A hollow back is one of the most common poor postural positions seen in the horse. It prevents the horse stepping through correctly, leads t

A Mindfulness Colouring Book I am proud to announce my new book, Exploring Equine Anatomy , was launched on 30th July and is now officially available. Completely different from my other books and amalgamating anatomical drawing skills with knowledge of anatomy, I have created this mindfulness colouring book to sooth the mind, nourish the soul and feed the intellect. Containing 3 colour plates and 30 different black and white drawings based on a variety of breeds and movements, it is divided...

With our usual courses and events cancelled, being unable to travel and being at home more I have certainly been putting my time to good use! I am thoroughly enjoying spending time with my beautiful horses, planning online lectures for the future and writing books! I thought it was high time I shared the progress of them with you. In June I was pleased to publish my first multimedia book and associated video lectures on the pelvic region: The videos include: Video 1: The Sacroiliac Ligaments ...

An article about the importance of heath, stability and posture of the sacroiliac region and new Multimedia book by Gillian Higgins.

Hello and welcome to the final part of this 15 part blog series on the Horses Inside Out Conference 2020 - Anatomy In Action. I will be sad to finish this series of blogs as I have thoroughly enjoyed re-living the conference weekend, delving back into my notes and re-discovering some of what we learned that weekend. There is so much information to absorb over the 2 days that it’s impossible to retain all the information. Overall I thought the weekend was so well run, the venue was fab,...

Last summer we adopted Pumpernickel from the Blue Cross. This is an update on how he's getting on! Pumpernickel is a very friendly, busy and interested character. If anything is happening he likes to get involved and comes over to see what is going on! Pumpernickel's main job is to be a companion pony for Freddie Fox with whom he has become firm friends. We are keen that he does not put on too much weight especially before the spring grass properly comes through. So, to restrict his grazing,...

This is the third in a series of blogs sharing Top Tip videos and extracts from my book Pilates and Stretching for Horses. This time we focu

Hello and welcome to the penultimate part of my blog series on the Horses Inside Out Annual Conference 2020 – Anatomy In Action. Today I would like to briefly share with you the Scientific Poster Presentation Area that was on display at the conference. The posters were on display in the same room as the anatomy exhibition and there was plenty of time to browse the posters during the weekend of the conference in the breaks between presenters and at the beginning and end of the day. The...

Hello and welcome back to my blog on the Horses Inside Out conference 2020 - Anatomy In Action. Today I wanted to share with you a little bit about the presentation stands that were available to browse at the conference. It’s tempting to write a piece on each of the stands, but that would make this blog run into many more parts, so I thought I would instead let you know who was exhibiting and their details so if you want to find out more about them you can do your own research. When arriving...

As we are all restricted with what we can do with our horses at the moment, I wanted to share some exercises that you can easily do with your horse at home. This is the second in a series of blogs sharing Top Tip videos and extracts from my book Pilates and Stretching for Horses . This time we focus on the principles of core stability, the core muscles and share top tips for core stability exercises using reflexes. This article includes extracts from Gillian’s book How the Horse Moves,...