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A young horse puts his head down and when the rider tries to pull his head up the saddle slips forward and further agitates the horse.

It is not a behavioral or training issue, the horse is trying to say his back hurts. Putting a straight saddle on a crooked horse is going to be uncomfortable. 

This episode covers what to do to help this horse.

#saddle #bucking #bodywork #equine

To keep learning about horses:
• Get the free Horse 101 ebook: https://horseacademy101.com/
• Shop videos & courses: https://holistichorseworks.com/store/
• See the global clinic schedule: https://holistichorseworks.com/clinic-schedule/
• Visit the HHW website: https://holistichorseworks.com/

🎉📱 Now available— Holistic Horseworks Remedies! A new app for remedial horse therapy, from nose to tail, hoof to withers. This is your 24/7 horse wellness guide, loaded with everything you need to spot issues before they become big problems.

• Search by symptom and discover natural remedies, stretches, and support
• Watch videos & listen to podcasts on real-life horse health breakthroughs
• Get step-by-step help to keep your horse balanced, comfortable, and thriving
• Enjoy insider offers on Holistic Horseworks programs & products
• Save precious time and money on vet visits by catching things early
• All for less than the cost of a cup of coffee each month.

📲 Plus, your first 7 days on the app are free!

Download it now: app.holistichorseworks.com

Have a question you'd like April to answer on the show? Send us a text!

Does your horse have a really choppy stride. What is this caused by and what can you do to fix it?

The choppy trot in the front end is because everything is just so tight and jammed up. 

Leg circles can loosen everything up and make your horse lighter and springier in the front legs.

#equine #bodywork #stride

To keep learning about horses:
• Get the free Horse 101 ebook: https://horseacademy101.com/
• Shop videos & courses: https://holistichorseworks.com/store/
• See the global clinic schedule: https://holistichorseworks.com/clinic-schedule/
• Visit the HHW website: https://holistichorseworks.com/

🎉📱 Now available— Holistic Horseworks Remedies! A new app for remedial horse therapy, from nose to tail, hoof to withers. This is your 24/7 horse wellness guide, loaded with everything you need to spot issues before they become big problems.

• Search by symptom and discover natural remedies, stretches, and support
• Watch videos & listen to podcasts on real-life horse health breakthroughs
• Get step-by-step help to keep your horse balanced, comfortable, and thriving
• Enjoy insider offers on Holistic Horseworks programs & products
• Save precious time and money on vet visits by catching things early
• All for less than the cost of a cup of coffee each month.

📲 Plus, your first 7 days on the app are free!

Download it now: app.holistichorseworks.com

Have a question you'd like April to answer on the show? Send us a text!

April explains how she can provide personal one-on-one instruction via Zoom sessions.  

For students who are taking the home study course, this is a great opportunity to get feedback to make sure they are doing the moves correctly.

Learn more at www.holistichorseworks.com

To keep learning about horses:
• Get the free Horse 101 ebook: https://horseacademy101.com/
• Shop videos & courses: https://holistichorseworks.com/store/
• See the global clinic schedule: https://holistichorseworks.com/clinic-schedule/
• Visit the HHW website: https://holistichorseworks.com/

🎉📱 Now available— Holistic Horseworks Remedies! A new app for remedial horse therapy, from nose to tail, hoof to withers. This is your 24/7 horse wellness guide, loaded with everything you need to spot issues before they become big problems.

• Search by symptom and discover natural remedies, stretches, and support
• Watch videos & listen to podcasts on real-life horse health breakthroughs
• Get step-by-step help to keep your horse balanced, comfortable, and thriving
• Enjoy insider offers on Holistic Horseworks programs & products
• Save precious time and money on vet visits by catching things early
• All for less than the cost of a cup of coffee each month.

📲 Plus, your first 7 days on the app are free!

Download it now: app.holistichorseworks.com

Have a question you'd like April to answer on the show? Send us a text!

By the time your mare nears the end of her pregnancy, she will no doubt be feeling uncomfortable. 

You can do Holistic Horseworks horse yoga. It's very gentle. Stay away from the rib lifts, but you can still do the carrot stretches. You can still do the front leg circles, you can do the tail pulls and the buttocks to help free up their pelvis, to be able to be open and free to push out the foal.

Do a little bodywork session as soon as they do foal, and it's safe to be around the mare and foal.

I have been finding that a lot of our foals are mineral deficient, and that's the weak fetlocks. 

I also gave a little bit of syringe of the Dynamite Dyna Pro to the foal, which really helped, you know, past that first poop, get their gut going. All the changes happening and my foals wouldn't get the scours where all that stuff on their hind end is making like their hair fall out and everything. I would just get a tiny little syringe without the needle and drop a little bit of the Dyna Pro every day and just give them a little bit like in the first four or five days. 

I also give some to the broodmares as well. You know, they're going through a lot of changes.

I've seen foals at two months old that are already out of alignment because they fall asleep next to corral panels and wake up under them. Or in halter training, they're pulling back or they ran and they fell and tumbled down a hill.

To keep learning about horses:
• Get the free Horse 101 ebook: https://horseacademy101.com/
• Shop videos & courses: https://holistichorseworks.com/store/
• See the global clinic schedule: https://holistichorseworks.com/clinic-schedule/
• Visit the HHW website: https://holistichorseworks.com/

🎉📱 Now available— Holistic Horseworks Remedies! A new app for remedial horse therapy, from nose to tail, hoof to withers. This is your 24/7 horse wellness guide, loaded with everything you need to spot issues before they become big problems.

• Search by symptom and discover natural remedies, stretches, and support
• Watch videos & listen to podcasts on real-life horse health breakthroughs
• Get step-by-step help to keep your horse balanced, comfortable, and thriving
• Enjoy insider offers on Holistic Horseworks programs & products
• Save precious time and money on vet visits by catching things early
• All for less than the cost of a cup of coffee each month.

📲 Plus, your first 7 days on the app are free!

Download it now: app.holistichorseworks.com

Have a question you'd like April to answer on the show? Send us a text!

 So, it's springtime. The horses are all shedding like crazy. What can you do to make sure your horse's coat is as healthy as possible? Also, that you are not taking it all home with you? Well, the first thing is to get all that awful hair off! I always had Arabians and had white hair everywhere, …….absolutely everywhere!

My horses loved to be vacuumed, but I never had the money for any of those fancy horse vacuums. So I just got an affordable shop vac and got an extra-long hose, which I duct-taped together with the regular hose to make an even longer hose. As my high-spirited Arabians did not want that thing next to them. Once they were used to the noise, they soon loved being vacuumed. Even my dog would be waiting too to be vacuumed, and boy did that cut down on the dog hair in the house!. It really pulls the oil and dandruff out of the skin which is going to improve their coat.

You'll have less on you, less on your horse blankets, less in your car!

Second, if you start to see mane and tail rubbing, or other body parts which could mean lice or threadworms you could use Doterra melaleuca or Tea Tree oil and lavender. Use 10 drops of each in a 16-ounce water bottle. Just spray it on the itchy areas and rub it in.

The next helpful skin product is the Desitin or Zinc cream for diaper rash in the jar tub (you do not want the tube it doesn't stay on). Horses love that on their irritated skin. It's very soothing and very safe for bare spots like on their bellies, sores from fly bites, top of tail rubbing, and girth areas. Great for areas that get sunburned. .

Third, pay attention to any area where the small flies are concentrated. That's a “dead zone” energetically. I'll spray release on that area daily and see if that changes or if something more needs to be done. 

To keep learning about horses:
• Get the free Horse 101 ebook: https://horseacademy101.com/
• Shop videos & courses: https://holistichorseworks.com/store/
• See the global clinic schedule: https://holistichorseworks.com/clinic-schedule/
• Visit the HHW website: https://holistichorseworks.com/

🎉📱 Now available— Holistic Horseworks Remedies! A new app for remedial horse therapy, from nose to tail, hoof to withers. This is your 24/7 horse wellness guide, loaded with everything you need to spot issues before they become big problems.

• Search by symptom and discover natural remedies, stretches, and support
• Watch videos & listen to podcasts on real-life horse health breakthroughs
• Get step-by-step help to keep your horse balanced, comfortable, and thriving
• Enjoy insider offers on Holistic Horseworks programs & products
• Save precious time and money on vet visits by catching things early
• All for less than the cost of a cup of coffee each month.

📲 Plus, your first 7 days on the app are free!

Download it now: app.holistichorseworks.com

Have a question you'd like April to answer on the show? Send us a text!

So, I've noticed, you know, with everything going on in the planet, I mean, here on Maui, it's $400 for a horse shoeing every six to eight weeks. You're just like, oh my goodness, who can afford this? 

I don't know what it is back in the states, but I know steel is going to be going up. fuel going up again. You know, we're over $5.50 a gallon here if you don't have Costco. And so, it's, you know, how can we better take care of our horse’s hoof at home to make our dollar go farther? 

And a lot of people say, well, I'd love to go barefoot, but my horse is always ouchy and sore and just doesn't work.

When I was in France teaching and they had a cadaver hoof they had cut into,  the redness went higher and higher around the coffin bone.  When you actually cut into the hoof and see what's happening, you can see why the navicular groove, the navicular bone might be offset or uncomfortable.

So, I really like to start with the basics. The hoof soak recipe that I made up is just amazing. It's the Dynamite liquid trace minerals Epsom salt and warm water.

The soak recipe totally pulls out bruising, abscesses, anything that needs to come out and gravel, a hot nail, etc. If there are any cracks in your horse’s hooves, you have fungal and bacteria going in there as well.

I also have a miracle spray recipe that's made with DoTerra Essential Oils, and that recipe is on my Web site. You can get it. You can make up your own and we spray it on the frog, the white line, the sole we apply it to the coronary band and it's like daily acupressure treatment for horses.

If you combine the hoof soak and the miracle spray recipe, I guarantee you in two months you're going to see amazing hooves. You're going to be like, "Wow, this is actually saving me money." So, the spray recipes on my website, on my shop page, you can see YouTube videos of how to do the hoof soaks, how to do bomb sweats, how to use the miracle spray on my channel Holistic Horseworks.

To keep learning about horses:
• Get the free Horse 101 ebook: https://horseacademy101.com/
• Shop videos & courses: https://holistichorseworks.com/store/
• See the global clinic schedule: https://holistichorseworks.com/clinic-schedule/
• Visit the HHW website: https://holistichorseworks.com/

🎉📱 Now available— Holistic Horseworks Remedies! A new app for remedial horse therapy, from nose to tail, hoof to withers. This is your 24/7 horse wellness guide, loaded with everything you need to spot issues before they become big problems.

• Search by symptom and discover natural remedies, stretches, and support
• Watch videos & listen to podcasts on real-life horse health breakthroughs
• Get step-by-step help to keep your horse balanced, comfortable, and thriving
• Enjoy insider offers on Holistic Horseworks programs & products
• Save precious time and money on vet visits by catching things early
• All for less than the cost of a cup of coffee each month.

📲 Plus, your first 7 days on the app are free!

Download it now: app.holistichorseworks.com

Have a question you'd like April to answer on the show? Send us a text!

As summer approaches many horsemen will supplement their horses with electrolytes.

Are added electrolytes necessary?  Is it good to give electrolytes? Or is it a waste of money? What should a horse owner do?

The worst thing I've seen, and I didn't know when I first got horses was that salt lick that we put out in the field so if they needed it, they were supposed to get it. Look at a horse’s tongue, it's very soft. 

The salt licks were just really meant for cows’ tongues that are really rough and it's not organic iodine.  A better way if you want to see what they need salt-wise is the Himalayan salt lick that hangs on a little rope in the stall.

I always preferred the Dynamite Dynaspark. I can squirt some in their mouth. I could put it in their water, I could put it on their hay when we were hauling, 

I've worked on horses and when I'm rubbing around their tail,  I'll notice they have diarrhea and the people are like, "Yeah, we've been working on that diarrhea with the vet,"  I ask, “So are you giving them powdered electrolytes? They are like,” Yeah. How did you know?

You're giving them too much. It's going to give them diarrhea, it's going to make everything shoot out.

I just give my horses a little syringe of Dynaspark and they would try and eat the syringe. All the other horses at the water trough would be sniffing it and trying to eat my syringe. And the other endurance riders would say, What do you have in there? My horse wants it.

I said, "Electrolytes." They go, "They hate electrolytes!"

It's because you're giving them a powder and it burns their esophagus and it's too much of a concentrate and their whole mouth is just like bleh! 

To keep learning about horses:
• Get the free Horse 101 ebook: https://horseacademy101.com/
• Shop videos & courses: https://holistichorseworks.com/store/
• See the global clinic schedule: https://holistichorseworks.com/clinic-schedule/
• Visit the HHW website: https://holistichorseworks.com/

🎉📱 Now available— Holistic Horseworks Remedies! A new app for remedial horse therapy, from nose to tail, hoof to withers. This is your 24/7 horse wellness guide, loaded with everything you need to spot issues before they become big problems.

• Search by symptom and discover natural remedies, stretches, and support
• Watch videos & listen to podcasts on real-life horse health breakthroughs
• Get step-by-step help to keep your horse balanced, comfortable, and thriving
• Enjoy insider offers on Holistic Horseworks programs & products
• Save precious time and money on vet visits by catching things early
• All for less than the cost of a cup of coffee each month.

📲 Plus, your first 7 days on the app are free!

Download it now: app.holistichorseworks.com

Have a question you'd like April to answer on the show? Send us a text!

Marisa Levitt, based in Australia is an IICT certified instructor for Holistic Horseworks. 

While researching how to help her Arabian mare when one hoof grew larger than the other, Marisa found April Love's Youtube site. She later attended a clinic and the rest is history.

Listen to Marisa explain how the Holistic Horseworks program changed her life for the better.

To keep learning about horses:
• Get the free Horse 101 ebook: https://horseacademy101.com/
• Shop videos & courses: https://holistichorseworks.com/store/
• See the global clinic schedule: https://holistichorseworks.com/clinic-schedule/
• Visit the HHW website: https://holistichorseworks.com/

🎉📱 Now available— Holistic Horseworks Remedies! A new app for remedial horse therapy, from nose to tail, hoof to withers. This is your 24/7 horse wellness guide, loaded with everything you need to spot issues before they become big problems.

• Search by symptom and discover natural remedies, stretches, and support
• Watch videos & listen to podcasts on real-life horse health breakthroughs
• Get step-by-step help to keep your horse balanced, comfortable, and thriving
• Enjoy insider offers on Holistic Horseworks programs & products
• Save precious time and money on vet visits by catching things early
• All for less than the cost of a cup of coffee each month.

📲 Plus, your first 7 days on the app are free!

Download it now: app.holistichorseworks.com

Have a question you'd like April to answer on the show? Send us a text!

After you have taken a Level 1 clinic, you have the option of taking levels 2 and 3. These clinics will delve a little deeper into the physical aspects of bodywork and specifics relating to the cranial sacral area. 

Layla Harris is an IICT Certified Instructor for Holistic Horseworks. 

To keep learning about horses:
• Get the free Horse 101 ebook: https://horseacademy101.com/
• Shop videos & courses: https://holistichorseworks.com/store/
• See the global clinic schedule: https://holistichorseworks.com/clinic-schedule/
• Visit the HHW website: https://holistichorseworks.com/

🎉📱 Now available— Holistic Horseworks Remedies! A new app for remedial horse therapy, from nose to tail, hoof to withers. This is your 24/7 horse wellness guide, loaded with everything you need to spot issues before they become big problems.

• Search by symptom and discover natural remedies, stretches, and support
• Watch videos & listen to podcasts on real-life horse health breakthroughs
• Get step-by-step help to keep your horse balanced, comfortable, and thriving
• Enjoy insider offers on Holistic Horseworks programs & products
• Save precious time and money on vet visits by catching things early
• All for less than the cost of a cup of coffee each month.

📲 Plus, your first 7 days on the app are free!

Download it now: app.holistichorseworks.com

Have a question you'd like April to answer on the show? Send us a text!

The Level one course will provide a solid foundation on how to do bodywork on horses, whether it's your own or your client's.

Layla Harris, an IICT Certified instructor for Holistic Horseworks explains what happens at a Level 1 clinic.

To keep learning about horses:
• Get the free Horse 101 ebook: https://horseacademy101.com/
• Shop videos & courses: https://holistichorseworks.com/store/
• See the global clinic schedule: https://holistichorseworks.com/clinic-schedule/
• Visit the HHW website: https://holistichorseworks.com/

🎉📱 Now available— Holistic Horseworks Remedies! A new app for remedial horse therapy, from nose to tail, hoof to withers. This is your 24/7 horse wellness guide, loaded with everything you need to spot issues before they become big problems.

• Search by symptom and discover natural remedies, stretches, and support
• Watch videos & listen to podcasts on real-life horse health breakthroughs
• Get step-by-step help to keep your horse balanced, comfortable, and thriving
• Enjoy insider offers on Holistic Horseworks programs & products
• Save precious time and money on vet visits by catching things early
• All for less than the cost of a cup of coffee each month.

📲 Plus, your first 7 days on the app are free!

Download it now: app.holistichorseworks.com