VHT for Animals
THE FASTEST GROWING EQUINE and CANINE HANDS-ON DISCIPLINE IN THE WORLD
In
1997 as a result of requests from practitioners who he worked with and taught,
Jock started to study the results of his VHT move on equines. Amazed at the acceptance
of the moves by the horse and the results expressed, Jock began to adapt and choreograph
his human moves to the musculo-skeletal systen of the horse, noting the effects,
the releases (both emotional and physical), and the improvement in the subject
after each treatment.
Armed with a practical manual that he had developed, he started working with horses first in Scotland, then in Hawaii. The success was such that he was asked to demonstrate his equine work on horses in the USA and to lecture on the procedures to veterinary surgeons in Europe. In October 1998 he was invited to Prague by a leading veterinary surgeon to work on the Czech Republic's most famous horse Cipisek, winner of the 1997 National Steeplechase Championship.
Cipisek had fallen badly a few weeks earlier at a jump with three other horses landing on him. The resulting injury was so severe that it was thought he would have to be put down. After only one session Cipisek's pain had greatly reduced, he was walking with his tail up and the neck, which had been badly twisted was aligned and free of pain. As a result of this demonstration he was invited by the head of surgery at the National Veterinary University to return to Czech to teach Veterinarians from all over Europe in conjunction with the University of To stop confusion or association with any other equine modality for horses Jock decided to call his address 'The Equine Touch'.
Although the Equine Touch was originally only taught to qualified veterinary surgeons, it was on the advice of these doctors that he began to invite other interested equestrians to attend his seminars and so the Equine Touch as a modality for all to learn was born.
Not satisfied with merely adapting the simple moves Jock began to research into the tissue of the horse and the emotional and physical results of the moves. Listening to horse trainers, teachers and vets he started to develop the modality even further, lymphatic drainage, energy releasing torque moves, limb elongation and gentle soft tissue manipulation followed. Each procedure carefully mapped out and choreographed before presenting it to veterinarians and horse trainers for their consideration, before including it in his seminars. Jock remains adamant however that The Equine Touch is not a therapy as such but is a discipline or a modality that trains the equine to relax and rebalance itself. Every move and procedure performed on the equine is done with this intent in mind.
In 1999 Jock was joined in teaching The Equine Touch by his wife Dr Ivana Ruddock a Veterinary Surgeon and former lecturer in anatomy from Brno University in the Czech Republic. Dr Ruddock attended the seminar held by the University and was so impressed with the Equine Touch she resigned her position to work alongside Jock in teaching, researching, documenting and developing the Equine Touch even farther. Dr Ruddock brings with her to The Equine Touch seminars a sense of credibility and legitimacy that is seldom afforded complementary modalities. In 2000 she was appointed national Standards Advisor on animals' Complementary Health for the UK to the ICM and the BRCP and is a member of the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association.
Ivana has been acclaimed by all who attend the ET clinics as a brilliant and extremely professional instructor whose knowledge of the equine and dedication to helping them in a truly holistic manner manifests itself throughout her course lectures and demonstrations from foundation to practitioner level. Described as the most unique teaching duo in the equine world one student summed it up by stating ' Jock shows us how to do it Ivana tells us why'.
In January 2002 The US Government granted Jock and Ivana a visa to teach the Equine Touch in the United States.
The Equine Touch Foundation Inc. seminars are now available for interested horse owners and as well as VHT and Bowen Practitioners throughout the world from Norway to New Zealand. Equine Touch is now being recognized and endorsed by vets, universities, Olympians, other clinicians as well as Parelli Natural Horsemanship as being a discipline that works.
If you would like to learn more about Equine and Canine Touch please visit our other website http://www.theequinetouch.com