Winter Music

 soggy, drizzling, did some bodywork (logan technique and scapula osteopathy stretches). then widened and raised serpentine. then backing. then double lunged with equicore both ways. meh... soft a good chunk of the time but won't quite leg go and lift her back. then trotted through the raised poles a few times. then backed again and then backed up the hill. good pony

  Today was gorgeous!! It was soooooo hard to NOT toss Lyric in the trailer and take her to Ashland. I probably would have had I been hitched and thought about even hand-walking her vs riding her. It was just such a gorgeous day. HOT! Like.. I sweated a lot! For the first time in months. Ugh. This does not bode well for Summer. But the clouds were so pretty.. the sky was so pretty. My horses are so pretty! I had lessons with Liz on Dan and Funny, so no one went to Ashland today. Thus the pull was real! But I stayed home and we did our groundwork.   We headed to the arena in just the halter and once I got her in I started with the Logan technique and then did her scapula stretches. She was already moving a bit more after Kim worked on her. But I wanted to keep it up and see if I could get better movement. She still seems to "catch" a bit when watching her lunge. It's definitely harder by yourself but we managed to get two good stretches forward and two good stretches backw...

 Kim and scapulas vicky and saddles: share with funny, fusing KS, telephone pole serpentines, butthole massage, no pemf

Well, today I noticed that Lyric was straddling the water trough before we did any work. The right side again. Hmmmm... But she clearly had a good roll because she was caked in red clay! I walked out to get her and they were all up by the arena so we just went straight in. Which meant she was dirty. But that's okay. We started with the two poles up the hill 6 times and circling back down. She kept stopping on the downhill part. (Noted! but unsure what that means). Then we did our pillar walks and worked on straightness and forward. Then I did some bodywork and we did some stretches, some belly lifts, some tail tucks, and some wither wiggles. I did the logan technique. She was better on all counts though still not normal.  Then I decided to put her on the lunge line but I wanted to do the double lunge today. No particular reason. Well, I guess so that I could keep her straight vs letting her lean/fall in or out. So since I had to use the surcingle, I figured I might as well do the e...

  We managed to get in a pretty decent lunge work out today. Despite the day starting late thanks to me sleeping in and then not knowing when I was supposed to meet friends to ride. But, it all worked out. Yay! Although I didn't get to groom Lyric, so it was a very dirty girl for lunging. ;)   I met her up near the arena so we just went to work. We started with walking uphill over the two ground poles 6 times. Then we went in and did some pillar work and our positioning straightness walk. II did some wither rocks and noticed (again) that she sort of rotates her left front in her wiggle. Like, she doesn't move the leg off the ground, but she doesn't want to seem to put weight on it and it has a weird roll to it compared to the right front. I finally got her relaxed enough that she would be more symmetrical looking in her rocks, but it took her having the right front slightly forward. We did some tummy tucks, which are slowly getting better, and cookie stretches and then I di...

 Quick session stretches, surefoot pads, tummy lifts (got slightly mean), and tail tucks, hula while on pads, then walk and trotted in straight line working on posture. little trotting cause i'm not in shape. good girl! trotted cavalettis twice photos: