Equine Integrative Practitioner Course

Integrative Wellness: Advanced Continuing Education for Equine Professionals

A professional certification for equine practitioners focused on integrative wellness, pattern recognition, and ethical decision-making. Learn when to support, when to step back, and how to work across systems with clarity and restraint.

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1. Welcome!
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2. Giving Back
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3. Tips for Online Learning
4. Terms and Conditions
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5. Course Sales & Payment Policy
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6. Audio Learning Resources
1. Lesson 1.1 — What Integrative Equine Wellness Is (and Is Not)
2. Lesson 1.2 — How to Think Critically About Equine Health Research
3. Lesson 1.3 — The Horse as a Self-Regulating Biological System
4. Lesson 1.4 — Stress Physiology in Horses: From Acute Stress to Chronic Dysregulation
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5. Lesson 1.5 — Observation as a Clinical Skill: Reading the Horse Without Diagnosis
6. Lesson 1.6 — Ethics, Scope, and Professional Boundaries in Integrative Equine Care
7. Lesson 1.7- How This Foundation Changes Practitioner Decision-Making
8. Quiz 1
1. Lesson 2.1 — The Equine Digestive System: Function, Flow, and Vulnerabilities
2. Lesson 2.2 — The Equine Microbiome: Balance, Disruption, and Recovery
3. Quiz 2.2
4. Lesson 2.3 — Feeding for the Hindgut: Fiber, Starch, and Sugar in Context
5. Lesson 2.4 — Forage Quality, NSC, and Hay Analysis: What Actually Matters
6. Lesson 2.5 — Feeding the Individual Horse: Intake, Access, and Management Strategies
7. Quiz 2.5
8. Lesson 2.6-- What the Wellness Practitioner Needs to Recognize
1. Lesson 3.1 — From Forage to Cell: How Nutrients Are Actually Used
2. Lesson 3.2 — Minerals in the Real World: Balance, Bioavailability, and Chelation
3. Lesson 3.3 — Reading Feed Labels and Ingredient Lists Without Being Misled
4. Quiz 3.3
5. Lesson 3.4 — Building a Forage-Based Ration: Minerals, Salt, and Strategic Supplementation
6. Lesson 3.5 — When More Is Not Better: Over-Supplementation, Redundancy, and Hidden Imbalances
7. Lesson 3.6 Case Integration: Evaluating a Real-World Ration Without Diagnosis
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8. Lesson 3.7--What the Integrative Wellness Practitioner Must Recognize
1. Lesson 4.1 — Environment as Nutrition: How Housing, Weather, and Routine Affect Physiology
2. Lesson 4.2 — Stress in the Real World: Social Dynamics, Confinement, and Sensory Load
3. Lesson 4.3 — Movement, Rest, and Recovery: Why Stillness Matters as Much as Exercise
4. Quiz 4.3
5. Lesson 4.4 — Pain, Compensation, and the Limits of “Normal”
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6. Lesson 4.5 — The Role of the Practitioner: Boundaries, Bias, and Responsibility
7. Quiz 4.5
8. Lesson 4.6-- How Load, Recovery, and Adaptation Show Up Over Time
1. Lesson 5.1 — Integrative Modalities: What They Can and Cannot Support
2. Lesson 5.2 — Bodywork and Manual Therapies: Support, Response, and Boundaries
3. Lesson 5.3 — Energetic and Subtle Modalities: Use, Limits, and Ethical Framing
4. Quiz 5.3
5. Lesson 5.4 — Decision-Making in Integrative Care: When to Support, When to Pause, When to Refer
6. Lesson 5.5 — Supplements as Tools, Not Solutions
7. Quiz 5.5
8. Lesson 5.6 — Case Integration: Applying Judgment Across Modalities, Nutrition, and Management
9. Lesson 5.7 — Practitioner Sustainability: Boundaries, Burnout, and Ethical Longevity
10. Lesson 5.8 — Client Education, Communication, and Advocacy
11. Quiz 5.8
12. Lesson 5.9 — Risk Awareness, Red Flags, and When Wellness Becomes Unsafe
13. Lesson 5.10 — Integration, Accountability, and Ethical Closure
14. Lesson 5.11--When Compensation Is Protective — and When It Becomes Limiting
1. Lesson 6.1 — Environment as a Primary Driver of Wellness
2. Lesson 6.2 — Stress Load, Adaptation, and the Cost of Coping
3. Quiz 6.2
4. Lesson 6.3 — Movement, Stillness, and the Need for Recovery
5. Lesson 6.4 — Pain, Compensation, and the Limits of “Normal”
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6. Lesson 6.5 — Recovery Capacity, Resilience, and When Wellness Support Plateaus
7. Quiz 6.5
8. Lesson 6.6 — Regulation Across Systems: When One Stressor Affects Everything
9. Quiz 6.6
10. Lesson 6.7--What New Practitioners Often Miss at This Stage
1. Lesson 7.1 — Physical and Manual Modalities: Support, Limits, and Ethical Use
2. Lesson 7.2 — Frequency, Intensity, and the Myth of “More Is Better”
3. Quiz 7.2
4. Lesson 7.3 — Touch, Timing, and Reading the Horse’s Response
5. Lesson 7.4 — Practitioner Bias, Pattern Blindness, and Ethical Self-Awareness
6. Lesson 7.5 — Collaboration, Referral, and Respecting Other Professionals
7. Quiz 7.5
8. Lesson 7.6 — Variability in Response: Why the Same Work Produces Different Outcomes
1. Lesson 8.1 — Sensory Inputs and Biological Activity: Where Wellness Requires Extra Restraint
2. Lesson 8.2 — Aromatherapy in Equine Wellness: Sensory Influence Without Intervention
3. Lesson 8.3 — Herbs in Equine Wellness: Awareness, Risk, and Professional Boundaries
4. Lesson 8.4 — Homeopathy in Equine Wellness: Context, Limits, and Ethical Framing
5. Lesson 8.5 — Applied Integrative Decision-Making: Using Judgment, Not Just Tools
6. Quiz 8.5
1. Lesson 9.1 — Thinking Like a Wellness Practitioner: Case Framing and Prioritization
2. Lesson 9.2 — Pattern Recognition Across Systems: Seeing the Whole Horse
3. Lesson 9.3 — Case Sequencing: What Comes First, What Waits, What Never Happens
4. Lesson 9.4 — Communicating Complex Patterns to Clients Without Overwhelm
5. Quiz 9.4
6. Lesson 9.5 — When Progress Stalls: Reassessment, Redirection, and Ethical Pause
7. Lesson 9.6 — What to Do When a Case Feels “Stuck”
8. Lesson 9.7 — Isolated Issues vs. Systemic Patterns: Learning to Tell the Difference
9. Quiz 9.7
10. Lesson 9.8 — Compensation Patterns: When the Body Adapts Instead of Resolves
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11. Lesson 9.9 — Load, Use, and Recovery: Why Physical Issues Keep Returning
12. Lesson 9.10 — The Body as a System: How Hooves, Muscles, and Digestion Interact Physically
13. Quiz 9.10
14. Lesson 9.11 — Reading Physical Patterns Over Time: What Changes, What Doesn’t, and Why That Matters
15. Lesson 9.12 — Putting It All Together: Making Sense of Complex Physical Cases
1. Lesson 10.1 — The Hoof as the Foundation of Load and Compensation
2. Lesson 10.2 — Trimming Cycles, Balance, and Their Whole-Body Effects
3. Lesson 10.3 — Limb Loading, Asymmetry, and Movement Patterns
4. Quiz 10.3
5. Lesson 10.4 — The Spine, Pelvis, and Core as Load Distributors
6. Lesson 10.5 — Neck, Shoulder, and Forelimb Compensation Patterns
7. Lesson 10.6 — Hind End Function, Power, and Recovery Capacity
8. Quiz 10.6
9. Lesson 10.7 — When Physical Patterns Point Beyond the Body: Nutrition, Management, and Environment
10. Lesson 10.8 — Putting It All Together: Reading the Horse in Motion and at Rest
1. Lesson 11.1 — From Observation to Decision: What Actually Comes Next
2. Quiz 11.1
3. Lesson 11.2 — Prioritizing in Complex Horses: What Comes First (and Why)
4. Lesson 11.3 — When Support Helps vs. When It Only Maintains
5. Lesson 11.4 — Working Within Scope (Without Undervaluing Your Role)
6. Quiz 11.4
7. Lesson 11.5 — Collaborative Care, Legal Boundaries, and Professional Responsibility
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8. Lesson 11.6 — Case Walk-Throughs: Applying Judgment Without Diagnosing
9. Lesson 11.7 — Common Practitioner Mistakes (and Why They Happen)
10. Quiz 11.7
11. Lesson 11.8 — Developing Practitioner Maturity and Long-Term Success
1. Lesson 12.1 — Professional Identity, Responsibility, and the Role You Hold
2. Lesson 12.2 — Ethical Fees, Boundaries, and Sustainable Practice
3. Quiz 12.2
4. Lesson 12.3 — Integration, Reflection, and Continuing as a Professional
1. Final Exam Directions
2. Final Exam
3. Final Exam Wrap Up

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Integrative Wellness: Advanced Continuing Education for Equine Professionals

Course curriculum

Welcome!

Module 1: Scientific Foundations of Equine Integrative Wellness

Module 2: Digestive Health & the Equine Microbiome

Module 3: Nutrition as the Foundation of Health

Module 4: Environment, Stress, and the Whole-Horse Context

Module 5: Integrative Tools, Modalities, and Decision-Making

Module 6 — Environment, Stress, and Regulation

Module 7 — Integrative Modalities: Physical & Manual

Module 8 — Biologically Active & Sensory Supports

Module 9 — Applied Integrative Case Reasoning

Module 10: Applied Physical Systems in the Horse

Module 11 — Applied Practitioner Decision-Making & Case Integration

Module 12 — Professional Practice, Ethics, and Long-Term Sustainability

FINAL EXAM -- Equine Integrative Wellness Practitioner

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