Bowen Equine Therapy Ltd NZ

04/06/2026

How cool 😎 is this!!

29/05/2026

...Stretches... 💪🏽

First in a series of 4

This one can be done when the animal is cold.

Never fight with an animal to do any stretches or this may result in damaging soft tissue or tightening what your trying to loosen thanks to the nervous system....

10/05/2026

06/05/2026

Can often do this for customers during their horses treatment as theyr so relaxed..
So here's how people...
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28/04/2026

COLIC Tips for horse owners...

25/04/2026

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Many horse people carry a quiet sense of not quite fitting anywhere ....
and it isn’t imagination, drama, or social awkwardness.

It’s structural.
It’s neurological.
It’s ancient.

Between nature and civilisation

You might move between:

mud, breath, weather, seasons

and emails, meetings, noise, deadlines

Between:

bodies that speak honestly

and systems that reward pretending

Horses anchor you in:

sunrise and dusk

hunger and rest

nervous systems, not narratives

So when you step back into the human world, it can feel:

loud

rushed

disconnected

strangely unreal

You’ve touched something truer ....and it’s hard to unfeel that

Between words and non-verbal truth

We learn fluency in:

posture

breath

energy

intention

micro-shifts

You learn to listen without language.

That can make human conversation feel:

performative

indirect

exhausting

Because you’re used to relationships where:

congruence matters

what you feel matters

and honesty is immediate

You’re not aloof.
You’re tuned to a different frequency.

Between survival and softness

Horses teach you:

responsibility

vigilance

consistency

They also teach you:

tenderness

attunement

humility

So you become someone who can:

hold grief and joy

strength and gentleness

competence and vulnerability

That combination doesn’t always have an obvious social home.

Between past and present

Horse culture carries memory.

Not metaphorical memory ... bodily memory.

Working with horses taps into:

ancestral rhythms

older ways of knowing

pre-industrial nervous systems

So sometimes it feels like:

you’re living in the modern world

with a body that remembers something older

That can feel lonely ...but it’s also grounding.

Between belonging and solitude

Yards are communal.
Horse people are often not....

You share space, labour, weather, silence ..
without needing constant explanation.

That creates a sense of:

deep belonging

paired with deep independence

You’re comfortable alone with something —
which can make purely social belonging feel thin.

Between healing and harm awareness

We can often:

notice regulation and dysregulation

feel emotional shifts quickly

sense when something isn’t safe

That awareness can make the world feel sharp.

You see things others miss. You feel things others gloss over.

So you hover between:

empathy

and self-protection

This isn’t a flaw .... it’s a role

In folklore, people who lived between worlds were:

messengers

guardians

translators

healers

watchers at thresholds

We often hold similar roles .... quietly.

You bridge:

body and mind

instinct and reason

care and courage

You don’t belong less.

You belong differently.

If this resonates

You’re not lost. You’re not odd. You’re not failing to integrate.

You’re standing at a threshold
with one foot in the human world
and one foot somewhere older, quieter, truer.

And horses meet you there
because they’ve always lived there too. 🐎🌒

13/04/2026

Check the mouth, teeth and gums.. any low level infection can upset the entire immune system
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FYI: if your dog is scooting, licking, or dealing with recurring a**l gland issues, it’s rarely just a “gland problem.” In most cases, it’s a gut problem showing up at the back end. Poor diet, food sensitivities, microbiome imbalance, and chronic inflammation all interfere with how these glands are designed to function.

Healthy a**l glands should empty naturally with normal, well-formed stools. They shouldn’t require repeated manual expression, and they shouldn’t be a source of ongoing discomfort.

When the gut is off, stool quality changes, inflammation increases, and the glands stop clearing the way they should. That’s when you start seeing the cycle of scooting, irritation, and repeat vet visits.

Supporting gut health, improving stool quality, and reducing inflammation is often what restores normal gland function. Check out my blog on restoring healthy a**l gland function, link in the comments 🐾

12/04/2026

For waterproofing you're winter pj's 💡

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05/04/2026

Great to see more of us soft tissue workers popping up in the racing 🐎 industry 😃
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