Linda Tellington-Jones On The Go

Join us for our TTouch Community Webinar
Sunday, June 7, 2026 11:00 AM Pacific | 2:00 PM Eastern

Calm Through the Storm: Simple TTouch Strategies for Fireworks, Thunderstorms, and Startling Events

Summer can bring many challenges for our animal companions. Fireworks, thunderstorms, and other sudden noises can leave animals feeling overwhelmed, anxious, and unable to recover easily from the experience.

Join Robyn Hood as she shares a practical Tellington TTouch® approach to helping animals become better equipped to cope with startling events before they happen. Rather than focusing only on managing fear in the moment, we'll explore simple ways to support balance, confidence, body awareness, and emotional resilience so animals can stay more relaxed and recover more quickly when faced with unexpected stress.

In this webinar you'll learn:

• Simple TTouch techniques to support relaxation and emotional balance
• How body wraps can help animals feel more grounded and secure
• Ways to prepare before fireworks season or summer thunderstorms arrive
• Practical tools to support recovery after a frightening experience
• How small changes can help animals move from reacting to thinking and coping

Whether you share your life with dogs or other animals, you'll leave with easy-to-use strategies that can make a meaningful difference during stressful summer events.

As always, the live session is free to attend and a recording will be available in the TTouch Community Library afterward at www.ttou.ch

To join the recording live, sign up here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_I4wTJjV0TpS9L5Rli_fphw

For the past few months I have been dealing with ongoing, at times excruciating, back pain that comes and goes, despite extensive medical evaluations and still no clear answers.

After seeing multiple doctors, including a cardiologist, neurologist, and neurosurgical doctor along with three MRIs and an X-ray two weeks later, they still could not identify the reason for the level of pain I’m experiencing. My next recommendation is finally to see a pain management doctor. But before that, I’m going back to a different PA connected to my official doctor, whom I still have yet to see after more than a year.

It really makes me think about our animals. So often a horse indicates pain, discomfort, or fear of pain, yet no clear cause can be found at the time. That does not mean the pain has been “ruled out.” It only means the source has not yet been identified or understood. Too often, horses continue to suffer because the absence of findings is mistaken for the absence of pain.

It appears that my discovery and Newsletter report from the 1970s , recognizing pain or fear of pain as a major cause of undesired behavior, remains highly relevant today. Horses are punished for behaviors that may actually be responses to pain: running backward, refusing jumps or ditches, being whipped, and labeled uncooperative, stubborn, bad actors, and much more. Anyone who has been in the horse world for long has seen these types of labels applied.

Humans experience this too. People are sometimes labeled hypochondriacs when in reality they may simply have a condition the doctor has never seen before, or does not yet know how to properly evaluate.

Have you had any similar experiences? I find that sharing can give people hope or feel less alone while going through this challenging process of diagnosis.

Registration is free for the live session!

Our Sunday TTouch Community Webinars are back! Enjoy and inspiring and informative chat with Linda herself.

Heart to Heart, Cell to Cell, Soul to Soul: A Guided Journey of Connection with Animals, Nature, and Ourselves with Linda Tellington-Jones

Sunday, May, 17 2026
11 AM PT | 12 PM MT | 1 PM CT | 2 PM ET | 7 PM UK | 8 PM Central Europe

Free to Join | Replay Available with Community Membership

Join Linda this Sunday for a special and deeply personal TTouch Community webinar exploring the journey that shaped her connection with animals, nature, and the unseen world around us.

Linda will share stories and experiences from her lifelong exploration of communication beyond words, including connecting with horses and dogs, communicating with trees and the fairy kingdoms, and developing a deeper awareness of the energetic connection we share with all living beings.

This unique session will include a gentle guided journey to help you connect with a beloved animal: Heart to Heart • Cell to Cell • Soul to Soul

Bring your favorite journal and an open mind as Linda invites us into an experience of awareness, intuition, and connection.

These Sunday conversations are always rich with insight, stories, and practical ideas drawn from decades of experience.

This live Zoom is part of the TTouch Community membership.

All sessions are recorded and available to members to watch anytime.

It is free to join live, just register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Q-e_WVk8QX2B0ZKNkJOMpQ #/registration

One of the most amazing aspects of the Tellington TTouch Method is its capacity to go beyond simply training a specific skills or behaviors in horses. Instead, it focuses on enhancing their overall ability to learn. Linda Tellington-Jones started exploring this concept half a century ago, when it was considered really "out there"! It was not about suppressing or punishing the behavior out of a horse, it was about changing how the FEEL which changes how they act or respond to the world.

By positively influencing how an animal feels in its own body, the method fosters a sense of safety and confidence. This, in turn, enables them to absorb information more effectively, adapt to various situations, and exhibit self-control to overcome instinctual coping mechanisms. Time and time again, we've witnessed remarkable transformations in horse behavior through exercises that do not seem to be directly linked to addressing a specific issue.

For example, if a horse has difficulty with trailer loading, we do not start at the trailer. We would see how we can improve balance, posture and coordination AWAY from the trailer, to make trailer loading (and the ride in the trailer itself) feel safer for the horse.

Your horse has difficulty rushing under saddle? We would look at tension patterns in the body and balance first which will often help the "root" of the rush-iness rather than adding deterrents, circling, more bit, etc which are a more common suggestion.

When you help your horse feel safer, they are better equipped to cooperate and activate a parasympathetic response in the nervous system, resulting in an engaged, willing partner.

While it all started with horses in the 1970's, we have now applied this concept to practically any species that interacts with people. In the 1990's we began a formal training with dogs and companion animals and found the concepts to be applicable with incredible results.

Focusing on how any animal feels physically to result a positive change in behavior or "trainability" means that you do not necessarily need to change what already works well for you but gives you new tools and an overall approach that can be adapted for a variety of situations and individual animals.

If you are interested in learning how the Tellington TTouch approach can enhance how you work with animals, check out one of our free online courses: https://learn.ttouch.ca/product-category/free/

Teil 2
Die Sichtweiseder in der Tellington Methode :
Körperliche, mentale und emotionale Balance sind verbunden

Wenn sich ein Pferd körperlich ausbalanciert fühlt, fühlt es sich oft sicherer. Fühlt es sich sicherer, muss das Nervensystem nicht dauerhaft im Schutzmodus bleiben.
Statt automatisch zu reagieren, kann das Pferd bewusster antworten, reguliert bleiben und sich schneller von Stress erholen. Linda spricht seit langem davon, Pferden zu helfen, „Instinktverhalten zu bremsen“ und das parasympathische (denkfähige) Nervensystem zu aktivieren. In diesem Zustand fällt Lernen leichter. Das Pferd kann bessere Entscheidungen treffen, kooperativer sein und sich besser anpassen.
Das Nervensystem beeinflusst Gleichgewicht, Koordination, Haltung, Reaktionen, Spannungsmuster, Selbstvertrauen, Lernfähigkeit, emotionale Regulation und die Wahrnehmung des eigenen Körpers im Raum (Propriozeption).
Linda Tellington-Jones untermauert diese Idee seit über 50 Jahren in vielen Vorführungen, wo sie schreckhafte, unsichere Pferde in kurzer Zeit ins Vertrauen brachte und durch Planen ritt, die diese Pferde an dem Tag zum ersten Mal sahen, oder Pferde die stiegen oder durchgingen mit dem Halsring entspannt ritt.