How to do Equine Breathing with your horse

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• 1N is safe and simple - for more advanced techniques see below

• 1N requires no special equipment

• can be learned by following simple directions available  free  (see below)

• is enjoyed by the horse

• can be done by most people on most horses including foals

• encourages healing at a gentle rate

• extraordinarily easy to do and yet can have significant benefits

 Equine Breathing

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  To learn 1N...

1. Click here for your own  free  PDF download containing basic instructions and 

2. View this demonstration video of 1N. It may take a few seconds to load.

For more information buy the Equine Breathing Starter Guide for only £4.95.  

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 using the Equine Breather or the Grazing Breather 

UK Patent No GB 2402597B

Two types of Breather are available.

The Equine Breather is the most effective means of doing Equine Breathing and is used for designated Breather sessions. The Grazing Breather is the most flexible means of doing Equine Breathing and can be used for hours at a time and when the horse is grazing. Click here for a detailed comparison of the two types of Breather.

Features of the Equine and Grazing Breathers

• Recommended if the horse has moderate to severe symptoms 

• Recommended for long term and difficult conditions

• Healing can be more intense

• Requires training for the handler  - a 90 minute instructional DVD

• Provides a versatile and more powerful Equine Breathing effect for little effort

• 2 years of age and upward

• Enjoyed by horses

Grazing Breather

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Advantages of the Equine Breather or Grazing Breather

• Ideal for busy people - saves time and can be fitted in to your schedule

• Can be used flexibly depending on the situation

• Can be used at crucial times as a powerful 'intervention' to change habits

• Can be used to reduce fear and stress in difficult situations

• Can be used to help recovery from injury or illness

• Can be used to improve performance

• Helps improve safety of horse and rider

• More than one horse can be breathed at the same time

• One Equine Breather can be used on several horses (drying time permitting)

Successful in trials for sweet itch, hay fever, headshaking, COPD, wind sucking, separation anxiety and phobias.

Horses find it very relaxing as shown by Calico here in her first Breather session. Calico usually was very sensitive about things on her head, even headcollars. 

The idea is that one of the benefits of returning the carbon dioxide in the lungs to normal levels is that more oxygen is available to the body. see How it works

Using your management regime to help your horse

Factors in the management regime that encourage over breathing will counteract the healing effect of Equine Breathing. Its impossible to say how much of a detraction this will be. You may wish to discuss the options with your professional advisors such as your vet, but if at all possible avoid the following;

• stabling, box rest or box weaning

• Incorrect hoof management

• feeding concentrates with gaps in between meals

• rugging and clipping

• stressful situations 

• unnecessary drugs and chemical treatments.

Factors that can be helpful include;

• full turn out with continuous grazing

• Barefoot

• Good hoof trimming

• use of horse's own coat only for good thermoregulation

• unrefined salt freely available

• natural horsemanship handling (increases trust which helps reduce breathing)

• plenty of exercise in balance with horse's inclination

Clearly its better to try and avoid deterioration in your horse's breathing pattern.  Understanding the role of triggers that increase breathing helps you to do this.

Triggers for over breathing include

1. emotional and physiological stress
2. inactivity
3. over eating rich food
4. over heating
5. toxic stress
6. copying other horses or humans

If you are lucky enough to have a foal consider bringing the foal through stressful events such as weaning and travelling with 1N Equine Breathing to help keep their breathing at the normal volume. 1N may also facilitate training.

If you would like to help build up a body of experience and case study data on Equine Breathing you might like to participate in  trials.

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