The Horse Lover's Guide to Massage: What Your Horse Wants You to Know
As a Veterinary chiropractor, I feel it is important for animal owners to do follow-up massages at home after my treatments.The Dog Lover's Guide to MassageandThe Horse Lover's Guide to Massageare perfect guides. Both books show owners how to proceed safely while providing very beneficial therapy.This knowledge would enable owners to detect problem areas more easily and give them valuable tools to provide pain relief and aid healing for their own animals. If more owners practiced the techniques discussed in these books, their animals would very likely need fewer treatments from their veterinary chiropractors....Megan Ayrault is a gifted massage therapist; I have seen the benefits of her work firsthand.... and she conveys the same calm, patient, healing intention to the readers of her books.As an equine and canine veterinarian, chiropractor, and acupuncturist, I would love for all of my clients to have the education that Megan's animal massage books provide! --~Dr. Kari De Leeuw DVM, VSMT, CVA Equine Holisitc Sports Medicine, Moss Beach, CAI am a horse artist and I have six rescued horses, however horse massage is something I've never thought I could learn myself. I always felt I'd have to learn detailed anatomy and techniques in an expensive course. Megan Ayrault's book,The Horse Lover's Guide to Massage, is enlightening and easy to read. She offers practical tools and techniques that can be incorporated into daily life. The photos and illustrations are well done, and her demonstrations and suggestions for how to understand a horse's needs from a wholistic perspective, and her suggestions of how to incorporate massage into your lifestyle, make it much more than just a 'how to' book.Megan has inspired me to find new ways to spend some special time with my horses. --~Kim McElroy, Illustrator of The Way of the Horse Book and Card set, and Author and Illustrator of The Way of the Horse Journal Spirit of Horse Gallery, Kingston, WAReadingThe Horse Lover's Guide to Massageshould be on every horse-owner's, rider's or trainer's To-Do list. Few could summarize the vast world of massage and bodywork with such clarity and enthusiasm as Megan has in this book. Having known her and watched her professionally for many years, I was overjoyed to see how much of her compassion for the animals shines through in her words. I now have an answer for that plaguing question; 'What can I get my horse-loving friends that they don t already have?!' --~Lola Michelin, Founder and Director Northwest School of Animal Massage, Fall City, WAI am a horse artist and I have six rescued horses, however horse massage is something I've never thought I could learn myself. I always felt I'd have to learn detailed anatomy and techniques in an expensive course. Megan Ayrault's book,The Horse Lover's Guide to Massage, is enlightening and easy to read. She offers practical tools and techniques that can be incorporated into daily life. The photos and illustrations are well done, and her demonstrations and suggestions for how to understand a horse's needs from a wholistic perspective, and her suggestions of how to incorporate massage into your lifestyle, make it much more than just a 'how to' book.Megan has inspired me to find new ways to spend some special time with my horses. --~Kim McElroy, Illustrator of The Way of the Horse Book and Card set, and Author and Illustrator of The Way of the Horse Journal Spirit of Horse Gallery, Kingston, WAReadingThe Horse Lover's Guide to Massageshould be on every horse-owner's, rider's or trainer's To-Do list. Few could summarize the vast world of massage and bodywork with such clarity and enthusiasm as Megan has in thi --~Lola Michelin, Founder and Director Northwest School of Animal Massage, Fall City, WAI am a horse artist and I have six rescued horses, however horse massage is something   I've never thought I could learn myself. I always felt I'd have to learn detailed anatomy   and techniques in an expensive course. Megan Ayrault's book,The Horse Lover's Guide   to Massage, is enlightening and easy to read. She offers practical tools and techniques   that can be incorporated into daily life. The photos and illustrations are well done, and   her demonstrations and suggestions for how to understand a horse's needs from a wholistic perspective, and her suggestions of how to incorporate massage into your lifestyle, make it much more than just a 'how to' book.Megan has inspired me to find new ways to spend some special time with my horses. --~Kim McElroy, Illustrator of The Way of the Horse Book and Card set, and Author and Illustrator of The Way of the Horse Journal Spirit of Horse Gallery, Kingston, WAReadingThe Horse Lover's Guide to Massageshould be on every horse-owner's, rider's or trainer's To-Do list. Few could summarize the vast world of massage and bodywork with such clarity and enthusiasm as Megan has in this book. Having known her and   watched her professionally for many years, I was overjoyed to see how much of her   compassion for the animals shines through in her words. I now have an answer for that   plaguing question; 'What can I get my horse-loving friends that they don t already   have?!' --~Lola Michelin, Founder and Director Northwest School of Animal Massage, Fall City, WA