11/05/2026
One of my clients asked me a really thoughtful question today:
“Why do you usually wait around 6 weeks before coming back, when many therapists want to see the horse again the following week?”
And honestly… it’s such an important conversation.
A lot of therapies focus primarily on muscles. But muscles are often the end result of something happening elsewhere in the body.
Muscles respond to information coming from the nervous system, fascia, compensation patterns, old injuries, restriction, imbalance, or irritation somewhere deeper in the system.
So if you only release the muscle without addressing why it tightened in the first place, it often returns to the same pattern quite quickly.
That’s why my work is less about repeatedly chasing symptoms, and more about trying to understand the primary restriction underneath the compensation.
Sometimes that may involve fascial tension. Sometimes nerve irritation. Sometimes scar tissue. Sometimes a deeper biomechanical pattern the body has adapted around for months or even years.
When the body begins to unwind those deeper patterns, it needs time.
Time to integrate. Time to reorganise. Time to find a new sense of balance and homeostasis.
Very often, the real changes happen after the session, not during it.
And if we intervene too frequently, we can sometimes interrupt the body’s own adaptation process before it has fully settled.
That’s also why each session often reveals the “next layer” once the previous compensation has softened.
Healing is rarely linear. And sometimes, doing less but working more deeply, creates far more lasting change.
France 🐴❤️
