Tui Na massage: Wouldn’t it be something if your horse could have a consistent, harmonious flow of stomach chi and could avoid colic, founder, stomach ulcers, and any other digestion issues horses are prone to have? Wild horses roam and … Read full article
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Homeopathy for Animals – Q&A with Shirley Moore
We receive a LOT of questions about homeopathy for animals: which remedies to use for various conditions, how to give the remedies, and most of all, questions around preventing and treating Lyme disease. Shirley has very kindly been responding to … Read full article
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Healing Horses With Reiki: Heart To Heart With Horses Part 2
This is part two of an excerpt from Kathleen Prasad’s book on healing horses with Reiki, titled Heart to Heart with Horses. If you missed the first … Read full article
Chinese Medicine and the Equine Tongue
Have you ever really looked at your horse’s tongue? It can be a challenging task if he’s private about his mouth, but it can also be important. In … Read full article
Tong Ren Energy Healing For Animals
By Cattie Coyle
I first heard about Tong Ren a few years ago, when a friend of mine went to a workshop with her Mother. There were many people there with stories of … Read full article
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Friday Links: New Bird Species, Duck Gets New Foot, Dog Saves Owner
By Cattie Coyle
New Species of Bird Discovered in Cambodia Scientists have discovered a previously unknown bird species right in the capital city of Phnom Penh. The small, grey red-capped bird has been named Cambodian tailorbird, Orthotomus chaktomuk, and Simon Mahood of the … Continue Reading...
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By Cattie Coyle
Today's post is about Acupressure. We had a number of acupressure classes when I was at Bancroft, but I have to confess that at the time, I was so focused on learning massage that I found it a bit overwhelming to look at health from a TCM perspective, which is … Continue Reading...
Crystal Therapy Q&A – Learning Crystal Therapy, How To Use Healing Crystals, And More
We get a lot of questions about crystal therapy and how to work with crystals, so today’s post is a Q&A with crystal expert Karen Ryan where she answers some of the ones we hear the most often. Q: I am looking for an online school that teaches crystal … Continue Reading...
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With the holidays now upon us, many of us are beginning to feel the stress of this time of year. So how can we make the holidays more mindful? How can we get back to truly enjoying this time of year? I plan to approach this holiday season with a more mindful … Continue Reading...
Q&A: How To Get Referrals from Veterinarians
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Q: How can practitioners of alternative therapies get referrals from veterinarians? What can someone just starting out do to develop a relationship with a veterinarian (that will hopefully lead to referrals)? Building relationships and collaboration are … Continue Reading...
What Are You Excited About This Fall?
By Cattie Coyle
As I mentioned in the last newsletter, I am always sad to see summer come to an end, but fall brings other delights, and not only the beauty of nature. It is a time for new beginnings - the kids are going back to school, we return to work after vacations that … Continue Reading...
Business Monday: How Do I Figure Out If There Is A Market For My Business?
By Cattie Coyle
We get a lot of questions on how to figure out if there is a market for the modality you want to learn so you can be sure that you will have paying customers after you graduate. Marketing and market research is a huge part of any business, and one that many … Continue Reading...
Homeopathy Part 1 – What Is It and How Does It Work?
By Cattie Coyle
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By Cattie Coyle
Today’s post is an interview with (and case studies from) Reading-based (UK) Reiki Master / Teacher, human and animal Aromatherapist Chrissie Slade. Chrissie is the founder and owner of Gorgeous Guineas, the world’s first company to create aromatherapy … Continue Reading...
Book Review: Wild Health
By Cattie Coyle
As I mentioned in the post about my trip to England, one of the things that made me decide to study Applied Zoopharmacognosy was the book Wild Health by Cindy Engel. It is a fabulous collection of examples of how plants develop secondary metabolites (compounds … Continue Reading...