Interesting Link to teaching 'release' and balance

Hertha · Interesting Link to teaching 'release' and balance

The link is to an article about a book: THE EQUINE PSOAS MANUAL. The Psoas muscle is what in butchery is called the 'tenderloin'. It's the deep muscle that links the rear rib area to the femur and is the one horse need to have relaxed to 'step under' from behind and everything else that originates from the hind end.

The website of the author I also found interesting. Has anyone worked with this lady?

http://www.deserthorseinc.com/book_psoas.html

Niek

interesting, this goes on my "Want" list..

i found this part especially interesting

Hertha

Niek,

Interestingly, the bit that you quoted is what has stuck in my head as well.

The need for horses to just stretch and run and buck. Mine do that a lot when they run to their fresh strip of grass as it gets to the end of a paddock.

They also do it a lot at night - thundering hoofs pass my bedroom window

They have access to a whole series of interconnecting small paddocks which gives them quite a long 'run' area.

A lot of horses are so 'contained' by small paddocks I imagine they get little chance to ever really stretch out.

Mandy'sMarty

Niek,

That quote may explain what I've been struggling to describe about my mare. I sometimes feel pent up energy under the hood that can only be released by letting her go as fast and as long as she wishes...and then she immediately settles down and gives me her full attention. It's as if she then says, "Thanks! I needed that."

Clarissa

Very interesting. Even more interesting for me particularly considering that just recently Sonny has begun stepping right through from behind since I put the front shoes on him. It was the thing I noticed when I shod him as a matter of emergency when he went down from having feet too sore from the rot to walk on a few months ago.

Also I have always maintained that horses need to expel all that excess energy & bad air from their lungs or they naughty, unruly, unable to think clearly or be emotionally stable. That’s why I developed the galloping send game for mine. Anytime they are playing up & unable to do simple things like line up for dinner in a methodical way, I send them with the same amount of energy they are displaying & keep it up until they actually leave, because sometimes they are so confused they don’t want to leave my side. But they MUST run that old stall air out of their systems. They always come right back to me after their gallop, wanting to come in even though they might be blowing hard & trumpeting & rearing up but it is not directed at me & I can easily stand my ground.