Winter Music

  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:  

  Well.... Not sure what today was... good? Bad? same? Both?  I wasn't feeling great this morning after a migraine but got myself motivated finally and went to the arena with Lyric. It was windy but sunny and warm, so I pulled her blanket off so that I could watch her posture and body.  We warmed up with some pillar walking, but focusing on the slight neck shift right and the correction of the right drift. We even jogged some in hand to do that. Then we did some fascial work on that line and I actually got a teeny bit of lift in her back for her tummy tucks! She also gave me some more motion in her lumbosacral joint although she is still a bit scooty with it. So then I had planned on sitting on her because I thought I could direct her better from up top, so I put the bareback pad on. But then I decided that I should lunge her first and let her trot and warm up more before I sat on her. I was thinking the double lunge would be better so that I could keep her nose tipped sl...

 only in my mind. ;) And maybe her body. talked to tanja about diet manipulation. may be pretty close already. symptoms fit pretty darn well supposedly.  so filthy. but did our brain homework. not quite as releasey as with liz but... got some good ones. also did some fascial work. added some poles.. no right drift allowed then hopped on bareback (ouch) for a lap or two. forgot photos cause the interns came out and were obviously wanting ot move the jumps (at my request) so I was quick. not the worst thing though. good girl! did well. didn't lunge because... timing... not sure if it's the right thing. massaged back with fake halo thing at dinner

 cold left ventral/mid abdomen....  tight/hard right distal hamstrings disconnected front to back.. maybe worried about back end hitting front end. better long and low then epiphany... her neck comes out of her body slightly to the left, so she has a right drift. if we keep her from drifting right but hold her head ever so slightly to the right of her body, she gets straight and happy. doe eyed.. releasing.. then marching and reaching and over tracking.  play with resetting her brain for a bit instead of "working" but can still do long and low stuff photos: Brain reset

Happy Valentines Day!  Except now you have to work. I started with Lyric and we headed to the arena in the halter. We did the uphill walk poles 6 times and then we went to the arena. I switched her to the cavesson and added the figure 8 polo wrap. So then we did some pillar walks and then we did the serpentine ground poles 8 times and then a few single raised poles. And good gravy, she keeps snagging the raised poles with her hind limb. It's like she gets so close to the pole with her hind end that she can't NOT hit them. Which... I'm not sure what that means...    After we did that, I did some bodywork before we lunged. I did her cookie stretches and then massaged her superifical dorsal line treatment point and then did her releases again. I do think she's getting better in her cat stretch and her neck stretch. She's maybe, starting to think about lifting her back! I also did some fascial work and chiropractic work on her poll. We got some good releases and I do th...