Equine Massage Effleurage

Video Transcript

"So in any of the techniques that we've been using, when you're done, a good way to close and to let the horse know that you're done, and to just give the muscles a break, let them know that you're moving on, is just effleurage. Either stroking with your fingers closed and flat, with your fingers open and a sort of a combing technique. But again, starting at the horse's head, neck, moving down, covering all the areas that you've worked on. Down the horse's legs, the sides, down the back, the abdomen, down the hindquarters. And you can use fairly heavy pressure on that, being careful when you're doing the abdomen to not use pressure that's too heavy, more of a light to moderate pressure in that area is better. But again, just stroking from the horse's pull all the way back to his tail."