Tellington Touch / QiGong for Pets

Tellington Touch (TTouch) is a healthcare and training approach developed by Internationally known animal expert and Feldenkrais Teacher Linda Tellington-Jones who applied the principles of the Feldenkrais method for humans to her approach for teaching and healing animals. Her revolutionary techniques promote optimal performance and health without fear or force.

TTouch consists of gentle non-habitual circular touches and movement exercises. The touches are done all over the body as well as specific areas that need attention such as the tail, ears, paws and pads, and mouth. Each part of the body is associated with specific areas in the brain and can affect not only the health of an animal, but also how she feels, behaves, how they interact with you, and others in their environment. When an area is worked on such as the mouth we can shift behaviors such as over activity, nervousness, barking, chewing, timidness and fear.

 

Promotes a calming effect

Assists in recovery from illness and injury

Deepens bonding

Reduces anxiety, fear and tension

Enhances your animal’s ability to learn

Positively improve a wide variety of behavioral issues

BARKING, CHEWING, SHYNESS, CAR SICKNESS, AND MORE….

Helps prevent and ease the ills of aging

ARTHRITIS, POOR BALANCE, DYSPLASIA, AND MORE….

 

My focus in a TTouch/Qigong session is to assess which touches and movement exercises would be the most helpful for your animal and teach you how to do the bodywork. Then you will literally have at your fingertips a way of helping your animal friend be healthier, happier and smarter through every bump in the road and every stage of her/his life.

Sessions are 1- 1½ hours depending on your needs.

My fee is 55.00 for a 1 hour session.

Studied with and Certified by Linda Tellington-Jones in 1997

I came to study TTouch IN 1995 because a rambunctious golden retriever named Kayla came into my life who had a number of issues including being fearful and anxious and totally resistant to traditional dog training methods (at that time positive reinforcement training was not well known). The big question for me was how do I communicate with this beautiful dog to help her adapt to living in this human world in a kind and compassionate way. Most important I just wanted her to have a happy dog life in a sometimes calm and appropriately.

The TTouchs were such a part of our relationship over the 14 years of her life.The TTouch work helped Kayla whenever she sprained or injured herself, with the pain and recovery from a torn ligament, through surgeries, whenever a new behavioral issue would crop up and then through the dying process. I always had my hands, breath and a clear, gentle way of communicating with her to assist her through every stage of her life. 

After seeing the transformation in my beautiful Kayla (and a feral cat who adopted me) with the TTouch method I knew I wanted to help animals and their people on their journey together.  To offer them another way of communicating through touch and movement exercises.

BOTH QIGONG AND TTOUCH have a profound effect on the nervous system and promote the relaxation response allowing the nervous system to move out of the fight and flight reaction to a rest and restore response.  Stay tuned for more information on this in a new blog.