Tellington TTouch

Tellington TTouch

Tellington TTouch is a gentle and effective way to solve behavioural issues, increase self confidence and self-control. It can also enhance performance and improve communication and relationships between humans and animals.

It uses a series of unique bodywork, groundwork and functional exercises that helps create physical balance through good posture, relaxation and overall enhancement of trust.

It is recommended by many veterinary surgeons, trainers, veterinary physiotherapists, competitors in equine and canine sports and rescue workers as well as thousands of animal owners.

The Tellington TTouch is a complete system of understanding, handling and influencing our animals and ourselves.

​Exercises start with changing posture and mindfulness as a means to affect behaviour and cooperation.

By changing the posture you can change the behaviour and the nervous system can learn much more through non-habitual movement rather than simple repetition.

TTouch combines observations, non-habitual bodywork and ground exercises and equipment to help animals find physical, mental, and emotional balance.

It does not use the escalation of pressure to create behaviour, nor does it rely solely on positive reinforcement, although it works well with Clicker training. TTouch works to show animals what we want and make the steps as small and easy as possible to keep the learning process low-stress and logical.

The aim is not to just train an animal a specific cue for obedience, the aim is to help animals learn and begin to have the self-control to act instead of simply reacting to stimuli. Building this self-confidence and self-control means that an animal can adapt and adjust to a variety of situations and settings.