Know Your Horse Inside Out - NMD 118

by David and Charles

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This book shows how, by understanding the way tensions and blocks affect your horse, you can take steps to improve every aspect of its life safely and effectively.

 

Price: £19.99

Practical and hands-on, this guide will take you step-by-step through the exercises and bodywork that will allow you and your horse to break free of nagging problems, and enjoy the benefits of better health and a happier relationship. This book gives useful tips on how to help your horse stay sound, recover from an injury and how to enable it to realize its full potential.

Author Biography:
Sarah Fisher trained with Linda Tellington Jones and Robyn Hood and is the UK's highest qualified Equine and Companion Instructor. She runs the UK office for TTEAM & TTouch International, writes for national magazines and teaches one- and two-day workshops. Sarah lives near Radstock, Gloucestershire.

- Introduction
- Part One: Body talk
- Tension patterns
- The relationship between physical and behavioural problems
- Body language and responses
- Physical check-ups
- Part Two: Assess your horse
- Mouth, muzzle and chin
- Face, forehead and TMJ
- Ears and poll
- Neck
- Shoulders and chest
- Withers, back and hindquarters
- Case histories
- Part Three: Taking steps to free up your horse
- Mouth work
- Meet and melt
- Stroking the reins
- TTouches
- Lowering the head
- Using the wand an