Why This Course Matters

• Provides a clear, step-by-step process to identify, assess, and prioritize tack fit issues and other primary issues affecting the horse.

• Equips practitioners to recognize how tack, rider influence, and other factors contribute to tissue injury, dysfunction, and tension.

• Offers tools, practice, and frameworks to interpret the horse’s pain language — translating physical and behavioral expressions into identifiable tack-related concerns.

• Strengthens understanding of fundamental tack fit principles, including the long-term physiological consequences of chronically poor fit.

• Sharpens sensory “listening” skills by cultivating intentional, grounded awareness and encouraging the practitioner’s intuitive insights.

• Presents a detailed gallery of sensory cues, tactile clues, and observable injury patterns, organized by tack zone and type, to strengthen practitioners’ capacity for informed observation and assessment.

• Reinforces the core strengths of bodyworkers — refined assessment, tactile sensitivity, and thoughtful reasoning.

• Provides essential strategies and repeatable communication tools to navigate one of the profession’s most delicate tasks: discussing with clients what the horse’s body is telling us.

• Upholds high professional standards by emphasizing clear, collaborative, and ethical communication — without crossing the line into diagnosis.

• Empowers practitioners to better advocate for equine well-being, particularly in cases where tack-related pain or injury is overlooked, misunderstood, or mislabeled as poor behavior.

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This is why Beneath the Leather was pre-approved for The Masterson Method® Continuing Education—and why it will elevate your practice from Day 1.