Ros Maindok - Equine Functional Solutions with Biomechanics

17/11/2025

Lol I thought Friesans were water babies … so are Percherons 😂

17/11/2025

My favourite neuroscientist 😊

The unanswered questions we have about trauma is found in the biology of it.
We must understand what our brain does when confronted with unfamiliar information and then how and when it packages this new information if we want to help our brain process it.
Not understanding this is no different to walking in an unfamiliar theme park with a blindfold on and being left to navigate our way through with no direction, guidance or safety.

Happy brain training 🧠 💪

ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕝𝕠𝕥𝕥𝕖 𝕄𝕠𝕠𝕣𝕖
Clinical & Translational Neuroscientist | Neuroscience based intervention for trauma & stress | Neuroplasticity neurotherapy | Trauma & stress neuroeducation | Frontline stress & trauma training

"Understand your brain, body and behaviour through neuroscience"
~ Charlotte Moore

✅️ If you would like neuroscience based help to work through trauma or stress, please reach out to me or book a private in-person or virtual appointment.

✅️ I invite you to contact me via private message, whatsapp, phone call, or email to ask any questions or discuss how I can help you or your organisation.

Learn more about my services:
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𝟎𝟒𝟎𝟕𝟎𝟖𝟎𝟓𝟎𝟒

16/11/2025

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Empathy: the ability to SHARE emotions in another individual.

Compassion: the ability to RECOGNISE emotions in another individual.

Sympathy: the ability to feel sadness when an individual experiences pain or hurt.

Empathy allows us to recognise, relate and share the non-verbal communication of people and animals.
😁 Happy
😔 Sad
😠 Angry
😒 Frustrated
🙄 Unsure
😲 shocked

(This is also why "emojis" can help with context in written text)
When no words are shared, we can see what feelings are being expressed in someone else and mirror them in our microcues. This happens when we exercise empathy.

Empathy allows us to bond with those around us in a powerful way.
When we recognise someone's non-verbal communication, they feel acknowledged.
⚠️ THIS is the strongest social primal need every social animal is seeking from others, to feel emotionally acknowledged.

🚫 Empathy is not about finding a solution for the feeling.
🚫 Empathy is not about listening to the words, context or story of that individual.
🚫 Empathy is not about fixing anything.

✅️ Empathy is about sharing an unspoken language and giving a safe space to express it.
✅️ Empathy is about simply acknowledging the emotion/s without feeling the need to justify or defend them.
✅️ Empathy is about connecting on the rawest level with fellow humans and animals in a language we all innately and universally have... emotions.
✅️ Empathy is about hearing, feeling and mirroring.

As well as being an effective bonding tool, empathy helps to increase self awareness and emotional regulation in those who practice it.

Empathy is an incredibly powerful skill, that when practised regularly and intentionally, will significantly enhance every relationship of every kind!

Happy brain training 🧠 💪

ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕝𝕠𝕥𝕥𝕖 𝕄𝕠𝕠𝕣𝕖
Clinical & Translational Neuroscientist | Neuroscience based intervention for trauma & stress | Neuroplasticity neurotherapy | Trauma & stress neuroeducation | Frontline stress & trauma training

"Understand your brain, body and behaviour through neuroscience"
~ Charlotte Moore

✅️ If you would like neuroscience based help to work through trauma or stress, please reach out to me or book a private in-person or virtual appointment.

✅️ I invite you to contact me via private message, whatsapp, phone call, or email to ask any questions or discuss how I can help you or your organisation.

Learn more about my services:
𝐰𝐰𝐰.𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.𝐜𝐨𝐦.𝐚𝐮
Book a private in-person or virtual appointment with me:
𝐰𝐰𝐰.𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐲.𝐜𝐨𝐦/𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞_𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐞
Contact me:
𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞@𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.𝐜𝐨𝐦
𝟎𝟒𝟎𝟕𝟎𝟖𝟎𝟓𝟎𝟒

16/11/2025

15/11/2025

Float Training with Mandy (Commander)

Working with confidence, calm and connection.

Utilising the principles of foundation Pillars. Instead of just practising in an arena, we are teaching better conversation and signals in this context. Seeing when the no’s, I don’t understands, I am not confidents show up. Still doing the thing, but not forcing over his threshold ..

He is getting better every day .. no rushing backward and listening to the wait signal, whilst I move around.

Then we went off for a walk doing the same thing .. signals, conversation, assistance. Working with my capacity to assist also. When are we together, when is there disconnect, focus and retry etc …

Bringing out the Commander 😊

14/11/2025

Baby Percheron horse says … not a problem.. point me at it ! The last one was a 7 hour journey to get her home … so happy it didn’t put her off !

9 year old Commander … says .. actually I don’t like that box on my own ..
So we are doing our relationship to connection and contact as part of the work within this “context”. The task being getting on the float and being ok. He is the hyperalert .. I am ok .. not really … type.

The pillar foundations are everywhere .. 😊. Working towards being competent to be able to teach others 🙌
First Nerve Release .. competency (which also involves the foundations as
part of how we work with the horses,
nervous system and bodies)

Loving this journey and the lessons.

13/11/2025

Good visual and words. We can imagine other types of saddles .. halfbreed, dressage, jump etc..
The tree shape, points, style …
Not just about gullet width, also angle 😊

13/11/2025

The base of the neck and cranial part of the thorax are packed with vital structures.
These two pictures depict a layered, deep dissection of this region.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/base-of-neck-and-143295583?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

13/11/2025

Super cool info … so how relatable is this also to our horses 🤔😉

The sciatic nerve - always seems to be getting the blame for everything

Here are some cool facts about this powerful nerve:
(But remember - it’s merely an extension of the spinal cord)

It’s the longest and thickest nerve in the human body – The sciatic nerve can be up to 2 cm wide (about the width of your little finger) and runs all the way from your lower spine through your buttocks and down to your toes.

It’s actually a bundle of nerves – What we call the “sciatic nerve” is formed from five spinal nerve roots (L4–S3) that merge in the lower back, then branch out again down the leg. So it’s more like a nerve superhighway than a single wire!

It controls both movement and sensation – The sciatic nerve is a mixed nerve, meaning it carries signals to your muscles (motor) and from your skin (sensory). That’s why irritation can cause both pain or numbness and weakness or loss of movement in the leg.

The coolest part?
2 sets of our suboccipital muscles in the neck connects to the dura mater (protective covering of the spinal cord and brain), and tension in these muscles can affect tension along the dura mater, ultimately having the possibility of affecting the sciatic nerve further down!

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