Canine Hydrotherapy

Hydrotherapy can mean many things. Anything from active fun swimming, rehabilitating surgery or injury. Water can assist anxiety and behavioral concerns. paralysis, and chronic disease.

It can hold an older dog in a safe warm place while they slowly release the weight of their aging body. We assist with massage, stretching, and sometimes we just float.

It helps them feel the freedom of their body and access it's energy - energy that serves to integrate all parts of their being, a feeling of oneness, they can feel their whole body again.

Sessions range from $40 - $95 if time permits and your dog is able, our swims include an off-leash trail hike (farm is securely fenced) around the farm, through the woods and in the streams.

Watsu

Here at the farm we offer Trans-Species Water Therapy as well. Our intention is to assist this relationship in whatever way possible. Dogs can swim with a therapist, with their human companion, or the human can experience the water themselves with a watsu session.

Watsu frees the body in water. The water holds you as your therapist provides safe and intentional support. Sometimes there are no verbal lessons. Properly and sensitively applied, watsu can provide a level of healing beyond almost any other approach or therapy.

In our warm water environment, Watsu sessions focus around being held, rocked, and moved as you float with assistance. As you relax, your breathing becomes noticeably calmer, deeper and slower. The comforting sensation of warmth and weightlessness makes all unnecessary muscular activity stop. You just let go – which from a therapeutic point of view, is an ideal way to rid the body of toxins, tensions and blockages.

Watsu can decrease:

-Muscle guarding
-Pain/holding patterns
-Stress
-Anxiety
-Hypertonicity
-Muscle tightness
-Muscle spasms

Watsu can increase:

-Range of motion
-Breathing patterns
-Engagement in life skills
-Sleep patterns
-Flexibility
-Release/discovery of emotion
-Joint mobility and range of motion
-Strength

$110