20/10/2025
Very interesting!
Try this at home:
Lie on your back on your bed with a pillow under your head and your legs straight. Relax.
Now, keeping your head centered, move your tongue or your lower jaw to the left (try each separately). If you listen carefully to your body, you’ll feel your core muscles engage slightly to balance that movement.
Recenter—and notice how your core adjusts and recenters too.
Now move your tongue or jaw to the right and feel your core engage again. Recenter, and feel it rebalance once more.
Try these movements separately and together.
I also recommend trying each of these while you walk.
Then, press your tongue gently against the roof of your mouth or move your jaw forward or outward. Feel how your core engages differently each time to stabilize your body.
What you’re feeling is the neurological and myofascial connection between your tongue, jaw, and pelvis.
Your horse has these same connections.
If a horse holds his tongue or tilts his jaw to one side for long enough, his nervous system begins to recognize that asymmetry as normal. Over time, his body adapts around it—creating compensations that affect his posture, movement, and even behavior.
It often takes a combination of massage and targeted whole-body movement therapy to help reset those patterns and guide the body back toward a more centered, balanced state.
