The Vendors outlined below are companies and individuals who supported us at our AGM February 27 & 28, 2016. Please support them if you are considering purchasing products or services in their area of expertise.

Your OCTRA AGM Organizing Committee

OCTRA will have a booth in our Vendors’ Area so everyone will have a chance to renew for the coming season. If you have a friend who is interested in learning more about endurance and our association, please have them join us at the AGM. There will be lots of information available and many experienced riders around to quiz.

The Running Room philosophy is unlike any other retail business in North America. While we offer clothing, shoes, products and accessories for walkers and runners, we also help people to change their lives through fitness activities. AGM Guest Speaker: Bryan Smith, Toronto Area Manager "Feeding, hydrating & electrolyting the human athlete before, during and after event”

Great Leads 'n Reins create affordable, high quality, all weather horse tack using original Beta BioThane® and marine grade rope that is easy on the hands and on the horse. We manufacture all weather equine tack called "Xtra Mile Endurance Tack" using Canadian or U.S.A. manufactured materials for our products to ensure the highest quality. Such as Beta BioThane®, marine grade double braid rope, stainless steel or solid brass hardware. Everything is designed and made in our shop so we can offer custom adjustments and other designs specifically for you and your horse. We continually work to improve our designs to make sure our customers are happy.

Photonic Health Cold Laser Therapy is a new way to maintain and get rid of your pet’s pain, in the convenience of your own home! Photonic Health Cold Laser kits are for individuals who don’t like to see their pets in pain and want to help them recover faster. We provide an at-home solution for pet owners who may be experiencing: acute injuries, chronic arthritis, muscle cramps, tendon injuries, colic, and more! In a nutshell, it’s an easy-to-use therapy system that YOU the pet owner can do yourself! Save time, money and worry! Take your pets health into your own hands!

NLE-Port Lewis Saddle Pad System

If your saddle does not fit, it is costly to change it or have it adjusted.

Do you buy shoes that you have not walked in – at least in the store?

Putting weight in the shoe and moving in it reveal pressure points that you do not feel when you are sitting down. The same thing happens with a saddle – with no weight and no movement, the saddle seems to fit perfectly. Put weight in the saddle and start riding, and the pressure points show up.

The Port Lewis Saddle Fit System is the ONLY system available on the market that can show you where the pressure points are that will hurt your horse and affect his ability to perform. You do not have to change your saddle, or have your saddle adjusted – get a custom made saddle pad that eliminates these pressure points. This saddle pad can be refit as often as you want, for much less cost than having your saddle adjusted, or buying a new saddle.

Saddles are tested for fit on the horse, while it is standing still and you are standing beside it. When you are mounted and the horse is in motion, the saddle moves with you and the horse. This is when the problems start, and it is virtually impossible to determine from the ground, what is wrong with the fit.

The Port Lewis Saddle Fit System lets you know and understand how your saddle, with you in it, is affecting your horse’s back.

This is a revolutionary system designed to be inexpensive and effective.

Contact Patricia at: Phone: 613-284-0213 Email: Patricia@ northernlightsequine.ca Web: http://northernlightsequine.ca/home/port-lewis-saddle-fit-system/

PATRICIA GERMAN & FRANCIS AUDET Patricia and Francis take the time necessary to assess both the horse and rider to find any physical and emotional issues that impact the relationship between the horse and rider. Francis has extensive experience in biomechanics through his years as a massage therapist and his on-going study of osteopathy. He works extensively on the restoration of mobility to anatomical structures, and the free flow and normal functioning of all body tissues. It is a holistic approach to pain relief and improved function. Patricia has completed a certification course in The Emotion Code, a technique for finding and releasing trapped emotions in the body. These trapped emotions can also be a source of pain and difficulty. She has had success with many people, horses and dogs, who demonstrate, with changed behaviour, the power of these techniques. Patricia and Francis work as a team to determine the best course of treatment for a client, including whether or not traditional chiropractic or veterinary help may be the best solution. It is all about producing the best results for each client. We work with equine chiropractors, farriers and vets who are open to new modalities. Patricia and Francis moved to the Smiths Falls region in July 2010, to a facility which is very suited to educating and re-educating horses and their owners/riders. Patricia and Francis have developed a highly synergistic team. Together they can assess a horse, a person and a horse-rider pairing, to help them improve their mutual trust and respect. For the horse and rider, this means significantly increased confidence and therefore, enjoyment.

COMBINED QUALIFICATIONS: Certified Equine Trainer OEF Facility Member Certified Equine Massage Therapists Bodywork (Somatherapist – Human and Equine) Certified Emotion Code Practitioner Quebec Registered Massage Therapist (completing studies in Osteopathy)

Patricia German 613-284-0213 trishg@sympatico.ca www.northernlightsequine.ca

Francis Audet 613-430-4191 Francis@francisaudet.ca www.francisaudet.ca

PATRICIA GERMAN Intuitive Mind, Practised Hands, Relief for the Body Home

My goal is to bring your body into balance.

Have you ever sat down on a sofa that is so comfortable that you let out a sigh of contentment? Wouldn't that be wonderful if you felt the same way about your body? When you get up in the morning, wouldn't you like to feel pain free and energetic? When you hurt, your body is not in balance. Do you identify with the pain in one of these images?

If you do and have tried other methods of pain relief that did NOT work, then I might be able to help you. My goal is to help you feel better. I will not only help your body to work better, but also guide you on making healthier, better-for-your-body decisions. Remember: No drugs and I use non-invasive techniques. Relief from you pain could be only minutes away

FRANCIS AUDET Manual Practice, Osteopathic Tradition Intuitive Mind, Practised Hands, Relief for the Body To enjoy life fully, we must be as pain free as possible. Francis helps us achieve this. He does this using drug-free, non-invasive techniques. Osteopathy focuses on total body health by treating and strengthening your muscles, joints, fascia, tendons, ligaments and skeleton – and your organ systems. The aim of this drug-free, non-invasive manual medicine: to positively affect all your body's systems. An Osteopath, Manual Practice, uses unique manual techniques, and a whole-body approach to health care, restoring proper motion to all parts of the body. They do not concentrate solely on treating the apparent problem area: they restore balance to the whole body. In particular, it is truly amazing how fascia can stick to itself, a muscle or a bone and cause severe, medically un-diagnosable pain anywhere in the body. Fascia are extensive and connected to all other body tissues. Osteopaths work to release the limiting physical structure so that the body can return to physical correctness. This can include working on organ systems as well. Francis understands movement and performance, having worked for many years with people that have pain, mobility and performance issues. A continuing student in helping us enjoy our lives in a more pain-free way, Francis uses several approaches to ensure he has you covered.

Professional Qualifications

Certified Fasciologist

Certified Somatherapist

A Quebec-Registered Massage Therapist

Continuing education in Osteopathy Francis works to help you regain function in areas of your body that have been long painful and out of balance. He releases built-up tension in your body, and encourages the body tissues to relax. Francis is able to help clients recover mobility and reduce pain significantly. Performance can improve dramatically.

Osteopathy "Osteopathy is a system of drugless healing by which a practitioner, through extensive knowledge of anatomy and physiology, using appropriate manipulation, aims to adjust structure, so that nature can restore normal condition of function to the body." Osteopathy is a well-established and well-proven profession, founded by Andrew Still, MD in the United States, in 1874, to help people return to a better state of health. This is done by restoring motion to all parts of the body, easing strain and reducing pain and inflammation. When the body is more at ease, it can heal better and faster. Osteopathy focuses on total body health by treating and strengthening your muscles and your musculoskeletal framework — your joints, muscles, fascia, tendons, ligaments and skeleton. The aim of this drug-free, non-invasive manual medicine: to positively affect all your body's systems. Osteopathic practitioners use unique manual techniques, including fascialogy and somatherapy, a whole-body approach to health care, restoring proper motion to all parts of the body. They do not concentrate solely on treating the apparent problem area: they restore balance to the whole body. Fascialogy Leonardo Da Vinci knew about the fascial network of the body. Before him Juan Valverde de Amusco, in the mid 1500s drew a picture

of a man holding his skin and it looks much like what the fascial network would look like. In the 1890s, Andrew Still, MD, (1828 – 1917) the founder of Osteopathy over 100 years ago, wrote and taught about fascia and its importance in the proper functioning of the body. Fascia are thin but extremely strong interconnected tissues that envelope all the cells and organs of the body, as sacs around the lungs and heart and bones and digestive system to sacs around all the muscles. When it is healthy and functioning properly the body functions properly. When the fascia are stuck to each other or to other cells in the body, the results can be severe and far ranging: pain, acute and chronic, and diseases that western medicine cannot seem to diagnose and cure. Fascialogy is the study of the cobweb-strong bands of tissue that surround every structure and micro-structure in the body: nerves, bones, joints, tendons, ligaments, muscles, and organs, including the brain, heart, lungs, digestive system, bowels, eyes, ears, jaw, cranium, and urinary tract. Fascia are responsible for keeping all the tissues in the body moving smoothly, lubricating them, nourishing them and supporting them. When fascia have adhesions (are stuck) to other tissues, the smooth functioning of the body is disrupted. Adhesions are fibrous bands that form between tissues and organs, often as a result of injury. They may be thought of as small ropes between tissues not normally connected. They may take some time to be apparent after the initial injury as they continue to expand to the

point of reducing function between the tissues, resulting in pain. Treatment involves more advanced use of normalization, throughout the body. Somatherapy Somatherapy is the study of the physical structures of the body and how to bring them back into alignment. These structures are the bones, ligaments, tendons and muscles. Treatment involves pumping and normalization, with the objective of returning the structure to proper hydration and thus improving mobility and range of motion. Pumping is, in general, a gentle compression and release of the joint to draw fluids to the joint. This re-hydration of the joint promotes joint mobility and range of motion, reducing or eliminating pain. Normalization is, in general, a stretch of the structure (ligament, tendon, muscle), releasing one end of the structure and then the other to create a wave motion in the structure to release adhesions and to hydrate the structure.

EasyCare is all about the horse and their human partners. Our business is manufacturing and distributing proven equine products that will enhance performance, provide protection, increase comfort for the horse and rider, and enrich the overall human-horse experience. Throughout five thousand years of domestication, the horse has had a more significant impact on human history than any other animal. Our goal is to help make the future of the horse/rider relationship as fulfilling and exciting as the past. What began in 1970 with the invention of the first Easyboot by Dr. Neel Glass to help a beloved family horse suffering from navicular disease, has since evolved into an entire line of hoof boots that provide an excellent alternative to iron shoes. This is due in part to the dedication, desire and diligence on the part of an incredible team of people. We're a company that cares deeply about horses and we will continue to develop products that provide comfort, support and performance for our equine partners. We are more committed than ever to continue to create innovative hoof boot designs with features and options that will allow horse owners to provide a natural hoofcare solution for their horses.