When your animal suffers, so do you. My job is to alleviate the pain and suffering that keeps your loved one from feeling their very best.
If your animal suffers from mobility issues, gait abnormalities, structural, visceral, or lymphatic problems, please give me a call so I can help return your friend to optimal health and top performance.
Many horses experience stiffness or pain resulting from stress, trauma, or injury, which limits their ability to feel great and perform at their best.
To give you an idea of how I can help, here is a list of just some of the issues I can help you improve or resolve.
Whether your dog is a cuddle bug, athlete, hiking buddy, search & rescue, working, or service dog, injuries and illness can happen.
Here is a list of just some of the things I can help you improve or resolve so your friend can return to full health.
* Swelling or pain
* Arthritis
* Hock issues
* Lack of head or neck flexion
* Shoulder imbalance
* Saddle, girth, or cinch soreness
* Inability to pick up lead
* Bucking
* Irregularities in stride
* Lameness
* Swelling or pain
* Arthritis
* Listlessness, general malaise or crankiness
* Limping or dragging a leg
* Postural imbalances
* Roached back
* Tweeky head carriage
* Irregularities in stride
* Aging issues
* ACL issues
Everything you do and feel affects your horse’s ability to perform.
If you’re stiff, in pain, experiencing stress or the after-effects of trauma, you’re horse will adjust his or her gait to carry you.
This adjusted gait limits your horse’s ability to move freely and perform at his or her best.
At Beth Mantis Bodyworks, we know that to achieve maximum connection and performance, both the horse and rider’s issues must be addressed.
When your dog is ill or is recovering from medical treatment or surgery, he or she can often use help to restore optimal function and health.
Illness, or the recovery from medical treatment, can require help to restore optimal function in facia and corresponding tissue so they can return to full function and health
After injury or illness, bio-mechanical correction, facia release, and visceral and lymphatic work are all incorporated to restore optimal healthy function.
Although his recovery has taken around 15 months, with the use of a variety of specialized techniques, he is now better able to walk, navigate mud, hang out with his herd, and is once again enjoying his food.
He is still a work in progress.
Private sessions can be scheduled for your dog, your horse, or for both you and your horse.
Each session includes a remote intake of the issue or goal, an in-person evaluation of the situation, and hands-on application of the modality(s) that will best address the issue at hand. See Qualifications page for more on modalities.
Private sessions are booked @ $175 per hour for the initial session and $125/hour for follow-up sessions. Private sessions take place at your home or barn. The minimum trip fee is $35.
The initial private session usually lasts 1.5 hours. Follow-up sessions usually last 1.25 hours.
Clinics are schedule at your barn for a minimum of 4 horse and riders.
Our clinics not only work with you as part of a group but include personal hands-on bodywork for each horse & rider.
Our 1-day clinics are limited to 4 participants so that each horse and rider receives the individual attention needed to make the improvements you deserve. 2-day clinics can be scheduled should you have more horses & riders who wish to attend.
1-day clinics are $225 per horse & rider. The auditing fee is $30. The minimum trip fee is $35.
Whether you want a private session or a specialized clinic, call me. I’m happy to talk about your needs and how I can help.
503-887-6070
After using every technique in my repertoire, by the end of the summer, he was fully recover. Years later I saw him enjoying a perfectly normal life.
Oz, my 30-year-old Hanoverian heart horse, started having trouble getting up several weeks ago. Luckily, he lives at Heavenly Days Stables, and is taken care of by Sandy and her family.
Sandy did not give up on Oz. Instead, she gathered the troops to help him up, which turned into a daily event. Oz weighs about 1,300 pounds…so it took butt straps, at least 2 strong people, and a whole lot of love and determination to repeat this process every day for 2 weeks until Beth was able to come work on him.
Oz didn’t have any other symptoms, other than not being able to get up on his own. As you can see from his picture, he is in great shape but apparently, he had injured himself in some way that he was not able to get up.
Although he seemed happy to graze and enjoy life after Sandy got him up each day, as the days wore on, he seemed to start to give up on life. By the time Beth came to town, I was unsure we could save him.
I’ve seen Beth get amazing results with horses over the last 15 years that I’ve known her, so I still held out hope, but it was dwindling. I just could not imagine how much longer Sandy would be able to save him every day if he could not get up on his own. Or how long his will to survive would remain if he could not get up on his own.
Then Beth arrived and told us that, besides whatever structural issues she saw, he was exhibiting systemic issues as well. Oz’s spleen was super hot, his gums were very pale, and his heart did not have the motility that it should have, making it hard for Beth to even find the heartbeat. And his body was puffy with lymph fluid.
We started to really consider euthanasia. It was heartbreaking for all of us. Of course, Sandy was right there with us. But Beth did not give up. She started working on him. I can’t remember the order of what she did but Beth worked on his spleen, heart and lymph system. After she was able to get his internal systems working better (gums were pink again!), she started on injuries.She worked on him for three and a half hours using everything in her extensive arsenal.
We all head our breath the next day, hoping he would be able to get up on his own…and he did!!! Between Sandy’s love and determination to get Oz up every day, and Beth’s ability to resolve all his issues, Oz was saved.
Beth came back out and worked on him two more times before returning home to Washington. Oz has been getting up on his own ever since. Oz has his desire for life back. He is being his usual expressive self, telling us (especially Sandy) exactly what he wants and where he wants to be. He is not a shy horse in any way.
It’s hard to find the words to express my gratitude to Beth and Sandy. Maybe there really are no words that can do the job, but my heart is bursting with love and gratitude for their love, their ability, and their strength and determination to save my beautiful Oz.
Thank you for reading my story about these two powerful women.
Kalee Gracse, Estacada/Colton OR
A properly fit saddle is imperative to your horse’s health and your overall performance. With a properly fit saddle, your performance will improve and the fluidity of motion that you achieve with your bodywork session will be sustainable.
Saddle fitting can be added to any equine bodywork session or clinic. Call us at 503-887-6070 to find out how.
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