Tui Na massage: Wouldn’t it be something if your horse could have a consistent, harmonious flow of stomach chi and could avoid colic, founder, stomach ulcers, and any other digestion issues horses are prone to have? Wild horses roam and … Read full article
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Homeopathy for Animals – Q&A with Shirley Moore
We receive a LOT of questions about homeopathy for animals: which remedies to use for various conditions, how to give the remedies, and most of all, questions around preventing and treating Lyme disease. Shirley has very kindly been responding to … Read full article
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Who Needs Animal Massage?
By Cattie Coyle
While animal massage is gaining recognition, there is still a huge misconception about massage therapy for animals, many think that it is just another … Read full article
Tui Na Massage for Harmonious Stomach Chi in Horses
Tui Na massage: Wouldn’t it be something if your horse could have a consistent, harmonious flow of stomach chi and could avoid colic, founder, stomach … Read full article
Q&A: Alternative Therapies – How Much is Too Much?
By Cattie Coyle
When your animal friends are suffering, it’s tempting to throw all the alternative therapies you can think of in the mix in order to make them better, … Read full article
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Applied Zoopharmacognosy – Helping Domestic Animals Self-Medicate
By Cattie Coyle
Zoopharmacognosy is the scientific term for the fascinating way that animals self-medicate with the help of plants. The term was coined by biochemist Dr. Eloy Rodriguez, Professor at Cornell University, and anthropologist Richard Wrangham of Harvard, and comes … Continue Reading...
How the New T.E.A.M. Mentorship Program Can Help Your Business
By Admin
Cattie: this is a guest post by Megan Ayrault of The Power of Touch for Animals, who is an animal bodywork practitioner and teacher. Megan has been practicing for over 15 years, and recently started a mentorship program for other practitioners. In the … Continue Reading...
Internal Liver Wind and Seizure Disorders
Internal Liver Wind and Seizure Disorders. The Liver, in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), is responsible for the harmonious flow of chi, life-promoting energy, throughout the dog’s body. The Liver is greatly affected by Wind because Wind can block or … Continue Reading...
Q&A: How To Get Referrals from Veterinarians
By Admin
Q: How can practitioners of alternative therapies get referrals from veterinarians? What can someone just starting out do to develop a relationship with a veterinarian (that will hopefully lead to referrals)? Building relationships and collaboration are … Continue Reading...
Kathleen Prasad’s Visit to Remus Horse Sanctuary 2013
As September approached, I started to get really excited about the upcoming visit of Kathleen Prasad to Remus Horse Sanctuary. Two weeks before, I met with Sue, who is the founder of Remus and we prepared in great depth how we could support Kathleen’s visit so … Continue Reading...
Massage And Acupressure Treatment For Rabbit Digestion
By Admin
Today's post on rabbit digestion comes from Jodi McLaughlin. Jodi, a long-time holistic animal health provider, and owner and founder of The Blissful Bunny Massage Workshops, obviously has a soft spot for rabbits. I wrote about both acupressure and Jodi in … Continue Reading...
Three Steps To Fix A Bland Brand
By Karen Gunton
Is your brand on point? There are a number of reasons why building a biz is hard work. One of them is that we have to walk such a fine line sometimes… We need our businesses to look, feel and sound professional, but we also need them to have some personality, … Continue Reading...
Animal Massage Legislation Update
Over the decades, the regulatory picture surrounding animal massage in the United States has been a bit like an etch-a-sketch, constantly shifting and frequently unclear. Individual states generally associate animal massage either with veterinary care or human … Continue Reading...
Book Review: Wild Health
By Cattie Coyle
As I mentioned in the post about my trip to England, one of the things that made me decide to study Applied Zoopharmacognosy was the book Wild Health by Cindy Engel. It is a fabulous collection of examples of how plants develop secondary metabolites (compounds … Continue Reading...
TTouch – Light Bodywork With Amazing Results
By Cattie Coyle
Today's post is on TTouch, a type of very light bodywork that helps animals with all kinds of problems, both physical and psychological. I took a weekend workshop in TTouch for dogs at Bancroft School of Massage a few years ago (with Leea, who is our … Continue Reading...