The Knot Whisperer

19/09/2025

Long day of horses and hay today. Tmrw morning I need to unload the hay and pack the trailer off to a clinic. I’ll be yawning like Flash was by the end of the day tmrw!
Next human appt Sept 23. Next horse appt Oct 4 🩶.

10/09/2025

Thank you for coming out and helping me get to the bottom of this big girls pain. Far beyond bodywork or applied therapies, her pain and compensation needed to be diagnosed and treated. I can’t wait to see how the injections do (stifles and thoracic spine), and see her moving around more like her old self again. Once she’s back to more of a normal baseline she will be back on a bodywork schedule 💛👐

04/09/2025

28/08/2025

Chipping away at life over here! Harvest wrapped up this week 🌾. Yesterday I wrote the MBLEx exam that tests entry level standards and competency for massage therapists in 49 states. I’ve now moved on to the equine side of the business and less than 24 hours after the human exam have submitted application to write the equine equivalent (NBCAAM). I will be set up locally at the and possibly in Kalispell at the Montana Reined Cow Horse Futurity. I will update on that with info on booking appointments there once confirmed!

20/08/2025

Late summer update ☀️. Still trucking along out here! We have about a week or two left of harvest and then the cookhouse will relax some, and the massage schedule can open back up! I have some exciting things on the fall schedule already. I’ll be writing the national licensing exam for humans, as well as a separate exam for equines. Continuing education courses are purchased to start working on this fall/winter, and I will be adding tools / products that I’m looking forward to bringing into my own barn and Equine practice. I also have a few clinics scheduled to bring my 2 year old to and am planning to attend a show or two this fall/winter season. I’m looking forward to turning on the table heater for my clients and busting out my felt hat and wild rags!! 🍂

28/07/2025

Thanks for buying out all the horse girl packages! I already have a bunch of you scheduled so once this block of packages are done I’ll sell some more! Horse girls always have vet bills 😵‍💫🤠.

20/07/2025

Horse Girl Special ✨ I have some vet bills I want to pay and some travel plans with Banana coming up! Help fuel this horse girl. I’m offering a total of 5 packages. Either 3 x 60 min sessions for $150 or 3 x 90 min sessions for $240. Sessions can be gifted and I ask you use them in 2025. Once they are all booked and completed I will sell another block of packages, because the horse shows (bills) never stop ✨

17/07/2025

GREAT FALLS - booking 3 appointments for Aug 13th. Send me a text or DM to book. I will add days as they fill.

13/07/2025

My Alberta treatment room was pretty epic. Working on getting the vibes just right here.

07/07/2025

The office will soon be in full cookhouse mode with harvest approaching. Appointments will be limited through July / Aug 🌾 Send me a message to book before it begins 🚜

01/07/2025

Welcome to the recent new followers! I’m Ashley, I’ve been a massage therapist since 2011. I grew up in Northwestern Ontario and showed quarter horse all through my school years. College in Fairview, Ab (c**t starting program), and once graduated promptly to Texas. I worked for Riverside Ranch, riding descendants of the late great Dynamic Deluxe. Surrounded by cutting horse barns in Weatherford got me interested enough to make the switch and head to Metcalf Quarter Horses, where I continued to learn about pleasure, hunt seat, reining, while getting a taste for cow work. It was there that equine bodywork first hit my radar (2002) with visits from massage and osteopaths. Then immigration caught up to me and back to Canada (foreshadowing) 😂. Eventually I found myself working for cutting horse barns in Alberta while making my way through human massage school. The name “the Knot Whisperer” was something a client called me my first year out of school, and it stuck. Since then there have been seasons and moments where I’ve tried to quit massage, self employment, and horses. But it all runs too deep. It’s an ever evolving industry and business. Sometimes I prefer one side more than the other (human or horse), but honestly can’t imagine one without the other. I’m thankful to my younger self for going through the massage program, for cleaning barns and loping horses on the weekends. For finding that buckskin two year old and hanging onto her. Training that has impacted my massage business include a week spent in Tennessee (2018) for an equine myofascial intensive, and of course the Equinology equine bodywork course that laid the foundation of equine massage, and over the past years webinars on evidence based massage that have really expanded my thinking and understanding of knowing what I don’t know. I’ve been in a bit of long hiatus. First Covid, then moving to Montana and the long, long wait for my green card. Well it’s finally happened and after so much wait and struggle I’m officially a legal permanent resident! Continued in the comments to tell you about all the plans for the future ✨ ……