Just my thoughts:
I believe we are in a time of change, a time of opening ourselves to inner potential, and the amazing world of animals and nature. This is where I'd like to share my journey with you.
I continue to allow the horses to lead me to new layers of learning and understanding. This has expanded my thinking and skills, my intention, and my intuition as I find new ways through gentle touch, communication, and patience to help the horse by listening to them, as they help me...give them...my best work.
I continue to allow the horses to lead me to new layers of learning and understanding. This has expanded my thinking and skills, my intention, and my intuition as I find new ways through gentle touch, communication, and patience to help the horse by listening to them, as they help me...give them...my best work.
About Tamara (Tami) Parr, CEBP
I was your basic horse crazy girl, who by the age of 9 had convinced my Mother, a horse would be a good idea. Which lead me to years of time spent on or with my horses as we walked through nature, spending hours on end within it's gentle presence. I pretty much didn’t dismount until I left home to get married. Life and marriage put the horsewoman on hold for quite a few years, as it took me into the "real" world, and away from horses & the deeper aspects of nature.
But when I decided, that my passion for horses had been shelved for long enough, and I jumped back in with both feet! First looking at horse ownership (expensive), than opting to volunteer at a horse rescue, where I started mucking stalls and grooming the horses. All the while I kept thinking there has to be more I can do to help them. I felt that they needed more than restoring their health, (which the rescue is phenomenal at doing), but something to help to renew their spirits, bring new balance and motion to their bodies, as well as incorporate a gentle touch they could trust.
My husband came home one day with the solution, a book he bought for me—a book on horse massage. I immediately connected with what the author was explaining and went to the internet. The book was Equine Massage by Jean-Pierre Hourdebaigt, R.M.T. and one I still recommend for someone wanting to give massage a try.
I found a equine bodywork workshop in Iowa and signed up. My husband went along and we took the weekend training in a technique called Masterson Method™ bodywork. I continued with this training, learning the basic techniques and mechanics of doing bodywork, and becoming certified in early 2010. It was a good foundation, but I was still hungry for more, so as I worked on the horses I continued learning and growing, devouring numerous other modalities, such as acupressure, TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), massage, Reiki, Shiatsu, and other bodywork techniques. Each new venue opening me to a deeper connection with the horses I touched. Finding numerous good teachings, and much overlap in techniques, but all with excellent outcomes in relation to the work on the horses. In the process I was also learning to trust myself, and the horses, as I worked.
I have to admit, with all my learning and work, the most important thing I learned…was in the stalls…with the horses. I learned to listen, to watch, and to be still. My greatest teachers were the horses I served. Finding as I worked, that the horses were leading me to try new techniques, to listen to there subtle queues and to trust what I felt as I worked. They also keep me grounded, for as soon as I think I've 'mastered' the work, they will teach me something new.
I have too many stories to relate here, but I’m happy to share, so I’m sure I'll be sharing them as time allows on my website, under the Case Study tab. I post a new Case Study story on horses I've worked on every month.
Then along came Kit. A horse I was asked to look at...to see if I could help find a home for him...who had had an serious injury in his pasture 3 months earlier and would not use his right front leg. He was scheduled for euthanasia if he could not be adopted out. Well now he's my horse…his shoulder, it turned out was broken....but that’s another story and you can follow it on my blog Equine a.t. Parr - Horse a.t. Balance (also accessible from a tab above.)
My dream, calling, life path or whatever you’d like to call it, is to share what I’ve learned, and what I’m continuing to learn, with others. My desire is to use these techniques working on horses, bringing balance and comfort to to them. But I also want to share this with their owners, helping them learn how to do simple techniques and to build these connections and insights for themselves.
This ability is not mine alone, but one I’ve been entrusted to share with you, to help you too to make this connection. As we all work toward the best quality of life for our equine partners.
Tamara (Tami) Parr, CEBP
Equine a.t. Parr
Beaver Dam, WI
920-253-8151
Teaching others to reach as many horses as possible.
But when I decided, that my passion for horses had been shelved for long enough, and I jumped back in with both feet! First looking at horse ownership (expensive), than opting to volunteer at a horse rescue, where I started mucking stalls and grooming the horses. All the while I kept thinking there has to be more I can do to help them. I felt that they needed more than restoring their health, (which the rescue is phenomenal at doing), but something to help to renew their spirits, bring new balance and motion to their bodies, as well as incorporate a gentle touch they could trust.
My husband came home one day with the solution, a book he bought for me—a book on horse massage. I immediately connected with what the author was explaining and went to the internet. The book was Equine Massage by Jean-Pierre Hourdebaigt, R.M.T. and one I still recommend for someone wanting to give massage a try.
I found a equine bodywork workshop in Iowa and signed up. My husband went along and we took the weekend training in a technique called Masterson Method™ bodywork. I continued with this training, learning the basic techniques and mechanics of doing bodywork, and becoming certified in early 2010. It was a good foundation, but I was still hungry for more, so as I worked on the horses I continued learning and growing, devouring numerous other modalities, such as acupressure, TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), massage, Reiki, Shiatsu, and other bodywork techniques. Each new venue opening me to a deeper connection with the horses I touched. Finding numerous good teachings, and much overlap in techniques, but all with excellent outcomes in relation to the work on the horses. In the process I was also learning to trust myself, and the horses, as I worked.
I have to admit, with all my learning and work, the most important thing I learned…was in the stalls…with the horses. I learned to listen, to watch, and to be still. My greatest teachers were the horses I served. Finding as I worked, that the horses were leading me to try new techniques, to listen to there subtle queues and to trust what I felt as I worked. They also keep me grounded, for as soon as I think I've 'mastered' the work, they will teach me something new.
I have too many stories to relate here, but I’m happy to share, so I’m sure I'll be sharing them as time allows on my website, under the Case Study tab. I post a new Case Study story on horses I've worked on every month.
Then along came Kit. A horse I was asked to look at...to see if I could help find a home for him...who had had an serious injury in his pasture 3 months earlier and would not use his right front leg. He was scheduled for euthanasia if he could not be adopted out. Well now he's my horse…his shoulder, it turned out was broken....but that’s another story and you can follow it on my blog Equine a.t. Parr - Horse a.t. Balance (also accessible from a tab above.)
My dream, calling, life path or whatever you’d like to call it, is to share what I’ve learned, and what I’m continuing to learn, with others. My desire is to use these techniques working on horses, bringing balance and comfort to to them. But I also want to share this with their owners, helping them learn how to do simple techniques and to build these connections and insights for themselves.
This ability is not mine alone, but one I’ve been entrusted to share with you, to help you too to make this connection. As we all work toward the best quality of life for our equine partners.
Tamara (Tami) Parr, CEBP
Equine a.t. Parr
Beaver Dam, WI
920-253-8151
Teaching others to reach as many horses as possible.