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Tellington Touch Equine Awareness Method®: TTEAM®
Tellington Touch (TTouch) and the Tellington Touch Equine Awareness Method (TTEAM) have been developed by Linda Tellington-Jones over the past 30 years. This approach provides a gentle, practical way to work with horses and other animals, and more recently with humans too, to enhance confidence, freedom of movement, rapport, comfort and performance.
Contact me to schedule an informative demonstration, or to learn more about how we could do TTEAM work together!
Back by popular demand:
TTEAM/Connect Horse Clinic with Mandy Pretty - April 20-22, 2012!
I am VERY pleased to announce that Mandy Pretty, a remarkable horsewoman and instructor, and the neice of Linda Tellington-Jones (the originator of the Tellington TTouch work) is coming back this Spring to offer another combined TTEAM and Connected Riding horse clinic in April! This clinic will help you and your horse become more supple and balanced, while building a great relationship together. This work is clear, intelligent, gentle, and fun - and it MAKES SENSE. For more info, contact me (Violet) at 867-633-3154 or by e-mail at violetvanhees@fastmail.fm
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Poppy learning balance, precision, and thinking - one step at a time
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The three aspects of TTEAM:
- Tellington TTouch: comprised of a range of hands-on circles, slides and lifts that help relieve tension, fear of contact, discomfort, or soreness, and that foster an improved sense of body connection, ease and body awareness for the horse
- Ground Exercises: exercises done using a variety of equipment such as a labyrinth, poles and plastic which result in better self-control, focus, self-confidence, cooperation, balance and coordination. In addition, different leading positions provide both the horse and person with opportunities to improve communication and ability.
- Riding with Awareness: this aspect continues to build on the first two, and also brings in principles of the Feldenkrais® approach, Centred Riding and Connected Riding, to help you and your horse ride with more awareness, comfort, flow and confidence. You learn about saddle fit, and how to find your seat in a way that provides light, clear, easy communication with your horse. TTEAM uses some unique tools such as the Balance Rein, the Neck Ring, and the TTEAM Training rollerbit to help your horse move with better balance and ease.
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Neck line driving for balance, confidence, and ease with body contact and having someone behind
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TTouch circles help this mare soften and be more at ease.
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TTEAM techniques help your horse to increase body awareness and to overcome old patterns and learn new ways of moving and behaving - without fear or force.
This work can relieve pain and tension in the horse’s body, which is often the cause of resistance and behavioural problems. The horse can then more easily learn new and more appropriate behaviours.
Horses trained in this method often demonstrate lasting changes in personality, behaviour, confidence and performance, along with an improved willingness and ability to learn.
This way of working establishes a deeper rapport between you and your horse through increased understanding and more effective communication.
Most people can learn and begin to use TTEAM techniques within a very short time, thus quickly finding effective ways to build a fun and satisfying partnership with their horse.
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"We don't see things
as they are,
we see them
as we are."
Anais Nin
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Violet’s TTEAM background:
I have taken my TTEAM trainings through the remarkable teaching of Robyn Hood (Linda Tellington-Jones’s sister), plus some combined TTEAM / Connected Riding® training with Peggy Cummings and Robyn Hood. Centred Riding is also taught as part of the TTEAM trainings by Sue Falkner-March, another gifted instructor. I was approved and certified as a Tellington Touch Equine Practitioner in July 2006, and I was promoted to the level of P1 Equine Practitioner in August 2008.
I own a lovely big black mare, Shiraz, and with her and all the other horses I meet I am constantly learning and growing. I have applied my TTEAM skills with a diverse range of people and horses in the Whitehorse area and elsewhere, exploring such things as: tight neck and back, various “hind end issues”, being bargy, managing a colic episode, not paying attention, rebuilding a young horse’s trust after a severe illness, high-headedness, unbalanced stance or movement, and generally encouraging easy and confident learning rather than reactivity. I love the TTEAM approach – both for the simple yet powerful ways it opens the experiential intelligence and learning for both horse and human, and for the kind of relationship it fosters between human and horse.
I have a strong foundation in anatomy and movement mechanics, a good eye, and a practical and straightforward manner through which I engage those I work with in exploring very do-able things that make sense.
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Riding with a balance rein to help the horse improve balance, and telescope and soften his neck
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For more information about TTEAM and TTouch:
May the Horse be with you! :-)
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"In partnerhsip with a horse,
one is seldom lacking for thought,
emotion and inspiration."
Charles de Kunffy, reknowned equitation and dressage expert and author
Violet and Shiraz, December in Whitehorse
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Movement - Strength - Awareness - Ease
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