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Linda Tellington Jones TTouch in Chile
Linda Tellington-Jones – TTouch for horses
The tecniques of Linda Tellington-Jones have been practised for more than 30 years. First Linda created a “new way in handling horses” The tecniques of the method Tellington TTouch were successful for other animal species as well. The Tellington TTouch is a specialized approach to the care and training of our animal companions. Developed by internationally recognized animal expert, Linda Tellington-Jones, this method based on cooperation and respect offers a positive approach to training, can improve performance and health and presents solutions to common behavioral and physical problems. It also helps establish a deeper rapport between humans and animals through increased understanding and more effective communication. Linda calls riding with the Tellington method “Riding With Awareness”. Apart from Linda Tellington-Jones, Peggy Cummings influences the “Riding With Awareness of the Tellington method extremely. Her clinics are called “Conneted Riding” and are taught as part of the Tellington method as well as independent method.
Now about horses:
Linda Tellington-Jones’ TTouch for horses is a tender and comunicative tecnique, much ground work, in combination with touches, which stimulate the nerve system. Robyn Hood (on the right, on the foto with Manuela) is the sister of Linda and together they have created a good training program for horses. Robyn explains Manuela, how to lead without pressure, by handling the lead very gently, letting it slide through your hands.
Ground work is a great access to the horse, to win its trust
If you do lead training with your animal companion, you add ground work to the Tellington TTouch: this perfecly matches with horses. At Corral los Andes, wo would love to show you different possibilities and accesses to the horse. Most important is to practise conscious, clear and calm lessons. With spooking and shying (those horses had negative experiences with humans, otherwise they wouldn’t spooke or shy!), you have to start from the very beginning, the ground. Those “plastic worms” help the horse to understand that movements and items coming from above are nothing to be afraid of. With the hay bales on the ground you make the horse experience space consciously and gather experiences caused by humans, positive experiences! Before the training our team started with the bonding with the horse by several touches.
Ground work with the “extended arm”, the whip
Whips are usually considered to be violent. Unfortunately this is in fact often the case, but not always! For many exercises with Natural Horsemanship or the TTouch training, the whip is just an extended arm. Nobody wants to kneel down, only to touch the hooves. And this is actually it: to touch!
You give gentle orders with the whip by merely touching the horse. Furthermore strokes are important, because with the lessons the horse should learn, that the whip is part of the human partner; it orders, leads, guides and praises.
Pressure causes counter-pressure. Working without pressure leads to fastest results
There is plenty of wisdom in the world and almost everone seems to know something new, something different. We don’t mean to communicate that what we practise is the only way. I don’t want to say or write “success”, because success means to me, to achieve something, to be superior to something else, with what you achieved. This is not what we want, on the contrary, we ant to communicate as partners with the horses, based on trust. Again, the TTouch method is to be admired. Everything is done with great calmness and with an inner relaxedness with human and horse, slowly, and what Robyn Hood repeated all the time: You have to have a clear aim, understandable for the horse! On the photo (on the right), you can see two leads, which aren’t there to control the horse, because it’s so wild. No, on the contrary and extremely interesting, Linda and Robyn made the expirience during decades of working ans living with horses, and are completely convinced about it today, that horses have to learn to balance themselves! This sounds like an alien-tale to you now, but honestly, don’t we have to learn sitting straight on a bike, to balance on a tree-trunk or to walk securely on gravel? And it’s the same with horses, they have to learn to handle their own body and to keep balanced. The upper photo shows the same horse with just one lead on the very next day! The horse understood after one day of training with us, how to keep its body balanced, it isn’t shying anymore and passes the parcours without a problem. It’s so simple for horses to learn how to overcome obstacles, if we keep cool. Down to the point, we have to train them in very small steps, slowly and very patiently. The slowest, absolutely slowest way (almost making us humans fall asleep) is the fastest. This Arabian horse, is 3 years old and has always lived on its own on a pasture, with hardly any contact to humans and those pictures have been taken after 3 days of training. A damn fast success, thanks to slowness! To be relaxed, happy and to have an inner concentration!
If it’s horse whispering or not, or if you even sing to your horse… Natural Horsemanship offers many methods, training tecniques and accesses to the horse. We are absolutely sure, that horses react extremely strong on the mood of their partner human, standing next to it. For example, I never work when it’s windy. The sounds of the environment disturb the calmness and the concentration of the horse. Manuela only trains horses, being in a good mood, working happily, merrily and realxed with the horses. Many of my orders are singing sounds or calm whistlings. A good mood is important, because I’m sure that men and horse exchange waves. A horse-lover and good friend of mine, Alex from Uruguay, taught me to earth myself, the get connected to the earth. That sounds like magic, but it’s not! Alex’ argumentation: today humans live in builings made of reinforced concrete, isolating all natural rays and waves from us. Furthermore the rubber soles of our shoes isolate us from the earth. Now come on, get out of your house, out of your shoes and earth yourself barefoot, find your connection the Mother Earth! I think, that you need an inner calmness and peace, a state of relaxation and a happy and lively mood, to encounter horses. Just look at the photo of Robyn Hood very carefully, this reveals everthing! I watched Robyn closely, because I wanted to learn from her, as much as possilbe and I realized a general behaviour of hers:
First, no matter what kind of work she was starting, she exhaled deeply, relaxed for a few seconds and exhaled again and then, with deepest concentration and bonding with the horse, she began with the training slowly.
To be relaxed, happy and to have an inner concentration!
If it’s horse whispering or not, or if you even sing to your horse… Natural Horsemanship offers many methods, training tecniques and accesses to the horse. We are absolutely sure, that horses react extremely strong on the mood of their partner human, standing next to it. For example, I never work when it’s windy. The sounds of the environment disturb the calmness and the concentration of the horse. Manuela only trains horses, being in a good mood, working happily, merrily and realxed with the horses. Many of my orders are singing sounds or calm whistlings. A good mood is important, because I’m sure that men and horse exchange waves. A horse-lover and good friend of mine, Alex from Uruguay, taught me to earth myself, the get connected to the earth. That sounds like magic, but it’s not! Alex’ argumentation: today humans live in builings made of reinforced concrete, isolating all natural rays and waves from us. Furthermore the rubber soles of our shoes isolate us from the earth. Now come on, get out of your house, out of your shoes and earth yourself barefoot, find your connection the Mother Earth! I think, that you need an inner calmness and peace, a state of relaxation and a happy and lively mood, to encounter horses. Just look at the photo of Robyn Hood very carefully, this reveals everthing! I watched Robyn closely, because I wanted to learn from her, as much as possilbe and I realized a general behaviour of hers:
First, no matter what kind of work she was starting, she exhaled deeply, relaxed for a few seconds and exhaled again and then, with deepest concentration and bonding with the horse, she began with the training slowly.
Massages are not only good for the body, but they also move mind and soul
TTouch means not only to touch the muscles, but to move something with your hands. For a real insight into the toppic, you should buy one of Lindas books, I couldn’t describe it as competent as she can, even if I tried for a year or more! The Tellington tecnique is a method, which provides a philosophy about the loving way of living with animals and nature. On this picture, I’m just massaging the shoulder of the horse. The animals have certain spots on which they do not only like the touches, but the touches actually “touch” certain nerve systems. We would love to show our guests some tecniques, that work miracles, especially at and around the tail.
Body awareness, to feel and realize oneself provides confidence and security!
You won’t find photos from the horse-hospital, does this comfort you? Good, the horses on the photos feel comfortable about it as well. Look, how the horse in the front loweres its head, a clear sign of relaxation. Horses are by nature flight-animals and in the free nature, they like to run away from everthing that scares them. If a horse lowers its head, it minimizes its view extremely and this shows, that the horse trusts the partner human. There are many lessons, to relax your horse, this is what we want to show our guests. But really interesting concerning trust and security are those bandages for horses. To feel your own body, to be sensitive for all parts of your body and to develop an awareness for your hole body, provides security and an enormous trust to your environment. This is absolutely the same with horses. If your horse trusts you, I tell you, you can do the most weard and fascinating things with your horse. Unbelievable? You would like to try it? Do you have a transportable radio or iPod equipment with loud speakers?
Sarah, our mare has never had negative experiences with humans. One day, I brought a small Ghettoblaster (an iPod equipment with speakers), which I just bought in the States, to the round-pen, an absolutely new experience for Sarah and me. I fixed the thing, which played loud Pink Floyd music to the saddle, and Sarah just startet walking and looked me absolutely relaxed, as if she would like to say: All right man, when are we going to a concert?
Non-sense, you don’t do such a thing with a horse – I heard from someone later. Well, sure you do! You do everything you yourself have really fun with with your horse, because horses like to share joy and fun with humans. Sometime our horses jump out of joy in the training at Corral los Andes. You don’t do that?! A natural behaviour with horses is our aim. You do!
You don’t act as a superior race, which gain respect by force and reach goals with pressure. Better to use Pink Floyd and TTouch – a nice combination, your horses can enjoy!
The “three musketeers of horse-comunication” – Barbara from California, Manuala from Chile and Robyn Hood from Canada
