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mary young chiropractor
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My Green light
MYgreenlight gives you the tools to achieve real change with your horse, whatever your discipline. It’s not horse training or rider training; it works on the space in between – the relationship.
The content offered in this programme is distilled from the assessment and adjustment protocol I use every day in practice as a chiropractor. Over the years, I’ve realised that a lot of what I do to help horses (and their people) is not any dark art, but rather an approach and a system that observes, respects and responds to the right signals. It lets you continue to build your dream relationship every day, instead of waiting for a professional to swoop in and save the day (till next time).
MYgreenlight is unique because it transitions my work out of ‘done for you’ to ‘done by you’, which means you can be the one who does the work with your horse, consistently, every day. MYgreenlight puts you right at the centre of your horse’s wellbeing and performance regime.
I didn’t ask him ‘Do you wanna come?
When I was a little girl, I watched (and watched and watched) a recording on a Betamax (!) tape of a TV programme about dressage. I can still hear Gabriela Grillo’s voice talking in my ear. The video showed her hanging out with her Grand Prix horses in their sun-dappled pasture. She said “I brought him to this stable, I didn’t ask him ‘Do you wanna come?’. So I have to make him think it is a good idea to be here.” Years on, that sentiment feels really important to me.
If you’ve ever handled an untrained horse, you’ll know somewhere deep down how much consent is involved in catching, stabling, shoeing, travelling three-quarters of a ton of prey animal.
This blog, this online space, is a place for people who are interested in earning the last bits of consent, the bit that we can often forget to earn because it’s possible to force the issue.
There will be support here as you resist the temptation to tie things down (or up) in a shortcut to compliance.
We’ll share tips and tricks for spotting the warning signs before a real problem develops, and rock-solid methods to get from that red or amber light to green.
Let’s get the go-ahead from our horses.
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My Latest Blog Posts
Anatomy Dive – Dancing with the VAGUS NERVE (Part 3)
Where is the vagus nerve? Everywhere. The vagus nerve is a cranial nerve, so it emerges from part of the brain stem called the medulla. It leaves the cranium and loops around the first neck bone (the atlas), affecting the tongue, the palate and the voicebox before...
How do I deal with this problem? Dancing with the VAGUS NERVE (Part 2)
There's no problem with a vagal response - it's natural and useful. But you need to acknowledge it. And if it’s long-lasting, it’s most productive to remove the cause. Once your horse’s vagus nerve triggers him into ‘alert’, his eyes and ears are scanning for...
Why do I care? Dancing with the VAGUS NERVE (Part 1)
Is your horse a saint? Is he one of those angels so quiet you can do anything with him? If he’s not, I’m betting you’ve met that horse before - the really reliable one at the riding school, the ‘bombproof’ child’s pony (have you thought about how unnatural it is for a...