April 17th 2010

Poor Robyn is stuck in the UK.  I can’t believe how lucky I was. Had filming over run on Wednesday I would have postponed my flight and gone straight to the yard from Johannesburg airport on Friday morning. Had that happened I would now be at home and the clinic would have gone ahead without me.

We had another brilliant day. I am so happy here. I am completely immersed in horses and really enjoying being back at Donnybrook where the clinics are always held. I haven’t seen Denneke who owns the property for several years and aside from loving every second of working with the horses, it is great to be reconnecting with old friends and making new ones too.

We studied necks today amongst other things, looking for over development of the bottom line, bracing muscles, mane changes, weak top lines and so on. Bob, a retired show jumper, is very stiff through the right side of his neck and pulls faces when being touched around vertebrae C4 and C5. This is quite a common pattern and it is often easier to allow the horse to move whilst doing shoulder presses and caterpillar movements up the neck as opposed to asking them to stand still and simply accept the hand contact. Not surprisingly Bob finds it really hard to turn right and he is also dropped in the pelvis. The wing of the pelvis is significantly lower on his left side and I showed the people who were working with Bob how this will be reflected through his tail. I also lifted his tail to show how the pelvis can also influence the position of the anus and the line that runs from the anus down the tail groove. Sure enough, everything was sitting to the left.

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