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Collaboration Between Hoof Care Professionals & Equine Bodyworkers

In this webinar Saxon Alexandra will teach us how to interpret state veterinary laws to ascertain permitted bodywork therapies by state and to understand the distinction between equine manual bodywork modalities. We will learn to interpret the quality of training offered by various manual bodywork schools and identify green and red flags in a bodywork practitioner’s education, methods, goals, and business practices.

This webinar will help hoof care professionals feel more confident helping clients select a bodywork modality best suited to their horse and rehab goals.

Saxon Alexandra (they/them) is a non-binary, nationally-recognized equine structural integrator and massage therapist, and anatomy educator based in Vermont, United States.

Their resume in biochemistry includes lab tech work on projects examining the modulation of the mammalian circadian clock through extracellular protein signaling, optimizing organic pesticide development, and managing conservation genetics of protected ginseng populations.

After leaving academia to pursue more freedom for their gender expression, they rediscovered their childhood equine passion through grooming for FEI eventers, USEA stewarding, and rehabbing and retraining ex-racehorses in Aiken, SC.

This time in the sporthorse industry combined with their rigorous academic ethics training led Saxon to develop growing concern with modern sporthorse practices. After shadowing an equine osteopath and visiting The Equus-Soma Osteology center, they made the choice to pursue equine bodywork through The Equine Institute’s Advanced Equine Fascial Integration Therapy (EFIT) training program, pursue NBCAAM certification, and become more involved with the research and education work at Equus-Soma.

Saxon is the owner of Actuality Equine Structural Integration, and an educational docent and dissection team member with Equus-Soma Osteology and Anatomy learning center. Their goals in their practice are to empower equine guardians and professionals by making equine science education accessible.