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Lydia Wainwright has a passion for helping animals
to feel their best. Her background includes an established and
successful equestrian career. She trained horses and competed to the
international level in Combined Training and trained her own horses
through third level dressage. Her home has been known for years as
“AuntLydiaʼ Doggie Rehabilitation Center” where friends bring their dogs
for helping animal behavior. In addition, being a Pony Club graduate and
her pre-veterinary animal science classes from Kansas State University
give her well rounded experience and knowledge with animals of all
types.
Traditional Western Medicine was not the right fit for Lydia as it did
not incorporate the whole animal into treatment. After years of
searching for the right career path, Lydia chose acupuncture and animal
acupuncture and found the Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland where
she received a master's degree in Acupuncture for people. This degree
includes almost 3,000 hours of acupuncture training from one of the top
schools in the country. Additional training of nearly 200 hours certified
her to treat animals. She has been treating people since 2003 and
treating dogs, cats, and horses since 2004.
Lydia worked for several years as a counselor, specializing in eating
disorders. She offers her mission statement of “healing wisdom” to all
her patients. Her mission statement comes from years of learning
technical skills through formal education, years in her private practice
as an acupuncturist and through her natural gift of intuitive
observation.
Presently Lydia teaches several types of classes including “Meditation
for Beginners,” “Learn Your Season,” and “Learn Your Pet's Season.” In
July of2005 she was invited down to Mississippi State University to
teach veterinary students about equine acupuncture. Please email or call
for more information on classes or guest lecturer availability. Contact
lydia@acuanimal.com . She continues to learn and grow with continued
formal course work and through her own personal spiritual journey.
Lydia is certified to treat dogs, cats, horses, ferrets, rabbits, and
birds and is licensed to treat people.
Equestrian Experience:
Lydia competed and trained horses to CCIO* and Intermediate H.T. level
eventing. She also trained horses to Third level dressage. In 1990 she
had the glorious opportunity to ride FEI level dressage horses in
Sweden. She taught beginning students through Preliminary level eventers
and Second level dressage. She has worked directly with Mike Huber, Jim
Graham, Gorel Nyman, Walter Zettl and Steuart Pittman. She has cliniced
with Karl Mikolka and Jimmy Wofford. Lydia supported her own way through
acupuncture school by teaching and training full time at Reddemeade
Horse Center, a well known dressage and eventing academy in Ashton, Md.
Lydia is presently competing her 7yo Thoroughbred mare, "Acu-Goodkeeper,"
at Training level Eventing. She keeps her horse, "Keeper," in
Davidsonville at Dodon Farm, also home of the TB stallion "Salute The
Truth."
www.dodonfarm.com
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