Hi >How much pressure do you use with your fingertips? How long do you hold >and then release?
That depends on the sensitivity of your horse. It is definitely a press, release, or a curling with the fingertips with a release. If you just press into anything it just presses against. You can also use a scratching zig zagging motion with both hands back and forth under the horse's belly. It should just be enough pressure to get some movement in the back but that can be hard to tell if you have bent your knees to reach under the belly and sometimes it takes a person watching to see that there is movement. If there is no movement in the horse's back coming up it could be the technique or it can also be that the horse is too jammed in the back or pelvis and therefore can't raise his back. Sometimes doing some tail and pelvic work can facilitate the back freeing. Robyn Icelandic Horse Farm Robyn Hood & Phil Pretty Vernon BC Canada www.icefarm.com >
