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Animal Courses
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Merishia massage for horses and dogs 
(practitioner course) 
Learn an effective massage routine to release tension in muscles and joints.
This involves completion of an extensive home study pack, a full days practical training (or two days if you are doing both equine and canine), plus follow up assignments and case studies. 

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With Dawn McCaig.  Long standing tightness in the body can be released through a gentle soft tissue manipulation technique called Myofascial release.  This can also stimulate the body to realign itself.  This workshop demonstrates the technique through practice on eachother before working on a variety of horses.  Its simple, relaxing and effective.

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Gentle touch technique to help relax and stimulate healing.
Reiki level 1 for people and animals  
Reiki level 2 for people and animals  (practitioner course).

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Half day practical workshop: Includes information on essential oils, macerated oils and dried plants, plus practical application via self selection.
Full day hedgerow forage workshop: Includes information on plants found in the hedgerows, a foraging walk, macerating and drying practical session and applied zoopharmacognosy (offering to animals for self selection).

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In this half day workshop, dog psychologist, Lizi Angel, helps students to understand canine body language, and provides some excellent tips for training.

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This short workshop demo gives students an insight to practical application of Kinesiology massage and energy techniques to animals. 
This is aimed at those who have done some, or are interested in Kinesiology training, and is run at the end of the second day of the Touch for Health Kinesiology part 1 training.
Please note: There is no Kinesiology for animals course available in the UK, but some of the techniques can be appropriately integrated into certain animal practitioner methods.  This will be discussed.

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Subtle Equine Body Language Workshop
Co-taught by Natural Horsemanship trainer; Sue Gardner.
Learn how to focus your mind and use subtle bodylanguage to communicate with horses.

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A practical skills workshop with Caroline Baldock (previous advisor to Monty Roberts).
Improve communication, understanding, balance and performance through learning about horse behaviour, groundwork and long reining.

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Acu-point therapy can have an affect on both emotional and physical issues, as it works on balancing energy through the meridian system, and also acts on nerve function.  This workshop educates students on some of points commonly used for relaxation, emotional /behavioural issues and pain management.

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A workshop exploring some of the hard working muscles of the horse, plus stretches to help improve range of movement.  Includes painting muscles on a horse. 
Aimed at those who at least have a basic understanding of equine anatomy, and have experience in applying simple stretches.  
Useful practical knowledge for the experienced horse owner or equine practitioner.

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Co-hosted by Terry Shubrook.  Much like we are drawn to colours and music which boost our mood, animals appear to make similar wellbeing choices.  Providing these choices may help with mood and behaviour.  Students will have the oppportunity to work with eachother and animal behavioural responses, using colour beamer pens, tuning forks, colour cards and more.

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Run by Lizi Angel, this workshop provides techniques and tools for telepathic communication with animals.

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We are happy to travel to your venue if you have a group interested.  Please conact us for more details.