Sunset Lunging

 Phew... long day! I adjusted ten horses in Keysville, but... I did manage to get home by 5:45 ish and Mike was cool with me working Lyric before we ate, so.. I was able to sneak in a lunge session. 

  

She was naked because it was rather warm today. Not first thing this morning though! I bet she was a little pissy for a few hours until it warmed up. Sorry girl! But I felt like they would appreciate naked time and it was supposed to hit almost 60 degrees. I think it even hit 64 but it was breezy. She seemed okay when I got home though. 

 

I walked her over the 2 poles on the hill about 6 times before we went into the arena. Once we got in the arena I did the tail circles and neck wiggle, which was a quicker release today. We did a little bit of "rocking" but she didn't rock as much today, but did engage her pectorals at least. Then I put the equicore band on her and we headed off for some pillar walking. Then we did our back ups. She's shifting a little bit but I put her on the rail for the last two sets of 10 steps and it was a little better. Then we did the groundpole serpentine and then the raised serpentines. Then we lunged for 3 minutes each way and then we did the trot poles about 10 times. She scrambled through them a few times and walked a time or two, so it may have only been about 7 times correctly. We finished with some cookie stretches. She was trying and was a good girl. She definitely still struggles to bend right for her cookies, which is odd, because under saddle she always seems to want to counterbend tracking left... 

  
I got some good sunset photos and then took some conformation shots because I figured it would be helpful to compare at the end of her rehab, to see if I made any difference or not. Although I probably should have taken photos 3 weeks ago. Oh well. I may have some. 


 

Above are from today (February 2026)

 
Above is Jauary 2026 and below is February 2026

Above is January 2026 and below is February 2026
I don't know, but maybe we are making progress. Maybe her butt looks a little rounder.. her hind end looks a little fuller. Not sure if it's just positioning but her posture definitely looks better in her neck... Maybe she looks a little more lifted in her sling and a little less "Nike" swooped in her back??? I hope... I feel like she looks a little more saggy in her belly though.. and still camped under a bit. I still see the tension in her upper cervicals. 

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