed very clearly where to go, where not to go, and for how long, from other members of the group or from the client themselves.

One of these four-legged clients drank and drank and drank from a bucket after her sacrum released. She had only slurped from one particular trough on the farm for over two years, and had refused to drink when she was kept inside.

Another eased from her heightened anxiety and alarm, becoming soft in the eye and hand, even when ridden by different students.

Yet another almost fell to the ground as he momentarily slipped away in some deep, long-forgotten sleep... I've never seen a downward dog quite like it.

The women I worked with and their equines consistently took my learning to new levels. Thank you to them for inviting me to become a part of their world for that time. Here's to the oncoming autumn!!

10/02/2025

This wee beauty was in a bit of a state when I saw her.
She calved fine but then went down later that day and continued going downhill although the good ol' farmer provided supplements and special attention.

Four days later, I met her lying in the heat of the sun. She was limping badly even though there was no sign of swelling in the hoof, mastitis had kicked in, she wasn't eating and was struggling to move ... things weren't looking good.

Her guts got going with belches and grumbles while the pressure from her hind leg, tail, and chest dropped. A bit of spark returned although her mobility had only mildly improved during the session.

It was time to leave the rest to nature.

I contacted the farm a week later to ask how things were going and happily she was back to top form. So stoked for her and the team.

19/11/2024

Horses for courses,
Twelve puppies,
and good-hearted,
hardworking folk
filled my days down on the west coast
of Taranaki.

I was particularly bad at remembering to take photos this time, and rather, have come home with a big warm Fuzzy, fuzzy-ing in my chest.

These three four-legged characters are chilling, post CC sessions.
It was just neat to watch the thoroughbreds' anxiety soften over the time of working with them, and have the little fulla find more stride with the releases, and way more sass!!

As for the photoless, two-legged clients? It was a great pleasure.
Seeing "Granny" walk smoothly around her house with a beaming face and new found confidence particularly brought a tear to mine eye.

A warm shout out to Suzie Keightley, a practitioner colleague in Waitara who does a unique combination of emotional recognition and Flinchlock Release.

And a big "Yeeeha!!" to Mr C.H. for inviting me down, recommending my work and patiently teaching me to drive a bulldozer, a digger, and a skateboard.

30/09/2024

Guess where next??

To the wild, wild west and the Taranaki tarns.

I'll be there from 5th to the 15th November offering ConTact C.A.R.E sessions.

Special Taranaki Pricing:

* Human: 30 minutes for $30
(This is a great way to get a feel for whether this practice works for you. I'll talk you through what I'm doing and you'll feel the difference)
* Human: 60 minutes for $80
(A full session, I still talk through what I'm doing and we work together in your comfort)

* Horse: 60 minutes for $80
(A full session for the horse without gear and rider)
* Horse, gear and rider: 90 minutes for $120
(The horse receives a session alone, then with its gear one by one, and then with the rider on top to find what added part is causing the issue)

* Dog: 30 minutes for $60
(A full session for family pet or working dog)

* Cow: Please contact me to discuss the nature of the work

** Please note: there will be a travel charge if more than 5km from base.

Get in touch if you have any queries or would like to make a booking:
counterbalance.nz@gmail.com

ConTact C.A.R.E is a NZ born modality that works with trapped pressure in the bone and connective tissue. It addresses a range of symptoms, including muscular tension, back aches, neck pain, migraines, concussion, tinitis, high blood pressure, sleeplessness, and more. ConTact C.A.R.E looks for the original cause of the symptom derived from an injury, accident, or shock trauma. It releases the pressure from the original event that created a distortion through the body.

Thanks to the local cowboy down there for the invitation 🤠
(NB: that's not him in the picture)

19/09/2024

The Coromandel clinic last week was a flurry of spring blossoms, a variety of ailments, two dogs, and a cat called Bunty. The feedback has been warming from those who signed up for a session. Thank you to Naomi for the Roses n Remedies clinic :)

And, a massive thank you to Clio Meyer for making it all happen.

Clio lives and works in the Coromandel township as a sensitive, multi-disciplined practitioner. She is highly experienced with soft tissue and Flinchlock, release, as well as being able to connect your soul to the medicinal remedy of plants.

Her FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/bewild.aotearoa

29/08/2024

A pop-up clinic day at Roses & Remedies, in Coromandel on Wednesday 11th September.

I'll be offering 60 min appointments as well as 30 min ConTact C.A.R.E introductory sessions. This is an ideal opportunity for people new to the modality to experience what ConTact C.A.R.E is, and feel the immediate benefits from old injuries being released.

You're very welcome to bring your pet animal for me to look at. Please get in touch with Clio to book an appointment for either yourself or an animal at: clio.meyer@gmail.com

I will also be available for full treatments in Matarangi over the 12th and 13th September.

ConTact C.A.R.E is a NZ born modality that works with trapped pressure in the bone and connective tissue. It addresses a range of symptoms, including muscular tension, back aches, neck pain, migraines, concussion, tinitis, high blood pressure, sleeplessness, and more. ConTact C.A.R.E looks for the original cause of the symptom derived from an injury, accident, or shock trauma. It releases the pressure from the original event that created a distortion through the body.

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