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Pauhla
| Joined: 21 Aug 2008 |
| Posts: 60 |
| Location: Gloucestershire |
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 Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:35 pm |
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Hi all,
I'm setting up a workshop in Sept and I don’t know if it is of interest to anyone here?????
Bit of background…I have an 11-year-old pony with Metabolic Syndrome. He was rescued as a weanling and I took him on loan as an un-handled 2-year-old companion but since his diagnosis, I've been struggling to keep his weight down and his metabolic rate up.
I hand walk him at the moment for an hour or more a day but although we have both lost loads of weight!!!, it's not enough to keep him metabolically stable or sound in the long term and the only option now is to back him. I did actually sit on him bareback 3 or 4 times about 4 years ago and he was fine but then I had about 2 years when I simply could not keep him sound before his EMS was diagnosed.
So, here’s the issue. A very sympathetic trainer worked with him last year and he came on in leaps and bounds, was long-reining in the school and round the roads but when it came to backing him, he was fine walking around when I lay over him but the minute I put a leg over his back, he blew up and I came off sideways. I was fine if a little winded but he's now 11 years old and the clock is ticking. Due to previous spinal surgery and a strong self-preservation instinct I simply don't have the confidence to get on him. Because I feel this way, I’m not the right person to do it.  Enter Nayana.
Nayana Morag (www.essentialanimals.com) is my friend and teacher and the person who started me on my journey with Essential Oil Therapy for Animals. She is currently based in Israel but is in the UK in September to teach and also to spend some time with her horse who is living with me temporarily. She has offered to work with Fivel and me and back him while she is here and being a bit of a masochist, I’m happy to open the show to others and admit publicly what I wuss I am. 
Seriously, her approach is one based on a lifetime of working with horses of all types and especially those with a troubled past. She works with no set method or agenda and the emphasis is working with the horse and allowing him to teach us as much as we teach him. Her own horse is an Arab and she bought him as a 3 year old with the express intention of creating a partnership, not breaking him in and he is an extraordinary horse who I have learned an amazing amount from.
So, if anyone can do it, she can and more importantly, she is one of the few people I trust with my precious boy  and I would love to be able to share this with people who can take something positive form the day and apply it to other horses in their care.
We are planning a limited number of spectator places at £45 each. The morning will start with some theory and an explanation of her approach and then its straight into the practical work with an opportunity for everyone to watch and learn from both the process and from Fivel!
If anyone would like to join us, just let me know.
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MJ
| Joined: 22 Apr 2008 |
| Posts: 653 |
| Location: Derbyshire |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:26 pm |
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sadly no, Pands isn't an EMW pony, Scout is though but he's not an EMD sufferer 
yeah I know your thoughts fully for sure, and normally with Pands the second you start thinking of the W word....she has raised pulses and puts the skids on it straight away, sadly she's not great in traffic so our road at the bottom is a huge nono for her, but it'd be nice when Ed gets this woodland ride cleared to be able to take her down with Scout for a blast round it...one day...when can think of going faster than a slow plod! 
the awful part is, her seperation anxiety asides, she's a cracking little pony that would be fantastic at showing too, it's what she was bred for, she has top lines in there |
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It would be great to have you along. I'll see if we can have a 2nd choice of dates and then hopefully everyone will be able to make it. In the meantime, I'll talk to the tooth fairy and the lottery pixie and put in a good word for you Sam 