Bonnie Kiefer
bonnievkiefer@gmail.com       call/text: (561) 938-4685

She gets called upon for her expertise to help horses that are dangerous, violent or vicious, are biting or harming people and/or themselves or other horses, throwing or hurting riders, bucking, rearing over backwards, have mysterious or serious lameness or performance issues, many times which she is called upon when other equine professionals have been unable to figure out the source(s) of such issues. She provides immediate relief to the horse and then shares with each client her observations, solutions and recommendations to further help each horse improve.  She is very personable and offers individualized attention to each horse and client.  She works directly with horse trainers, chiropractors, veterinarians and other equine service providers to ensure the best outcome for each horse's continued health. When Bonnie is not riding or out in the field helping horses, she is studying the most current information regarding massage therapy, equine biomechanics, saddle fitting, saddle making, various types of therapies and the full range of horse topics in general from A-Z.  This is because she knows there are questions to be asked, scientific research to be looked into, controversies to be resolved, new technologies and techniques to be learned and so much more.  She never seems to get enough of horses!  She remains open minded herself and in exchange she learns so much from her clients as well. She stays updated in the equestrian world with the newest information as much as possible.  She attends educational events in person as well as attends online webinars, continues her equine studies including video series and master classes and does her own intense research.  Every case that she visits offers her yet another learning experience to apply to future cases and for tracking purposes. Bonnie now firmly believes that Equine Massage should be an Essential part of every horses' health care ritual, not just a luxury services. Working on horses over the years and tracking the applied knowledge and methods helps to solidify the recommendations and guidance that she includes in her reports.  Tracking what has been clearly helping horses before and after sessions with each horse over time has been especially important when helping to explain or debunk certain misconceptions about horses, or in rare cases when there are in-depth discussions that are not so comfortable to have.   ​How and why she became an Equine Massage Therapist . . . Bonnie became a Certified Equine Massage Therapist in 2015 after she purchased a jumper who was in desperate need of rehabilitation after a hoof injury had left him classified as "an un-ridable horse".  After working with several therapists to try and help her own horse, it dawned on Bonnie that her life-long experience with horses provided a huge foundation of which she not only could help her own horse but other horses as well through the miracle of massage therapy.  (Update - Bonnie successfully rehabbed the horse and sold him to a wonderful home, he is now an Eventing horse on the west coast with his new owner). Diving right into it, Bonnie studied Equinology and the methods of some of the most renowned and respected professionals in the industry regarding Equine Massage such as April Battles, Jean-Pierre Hourdebaigt, Jim Masterson and many others.  She watched countless videos and read dozens of case studies, blogs and books about massage therapy and became completely entranced in the learning process. She then took a certification course with Susan Smith-Massie and continued researching massage techniques while practicing on her own horse, her friend's horses and dozens of other horses in order to gain first-hand experience out in the field. Bonnie is a firm believer in how critical massage therapy is to the performance and well-being of each and every horse. She currently follows and studies renowned lameness expert Dr. Sue Dyson for her excellence in recognizing and sharing the subtle behaviors in lame horses in order to help them.