Your Instructor, Mira Jarrett has been a Licensed Massage Therapist since 1998, and a Massage Instructor since 2005.
After completing an Equine Massage Certification Class in 2001. Mira started her Equine Massage career working at Dressage shows in College Station, Houston and Dallas. She also volunteered for the Texas A&M Women's Polo Team, massaging and stretching the teams Polo horses. She has also taken 40 credit hours of Non-invasive Equine Chiropractic Techniques to add to her Equine Massages.
" I love working on horses."
" Horses are so appreciative of their massage. During their first massage, the horses are very curious as to what you're doing to them. They soon realize that whatever it is, it definitely feels good, and start relaxing at that on. After around their 3rd massage the horse cant wait for you to get him/her out of his stall and start working on him.
" I use my own specific blends of essential oils when I give massages."
Most of the time when I walk into the barn and the horse smells the oils I'm carrying, he'll start nickering and wants out of his stall, he now knows he's getting a massage. It's amazing to watch them react to the oils after just a few sessions.
Don't get me wrong, I love working on people too, but to work on a horse is the best feeling. The horse will start to drop his head, next he'll start chewing, his eyes start closing more and more, his head drops even further, and some of them actually fall asleep while you're working on them.
When I stretch that horse, and he now leans into the stretch because it feels so good to him........it's such a great feeling to know I'm able to help that horse."
" What more can I say........I love my work."
" That's why I worked for several long months developing such an in-depth curriculum for Equine Massage Therapy."
What people dont realize, Horses are athletes, they develop sore muscles, pulled ligaments and tendons, torn cartilage and bruising just as a human athelete.
" Most of us also , dont realize how sensitive a horse's body really is. Have you ever watched a horse react when just one fly lands on their back? His entire back twitches because of that one lone fly. Makes you wonder, doesnt it"