Mudita Equine Bodywork & Wellness

Helping Your Best Friend ​Feel Their Best

Servicing the Las Vegas Valley and surrounding cities

Mudita [Sanskrit; moo-dee-TAH; noun]: ​Delighting in the happiness of others.

Mudita Equine Bodywork & Wellness is all about taking delight and happiness when a horse feels happy, ​loved, safe, and comfortable. As horse lovers and riders, we ask a lot of our equine partner and we can ​tell when they don’t feel as good as normal. It’s our feel that kicks in to tell us the approach to a 3'6" ​oxer is a little sluggish behind, or that extended trot is heavy on the right front, or even if they started ​to become agitated during grooming. Horses rely on us to listen to and advocate for them. Routine ​bodywork and massage is a fantastic way to help our equine partners maintain feeling good in their ​body so they can “be as good a possible, be as safe as possible, and last as long as possible.” 1.

As horse people, we know when we don’t feel good in our bodies and we take action to mitigate this ​awareness. Don’t our horses deserve the same?

Feeling Good When They Feel Good. The purpose and mission of Mudita Equine Bodywork & Wellness.

1. Marment, Rebecca. ”Equine Sports Masssage-The History.” Intuitive Equine Massage Therapy, 2023, ​https://www.intuitiveequinemassagetherapy.co.uk/equine-sports-massage-the-history
   

Massage Benefits

• Calmer Demeanor
• Improved Circulation
• Pain and Discomfort Relief
• Aids Injury Prevention and Immune ​Strengthening
  

• Increased Flexibility, Range of ​Motion, and Suppleness
• Improved Proprioception ​Awareness
  

• Enhances Performance
• Aids in Rehabilitation from Injury and ​Surgery
• Promotes Overall Relaxation and ​Wellbeing
  

About Kate

Hi friend! I’m Kate Whittaker, owner of Mudita Equine Bodywork and ​Wellness L.L.C. I have had a love of horses since a very young age, began ​hunter/jumper riding lessons at the age of 12, and am now fortunate enough ​to turn my horsey passion into a lifelong pursuit of helping horses and their ​riders.

Prior to being a bodyworker, I worked in the corporate purchasing world for ​a non-profit science and research Government contractor. But in summer ​2022, the corporate stress and burnout became too much and I knew I needed ​to make a change. With the support of my husband, family, and barn ​community, I quit my job and began to pursue equine bodywork certification. ​After completing the rigorous and comprehensive 500 study hours, I ​graduated from the School of Applied Integrative Therapy’s Certified Equine ​Bodywork Practitioner program in May 2024.

Mudita Equine Bodywork and Wellness’s journey started well before its ​June 2024 establishment. My husband and I had a conversation one ​day that morphed into curiously debating the difference between ​sympathy and empathy. We wondered if there was a word that had the ​same connotation as sympathy, but for happiness.

Was there a word that meant, simply, being happy for someone else’s ​happiness?

Thanks to Google, we discovered the Sanskirt word “Mudita” which ​means to delight in another’s happiness. Nothing had embodied my ​emotion when watching a horse be loved, listened to, and succeed in ​life more than this single word. And thus, Mudita Equine Bodywork ​and Wellness had its opening.

I am an advocate of the horse in all capacities and aim to help every ​horse and rider be the best partnership they can through through the ​help of bodywork. I am an enthusiastic learner and aim to add many ​more bodywork modalities, like Kinesiology Taping, Manual Lymph ​Drainage Massage, Saddle Fitting, and Nutrition, to my practice.

Call, text, or email me to start helping your horse feel their best!

@muditaequinelv