Equine Touch therapy

[Mary Poppins]

Has anyone had any experience of using equine touch therapy on their horses? My pony had his first session today and seemed to really enjoy it. He relaxed so much that he wasn't even bothered that the pony next to him was eating food (something that would usually drive him mad!). The therapist said that he was a little tense in his neck, but this should be easily sorted out. I should notice a difference when I ride him, but I wondered if anyone had any experiences of this.

[Alexia]

There's a web site www.tilleyfarm.co.uk which is the main site for the TTouch and TTeam centre which is what I assume your talking about? It's really informative and gives you a good insight into the therapy. There are also some good books available by Linda Tellington-Jones which go into detail about the therapy. You can do it yourself. Of course you probably won't get the same affect as a trained therapist but if you watch your therapist next time and research the therapy you could spend abit of time massaging your horse yourself, it's a lovely experience when you start to see them relaxing! Hope thats helps.

[Megans mum]

My friend has done Equine touch and I don;t think it is the same as TTeam touch'

[inhs]

Hello,

I just did the level 1 ET course about 2 weeks ago, so I'm heading back to ireland to try it out on my horses. can't wait!! Does anyone know what the Irish ET website is called?/

Thanks :)

[Ginger Thing]

No, Equine Touch isn't the same as Ttouch. The website is

www.theequinetouch.com

[Heather McR]

The Equine Touch is a non-invasive, non-diagnostic, hands- on system of bodywork addressing the whole horse with an organised series of unique, gentle, vibrational moves over soft tissue.

Equine Touch enables and trains horses to rebalance their bodies and this can inspire remedial and therapeutic changes.

Equine Touch can induce deep relaxation, release hypertonic and tramatised muscles, encourage muscle tone recovery from injury and atrophy, reduce the pain spiral, improve circulation and lymphatic drainage.

:o Equine Touch is available to learn for your own horse, with horselovers course available all over the world.

Check out www.theequinetouch.com www.theequinetouchuk.com
www.theequinetouchireland.com for a practitioner, or course near you.

[Yann]

I had an ET student practice on my two and they really responded well to it, both ended up very droopy, relaxed, and loose afterwards. On the face of it it's very similar to Bowen Therapy and Equine Muscle Release Therapy as far as I can tell, it's not a massage but a series of moves in particular spots:)