Beyond Horse Massage
The Weekend Seminar is for any horse owner or handler. The seminar gives you the tools to help you work with your horse to relieve tension and connect more deeply. No knowledge of anatomy or physical strength is required. You’ll leave wishing you had taken this seminar sooner!
The Masterson Method® Weekend Seminar is the next practical step after reading/viewing the Beyond Horse Massage Book/DVD.
In these hands-on workshops, you’ll learn how to recognize and use the visual responses of the horse to your touch to find and release accumulated stress in key junctions of the body that most affect performance. Jim Masterson has successfully taught these techniques to hundreds of owners, therapists, and trainers worldwide, enabling them to open new levels of communication and relationship with their horses, and now has hundreds of certified practitioners and instructors around the world.
Upcoming Clinics
Te Awamutu 17-18 October
This is an extra clinic due to Covid postponing my ealier clinic. Limited number of spaces available, click the link below to book!
Registration and Inquiries
Registration is through the Masterson Method website, full payment is required to secure your place on the course.
For any inquires and questions please contact Anna Drabble, event organizer and instructor.
Price: $495USD
Instructor: Anna Drabble MMCP
Horses
Horses are provided for this clinic. This allows participants to focus on the course without needing to look after your own horse.
You will get to work on a range of horses and feel how different their bodies and responses are. The focus of the course is practicing The Masterson Method techniques, rather than diagnosing specific issues.
Prerequisites
1st Prerequisite - Before the clinic please review the book, Beyond Horse Massage and accompanying DVD. Have a play with your own horses using The Masterson Method techniques and become familiar with levels of touch and reading your horses responses. This will give us a head start on clinic day.
The Book and DVD can be purchased through the Masterson Method website (click on the picture to the left), or can be found in online book stores such as Fishpond, The Nile etc.
2nd Prerequisite – This is a hands-on workshop. Students must be prepared to pick up all four of the horse’s feet and be comfortable in a stall with an unknown horse. For safety reasons students must have a good grasp of basic horsemanship.
Day 1 — Workshop Begins At 9am
Workshop begins at 9am with a discussion of the principles of The Masterson Method®.
The horse’s survival-bracing response.
How to use different levels of touch, and the horse’s responses to by-pass the bracing response.
Use of movement and positioning to allow a muscle or junction to release tension.
Key junctions of the body that most affect performance.
How the subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle process of release works.
Techniques:
The first technique, the Bladder Meridian Technique, is demonstrated and explained.
Students practice on horses, with individual hands-on help from the Instructor(s).
Students and Instructor(s) re-group to ask and answer questions, and review and discuss the results of the technique.
Techniques to release tension in the poll, neck, and neck/shoulders/withers junction are demonstrated, practiced, and discussed/reviewed during the first day, with a break for lunch and short morning and afternoon breaks.
Day 2 — Workshop Continues At 9am
We follow the same learning format as on Day 1;
Hands-on instruction.
Morning is spent on techniques for the hind end; back, sacro-iliac and sacro-lumbar junction.
After lunch, a fresh group of horses are brought in. Students have the opportunity to practice all the techniques that were learned over the weekend, on fresh horses, with hands-on help from the Instructor(s). This way, the student will review and practice a full bodywork session on a horse prior to going home.
Clinic will wrap up at around 4pm to allow participants time to travel home.
Other Notes
Please bring plenty of food to keep yourself going through out the clinic. We will have lunch and snack breaks, the water on the property is good to drink and there is a fridge for items that need to be kept cool. Tea and coffee will be provided.
Saturday evening those that wish can come along to a local pub for an evening meal together - we will discuss on the day.
Suitable footwear and clothing needs to be worn, sturdy boots for horse handling and clothing that allows you to move.