About Linda Tellington-Jones
Linda Tellington-Jones’ vast equestrian background covers seven decades. As a child, she rode her horse to school in rural Canada. By the age of 11, she was competing in nine-day horse shows in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta.
By age 13, she was teaching riding lessons at Briercrest Stables in Edmonton. This dedicated horsewoman would go on to compete extensively in combined training, hunter/jumper, and dressage events. She also completed six of seven Western States Trails Foundation 100-Miles-in-One-Day Trail Ride (known as the Tevis Cup).
In the 1950s and 1960s, Tellington-Jones was a United States Pony Club instructor and an American Horse Show Association judge, as well as a judge and competitor in the North American Trail Ride conference events. A founding member of the California Dressage Society, she also owned and operated the Pacific Coast School of Horsemanship and Research Farm with then-husband Wentworth Tellington, a former Cavalry officer.
She’s been an official member of the veterinary team for the U.S. Endurance Team in several world-championship competitions. Today, Tellington-Jones may be best known for creating the Tellington Method. She describes this method as “a holistic system of training horses that deepens mutual trust, overrides common resistances, and strengthens the horse-human bond.”
Tellington-Jones continues to teach, write, and work with horses around the world, including a number of Olympic horses and riders. When not on the road presenting clinics and demonstrations, she and her husband, Roland Kleger, reside on the Big Island of Hawaii.
(For more information on Linda Tellington-Jones, and a calendar of clinic dates, visit www.ttouch.com.)
For how-to TTouch descriptions, see Linda Tellington-Jones’ book, The Ultimate Horse Behavior and Training Book (Trafalgar Square Publishing). To order, go to www.ttouch.com.
Cynthia McFarland is a full-time freelance writer who writes regularly for a number of national horse publications and is the author of four books. The Florida horsewoman enjoys trail riding on her Paint Horse, Ben.
