Linda Tellington-Jones has taught, led and laughed for 30 years, creating an absolutely original way—the Tellington Method—of connecting and bonding with horses and other beings. Through her method of training and healing, she takes us beyond resistance, fear and instinct by thinking, not reacting. She gives us—and our horses—choices, not rules while exploding decades-old myths about equine training and behavior. She opened the possibility to dance with horses in a way that goes beyond dominance, strength and coercion while staying safe. Her credits fills several pages—vet schools in Europe teach her methods, and University of Minnesota medical and vet students learn the relaxing and fear-releasing qualities of TTouch. Yet the patience and love in her heart are always first in any encounter with horse or human.
“Research at the HeartMath Institute has shown that when you are in a state of thanksgiving, forgiveness and understanding, empathy is measurable from your heart at a distance of several feet,” says Linda. So when you open your heart to your horse, your horse is able to take that love in….and lead you to that elusive place called bonding.
A youthful 69, Linda is as energetic and light-hearted as when she was a child galloping her horse Blaze across the Canadian plains. TTouch has taken Linda, her fellow instructors and their students to every corner of the globe. She keeps up a worldwide travel schedule that would tire out people a third her age, and never stops learning, inquiring, teaching and laughing. She doesn’t leave a clinic until the last question is answered, and the last horse is relaxed and happy in his skin.