Skye's the Limit Equine Therapy

11/29/2025

We often times get stuck in our own heads about how our ride should/will be. We plan what we want to do and achieve. This does not take into consideration what your partner is ready/ willing/ able to do. Our horses, just like us, have bad days and good days. I am not saying to abort riding, if your horse is having an off day. I am saying be flexible with your idea of what your ride should be, so you can pivot to meet where your horse is.

There are horses that can play you like a fiddle. They know you give in when they act a certain way. Equally, there are horses that know that if they don't submit, they get a bad experience. The idea is to build your riding/partnership on good experiences leaving the reprimands to be used on really poor behavior.

I have heard of some people using the "he must submit to me" type training. While that may be useful in some circumstances, it doesn't build trust or partnership. It develops a fear in the horse about its rider.

Willing submission from a horse to the rider establishes a trust. It comes from the horse feeling safe and heard. The horse knows that you are there to protect, direct, and work together with him/her. Having this willing submission will create a bond where a horse will go to the ends of the earth for you. The horse won't be over reactive to a scary situation because he/she looks to you for leadership.

Having a horse who willingly submits takes patience. Takes time to build that trust, that bond, that leadership role in you. It is the patience that most people don't have. They create timelines of objectives for shows or events that are inflexible.

You have to ask yourself what do you want out of your horse? What are you willing to give up if you push for the inflexible timeline.

From a body / energy worker point of view..... dysfunction comes from a horse who has to hold in fear and anticipation each time he/she is ridden. Meridians became clogged, energy doesn't flow. Fascia becomes tight and rigid creating inflexibility and tight muscles.

If we an address the reasons why their body is tight, and redirect that energy to something more productive for BOTH, your partner will relax, training becomes pleasurable, and dysfunction will begin to heal.

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11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving!!! From STL's family to yours!!! Eat, love, and be happy :)

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11/17/2025

Working through the clinical portion of my Osteopathy studies is incredibly interesting. I have had the honor of shadowing Dr. Hancock of True North Equine Veterinary Services, Dr. Williamson of Haymarket Veterinary Service, and Dr. Zanotto at Marian Dupont Equine Medical Center, Sports Medicine and Lameness clinic. All these experiences have been invaluable!

I have always taken my education in equine body work very serious. My mission is to help horses heal - physically and emotionally. STL will always strive to be on top of the latest information about equine health, body and energy work. I will strive to learn as much as I possibly can.

Horses innately transmute energy for their owner/rider. Who helps the horse transmute this energy??? That is where I step in!!!

PM me for any questions about services I provide!

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11/14/2025

Acupressure is a form of acupuncture but without needles. The practitioner uses their finger tip and add pressure to a specific acupressure point. When using acupressure, we often open the energetic vessel of the horse by using meridians, perform the necessary acupressure points, and then close the vessel with the same meridian line.

Acupressure can help a horse with emotional issues, mare-ish tendencies, GI issues, pain, cribbing, to name a few.....

Horse owners generally are surprised at the amount of releases are presented at the time of the acupressure session. Energy is in all things. What horse owners need to know is that consistency is key when using acupressure to help your horse.

STL will help perform the acupressure for the issue identified and will educate the owner in how to perform it to keep the energy consistent. If you are unable to or unsure on how to perform the acupressure, STL can come to do it for you.

Animals and humans are energy and acupressure can help remove blockages to allow the flow of energy to be liberated and free.

If you have questions whether acupressure would work for your horse, please PM and we can chat!!!

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11/04/2025

Rescue animals don't come broken - they come betrayed. What people call "behavioral issues" are just survival strategies. You'd be cautious too if love had always hurt. Give them time, space, and trust - and watch them rise.

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11/04/2025

Shout out to Team Barlow Performance Horses for their GRAND success at Nationals in Texas!!! There is no better feeling than bringing your up and coming fillies to a national show and leaving with buckles! Alice is a fantastic trainer and the way her horses perform at shows is a great testament to her knowledge!

Congratulations from STL to Team Barlow and Meredith Rouse!!

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10/09/2025

Sometimes behaviors stem from energy that is stagnant in a meridian. No medicine or training works. It's frustrating as a horse owner to feel lost or helpless. That is where I can step in.......

As an energy worker, I can help relieve a horse of stagnant energy by opening their channels and allow the flow to return in their vessel.

I have a client whose horse is a cribber. She's worn a cribbing collar before but had experiences where it was put on excessively tight and she won't wear one again. I offered to work on the horse with acupressure. I did consistent work for five days in a row, each time the horse showed signs of release (yawning, twitching, lowering head, closed or lowered eye lids). The owner has noticed that she is not cribbing on the fence at night and while in her stall, she has stopped using her water buckets as a cribbing device. Great success.

Cribbing is a difficult habit to break and needs consistent reinforcement with the acupressure. If you work daily on opening the vessel, doing the acupressure points and closing the vessel, the horse will get reinforced releases it needs. With this type of behavior, it requires consistency. We are just in the beginnings of her healing.

I am happy that the horse is showing signs of relief and being apart of her healing process!!!!

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08/26/2025

08/22/2025

I'll be there today providing Reiki for the participants of this great program.

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08/21/2025

This is great information!!

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15qJnYrqN6/

Someone asked if I could do a clearer easier picture of the nerve innervations from the Brachial Plexus
Now this is a very simplified drawing and they do innervate much more but I can only fit so much on a page and hope it gives a basic understanding, you know me i am your basic kinda girl😄😄
Hope this helps a little to see what goes where
Even i get confused when drawing it 😃😃😃

Just editing as people keep saying there is no c8 but these are cervical nerve roots there are 7 cervical vertebrae but 8 pairs of cervical nerves so c8 is a nerve root 🙃

08/20/2025

There is a pleura of hoof "oil" on the market. I have an OTTB who, like most TBs have thin soles and hoof wall "issues". She used to chip a ton in the summer, be sore footed after a trim (not related to the farrier), and was in shoes up until she became barefooted and scoot booted. I used other hoof oil products for years but never saw any significant change. She still chipped alot in the summer etc.

I bought Hoof-X and it worked great. It really absorbs in to the hoof wall and even during this summer, she has minimal chips in her hoof wall and the farrier has commented that her hooves are doing really well.

Side note: The integrity of the hoof can be an indicator of the health of the horse. Not in all cases but most cases. My horse did have a change in diet also, more protein, change in feed with more vitamins.

Regardless, I now use only Hoof-X as a hoof oil for both my horses.

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08/09/2025

STL supports Team Barlow Performance Horses and all the great successes that Alice and the team has had over the years. Hard work and dedication pays off, especially when you follow your passion.