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Helping shut down or nervy horses find healing through true connection and relaxation with their owners. Hi i'm Raven Seager!
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Lifelong horsewoman and happy owner of our small herd of 3 horses, Shylee our Irish cob, Drago our cheeky Shetland pony and Percival (aka Percy) our huge Percheron. Every cloud has a silver lining, even for horses! My path in life, is to help you solve your problems with your horses, my heart going out especially to working with shut down horses. Those whom have been through the mill and have lost

the joy of movement. Together we will bring your horse back to life, through ways of connection, mindfulness and trust.

09/01/2026

Absolutely stunning!
Do you have a favourite piece of equine art?

30/09/2025

The Leverage Theory: sounds nice in textbooks, but totally wrong in real life

They say 👉 “A long toe tears the laminae apart through leverage.”

Well, apparently, nobody told this long toe it was meant to tear laminae 🙄

We’ve all heard this line repeated like gospel - but when you look at real hooves, it doesn’t hold up.

At a recent workshop, we trimmed a hoof that was extremely overgrown - high-heeled with a very overgrown toe.

To demonstrate the difference, we did a half-and-half trim: one side left untouched, the other trimmed back.

👉 Here’s what you can see in the photos:

🤔 The toe was far longer than nature intended.

🤔 The foot was indeed overdue for a trim and had lost surface area.

BUT the white line? Still tight. No major stretch. No tearing.

Why? Because despite being overgrown, this hoof had remained balanced. The internal capsule wasn’t under abnormal tension, so the laminae weren’t being ripped apart.

👉 This flies in the face of the leverage myth. If a long toe alone were enough to tear laminae, this foot should have shown major damage - but it didn’t.

This toe was long in the vertical plane, but so too were the heels. Hoof growth rates had remained fairly even.

The real issue isn’t length in isolation. It’s imbalance and distortion within the capsule.

When a hoof grows or is trimmed out of harmony with its constants, tension builds and separation follows.

But when overgrowth happens in relative balance, the hoof can stay remarkably intact - albeit not ideal with a shortened surface area.

So next time someone says “long toe = laminar tearing,” remember this hoof. It’s not about the lever, it’s about the balance.

Balance beats mythical leverage >> every - single - time

HM.

Join our free rehab group and learn what real balance is about (and forget lever forces!) - The Phoenix Way: Path 2 Hoof Health

13/09/2025

9 heels. 9 horses. 8 different human ideas of heel height.

Only 1 heel is natural. Chosen by the horse.

The rest? Human choice.

And every one of these horses - except the natural one - had separated laminae, was in dreadful pain, was suffering, and...
.. diagnosed with... you guessed it... “LAMINITIS”

But it wasn’t diet was it?

It was the trimming. Personal Preference Trimming (PPT) to be precise.

If only horses could talk, eh?

HM.

02/08/2025

Hopefully Shylee will have a foal next summer!

01/08/2025

Yesterday the 3rd session helping this beautiful Andalusian mare Laila, over her fear of trailer loading. I will be instructing the owner in liberty training connecting with her horse, and showing her how to help her horse self-regulate which will stop the irritated tail swishing 😆, but Laila put on her brave boots, and put 2 feet onto the trailer for the very first time!
When she did this, we rewarded her with attention and called it a day.

16/06/2025

Trailer loading practice with Shylee.
It's important to help your horse to become relaxed and compliant before any kind of training. I have trained Shylee with liberty training, helping her to self-regulate, making things such as trailer loading, a lot easier!
How easily does your horse trailer load? Let me know in the comments below!

21/05/2025

Hubby and I are building a Romany vardo, which our horses will pull after i have trained them to. Here a greeting to all my amazing horse friend followers from the bedroom window!

21/05/2025

Shylee is in heat, considering we want a foal from her, she will need to be able to load in a trailer. So today, I did some preliminary training to walk through a narrow space. I've been practising with cones next to a fence which went really well, with all the liberty training she's had.
I took her to the barn, and practised leading her through the barn door. The first time she tripped on the ridge along the underneath of the door, so she decided to jump it a couple of times, like on this video, which I thought was quite funny haha. We repeated it a number of times until she walked nicely through. When she'd done that. I stood to one side, and sent her through, without me being in front of her, and though she found that a bit more scary, after a couple of attempts she walked through nicely. I don't think that trailer loading is going to be any problem at all! 'm so proud of my girl, she's come so far! 🥰😍🐎

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