You are your horse's advocate.

Stand up, and stand strong in believing that your voice for your horse is often right.

“Speak up even if your voice shakes.” Dolly Everett.

Sometimes things happen when we are under the guidance of those in the equine industry who should know better, or who might ‘know more’ than us...,and it’s hard to make the call in being confident that sometimes, it’s not the right place for you, or right for your horse.

I want you to know, that is it absolutely okay to make that call at any time when your horse is in the hands of an equine professional.

It is okay to say stop them. It is okay to leave with your horse. It is okay to say “no this is not what I want to do, or have done with my horse.”

Overwhelm, and excessive intensity is no way to train a horse in anything, and risk management and injury prevention is the duty of care of every single instructor, coach and equine professional.

In fact, it should be the the utmost imperative focus of any coach, instructor or trainer because injury as the result of dominance and fear based training becomes cognitive trauma fear based responses and stops the learning process successfully in it's tracks.

Instructors, coaches and trainers have a responsibility to understand; 1. How horses learn. 2. Horse behaviour. 3. The inherent nature of the horse.

Sure. Horses are dangerous, they do silly things to themselves and make unfortunate choices at times, but it is a trainers responsibility to never ever be the creator of that injury, the instigator of situation that can occur in, and always aim to reduce the risk of it occurring from correct training with comprehensive understanding of the horses cognitive capacities.

So, I have your back. I have it, and I can think of many of my equine professional peers that stand behind you in spirit in knowing that it is okay to say NO. It is okay to say STOP.

It is okay to stand up for what you know is right, and stop anything happening to your horse that you believe is putting it in harms way.

Trust yourself. You won’t get this wrong, and you have any army of support behind you in spirit.

If you don’t feel like you can trust them, you never should feel like you have to entrust them with your horses safety, wellbeing and training.

*permission given by owner to post this photo, and write this message.

**There seems to be some confusion, particularly amongst those who have not read the post associated with the photo's as to why I have chosen to post the image of the horse's leg kinesio taped. Contextually, the link is that the taping was done - due to the horse being injured under the duty of care of a professional trainer. The opinions expressed on this post are irrelevant to the use, or the application of kinesio taping. The image is for the purposes of contextual correlation between injuries occurring, and poor training conduct. Please reach out if you have any concerns over why this photo has been chosen, and posted.

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Ground Up

The equine balance-maintaining extensor thrust reflex is stimulated at the hoof level from information gained via the interaction of the hoof, to the ground. This information is gathered and translated to useful, actionable information via the proprioceptors.

Proprioceptor

Definition noun, plural: proprioceptors A sensory receptor (sensory nerve) located in the subcutaneous tissue, that is capable of detecting movement (motion) and the positioning of the horse's body through a stimulus produced within the body by the sensory nerve.

This feedback of sensory information from the proprioceptors associated to the ground forces loading the limbs, does actually regulate the motor generation of patterns of movement. ie gaits. Even though the generation of the gaits (and reciprocal postural stability patterns) isn't initiated by the proprioceptors, as this is the role of the CPG (central pattern generators) the proprioception does provide important information to allow them continue appropriately, and efficiently.

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Release of the Monthly Maintenance Subscription Packages

Are you looking to book in on a regular basis, and need to make it easier to get that ideal time in 4 weeks time but can't stretch the budget just yet?

These subscription packages offer you the opportunity to prepay for your booking in instalments as well as have the opportunity to book one at a discounted rate, for when you need to lock in that time straight away as well. This both makes it a little easier on the budget, and alot easier on the schedule.

There are two types available currently for single, and double horse scenarios. One at a weekly payment instalment rate, and one at a fortnightly payment instalment rate.

Link to all available;

Monthly Maintenance - Membership Subscription Packages

The Monthly Maintenance - One Horse - Weekly Subscription Package includes:

• Ability to book yourself into a time that suits you, even making that booking today at a discounted rate of $90.00. (Saving of $20.00)

• Recurring Weekly subscription that debits a pre-payment portion from your card, loading you up and entitling you to a New booking (Assessment/Manual Therapeutics) every 4 instalments. (First available to be booked in 3 weeks time from subscription)

• Immediately accessible reduced rate of $90 for the first booking (redeemable after subscription registration), with a $23.00* per week payment ongoing until cancelled. *making future monthly bookings a continued reduced rate of $92.00.

Follow this link to take you to the subscription process:

Monthly Maintenance - One Horse - Weekly Subscription Package

The Monthly Maintenance - One Horse - Fortnightly Subscription Package includes:

• Ability to book yourself into a time that suits you, even making that booking today at a discounted rate of $90.00. (Saving of $20.00)

• Recurring Fortnightly subscription that debits a pre-payment portion from your card, loading you up and entitling you to a New booking (Assessment/Manual Therapeutics) every 2 instalments. (First available to be booked in 2 weeks time from subscription)

• Immediately accessible reduced rate of $90 for the first booking (redeemable after subscription registration), with a $46.00* per week payment ongoing until cancelled. *making future monthly bookings a continued reduced rate of $92.00.

Follow this link to take you to the subscription process:

Monthly Maintenance - One Horse - Fortnightly Subscription Package

So how do I subscribe then book into my initial discounted booking?

1. After you have filled out your information, including your payment details you will see link to your "Gift Certificate" pop up.

2. Follow the "Gift Certificate link" or also follow the one in your conformation email) Copy the Discount Code eg. MMW***** (not the certificate code...)

3. This will take you to a window where you can choose your area, and then select the time to book in the first $20 off, discounted booking. Make sure you click on "Redeem Coupon" and paste your Discount Code into the into that field .eg. MMW*****.

4. Follow to the next window and make payment for the discounted booking rate.

5. Voila! You are done. You will receive a confirmation email, as well as a reminder sms the day before the booking.

So how do I book in to future bookings that are already paid for in the chosen instalments?

1. After you have filled out your information, including your payment details you will see link to your "Gift Certificate" pop up.

2. Follow the "Gift Certificate link" or also follow the one in your conformation email).

3. Click on the hyperlink code (in blue) eg. Your Certificate Code: C11D398F.

4. This will take you to a window which will show you how much 'value' (in minutes) you are eligible for currently. If you are eligible (enough payment instalments have passed), it will allow you to click on your area to select an available booking time.

5. Follow to the next window to confirm and redeem your certificate code.

6. Voila! You are done. You will receive a confirmation email, as well as a reminder sms the day before the booking.

Subscriptions can be cancelled at any time, following the link that will be emailed to your registration email address, Upon cancellation a gift certificate* will be issued to the value of the remaining booking value to be used against future bookings.

*These will be emailed out within 24 hours of normal working hours to the initially subscribed email address.

Please feel free to email nancy@resetequine.com if you have any questions, and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

I look forward to seeing you all,

- Nancy