The Gentle Equine Touch,LLC

07/27/2026

Equine Bodywork is not a one and done solution, but having regular bodywork maintains the horse performance and wellness. How often just depends on your horse’s needs are, workload, and on how well they respond to bodywork.

First Session is more for getting to know the horse and identify where tension and restrictions are in the body. It is often not a deep session. They will still get improvements and benefits from it.

Your follow up sessions is where it gets to be more focused on areas where they had the most amount of tension and restrictions. Working on getting more deeper releases of tension.

Reason being that starting with a lighter session because it takes time for a horse to adapt to changes made. Do not want to get them too tender or sore. I do not know how well your horse is going to respond after the session. Feedback after sessions are important because I use it to adjust the session to go deeper or lighter.

Sessions can be spread out after each session depending upon the horse’s needs are as they make improvements.

Shorter half sessions are available, if a full session is too much.

07/27/2026

It is important to recognize stillness. Stillness is the state where the body and mind goes into a reset and recalibrates itself.

There is a world full of distractions that causes stress, anxiety, worry, and that tends to control your emotions.

It is important to remember to step back and reconnect with yourself, God, and nature. It is often we seek stillness through meditation, prayer, and listening to sounds of nature.

We are naturally inclined to towards the Fitrah, but we have to allow ourselves to get there.

Take a big breath and let go of all the stresses, trauma, and emotions that we tend to hoard. It does you no good to hold all of those things. Breath out all those things and breathe in what is good for you.

07/26/2026

The sphenoid bone compression can exhibit a significant about tension. The eyes are real good way in detecting sphenoid issues. Eyes can be strained, restricted. The horse would turn his head more to look at something because movement of his eye is restricted.

Sphenoid bone- One of the most important in the body. It’s the bone where the brain sits on in the skull. Any compression on this bone can cause a lot of problems. With Craniosacral Therapy, we can restore function to this bone.

These are the Cranial Nerve that Traverse the Sphenoid:
* CN II- Optic Nerve. Leaves skull by optic foramen (travelling through optic canal). Outgrowth of early brain. Special Sensory N.
* CN Ill - Occulomotor Nerve. From midbrain, leaves skull by Orbital Fissure. Motor muscles; dorsal re**us; retractor bulbi. Plays huge role in eye movement
* CN IV - Trochlear. Smallest of cranial nerves. Innervates a single muscle. Origin midbrain. Traverses cavernous sinus - along with V1 and V2 of Trigeminal Nerve (C V - V1 - Opthalmic portion of Trigeminal Nerve.) Leaves skull by Orbital Fissure. Innervates; Skin surrounding eyes, ethmoid bone, lacrimal gl, upper eyelid.
* V2 - Maxillary. Innervates lower eyelid.
* V3 - Mandibular branch and Maxillary branch - foramen ovale and rotundumrespectively.
* CN VI - Abducent. Origin Rhombencephalon. Leaves skull by Orbital Fissure. Lateral re**us muscle.�For lateral gaze. Close to CN VIII (Vestibulocochlear - Balance hearing)

07/25/2026

Veterinary Referral Form is available on on my website. Just download it and send it to your veterinarian to fill out. Needs to completed before I am allowed to work with your horse.

07/24/2026

What to expect with upcoming law changes. All horses need to be under general supervision which means your horse has to seen at least once a year by licensed veterinarian. This is when you send our VRF form to your veterinarian, can be done electronically via email or text.

After signed and approved by your veterinarian, is when we are allowed to work with your horse.

VRF will have my credentials, contact information, and details about my work. This is important because anyone working without it would be considered practicing Veterinary Medicine without a license. Need a VRF for each horse, because Veterinarians are allowed direct what parts of the horse that I can work on and not work.

VRF forms available, send me a message. Soon to be available on my website. VRF forms are only effective one year or to certain period designated by your veterinarian.

07/24/2026

New law changes expected. Will remain 100% compliant to Texas Board of Veterinary Medicine Examiners. Noted new changes to regulation that we may need your veterinarian sign off and approval to work with each horse. I will provide a Veterinary Referral Form(VRF) for your veterinarian. Must be filled out and signed off before we can work with your horse. Veterinarians have more control of what is allowed to be done on your horse and can direct where I am allowed to work on and where it’s not allowed.

Just to clarify.

I am a fully Certified Masterson Method Practitioner. My work is strictly non-force and non-invasive. I work completely below the horse's fight-or-flight threshold, using passive staying and light touch to allow the horse to release its own deep muscular tension. I do not perform high-velocity chiropractic thrusts or skeletal manipulations.

As a Level 3 Certified Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, my focus is entirely on regulating the autonomic nervous system and supporting fluid dynamics. I use gentle, stationary holds to help shift the horse out of a sympathetic (fight-or-flight) state into a parasympathetic (rest-and-repair) state. I strictly use this for stress reduction and behavioral relaxation, never to treat acute neurological conditions or structural injuries.

07/22/2026

07/22/2026

07/20/2026

Why Walking After Massage and Fascia Therapy Matters

When massage or fascial therapy changes tissue tension, your horse’s body doesn’t simply stay in its new state. The nervous system immediately begins deciding whether those changes should be maintained or whether it should return to its previous movement patterns.

Gentle walking gives the nervous system an opportunity to experience the horse’s new range of motion while the tissues are still relaxed and responsive.

Movement becomes part of the reset.

Walking encourages the horse to use its body through a full, natural stride, allowing the joints, muscles, fascia, and connective tissues to move together under light load. This distributes mechanical forces throughout the fascial system while providing the nervous system with updated sensory information from muscles, fascia, tendons, ligaments, and joints.

Massage doesn’t simply change tissues—it changes sensory input.

Walking immediately afterward gives the brain an opportunity to integrate that new information into movement. Rather than returning to familiar patterns, the horse begins exploring and reinforcing a new way of moving. In other words, walking helps the horse get more from the session.

Gentle movement also supports normal circulation of blood, lymph, and tissue fluids. As muscles alternately contract and relax, they act as pumps, helping move fluids while encouraging hydration of the extracellular matrix. Because fascia responds to both touch and movement, combining bodywork with walking may provide a more complete mechanical stimulus than either alone.

Avoid Unnecessary Waiting

The mechanical, neurological, and fluid changes created during the session begin immediately. If the horse simply stands afterward, the nervous system may gradually settle back into familiar movement patterns. Although the benefits of the session are not lost, the opportunity to reinforce new movement strategies is likely greatest when purposeful movement follows rather than waiting.

For these reasons, many practitioners recommend several minutes of relaxed, purposeful walking afterward, whenever conditions allow. It isn’t simply to “stretch the horse out.” It gives the horse an opportunity to incorporate the changes into movement.

https://koperequine.com/an-active-cool-down-is-more-beneficial-than-a-passive-cool-down/

07/20/2026

Very important junction of horses poll, Atlas and Occiput, and myodural bridge. This area is subjected to a lot of strain and tension. What ever it is effecting the body affects poll, and what effects poll also affects the body. The brain stem, nerves, vessels comes through here. We see a lot of head lifts or extensions,but it is important to keep in mind that a horse cannot bring nose up directly in front of him. Anatomically they don’t have a lot of range there, so it is better have their head slightly turned the right or left side of the horse.