The muscle is the foundation of movement.Servicing The Southern Highlands & Wollondilly Regions
What is bodywork?
Bodywork is hands-on therapeutic work aimed at the muscular and connective tissue system. Unlike a one-off treatment for a specific injury, bodywork tends to work best as an ongoing part of a horse's care, much the way a rider might see a massage therapist regularly, not only when something's gone wrong.
Tension accumulates through repetitive work, old injuries, conformation, or simply the compensations a horse makes without anyone noticing. Bodywork is what finds that tension and gives the body a chance to properly release it, rather than let it settle in as habit.
The muscles are the foundation of how the horse moves, responds, behaves and performs.
Cornerstone = foundation. A cornerstone is the very first stone laid when you're building something, and every other stone gets squared against it. For a horse, you can think of the muscle as the foundation for movement, and I want to help your horse move the best. Techniques I use (but not limited to) include:
Myofascial Release (MFR)
Equine Massage
Gait Evaluation
Meet the team
Lisa
Bodyworker & animal enthusiast. Charges in dollars.
Ellie
Supervisor/Side-kick, fetch expert. Charges in pats.
I'm Lisa Bollinger, an equine bodyworker based in the Southern Highlands. I’ve worked with horses my whole life first in rural central Canada and now in Australia. I work with horses of every discipline and every age to restore movement and comfort, from high performance athletes & pony club horses to ageing horses entering retirement.
I’m really passionate about being hyper-attentive to each individual horse and how they move. No two horses are the same, and so they all require different treatment depending on their needs.
