Rider Sports Massage

Most of us, as riders, have a tendency to prioritise our horses health over our own and can overlook what an important role we play in our physical partnership. If your horse required you to have a 5* vetting for your own body, how do you think you would get on?

Do you have previous injuries you haven’t had checked, or rehabilitated properly, as you would with your horse?

Do you find you are stronger, or more dominant, on one side of your body, or feel a ‘crookedness’ when you ride, which in turn affects your horse’s way of going?

Do you feel tightness and tension in certain areas, that restricts and limits your posture and abilities in the saddle?

These are all questions we should be asking ourselves as riders and consider what is being transferred from our own bodies to our horses as we train. How can we help them to carry us on their backs in comfort and with ease? This is something we must remain aware of at all times.

Because horse and rider will adapt and accommodate for each other’s imbalances and restrictions, it is so beneficial to have a combined session, to really help you work as a partnership. 

Some benefits include...

• Increase the blood circulation and lymphatic drainage, helping to eliminate toxins.

• Speed up and assist with muscle recovery. 

• Reduce the risk of injury. 

• Address asymmetry in the body, enabling you to sit straighter, in better balance and influence the horse more positively. 

• Improve on your posture and position. 

• Free restrictions in the body, allowing you to use your aids more clearly and effectively and without blocking the horses movement.

• Gain better body awareness and feel.

• Reduce pain, discomfort and stiffness. 

• Reduce your risk of soft tissue injury. 

• Promote relaxation. 

• Can improve on your endurance and performance in the saddle.  

• Improve on your proprioception, coordination and spatial awareness. 

• Help you work as one with your horse. 

• Release endorphins - the bodies natural pain killer!