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News From Jim
Hello All,
A lot has happened since our last newsletter. In the Show Jumping Department, I just spent a week at the Spring Show held at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. The weather was perfect, and I got to work on some very nice horses (many of whom I worked on in Wellington, Florida this past winter) including Brianne Goutal's beautiful stallion, Nice de Prissey. Brianne and Nice are on the long list for the Olympic Team this summer in London. Two of the Grand Prix classes were observation classes to qualify for the team. You can see photos of one of these classes, and more from the Kentucky Horse Park, on our Facebook page. We also just finished a Weekend Seminar at the Maker's Mark Secretariat Center in Lexington, KY. This center is a wonderful facility, where Director, Susanna Thomas does an amazing job rehabbing, re-training, and placing high quality Thoroughbreds off the track into new jobs. Horses like jobs, as you know, and she finds them good ones perfectly suited to their individual abilities. We hope to do regular Weekend Workshop-Seminars each year at the facility, working on these lucky horses. The Kentucky Derby was run during my week in Lexington. Participants at the Weekend Workshop-Seminar class and I made it a point to see it on the screen while eating Mexican food at the end of a hard day of horse-bending. That may not sound super exciting, but what is exciting is that the winner of the Derby, "I'll Have Another" is a client of one of our advanced course students, Tyler Cerin of Southern California. Tyler was at Churchill Downs helping the horse get ready for the Derby, and he'll be at Pimlico with him to get ready for the Preakness this Saturday. Now that's exciting! Go Tyler and "I'll Have Another!" Especially if they win the Preakness. We spent a very successful weekend at Equine Affair in Columbus, Ohio in April. Coralie Hughes and I were there for 3 days, did 5 presentations, ate 14 corn dogs, got to meet hundreds of new people, and saw a lot of other very good presenters. They do a good job at Equine affair. We're hoping to be at the Massachusetts Equine Affair in November, so keep an eye out for us. One of the horses I used for a presentation was the beautiful Shire cross, Brenda Lee, of Horses Know the Way Home. You can also see her on our FaceBook page We also worked on a very interesting horse on the way home from Equine Affair. Lisby Roberson tells the story of her Thoroughbred. gelding "Seven" farther along in this newsletter. Seven, according to Lisby, is the "poster horse" for horses recovering from injuries and the benefits of the Masterson Method™. Read what she wrote below. If you read Equus Magazine, you may have seen a guy in there that looks suspiciously like me. The May issue carries an excerpt from our new book Beyond Horse Massage. Equus is not available online, but look for a copy lying around at your local horse barber shop, pub, or tack store. For those of you living in England, Ireland and Europe, check our Calendar for Weekend Seminars we have scheduled in England this Spring. I am really excited that Diane Howard will now be teaching our European courses. I still hope to get over there at least once a year, but she can be teaching and spreading the word between my trips. In August is we have another 5 Day Advanced Course in Ireland, which runs from Saturday the 11th to Wednesday the 15th, to be finished in time for the Royal Dublin Horse Show. If you don't live in England or Ireland, COME ANYWAY. Re-live your youth. Become an American Student Studying Abroad. These are always fun courses. We travel to different yards (barns) each day, work with wonderful people and horses, see beautiful countryside, and visit village pubs, which we stop at every day for lunch. And we become very good at the Masterson Method while we're at it. A very cultural affair, indeed! Lastly, if you live any where near California, I hope you are planning to come to the Western States Horse Expo in Sacramento, California to see me! I will be presenting there June 8th, 9th and 10th and will have a booth in an area just set up for Authors. Come by the booth and say hi! Until then, like me, Enjoy your horse Jim |
The Masterson Minute In a minute (well, sometimes a little longer) Jim shows a Masterson Method™ Technique. This month, Jim talks about 4 different things you can do during the "Head Up" technique  | | The Masterson Minute: Head Up - 4 things you can do |
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Seven in RecoveryBy Lisby Roberson
The Masterson Method™ is making a tremendous difference to my horse when other modalities, including veterinary medical treatment, acupuncture, and chiropractic work, has not. I am very grateful and would like to share my horse's story in the hopes it will help others. The changes my horse's body and to his way of going truly are dramatic and only enforce my supposition that my beloved horse has been a tight knot of muscle and pinched nerves since he was a three year old. The results Seven has experienced from the Masterson Method are nothing short of astonishing. The first time I was able to elicit a major release response from Seven in his back, I truly thought he was having a seizure of some sort. Nothing I had seen on The Masterson Method DVDs prepared me for this result. He flipped his eyelid, snorted, shook, and yawned, licked and wiggled his jaw back and forth like crazy and the process lasted nearly 15 minutes. The visual change in his body has been equally astonishing. When he was three, my very nice horse whom I had purchased to be my next amateur owner, and potential conformation horse, got cast and managed to shove both hind legs through the stall wall, which is how he laid the entire night. By the time we found him in the morning, he had managed to cut both pasterns to the bone, fortunately without damaging any ligaments or tendons. It took nearly a year for him to recover completely, with some pretty impressive scarring as a constant reminder. Due to major health problems in my family, I was not able to do quite what I had hoped with Seven upon his recovery. After the loss of my husband, who was both my veterinarian and trainer, I began riding regularly with another very good trainer, and we began to notice a problem. I occasionally would feel something odd behind - it would feel as though Seven hit his own ankle with his other hoof, and then would hop a step. After extensive veterinary exams and treatments which both revealed and helped nothing, we changed farriers. Our new farrier balanced his hind feet differently, and the odd feeling seemed to go away for some time, so that we were able to make lots of progress in Seven's education as a show hunter. I was now showing Seven, and he was doing very well...usually champion or reserve in his divisions at local shows. A little over three years ago, while playing in the field, it appeared that Seven slipped and lost his footing. In retrospect, in all likelihood, Seven did not slip. As a culmination of the injury as a three year old, the left hind stifle locked up, causing the fall. Even though he flailed mightily to stay up, Seven fell on his left hip with both front legs still standing - which had to result in tremendous torque to his spine. Read More on Seven's astonishing recovery => |
Ask Jim
I have bought your book and tried to watch the various on-line videos available.
I've been working on the Lateral Cervical Flexion on my 2 Icelandic geldings, Bangsi and Twistur.
Both have their necks pop and crack some, which doesn't really concern me too much.
My neck does that too. They can sling their heads around on their own for flies
or scratching themselves with no problems.
Twistur was always able to bend his neck around and hold it bent. He either wants
to just turn all the way or he wants to duck his head down. He does not just give his head sideways a tiny bit at the poll. He wants to duck downwards. He has tried backing up, ducking down and bending the entire neck vs just his poll. He gets frustrated. I have let go and waited for his head to come back up to try
again, but he is just learning to avoid the movement he puts his head down quicker.
In trying to keep him from putting his head down I put my hand under his chin, but he just leaned on my hand. I let him hold against my hand and he ended up resting his head and closed his eyes. Guess a sort of "Head Up" technique but a lower down position. Should I work on just letting him rest his head like that and massage his poll?
Your book has suggestions about what to do for various "what ifs", but not sure about
the head ducking down. It isn't to avoid my hand on his nose, but seems an avoidance
of the head bend at the poll. We do clicker training, so he knows to experiment for answers.
Should I put on a halter and use it to keep his head from going down by pulling up
on the noseband? Or is putting my hand under his chin a good idea? Or should I try another
movement first to loosen him up? Should I just not worry about the poll and work farther
down his neck, then go back to the poll later perhaps?
Thanks, Meg F
Read Jim's response to Twistur's head ducking here => |
Got Flies?
It's that time of year again! Jim doesn't usually plug products, but he really likes this one. It is "CFU" approved on Organic Farms, which means "Considered for Use." We like the ingredients: Inert Ingredients: Water, Isopropyl Alcohol, Coconut OilActive Ingredients: Soybean Oil 2%, Essential Oils Of: Cedar 0.80%, Peppermint 0.80%, Cinnamon 0.80%, Geranium 0.80%, Geraniol 0.80%, Lemon Grass 0.30%, Rosemary 0.25%, Thyme 0.25%, Eugenol 2.0%It smells good, it does as well as any fly spray out there, and you can go right to work on your horse and not worry about residual effects of touching a horse with fly spray that has harmful chemicals. Go to our Store to read more => |
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Calendar of Events
For Prices of each course, follow the link for more information to the Calendar Page on the website. There you will find each course's price, location and registration information
May 26th - 27th
Cedarburg, WI
Weekend Seminar-Workshop with Stefanie Reinhold.
BUDDY SPECIAL!! Sign up with a friend and you each get $50 off of the tuition price! For more information
or call: 641-472-1312
May 28th - June 1st
Mequon, WI - FULL 5 - Day Advanced Course
June 2nd - 3rd
Rockwall, TX
Weekend Seminar-Workshop with Lorre Mueller
For more information
or call 641-472-1312
June 2nd - 3rd
Oxford, NY (near Binghamton, NY)
Weekend Seminar-Workshop For more information
Or call 641-472-1312
June 2nd-3rd
Oswestry, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Weekend Seminar-Workshop with Diane Howard
June 8th, 9th,10th
Sacramento, CA
Western States Horse Expo Jim will be presenting the Masterson Method™ each day and have a booth to sell books and dvds. Tell your friends!
June 23rd - 24th
Little Compton,
Rhode Island
Weekend Seminar-Workshop with Marie Riley.
Click for flier
For more information
or call 641-472-1312
July 7th - 8th
Hitchin, Hertfordshire
United Kingdom
Weekend Seminar-Workshop with Diane Howard
For more information
July 14th - 15th
Versailles, KY (near Lexington, KY)
Weekend Seminar-Workshop with Coralie Hughes For more information or call 641-472-1312 July 16th - 20th Versailles, KY (near Lexington, KY) FULLSign up for waiting list
5 - Day Advanced Course
Prerequisites applyFor more informationor call 641-472-1312 July 27th Equestrian Olympic Events start in the United Kingdom. Jim will be helping the equine competitors. August 4th - 5th Palo Alto, CAStanford University Weekend Seminar Workshop. For more informationor call 641-472-1312 August 11th - 15th (Saturday-Wednesday) Navan, IrelandSeptember 1st - 2nd Totnes, Devon, UKWeekend Seminar-Workshop with Jim Masterson For more informationSeptember 3rd - 7th Devon, UK - FULL5 - Day Advanced Course Sign up for waiting list or sign up for Navan, Ireland 5-day, spots available
September 8th - 9th Hobart, IndianaWeekend Seminar-Workshop with Coralie Hughes For more informationor call 641-472-1312 September 8th - 9th Three Forks, MTWeekend Seminar-Workshop with Yvonne Ohlensehlen For more informationor call: 641-472-1312 September 22nd - 23rd Fairfield, IowaWeekend Seminar-Workshop with Jim Masterson For more informationor call 641-472-1312 September 24th - 28th Fairfield, IowaFor more informationOctober (early) Palo Alto, CAStanford UniversityWeekend Seminar Workshop with Jim Masterson Tentative, watch Calendar webpage on website for updatesOctober (early) Palo Alto, CAStanford UniversityTentative, watch Calendar webpage on website for updates October 13th - 14th Harwood, MDWeekend Seminar-Workshop with Marie Riley Or call 641-472-1312 October 15th - 19th Harwood, MD
5 - Day Advanced
November 3rd - 4th Jacksonville, FLWeekend Seminar Workshop with Jim Masterson For more informationor call 641-472-1312 November 5th - 9th Dade City, FLAll courses are certified by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for continuing education credits for massage therapists.
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One Day Workshop
Calendar
For prices and information on each one day workshop, please contact the Certified Practitioner listed with each event. 
May 27th One Day Workshop with Vicky Devlin, MMCP Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK |
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