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By Mary D. Midkiff
All the steps you need to use The InBalance Horse oil blend, mouth massage and acupressure!
5 steps to maximizing preparing, training and enjoying horses.
"Fly Lite absolutely LOVES your oil blend- in fact, most days, she looks for the oils. It certainly calms her down and relieves her tension (which she has quite often as she is a typical chestnut mare). We used it before we schooled cross country and it made all the
difference between the normal "jiggy, crazy" Fly and the one that WALKED around the course! M. DeCarlo, Lexington, KY"
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 Fitness, Performance and the Female Equestrian
  She Flies Without Wings
"The Focused Horse" 26 minute DVD includes demonstrations showing steps on how to apply and use "The InBalance Horse" essential oil blend aromatherapy, massage and acupressure techniques to calm and focus your horse, and English and Western saddle fit specific to the female equestrian.
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The InBalance Horse Essential Oil Blend for Horses
We have added Sweet Almond Oil to the blend speeding up the absorption rate; and it resists freezing!
 Calming the Anxious Horse...
with aromatherapy and the analgesic affects of this essential oil blend.
Time after time, horse after horse, horse owners and handlers are experiencing the magic results of The InBalance Horse essential blend for horses.
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Links to Helpful Websites:
Clinics by Mary Midkiff:
I am currently updating my clinic details and information for 2011.
I'd love to come work with you and your horses and find out what we can create to build your partnerships.
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Women & Horses Loves Brazil
I just returned from an amazing trip and clinic in Brazil. Brazil is tropical and the people exude a soft warm spirit. I met the Mangalarga Paulista and the Mangalarga Marchardo breeds for the first time and was privileged to get to ride many of Brazil's finest representatives.
We had 20 participants in the clinic from age 13 to the "you'll never really know" age of mature women. About half spoke English and I had a wonderful interpreter named Laura Rosseti(she also translated my book "She Flies Without Wings" into Portuguese) who was my voice throughout the presentations and demonstrations. Horses are handled, groomed, ridden and trained by men in Brazil but women love them and want to be with them. Women are gradually gaining their freedom, independence and control of their lives. I could feel while I was there that women and girls are ready to determine how their lives go. And many of them want to spend it with horses.
Marisa Iorio Correa Da Costa, the owner of Haras Lagoinha, was a very generous host and sponsored the clinic. She has spent many decades gaining respect and power as an owner and breeder of Mangalarga Paulista horses. She explained to me that she has always wanted female grooms, handlers and trainers but they are very hard to find. She says many of the men can be too rough and don't really understand what they are doing. They just copy tradition and use their dominant ways to train the horses to perform and obey.
I believe our clinic was the beginning of something new for horsewomen in Brazil. The pot has now been stirred and I am creating new programming, saddle fit and awareness and teaching them to consider a career with horses. A couple of magazines and websites sent reps to interview me to learn all about what Women & Horses really stands for. I was considered revolutionary!!
This opportunity was thrilling and I plan to go back many times to continue the education necessary to see women gain the lives that they want while the horses benefit. This cultural shift will take time and patience but is so worth it.
On my homepage I have created a Brazil photo album with many pictures to share with you as well as inform you about the Mangalarga breed which I hope to bring to the U.S. one day. (See photos on www.womenandhorses.com .) I hope you will follow from newsletter to newsletter insights, observations, questions and solutions to numerous inquiries around horses and the world they live in. The resources, web links, experts, books and articles listed here will give you lots of options to pursue.
The Women & Horses newsletter stands for all horse and pony breeds, as well as donkeys and mules, all disciplines and uses of the horse and wild horses.
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Past newsletters have been archived on the web site for you to check out anytime and I'm always open to receiving your inquires via email.
Sincerely,
Mary D. Midkiff
Equestrian Resources
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Tip of the Month:
Natural Chemical Interaction From You
Knowing how to access and shift horses out of nervousness, tension, anxiety and fear comes through chemical interaction. And I don't mean tranquilizers and muscle relaxants. I mean through acupressure (acupuncture with a veterinarian), aromatherapy, red light therapy, dowsing, myo-fascial release and massage. All of these techniques release chemicals called endorphins (for many of us is like eating chocolate!) which makes them feel euphoric, calm, relaxed and safe.
Once a horse learns that you have this power and you can give them this shift in emotions and feelings they will trust you and your bond will deepen. From this kind of relationship comes confidence and acceptance of education. Ultimately you will see your horse's personality be fully expressed. Your horse will enjoy a newly found freedom through you.
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Happy Riding!
 Sincerely, Mary D. Midkiff Equestrian Resources, Inc. |
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