The Painted Horses, Equinology & Equine Yoga! 🐴

Several years ago in Australia an equestrian friend of mine decided to improve her equine skills and began to study equinology. Having worked around horses since she was a child she applied herself and excelled. Equinology is body work with horses and includes massage, stretching and other forms of equine therapy. Some very good teachers travel the world training these techniques.

I was very impressed with what my friend was learning and began to use her for therapy on my own horses. The depth of knowledge she was learning was much better than many trainers I met in the racing industry. I met a lot of trainers who seemed to have very little understanding of the biological workings of a horse. I saw many instances of debilitating injury caused by trainers failing to spot injuries or incorrectly treating them.

One of the coolest aspects of my friend's equinology course was studying the workings of the horse by "painting" the layers of the horses anatomy onto the horse with special non toxic chalk. The results were truly living art! 😉 Here are some photos for you but remember it looks much better when the horse is actually moving! Enjoy!

For those of you who have read to the end of this post I couldn't find a good video of a painted horse but I include here this video of someone doing horse yoga which is truly beautiful! 😃

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Image sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

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Jockey loves horses and All of you! 😉

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