Vet Physio Phyle

31/12/2025

2025 • Thank you for all of the lessons, the love, the experiences, the struggles, the questions, the answers, the progress in ways more than one.

2026 • I welcome your peace, your grounding, more experiences and love! I will be entering this year filled with the glowing moments of 2025; postural groundwork, natural & holistic way of life for my horses, new barefoot knowledge, new mind-body releases, so many upcoming projects, and a huge sense of gratitude for how I get to do what I love every single day 🤍

Thank you, exponentially, to everyone who has been a part of my life and (not so!) little business this year!

Let’s open the 2026 chapter! 🤍🐴🤎

24/12/2025

Aaaaaaand breathe! The equipment is cleaned and packed up, horses have received their treatments and feeling tip top, and now it’s time to have a sit down and enjoy some slow time!

A very happy Christmas to all of my clients and followers.

Have a really lovely time, enjoying the celebration however is best for you 🎄🎅

Lots of love,
Calli, Meji & Tronador 🐴🤎🤍

18/12/2025

Christmas is coming! 🎄🎅

I will be off on my Christmas break from 20th December. I am still working on 23rd, 29th and 30th, but otherwise please note responses will be slow and likely only on my working days unless emergency.

Any appointments not confirmed by 5pm today (19th) will be released to others waiting.

Any invoices not settled, please settle these as soon as possible. There are a few that are unfortunately refusing to pay, you’ve had the opportunity and small claims will be processed before Christmas.

I will be up late tonight like the Christmas elves ticking all the admin boxes, so if you are waiting a response I will sort this evening! 🤍

Thank you everyone! 🤍

16/12/2025

Horses are such gentle beings. They are also very sensitive, and I’ve always found that the most effective treatments are the ones where the horse is in the right headspace.

Similar to when we ride, the aim is for treatment techniques to be so specific yet so subtle… even to the horse.

There are of course moments where a little more oomph is required, but for the most part I aim to look like I’m doing nothing. This is because I focus on specific areas of the horse’s body (and mind) that are the key players in discomfort, and gently unravel them.

If an area won’t release, it’s likely because there is something else holding it there, so I will move around the body (sometimes to the opposite end!) and it will release.

It is also part of the reason why it is very important to me that a horse is as relaxed as they can be for a treatment. Some horses prefer to see a busy yard, others love to have a quiet spot. Some love their owners there, others are more relaxed without them.

When you have a horse bracing their body, for any number of reasons, the release of tension can struggle to ripple through the body. I have lots of techniques to help with this, but overall the right environment for your horse is key.

Essentially, my work is designed to be easy for the horse 🐴 🤍

Featuring Rika loved by 🤍

13/12/2025

05/12/2025

This still brings little tears to my eyes! 🥰

Be prepared to shed a few (happy) tears…

Last weekend Meji and I welcomed a lovely little girl who absolutely ADORES horses to the yard where she spent the afternoon doing yard duties, watching me ride and watching me treat a horse.

It really does pull at the heart strings as I remember being that age, and wanting to be around horses for every second of every day. It truly reminded me how much I am living the dream.

Last night I opened a letter where she had drawn a horse and annotated anatomical landmarks 🥺 absolutely amazing!!

Maybe I can add inspiring the future generation of Veterinary Physiotherapists to my resume!? 🙈

03/12/2025

The fog rolled in, the rain was relentless and the sun was setting… but that didn’t put a stop to our plans!… as much as I wanted it to, trust me 🙃

Meji and I did 25 minutes of groundwork and polework, focusing on:
- changing speed within the pace
- rein back steps, varying the height of the head and speed of the steps
- walking over raised poles in a straight and diagonal line
- leg yield to shoulder in to leg yield

All in our field, in walk, in limited light, with low motivation… just enough to keep me from freezing to death and crying at how it is dark already…

A short, purposeful and focused session 💪 does anyone have any favourite winter exercises that they do when they’re not feeling motivated/the weather is a bit rubbish? I’d love to hear! 🤍

01/12/2025

Forever in our memories… what a pair, I am privileged to have shared a lifetime that they graced 🤍

Sleep well Blueberry and Uti, two of the greatest horses of our generation.

It is with immense sadness that we have said goodbye to Valegro and Uthopia and without question, this is a loss that just feels hard to comprehend.

Trying to write a tribute to these two horses feels harder than I imagined. The yard just doesn’t feel the same without them, there’s an emptiness in the air.

Valegro and Uthopia did more than win medals and write history, they gave our sport a golden era. They both showed that greatness can be gentle, sensitive and harmonious and they made a nation proud and inspired so many.

Being part of their journey will always remain one of my proudest achievements and the whole team and myself are deeply grateful for the joy they gave to us at home but also to their fans around the world.

Their entire lives ran in parallel; they travelled to the shows side by side, lived in neighbouring stables, grazed in the same fields and retired together. Their bond and companionship were absolute.

As life as old boys advanced, so too did the health challenges, so allowing them to leave this world together was the final act of loyalty and dignity I felt I could give them, honouring a partnership that had never been separated in life.

They leave behind a huge void, and the yard has changed forever and so have we. They were our family and I will love and miss them always. The impact they had will remain but sadly, we don’t get to keep horses forever.
We only get to carry what they leave inside us. And these two left us so much.

Carl x

Photo credit: Rose Lewis

30/11/2025

Just beautiful ✨