Lunging again

Ohhhhhh... I so need to make this happen AT LEAST once a week and probably before every ride. Not because she needs fitness or to get shenanigans out, but because it's so helpful for her body. 

We lunged again today and watching I can see how while she isn't inverted and braced hard anymore, she's still cheating a little. She's not quite letting go with the underside of her neck and she's still holding up in her upper cervicals. She's lowering her poll a hair, but not really letting go. So... I kept asking and she eventually got it and you can see a massive difference that just dropping her head and pushing her nose out a hair makes for her. She feels it too. She wiggled around her sweet spot in the beginning but by the end she was holding it for most of circle and getting more and more consistent. We even did some walk to trot to walks at the end and she started out bracing in the transitions but it got better and better and we even finished with a walk to trot to walk with no bracing!! 

So yep.. I definitely need to do more of this for her. I think that this, the muscle relaxer, and getting all four shoes put back on will really help her. Especially if I get super picky about her actually releasing instead of cheating. And it's my fault... I don't think I quite realized it. 

She does look more downhill again when she goes there but that will get better as she gets stronger and gets more lift in her thoracic sling. And hopefully she's not growing again too, but... you never know?!