We ask our horses to carry different kinds of weight, from the saddle to the rider, yet is your horse also carrying the weight of your expectations? Expectations can weight heavy on our horses just as they can on ourselves. This week, Amy and Ross explore expectations, where they originate, how you can liberate and just how deeply this somewhat overlooked aspect of the human psyche can have on the relationship between you and your horse.

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Joining Ross and Amy in conversation this week are registered Osteopaths, Sara Fina and Dr Ross Johnston, founders of The Johnston Farina Method®, and the Johnston Farina Academy. In her practice, Sara Fina combines advanced osteopathic principles with a clinical approach founded on a deep belief that every animal deserves thoughtful, individualised care, whilst Dr Ross Johnston, a research-active osteopath and educator and is an internationally recognised pain specialist with more than two decades of clinical and academic experience. With individual backgrounds in their respective professions within human and animal osteopathy, Ross and Sara share each of their pathways into osteopathy, discussing how we can look at manual therapy in more compassionate ways by accounting for the horses lived experience through a neurodynamic and bi-directional approach, working to be less mechanistic and more holistic; creating a relationship with the patient, regardless of species, is at the heart of the creation of the Johnston-Farina Method® To find out more about the Johnston Farina Method at The Johnston Farina Academy, including future courses and educational resources, visit the website at https://www.johnstonfarina.com/

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