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Back to it...

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  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...
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Mayhem

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 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
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Liz insights

 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
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Now no canter

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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...
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Racehorse lunge

 unlocked the superficial dorsal line?  started clutzy and sticky. got mad. smacked my head with hers when i fixing the pole she tipped the 9th time. got really mad. then she was up. did a few more and kept knocking some, but better. then lunged... on second direction she chose to canter herself and did more than a full lap. went to try a canter to the right too and she went into racehorse mode and cantered about 20 circles at a "gallop". finally settled. then got a nice trot between, immediately softening. finally tracking up!! did trot poles a few times and called it quits. lots more work than recently ??? photos: racehorse mode
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Long lining success

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  Well that went suprisingly well! My long lines came yesterday and I had been planning to put Lyric back in her bridle to do pillar work to make sure that she was okay with contact in the bit vs just a good relationship to contact in the halter or cavesson.    I brought her to the trailer to groom first since it's been awhile. She was a bit balky about walking back to the trailer. Come on girl.. it's really not that bad, is it?? I got her groomed up a bit and picked her feet and then put her bridle on. We headed up to the arena so that we could get our session in before Jean's lesson. We did the two groundpoles uphill 6 times before we went in the arena. Then we headed in and I put the equiband on. We did our pillar walks with the bit and she was fine. Then we did our backing up, which was actually better today. Then we did the tail circles and the neck wiggle and the hula and the belly lifts. Then we did the groundpole serpentine and then the raised ground pole serpenti...
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round pen free lunging (edit)

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 took to round pen...  pillar, serpentine on ground pole, zig zag poles, backing... slightly uphill. trotted 5 minutes each way without lunge line... fairly soft and relaxed.. then cantered... better in the sense that she held it longer, but definitely not a happy canter.. hollow and bucking into it. especially left lead... haunches in significantly and throwing her butt in to pick it up.
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