If you free what can be freed, the horse will adapt to his new freedom and start using it. Release and the body will go where it needs to, and you’ve taken a step forward.
If you can add appropriate exercise, it will support this move forward. Think of it as a forward moving cycle; free tension, use the body in a way that stimulates it to build the structural supports and neurological connections and habits you desire, free tension.
If one body part is inhibiting another, or is channeling movement or weight, in a certain direction, then the physics of the mechanics will start to compound and a cycle has begun. Interrupt it. Release the tension, introduce movements and weight shifts that encourage a more centered, ambidextrous way of going. Repeat.
Release what can be released, sooth what can be soothed, and your horse will adapt to his newfound freedom and his biomechanics will improve. Targeted movement exercises will reinforce the new potential way of moving.
Release the unbalanced tension, offer it new thoughts on movement efficiency and the body will naturally change in the way that it needs to; progress.
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