As an Equine Sports Therapist I (Kaylie Bruner) uses a wide range of modalities to enhance your horse's overall health. My qualifications and courses are as follows:
Kaylie began her educational journey with a degree in Kinesiology from the U of A. She started her equine career path with Equinology's EQ100 massage/bodywork program as well as advanced anatomy, also through Equinology. From there, she went on to graduate at the top of her class from BC College of Equine Therapy in Vernon, BC. Through this program she learned about structural balancing, massage, applied kinesiology and many other sub topics. From there, she discovered Cranial sacral therapy which has become her passion. She went to North Carolina numerous times over about a three year period to study the Upledger institute curriculum. Cranial sacral is a very unique modality. The ultimate goal is to balance the central nervous system. But a secondary goal is to rebalance the fascia in the body. So fascia is the only system in the body that contacts every other system. Typically if you injure yourself, it is not just the area that you feel pain that is affected, you can disrupt your digestive system, lymphatic system, etc, because of these fascial connections The fascia is also why, quite often if you have a s massage or chiro, you might feel great for a few days to a couple of weeks, but quite often you end up back in the same pain pattern. Our bodies are constantly in a state of organized dysfunction. Something has an issue, so we bottle it up, with hopes of dealing with it later, which we don't typically do. We just keep compensating. So with CST we as the body to disorganize (like cleaning a closet. First you have to pull everything out), and then reorganize in a functional manner. For the first couple of sessions at least, sometimes the disorganization phase is messy. Sometimes they seem worse than they were before. until they can learn how to use their body in balance. Kaylie works on anything from basic maintenance, to joint and back pain, neurological issues and behavioural issues. She is currently also taking the animal osteopathy program through London College of Animal Osteopathy. This is a >3000 hour course with a 300 hour thesis, and will certify her for horses and dogs. She works regularly on horses, dogs and people, but also works on other animals such as sheep, cattle and cats.
