READY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR YOUR HORSE?
Equine Bodywork Sessions
Equine bodywork sessions help horses release tension, improve movement, and resolve performance issues like stiffness, resistance under saddle, or difficulty picking up leads. Through gentle nervous system bodywork for horses, these sessions support relaxation and more comfortable, fluid movement.
Equine Bodywork for Performance Horses
Horses often show signs of tension before obvious lameness appears, such as difficulty bending, refusing leads, bucking under saddle, or becoming sensitive when saddled.
Most bodywork focuses on muscles or “fixing” what looks tight.
This approach and methodology goes deeper — without force.
I work with how your horse’s nervous system is organizing posture, balance, engagement, and movement patterns, in addition to parasympathetic and sympathetic synchronicity which influences digestion, emotion, connection and learning.
When the nervous system gets the input it needs to feel safe and organized, the body adjusts its own output — releasing without force or resistance.
Bodywork for Horses with Stiffness or Back Pain
What a session looks like:
• I watch how your horse stands, moves, and carries tension
• I identify the patterns their nervous system is holding
• I use precise, light-touch inputs that help their body reorganize
• Your horse begins to soften — licking, chewing, yawning, breathing
• We confirm movement changes and discuss what you’re feeling under saddle
• You get simple things you can do between sessions to keep the progress going
YOU CAN TRUST YOUR INSTINCTS FOR WHAT YOUR HORSE NEEDS…
If you’re here, you’ve already sensed the difference that nervous-system-based bodywork can make.
Now you are ready to choose the level of support you want — and actually get your horse the relief, softness, and ease they’re asking for.
Ways to work together:
Book a 1:1 session
Host a clinic at your barn
Each option gives you access to me, clear guidance, and a simple next step so your horse can feel better — and you know exactly what to do moving forward.
Start where you are.
Choose what fits.
Let’s help your horse feel and move better.
Bodywork for Behavioral Changes Under Saddle
YOU’VE TRIED MASSAGE AND CHIROPRACTIC, YOU ARE READY FOR THIS…
Bodywork for Horses with Stiffness or Back Pain
When you work with the system that controls everything, the whole horse changes.
Most people think bodywork is about loosening tight muscles — but a horse’s tension is almost never just a muscle problem.
Your horse’s movement, comfort, and behavior all come from the patterns their nervous system is running — change the pattern, and the whole body responds..
With the right inputs, your horse releases on their own — softening, breathing, and moving better in minutes, not through pressure but through clear nerve communication.
The changes were profound.
I purchased a new mare that was very anxious and looky in the arena. I noticed while lunging she was inverted, appeared locked in her entire topline and would not stretch her neck down and out at all. I had Kris work on her and took her out 2 days later to lunge. The changes were profound. Went right to stretching out and down, in all 3 gaits. Far less anxious and I felt like she could focus on me instead of everything else. I’m so relieved that she could find relief thanks to Kris! Can’t wait to have her come back and peel off the next layer!
— Peggy Persico, professional trainer
YOU ARE READY TO SUPPORT YOUR HORSE IN NEW WAYS
Equine Bodywork Sessions
In-person across Montana, including Missoula, Bozeman, Helena and surrounding areas.
Sessions in BC, Alberta, Washington, Idaho and other regions also available.
Signs Your Horse Needs Bodywork
horse feels off but not lame
horse bucking under saddle
horse not picking up or holding the correct lead
horse stiff or resistant when bending
horse pins ears when saddling or mounting
localized quivering when touched
undiagnosable lameness
change or out of character behavior
Following sessions, most owners notice their horse feeling:
• more symmetrical
• more available through the body
• more relaxed and connected
• more comfortable to ride
This particular bodywork is also ideal for:
• tension, bracing, or “mystery stiffness”
• anxious or hypersensitive horses
• horses struggling with one-sidedness
• horses coming back into work
• horses who don’t tolerate forceful bodywork
“You are such a blessing to us and to see what you have done to help our horses is amazing! Blows me away how much your touch, energy, and knowledge have helped my girls’ horses! Thank you friend, we are forever grateful!
— Jill M.
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