Photonic Light Therapy Works By
- Reducing inflammation
- Helping fight infections.
- Stimulating tissue granulation.
- Relaxing muscles.
- Supporting the lymphatic system, promoting faster elimination of swelling in tissues.
- Stimulating acupoints and unblocks meridian lines promoting calmness and eases emotional stress.
- Increasing the production of endorphins – proving a natural pain relief for your horse.
- Increasing serotonin levels within the body, the main hormone that acts as a mood stabiliser. This hormone has an impact on the entire body.
- Increasing circulation, allowing more blood supply to reach damaged tissues and faster removal of metabolic wastes.
- Stimulating the production of collagen, an essential protein that repairs damaged tissue, including aging skin and scars.
- Encouraging the release of Adenosine Triphosphate – ATP. ATP is the primary carrier of energy to all cells. Increases in cellular ATP levels allow the cells to function more effectively and get rid of wastes faster.
What is Photonic Light Therapy?
Photonic Light Therapy supports the entire body. It helps to heal joints, muscles, and damaged tissue. It promotes self-healing within the body, increases energy, and reduces pain and inflammation. It can be included as an effective part of your horse’s rehabilitation following injury or trauma.
Using a light wavelength of 660nm, the light penetrates the skin and stimulates tissue regeneration. Did you know that healthy cells vibrate around this wavelength!
Amanda uses photonic light therapy on acupressure points to promote healing through your horse’s body, providing them with a gentle and non – invasive effective therapy. This practice is also known as Photopuncture. In essence, it is ‘acupuncture without the needles.
How Can It Help
Photonic Light Therapy Addresses Numerous Issues with One Gentle and Non-Invasive Modality
Photonic Light Therapy can support your horse with:*
- Acute injuries
- Colic
- Lameness
- Hoof issues including laminitis
- Hyoid issues
- Emotional stress
- Muscle, tendon, and ligament injuries
- Arthritic joints
- Inflammation
- Wound recovery
- Pain/soreness
- Rundown immune system/allergies
- Old Injuries
- Alongside traditional veterinary medicine
- Digestive issues
- Anxiety and stress-related concerns
*NOTE Photonic Light Therapy is not a replacement for traditional veterinary care. If your horse needs medical attention, please seek the help of a veterinarian.
How Amanda Works to Support Your Horse During a Therapy Session
When Amanda performs photonic light therapy on your horse, she addresses their entire body, looking for sore spots from compensation or emotional tension and addressing the areas of concern.
During the first session, Amanda spends time getting to know your horse, ensuring they are happy and confident in her space and with what she is doing. At this time, Amanda will discuss your horse’s history with you, and only once they are settled and assured of her presence, will she commence a hands-on examination to assess any areas of concern.
Amanda will have a continual conversation with your horse throughout the assessment, constantly listening to their responses, working to understand where they need the most help. Sometimes we think they are sore in one spot, but the reality is that the responses are often stemming from an issue in a completely different area of their body.
Following on from the assessment, Amanda uses Photonic Light on acupressure points to restore balance to these areas of concern. Amanda will always work at your horse’s pace, they get to communicate if they need a break. Photonic Light Therapy stimulates many responses in the body, and this can be overwhelming. The more we help them accept the treatment by listening to their needs, the more we can get done in future sessions.
Finally, at the end of your session, Amanda will show you 1 or 2 acupressure points that you can stimulate with your fingers to maintain this work between sessions. The goal of Amanda’s photonic light therapy sessions is to take a wholistic approach to your horse’s health, working to achieve wellness on all levels.
If you wish to receive follow-up sessions for your horse, Amanda will design a tailored treatment plan for future sessions.
Pricing
Photonic Light Therapy for Horses
(conditions apply)*- Initial Consultation
- Analysis
- Treatment
- 90 minutes total
- Subsequent Treatments – 60 minutes total $75
Photonic Light Therapy for Horses - Package
only available after initial consultation is complete (conditions apply)*- Available to those who’ve had their initial assessment with Amanda
- Package includes 3 treatments at a discounted rate
- Must be paid in full prior to first treatment
- Must be used within 6 months of making payment
- Can be used at intervals to suit you & your horse
*A travel fee of $1 per km applies to anyone requesting an appointment outside Amanda’s service area, a 30 km radius around Warnbro, WA.
Amanda often sees results from one treatment, but horses typically get the most out of Photonic Light Therapy when they schedule a course of treatments over time. Each individual is different. Amanda can help you decide the interval and length of treatment best for you or your horse at your consultation appointment.
Amanda offers a discount for bookings of 3 or more treatments following your initial consultation. A minimum of 3 sessions must be booked before your follow-up treatment and paid in full to qualify for this offer.
Cancellation Policy
Occasionally you may need to cancel your appointments at short notice. Amanda kindly requests as much notice as possible if you need to re-schedule.
- Cancellation less than 24 hours before appointment – full treatment cost due.
- Cancellation less than 48 hours before appointment – half treatment cost due.
- Cancellation more than 48 hours before the appointment – no charge.
The Wholistic Equestrian Promise
Your horse is free to express their needs during sessions with Amanda. There is no “good or bad” behaviour, only communication. Amanda will listen to them and do everything she can to get as much done while honouring their boundaries, comfort, and needs. No horse is ever forced to stand still, continue when it is too much, or even accept treatment if they are not ready.
Amanda believes in putting the horse first. Amanda never uses force, fear, or intimidation in her work, and always listens to what your equine has to say. Amanda always enables and encourages your horse to move around as much as they need to during the session. They do not have to be perfectly still for the treatment to work.
What Our Clients Have to Say
Embroja & Sarge
Thanks so much for the photonic light therapy sessions. It was so informative being able to watch you do it with Sarge, you were very respectful of Sarge and his reactions, attentive to what he was happy with and where his boundaries were. It has given me a lot of insight to what needs working on and seeing the releases and how chilled out he was after you worked on his trouble areas showed me how valuable the sessions really are. He became so relaxed on the ground in otherwise scary areas of the property! I highly recommend both you and the light therapy, thanks again.
Clare & Hugo
Amanda was very professional in her approach asking lots of questions to get a full history of my horse. She has a calm manner and was very respectful while dealing with a grumpy old man. During the sessions, I could see Hugo relaxing, processing, and releasing. Thank you Amanda a great result.
Barbara, Felix, Gully, Thaya & Ennya
What a great way for an introduction to Red-light Therapy!
I was not really sure what to expect but was surprised by how the horses, one in particular, reacted to the treatment.
My Gypsy Cob mare seemed to really succumb to the red light and relish the experience. She was conversing with Amanda quite openly about different spots and her needs, it was really great to observe.
She was visibly tired/relaxed after the sessions and once she even felt the need to lay down and thus ‘finish’ the experience.
Amanda asked a lot of questions about each horse before the first session and was striving to get to know the animal before commencing treatment. She was gentle and polite around the horses and was seeking their permission and co-operation rather than just barging in and doing her thing. All the horses responded well to this.
It was a great experience and I will definitely engage Amanda again in the future
Marine, Hugo & Gunny
Amanda came to do some red-light therapy on my 2 horses. The horses absolutely loved the session Amanda gave them. They relaxed and let themselves go during the treatments and seemed to enjoy the red light especially on sore points or body parts that needed some attention.
I do Bowen so I understand how bodywork works and the red light seems to stimulate the horse to a deeper level. It looks like it helps to rebalance the horse’s energy too.
I definitely recommend Amanda and is truly amazing with my horses.
Abbi & Reg
Amanda from The Wholistic Equestrian came out to give my young, quirky, and overly sensitive thoroughbred some photonic light therapy sessions. Reg and I were a little unsure what to expect but Amanda was very informative, approachable, and patient. She took the time to explain what she intended to do, why each part took place, and the benefits of her different treatments, as well as anticipating my horse’s possible reactions, what they could mean and how we would work with them.
As I had expected my horse was very uncertain, evasive, and reactive to a whole range of points. Amanda remained unperturbed, allowing him to express how he felt and letting his feedback shape the sessions. It was really interesting to see how his behaviour changed from one session to the next and I do think this was because he felt he had some control and was being listened to instead of being shut down. Rather than trying to avoid and react he stood much quieter and expressed himself more softly.
He even enjoyed a good scratch from Amanda after showing her where he needed one, which is very unusual for him! I find Amanda has such a unique and intuitive way with horses and a wealth of knowledge she loves to share with their humans. Thank you again for taking your time with us.
Hilary & Matilda
I can’t tell you how grateful I am that Amanda was recommended to me to come and check out my mare Matilda who is in her early 20’s. I had heard of red light therapy but honestly didn’t know much about it. Matilda had suffered a tendon injury some years ago in her rear right hind leg which was aggravated a couple of times after that and had then been diagnosed with Volar-Annular ligament restriction damage in her rear right fetlock. She had been limping badly for about 3-4 weeks before Amanda came to see her. I did not fancy going the way of using pain killers long-term that was recommended or perhaps surgery that may or may not be effective.
I loved the way Amanda approached Matilda; quietly unobtrusively and looking and listening for Matilda’s ‘yes’s’ and ‘no’s’ to what she proposed to do with her. There was never any forcing, it was always a two-way conversation. It was fascinating to watch as when Matilda had had enough she would move away, and then without any prompting, she would of her own accord move back to Amanda, as though she was saying “I am ready for more”.
I could tell quite clearly that there were things going on in Matilda’s body as she twitched, moved, etc in ways that she normally would not have. This first session she could not take much of the therapy but what a profound effect it had, as she began to walk with weight on her leg immediately! I had also been aware that Matilda was tight in many areas of her body and over the sessions, this too was releasing.
We had 3 sessions a week apart and then once a fortnight later and there was definitely improvement each time. It was fantastic to see her striding across the paddock normally with no limp. Matilda is still going well and even standing on this leg to rest the other one. This was not possible before Amanda came as the farrier was unable to get her to weight bear on this leg in order to trim the other foot the week before Amanda came. Happy to say she had all 4 feet trimmed this last weekend!
I love Amanda’s approach; her kindness and consideration, patience, and caring. There is no rush and she is really with the horse, listening and attentive. Matilda was relaxed and trusting of Amanda also and showed this quite clearly by coming back to her of her own accord for more, and when she had had enough, she very definitely left. Matilda doesn’t usually hang around many people.
I am very grateful for this experience, and wholeheartedly recommend Amanda’s services.
Crissy, Mac & Diageo
Amanda is definitely a talent when it comes to holistic horse healing. She attended to 2 of my horses, one a Clydiex with long list of troubles from his past, he enjoyed his treatment immensely showing us how much by spending lots of time mutually grooming us and licking and chewing. Amanda knew exactly what he needed instinctively. Her attention to the horse was Impeccable and my often difficult horses where at complete ease in her presence.
My first Freisian wbx was like putty in her hands and enjoyed his treatment immensely also! He has been incredibly relaxed ever since. I feel there was a definite shift in him.
He spent quite some time processing and just chilling for the rest of the day.
Thankyou Amanda for your honesty and care with both my boys. The considerate manner which you approached them was appreciated by them and myself.
Highly recommend!
Rheana & Harry
Although I think Harry was easy to handle, he’s quite difficult to notice releases as he internalises everything. You were brilliant with him, and I think the fact that he was happy to stand with you in his paddock speaks volumes for how you made him feel. You picked up very slight reactions to certain areas which have been a concern of mine for quite some time and has given me the confidence to have it investigated further. You explained everything you were doing to Harry, whilst reading Harry’s responses and being considerate of how he felt during it. I highly recommend the sessions done by you to anyone and after also trying out your red-light pads on myself, I can confidently say that it works. It reduced my bruising after my gallbladder surgery, and it also helped immensely with my lower back pain which I get when standing for long periods of time. Thank you so much!