Solace In Rose Equine Performance Bodywork
Interactive method of working WITH the horse to identify and release tension resulting in enhanced performance.
About Solace in Rose - Equine BodyWork
Experience
Solace in Rose - Equine BodyWork - Tori has been working with horses for over 55 years - starting as a small child.
. Learning to ride early on was a blessing. Growing up on a large horse farm and experiencing the work involved was a luxury she didn’t realize. Showing, eventing, pony club rallies, and fox hunting was just part of it. The best part was sleeping in the stall (when allowed), riding ponies bareback in halters in open fields, swimming and playing with them in the pond, sitting quietly with her pony in an open pasture as she grazed, or sharing mountain dew and nabs was second nature. Her school teachers would often have to remind her to wash the dirt off her hands because she smelled like a horse. After marriage and children, a door opened for a new season in life - a Quarter Horse named Rose chose Tori, and the world was back in balance. Rose came right before a major life change and during the process, their connection strengthened on so many levels. Trust and respect with bodywork, learning together, and just being . Life blossomed into a new journey.
A few AQHA shows later, and riding/showing different disciplines solidified the extraordinary athletic demands we put on horses and their need for bodywork. Human athletes need bodywork, so do horses! Her passion to not only connect with horses, but to offer them a safe place to relax and heal physically from work and/or their lives would give back to one of God’s most amazing creatures.
Passionate about how to give back, she started searching for ways to help horses, including Rose! After completing courses in horse massage and flow/energy work, Tori came across a Masterson Method weekend course. There it was – the connection and the bodywork combined. A healing on every level. The journey was on!
Becoming certified as an MMCP, Tori considers one of her greatest accomplishments. The commitment to enhancing the lives of horses in their performance, releasing tension and restrictions, and increasing movement – all with a physiological and emotional result that benefits horses is a lifelong passion.
To build trust horses, working with them in an interactive relaxed state, finding and releasing accumulated tension in key junctions of the body and enhancing their life is a gift that can be shared with every horse and learned by every owner. Tori works with all disciplines and serves the Triangle and Triad areas of North Carolina, and also the North Durham areas and Virginia.
Approach
An interactive approach, connecting with the horses nervous system and keeping in parasympathetic mode. Years of stress and stiffness can often be resolved in a few sessions, by relieving built-up tension in core muscles and key junctions of the body that affect the horse’s performance.
Recognizing and using the responses of the horse to find and release tension. In contrast to traditional massage, it works with the horse’s nervous system and the horse actively participates in the process. It is something I do with the horse, rather than to the horse. This participation and interaction Is what makes the method fulfilling for those who use it and transformational for the horse.
Benefits
Bodywork targets:
The autonomic nervous system
muscles
joints
fascia
energetic elements
Tension is released in deep core and postural muscles, allowing the horse's spine to realign naturally.
When deep tension is released and the muscles controlling major joints of the body can fully relax and contract -
range of motion is restored in the major joints
increases range of motion improves length and eveness of stride, lateral reach and overall gymnastic ability
suppleness and strength needed for proper impulsion, collection, bend and the core ability to lift through the withers and back are enhanced.