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The Knot Whisperer Therapeutic Massage

▪️Horse & Rider Massage Therapy
▪️Helping horses & riders achieve their potential
▪️Specializing in myofascial release
▪️10+ years experience | Licensed & Insured
▪️Montana | Ledger Office & Mobile Appointments

50% of being a massage therapist is folding laundry. 🧺
24/10/2025

50% of being a massage therapist is folding laundry. 🧺

Limited availability the next two weeks. Send me a message to get you (and your horses) on the schedule !
24/10/2025

Limited availability the next two weeks. Send me a message to get you (and your horses) on the schedule !

Invest in yourself. The time is going to pass either way. You’re going to spend money on one thing, or on another. You s...
22/10/2025

Invest in yourself.

The time is going to pass either way. You’re going to spend money on one thing, or on another. You spend your time and your money on what your priorities are. So choose them honestly and make the most of your time.

If health, fitness, wellbeing are in line with your current priorities I’d love to be on your team.

Some investments I’ve made with zero regrets:

📚 Good CE courses
🐴 Sending my horse to a trainer
🏋️‍♀️ Working with a strength coach

Oct 24th : 1-4pmOct 25/26 : Open for horse or human Oct 29 : Open for horse or human Oct 30 : 1-4Nov 12: 9-4Message to b...
20/10/2025

Oct 24th : 1-4pm
Oct 25/26 : Open for horse or human
Oct 29 : Open for horse or human
Oct 30 : 1-4
Nov 12: 9-4

Message to book horse or mobile appointments . Have days planned for Conrad, Great Falls, Vaughn, Sand Coulee 👐

I have so many interests that led me to this career, but mostly I’m just wildly independent and needed something that i ...
19/10/2025

I have so many interests that led me to this career, but mostly I’m just wildly independent and needed something that i could control the logistics of. All through my teens and twenties I just wanted to be a cowboy - not really, I wanted to be an assistant trainer in a beautiful barn riding fancy horses. And I did. But once I got there I felt absolutely stifled. Looking back with hindsight, of course I wish I’d stayed longer, tried harder, listened closer. But that independence pushed me to find a career that could afford me the time and opportunity to stay in the saddle. It was 2011 when I graduated from massage therapy school. It took a few years and missteps to really get it right and discover who my ideal clients are, what my ideal business is. It’s a side of me that not everyone gets to see. There’s a resonance that exists in a treatment. An undeniable exchange of energies takes place. Sometimes it’s when the horse drops his head and his eye softens, sometimes it’s when the client on the table finally lets go of the guarded muscle. Those really good sessions are like universal signs to keep going. The Knot Whisperer, since 2016 but now re-establishing myself here in Montana. I look forward to seeing you on the table, at the cowhorse shows, in the cutting pen, at the ranch shows, here on the farm, in your barns and wherever else the road leads.

If you understand horsemanship, or livestock handling, you know that you can move an animal without force. Why is it so ...
17/10/2025

If you understand horsemanship, or livestock handling, you know that you can move an animal without force. Why is it so hard to believe that the same can be said for soft tissue? Finding tension (feel) and applying the right amount of force, for the right amount of time (timing), is the correlation where my horsemanship meets massage. A release of deep tissue can come from a well placed hold with the right amount of patience. You can’t rush change.

All the heat sources are on! Openings Oct 24-30th.
14/10/2025

All the heat sources are on! Openings Oct 24-30th.

Opening for one appointment this Friday on my route Conrad to Sunburst, MT.
08/10/2025

Opening for one appointment this Friday on my route Conrad to Sunburst, MT.

08/10/2025

Lameness vs compensation or stiffness - pain vs avoidance of new patterns?

Firstly before reading on, I am not a vet. I do not have a vet’s education and you should in no way replace veterinary investigation and support or advice with any thing i say.

But - a lot of times when people find their horse has some hitch in their get along, something has happened to their horse’s gait or normal responses to riding have changed, they fear pain and back off.

While we can never definitively say a horse is not in pain, there is a difference between pain and stiffness, uncertainty, or fear of changing a pattern.

And- even if there WAS pain and it is now treated, those patterns can still exist - leaving with us with a pain response and (assuming) no pain.

Quite often I help people and their horses through these spots, revealing a magically sound horse who was limping, balking, sucking back or unsteady in their gait just a few minutes or days ago-
It’s not magic, it’s mobility and movement patterns.

If the horse is actually lame - say a bone fracture - it will worsen with movement.

If the horse is STIFF or reserved in movement patterns, it should improve pretty soon with GOOD movement, not just moving around.

Where things get tricky is people often say the horse takes 15-20 mins to warm up and move out of it, and often these are sloppy or incorrect warm up patterns. We need to address range of motion, joint flexion, alignment, breathing, and of course most importantly help the horse feel safe in being in these.

To tie it together with a personal example: I found my knees and joints to be very sore and painful suddenly. I started a mobility training program and really disliked the first week of the work - but I was reminded if I feel stiff that is not the same as pain. I worked through it preserving correct range of motion over depth of squat or intensity and so on - two weeks later I already feel “sound” again.

Joints need to work through their correct range of motion, and when a horse hurts, they often protect themselves, often to their own detriment.

Don’t panic. Ride in rhythm - see what you get on the other end and re evaluate

Availability next week! Send me a message to book. Questions about cupping? Drop a comment here 👇
07/10/2025

Availability next week! Send me a message to book. Questions about cupping? Drop a comment here 👇

Mobile appointments for Horse & Rider. Up to 4 appointments in a stop per day so gather your boarders, family, friends a...
06/10/2025

Mobile appointments for Horse & Rider. Up to 4 appointments in a stop per day so gather your boarders, family, friends and horses.

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Massage Therapy for Horse & Rider. Registered massage therapist with nearly 10 years experience and a lifetime in the saddle. Education in massage, myofascial cupping and release for both humans and equines. Professional, educated and intuitive.