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Equine Massage Therapist & Equestrian Coach (ESI)
Servicing SE Queensland
03/08/2026
Saints Water 💦 aka ‘Otis’
Slowly developing balance, strength and suppleness, one step at a time. We’re far from showing fancy movements or jumping a big fence but the foundations are becoming more established, the body feels stronger, the mind is curious and happy. In it for the long haul 🫶🏻
Regular (weekly 🫣) bodywork is not a magic fix – it’s about monitoring their muscles, identifying areas of tension, helping their soft tissues recover after exercise, and keeping them as comfortable and mobile as possible alongside appropriate training, management and care.
Horses are naturally on the forehand (which makes sense when they should spend at least 13 hours a day grazing with their heads down), and I find that the neck, shoulders and thoracic sling often carry a lot of tension in many horses.
Poppy is a mare who tends to shorten her neck, curl behind the contact, become heavy in the hand, and develop short, choppy strides. It’s easy to imagine how sore and tight she could become with poor training or management.
To get the most of a training and above all, for a horse that feels good in her body and is happy to try, she gets massaged very regularly as part of her overall management. The horse before the rest ❤️
Here’s what we do with my baby OTT on a windy day 🙂↕️
20 seconds of my large & scary Thoroughbred to finish off your day with… 🫢
BLJ Racing
25/05/2026
Jumping into another big week like Oliver & Tonka 🚀
(And hoping for blue skies like this again sometimes soon…!)
15/05/2026
‘Sharpe Ratio’ aka 👑 Poppy👑
Winning both Prelim tests in last weekend for her first ever dressage outing 🥇
After also winning the two online tests she entered to practice, prior to going out.
I was very, very far from thinking about taking her out in Dressage when I first sat on her back in late October 2025… this was a very rushy, fizzy, older little thoroughbred with very basic education (what do you mean everything doesn’t mean canter??), terrible posture and quite the history of soundness issues. Felt a bit rusty too myself after not competing for about 4 years but happened and managed to motivate me to get back into it 🫣
I am beyond proud of this horse, and so grateful to all the people around her that are contributing to getting her feeling her best - her owner , current leasee (and past who also did a lot to get Poppy sound and healthy!), physio , farrier Jayden Bromiley, all the vets that have been involved with her… Truly a team effort!
Regardless of the wins and scores the biggest reward will always be having her sound and happy in her mind & body - that was what Emma, her gorgeous late owner, always wanted 💖
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