Ask Jim

Do you see your Method as step between massage and chiropractic?

 

I think that's a good description.  The short definition of this method is, "An integrated method of bodywork in which you learn to read and use the horse's responses to your touch to allow the horse to release tension in key junctions of the body that most affect performance."

The two main aspects of this are;

1)    learning to read the horse's responses to touch, and

2)    applying that to key junctions of the body that most affect performance.

One of the working principles of this Method is that when you move a joint or junction through a range of motion (even a small range of motion) in a relaxed state, the horse's body will release tension that has accumulated in that area.

Without making an "adjustment" you can get the horse to release tension in connective tissue and muscles around a junction by "asking" it to move through the resistance in a relaxed state.

The key is in learning how to read visual and palpable responses from the horse that will tell you:

1)    where the horse has accumulated the tension,

2)    how much pressure (or non-pressure) to use to keep the horse from bracing against a release of the tension, and

3)   when the horse has released the tension. 

That's the beauty of this work.