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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Healing Horses With Reiki: Heart To Heart With Horses Part 2
This is part two of an excerpt from Kathleen Prasad’s book on healing horses with Reiki, titled Heart to Heart with Horses. If you missed the first … Read full article
Your Horse’s Joints and Chi
A horse’s fluid body movement is completely dependent on the health of his joints. It follows that the health of the joints is dependent on a … Read full article
Flower Essences for Grief and Loss
This is probably the hardest article that I have ever had to write; it comes from a place of such sadness, yet gives me the greatest insight into … Read full article
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