Linda Tellington-Jones
Linda Tellington-Jones (born June 30, 1937 in Canada) is a Canadian animal trainer. In 1975, she founded the T ellington-Jones e quine A wareness M ethod ( TT.EAM , literal translation: "Tellington-Jones Horse Awareness Deities method"), a targeted system of manual techniques on the body (the so-called TTouches (= Touch)), special leadership techniques and learning-promoting obstacles.
Life
Linda Tellington-Jones presented her own and foreign horses at national events in Canada in 1948, at the age of eleven, and won competitions at the federal level in almost all equestrian disciplines ( obstacle races , side saddles , western riding , English, Driving , show jumping , hunting, 3-day races, endurance riding ).
In the early 1960s, Linda Tellington-Jones was a co-owner of a stud . With the trained her mare Bint Gulida she came in 1961 in the top ten in the Tevis Cup , five weeks later they won with Bint Gulida the Jim Shoulders 100-mile race .
Through her first husband Wentworth Tellington, Linda Tellington-Jones also received classical training in cavalry riding . She has dealt with the horse behavior in detail . Together they founded a training facility (The Pacific Coast Equestrian Ranch Farm) on the Pacific coast of the USA , in which a nine-month training concept was taught in daily theoretical and practical units. Further innovations in the training area as well as successful participation in competitions followed.
In 1964, Linda Tellington-Jones taught mentally and physically disabled adolescents and young adults in a three-month program for the first time in her training facility, coordinated and taught the first adult education courses in horse management and horse psychology for the University of California in the early 1970s and developed a . a. a new gentle and safe way of getting young horses used to the saddle and riding them, which soon became known in magazines as the Tellington method .
In 1965 she published her first book together with her husband Wentworth, The Physical Therapy of Sport Horses . The publication of the first handbook for endurance riders followed two years . Products such as the seaweed as feed additive , an aluminum muzzle model and horse trailers were developed at the Pacific Coast Equestrian Ranch Farm .
At the beginning of the 1970s she got to know the work of Moshé Feldenkrais and learned the Feldenkrais method for working with people in body therapy. She applied this method to work with horses. In autumn 1979 she conducted a one-month course in the FS test center in Reken (Germany).
Tellington-Jones is also a founding member of the California Dressage Society , taught in pony clubs , has been writing articles in the magazine Freizeit im Sattel since the early 1970s , was a first guest at the Equitana horse fair in 1975 , where he demonstrated bitlessly with three ridden horses jump in formation. Today she regularly represents elements of the TT.EAM method there.
In 1975 the first training courses on the TT.EAM method took place all over Germany , initially only for horses, since 1994 for dogs, cats and small animals and since 2004 also for people (TTouch-For-You) .
Tellington-Jones also promotes work with children (the Animal Ambassadors ), supports humanitarian projects (such as those with HIV in Johannesburg ) and also works with exotic animals and zoo animals all over the world .
In 2007 Linda Tellington-Jones received the Western States Horse Expo Hall of Fame Award in Sacramento, California .
In 2008 she received a professorship for Interspecies Communication and an honorary doctorate in philosophy from the non-recognized Wisdom University in San Francisco . At the same time, Linda Tellington-Jones became director of the Institute for Interspecies Communication .
Tellington-Jones now lives in Hawaii with her husband Roland Kleger. She is the author of numerous books, videos and publications on the education and health of horses, dogs, cats and small animals as well as wellness for people (TTouch-For-You) and teaches training groups for future teachers of her method worldwide.
methodology
Feldenkrais
In the early 1970s, Linda Tellington-Jones got to know the work of Moshé Feldenkrais and learned the Feldenkrais method for working with people in body therapy.
“I started using my hands with them [the horses] as I did with the humans. [..] I realized that pain is the root cause of behavior problems in horses [..] Suddenly I understood the principle: I knew that the localization and neutralization of the pain were the logical way to eliminate the problems ”
In autumn 1979 she conducted a one-month course at the Reken riding center. As a result, the method spread in Germany and Switzerland.
TT.EAM
The non-violent method facilitates according to its supporters, the communication with animals, promotes their (basic) training and offers a form of assistance in the case of behavioral problems as well as illness or convalescence . However, the actual effectiveness has hardly been scientifically proven to date and can only be partially derived with the help of other studies, findings and methods. In addition to the knowledge about the importance of proprioceptors, joint studies with Anna Wise (USA) and the Mind Mirror device that she helped to develop (an EEG device for measuring brainwave activities as part of so-called neurofeedback ), the research of mirror neurons , as well like the study results mainly about neuropeptides by Dr. Candace B. Pert, who she published in her work Molecules of Emotions .
Leading techniques and course work
Horses and dogs learn with the help of special leadership techniques and different ground work equipment (obstacles), among other things, to move their body more efficiently and to practice new movement sequences, to concentrate and to focus on their owner. At the same time, the particularly slow exercises promote sensory integration and stimulate the release of neurotransmitters and the receptors' readiness to receive .
distribution
More than 1,700 licensed TT.EAM teachers are now teaching according to the TT.EAM method in individual lessons and in workshops for horses, dogs, cats and small animals; since 2006 also as a licensed TTouch-For-You -teacher in the context of the treatment of people.
Works
Free time in the saddle
Linda was a regular contributor to the magazine Freizeit im Sattel . Together with Ursula Bruns she taught the TTT method in Reken. From 1983 to 1984 she published the series Auf Gentle Weise , with monthly episodes on the topics of massage, Feldenkrais, work with foals, floor work etc.
Dogs, cats, pets
- With Sybill Taylor: The New Way in Handling Animals, The Tellington Touch Method . Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-440-09331-X .
- Tellington Training for Dogs, The Practical Guide to TTouch and TTEAM . Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-440-07776-4 .
- Puppy school with Linda Tellington-Jones, successful education with TTouch and TTEAM . Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-440-09953-9 .
- TTouch for dogs - for on the go . Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-440-09481-2 .
- TTouch for cats, the new way to harmony, health and wellbeing. Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-440-09093-0 .
Horses
- Tellington Training for Horses, AZ Problems, Tellington TTouches, Groundwork and Riding . Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 3-440-10416-8 .
- With Ursula Bruns : The Tellington Method . Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-275-00856-0 .
- With Sybil Taylor: The personality of your horse, the art, character and temperament of your horse to determine and to influence positively . Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-440-09239-9 .
- Dear Linda . Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-440-07325-4 .
- The Linda Tellington-Jones Riding School, More fun and success with TTEAM and TTouch . Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-440-09584-3 .
- TTOUCH and TTEAM for horses, the gentle way to health, performance and well-being. Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-440-08957-6 .
People
- With Sybill Taylor: TTouch for You !, health and wellbeing with the Tellington TTouch . Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-440-07572-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Linda Tellington-Jones in the catalog of the German National Library
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Linda Tellington-Jones, in: Freizeit im Sattel, 7/1983, p. 351
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tellington-Jones, Linda |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian riding instructor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Canada |