The growing need for a holistic or naturalistic rehabilitation center created Red Leaf Farm Inc., in Dothan, Alabama, USA in 2003. Donated horses offered a chance to study the effects of theories and to develop scientific methods of collecting data. The Balanced Horse Project TM was born.
The initial purpose was to:
Identify effective therapies and supplements that where holistic. Investigate the effective items to understand why they worked.
When testing holistic/alternative therapies or remedies in isolated environments, the results had a limited effect. When combined, these items or therapies had an impact on healing the body. The Balanced Horse Project TM expanded it purpose.
The Theory States:
The animal’s posture illustrates the influence of pain in the structure of the body. This relates directly to the resistance behavior of anxiety or aggression. Correcting the primary structural trauma will influence the degenerative process of compensatory injuries, improve physical, emotional, and overall state of health.
Employing the gestural-language system of the horse,
locates the key points of birth trauma, providing a better understanding of bio-mechanical issues. This meant that most of the physical blocks or injuries of the body were defined as compensatory effects due to unresolved birth traumas.
Research to resolve the structural resistance moved in a new direction.
Now you are talking!
Combining the theories and effects from The Body Electric:( Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life, Robert Becker, Gary Selden) and The Celestine Prophecy:( discusses psychological and spiritual ideas, James Redfield 1993), to support the domain of the electric universe andholistic therapies, developed"Organic Equine Husbandry",a whole body approach to understanding the natural process of caring for the body.
In 2003, this private project started to correlate the findings, researching the facts and documenting data, resulting in reproducible effects and protocols. The animals involved in the Balanced Horse Project TM where not expose to any:
Drugs, Limited Therapy, Corrective Appliances, Training or Artificial Sources of Food.
Using a series of stretches and pressure points, to initiate a process of balancing of the hard structures, the horse transforms itself. The Balanced Horse Technique TM evolved into an intelligent way of solving bio-mechanical imbalances by removing most of the modern influences in the horse's environment and employing limited organic support.
Did We Prove the Theory?
Results can always be changed.
You can always change an outcome bychanging the unknown variables.
The Balanced Horse Effect TM showed an effect on ALL horses exposed to the process to date
The results are reproducible, on site and off.
Blind study was done, with positive response.
The theory is proven to be fact. YES!
THE RESULTS Resistance Free Relationships
Working together in partnershp.
By redefining their posture, improving bio-mechanical function, and the state of well being produced a positive response from the horse.
The horse's confidence emerges. They share their secrets, their bodies, and their respect.
An intimate trust, understanding, and respect allows us to work in positions normally considered dangerous.
This is testimony to the relief they experience.
By changing your understanding of the wild, untamed beast, horsetraining becomes teaching. “Solve body dysfunction, remove the pain from the brain, and you will work with sound, willing horses." Patricia Cleveland, founder THE BALANCED HORSE PROJECT TM