Unbound Equine

10/28/2026

Let’s stop guessing at what’s “just how she is,” and start finding out what her body’s actually been carrying.

You’re officially invited to join the club of horse guardians who stopped accepting “she’s just quirky” or “she’s getting older” as the final answer.

I’ll show you exactly how, inside...

The Rebalancing Series

My multi-session bodywork package where I work through your horse’s compensation patterns one layer at a time, not a one-and-done fix, but a real process toward lasting change.

Comment UNBOUND and I’ll send you the details.

09/22/2026

I could not have said it better. Stop these nerve compressing moves, please, thanks:

09/01/2026

I helped one of my regulars, a mustang gelding (not pictured), go from not being able to pick up his left lead canter, to land jumps on it.

And it wasn't by forcing his body into alignment.

No matter how loud our "fix it fast" culture gets, adjust it, crack it, move on, I could not get myself to treat a horse's resistance as something to override.

Here's the thing about me: across this industry, I've watched horses get sedated just so they'll hold still to be adjusted, because their own bodies are bracing and saying no. That's not fixing. That's forcing compliance out of a body that's already telling you something's wrong. I won't do that to a horse.

If you relate, you're one of my people.

So I'll show you exactly how this guy got his canter back, and started jumping, through supporting his body back to its own natural state, not correcting it into submission.

First, I found what his body was actually compensating for: pelvic asymmetry and back discomfort that had been quietly shaping the way he carried himself for years, worsened by an old coronary band scar and a saddle that was reinforcing the pattern instead of relieving it.

Then, I worked with what his body would let me do, no sedation, no force, no bracing against him, while we got him into equipment that stopped fighting his shape.

And finally, his body found its own way back to symmetry. The lead came back because the compensation pattern causing it was gone, not because anyone corrected him into it.

I hope this shows there's nothing wrong with your horse, or with you for refusing the "just adjust it" model.

Your horse doesn't have to be forced into working right. He gets to find his way back there.

08/29/2026

What do you think?



{Post shows six slides with blue skies and pink clouds.

Slide one reads: Five things your bodyworker wishes you knew about your equine athlete

Slide two: The hoof is a dynamic neuroproprioceptive sense organ and it's function is the foundation of all your horse's movement

Slide three: Injured horses need rest and healing before returning to work

Slide four: Equine metabolic syndrome is far more common than we recognize - could your horse be eating candy bars?

Slide five: Quality bodywork is not a luxury but essential for balance healthy movement and performance

Slide six: Topline dysfunction is thoracic sling dysfunction is hind end dysfunction}

08/28/2026

It wasn’t always like this.

I can find the restrictions and tension patterns in a horse's body and melt them like hot butter, open their movement to fluidity, power, and grace, but 15 years ago?

I was riding my sweet, unconditioned mare, in ill-fitting tack, having arguments when she was telling me it was discomfort and pain, and wondering why riding wasn't fun anymore.

I came up in the world of working students. Without access to horses, I'd snag any horse time in exchange for labor. So any horse time was good time.....even if the horse didn't think so. Even if the horse was pinning ears, bucking, rearing, hardening their eyes, and generally telling me to eff off.

… but there was hope.

Because I had a sweet mare as guide I found Tellington TTouch massage, quality hoofcare, plenty of turnout and natural movement, quiet grazing meditations, and intuitive healing touch.

Somehow I knew I was made for so much more, but I was frustrated with the horse world, the pressure to perform despite what my and my mare's bodies could manage.

So I left...competing for the pasture and yoga mat.

Over the next 15 years, I devoted myself to biomechanics - human and horse - massage, and bodywork.

I opened and closed a yoga studio, teacher training school, and yoga thai massage practice.

I attempted to apply yoga pose alignment principles to rider biomechanics.

I worked for horse trainers and attempted to support the up and coming horses with soothing touch.

… which taught me:

🤓 fascial science, anatomy, and meditation

⚖️ embodiment of theoretical alignment and tensegrity

✨️ nervous system regulation (and dysregulation) and equine body language and communication.

And finally, it started to click.

For the first time in my life, I could look at a horse, see their restrictions in movement, posture, and form, and work to rebalance them to free up their movement.

And that was just the beginning.

Since then, I’ve been able to support clients in reconditioning programs, help horses with traumatic histories open up, accept and ask for touch for the first time (!), and support athletes in staying at the top of their game.

And I have my past self to thank for all she survived… and that she never quit on me.

If you’re where I was 15 years ago, feeling confused about why your horse does not enjoy their work, frustrated with answers from professionals telling you that nothing is wrong and to ride her through it (😳), and sure that your horse could move with joy, grace, and power again.....

Take it from me: this is not the end of your story.

It's just the beginning.

08/18/2026

We move quickly at times, have an agenda, a PLAN for the day. In the hustle we forget to really SEE our beloved (hopefully) horse friend.

They don't. It's survival for them. Can they decipher the strange, erratic, chaotic, sometimes emotionally charged human that just blew into the barn like a tornado? They hope so because how their next hour goes will be determined by how well they can scrutinize our behavior.

If only we had half the observation skills of the most nonchalant equine. If only we could see the mote in our own eye and how our equine friends are calling for us to step up, to listen....really listen and hear, and get good. Their welfare depends on it.

Sure, they're generous, patient, endlessly forgiving - until they cannot any longer forgive and wait and bide their wellbeing's time.

So we can do it, step up, learn some body language, attend to their basic - species appropriate needs - book some bodywork, keep up with regular quality hoofcare, learn some nutrition science and ethical, science-backed training or find some help from someone who can lend a hand.

They are at our mercy. Let's show them some. Thanks

07/29/2026

I cherish getting to support the tiny ones and the amazing mommas that bring them into the world.

One week old and rebalancing her system already, Raina will be set up for balanced movement right from the beginning.

So many changes happen in womb and then through the birthing process. It can be ao beneficial to rebalance the brand new foals so they can move even better as they get their land legs under them.

and miss Freya was drooling she appreciated her bodywork so much. Best review you could have right there.

Thank you Bruno Freya Koa & Theo , , and blackmaninnature for your loving stewardship of your herd.

07/15/2026

This awesome mustang is still in progress, and I will mark up pics soon to show more of what I see, but wanted to share an update.

This is two sessions progress, 12 days apart. the changes are pretty stark:

Silhouette - his whole body is longer, less compressed. He is telescoping his neck, ventral/belly line from elbow to stifle is longer, topline is longer.

Weight bearing - he has more equal weight on front feet rather than compensating in the RH -> LF -> RF diagonal spiral line pattern. He has more equal weight on hind feet. Though he is still preferring to weight RH, he has untucked his pelvis and is able to extend LH behind, could be an indication of improved comfort in lumbar.

Thoracic sling - he is lifted in his withers rather than the somewhat "pigeon " chest - sternum moving forward and base of neck compressed in the first image. Fewer tension lines in scapula area, cervical trapezius (where neck joins withers) is softer. Throat latch is open, less compression in the whole cervical region.

Topline - softer angle of the pelvis and hip, resulting in hind feet more under hips and less camped under. Interestingly there is not as much lift behind withers as in the first image, but I believe that was tension and bracing to support the lumbar. He is more relaxed in the second photo and that includes his abdominals and therefore topline. Sometimes I see lift of topline after sessions, but that's usually in horses who are dropping topline, arching their backs often to avoid pain vs bracing and lifting topline to protect a vulnerable, unstable, or painful/uncomfortable area.

A different angle would also reveal that his stance is wider in front and behind. He tends to stand very base narrow in front and in hind he was crossing a hind over the midline to in front of the opposite hind hoof. He was even resting on a toe that way rather than cocking a hip, rolling over the toe to rest on the dorsal wall. Very interesting pattern that is changing.

Saddle fit is a factor in this case that is being addressed. I'll be very curious about his progress when he's moving more comfortable in his work.

07/13/2026

07/04/2026