Posts by Kevin Raihala

Do you want to improve your relationship

Posted by on May 15, 2021

Schedule An Introduction to the Masterson Method DemonstrationDo you want to improve your relationship with and understanding of your horse before the upcoming performance season? Schedule a three-hour, interactive Introduction to the Masterson Method™ of Integrated Equine Performance Bodywork presented by retired teacher, musician, horsewoman and Certified Masterson Method™ Practitioner, Elizabeth Wilson. Bring your own horse or borrow one of Beth’s. The sessions are limited to four six participants. Each participant may bring one auditor to help hold their horse while they...

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A LESSON IN OWNERSHIP by Arvid C. Myhrwold

Posted by on May 15, 2021

10 April 1952 Dad always told me you could do as you pleased with anything you owned; the owner is the loss. If a man owns his home, only a city ordinance can keep him from painting it yellow with pink stripes and purple polka-dots. I wasn’t a great deal older before I learned that what a man owns sometimes becomes his owner. Thoreau even claimed that a farm owns the man, instead of the other way around. That is how it went when I began owning horses. Jack and Jim were first. Jack was old and easy-going, but not too affectionate, because he had studied considerably in the school of hard...

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Integrated Equine Performance Bodywork

Posted by on May 15, 2021

The Masterson Method® – Integrated Equine Performance Bodywork™ is a non-invasive “unique, interactive method of equine bodywork that uses the nervous system to relieve tension in the junctions of the body most important for performance” allowing the horse to use its body to the best of its ability. The Masterson Method®, developed by Jim Masterson in 2005, works WITH the horse to identify changes in body language that show “where the horse is holding tension, when the tension is released and when a performance-limiting issue might be developing.” Light touch, working under the...

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