RAIAN KAISER Instructor USA / Canada:

Raian, based near Loveland CO, has been teaching and training riders, horses, and companion animals for nearly three decades. She uses bodywork to improve animals’ balance, self-awareness, and self-control, as well as to increase the connection between horse and rider/handler. Apart from being an Equine and Canine Touch and VHT International Instructor (and still horse-crazy girl at heart), she is a TTACT and TTEAM Practitioner III, a certified veterinary assistant, and member of NAHA, ARIA, CHA, IEEE and other associations. She works with all breeds from pony to draft, gaited and non-gaited, in disciplines both English and Western and has a herd of horses that includes Appaloosas (Jock's favorite ;-) ) and gaited breeds. She holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She runs the Equine Touch National Coordination Center (ET NCC) for the USA and Canada, and is currently Secretary for the International Equine Touch Association (IETA) in the USA.

COLETTE BOLSTER, Instructor USA / Canada:

Colette is from Dassel, MN, where she was born and raised. After living in California for 7 years she returned back to where she belonged. Colette has 2 daughters, and one grandchild. Her husband Ken is a qualified barefoot trimmer and ferrier, and together they own a farm which they have turned into a complete Equine Center with a large coverall arena where she works with horses as her full-time job.  One of the first ET instructors to be appointed in the USA, Colette who trains horses, teaches riding and horsemanship lessons has studied under some of the legends of the horse world including Ray Hunt. She has loved and ridden horses all her life and never wanted to do anything else other than work with them and make this life a better place for them. She considers Equine Touch one of the greatest tools to achieve this.

TRUDY JOHNSON, Regional Instructor for California:

Trudy first saw Jock work on a horse in 2002 and knew immediately she had to learn more Aready a massage therapist, Trudy found learning ET a challenge, bur persevered and within a year's time was a practitioner. After qualifying in ET Trudy found she was rarely using her massage skills, Equine Touch was a far superior method.  Although Trudy's education had been in Boiology, Anatomy and Physiology, with advanced work in World Health it has been Equine Touch that has turned her work into a passion.  Trudy has established a functional medicine business, 'E=mc2 Health Care' focusing on the horse and rider:  With credentials in ET, VHT, Flow, functional Cranio Sacral, Quantum Energetics Trudy now has clients across the USA.  Trudy has found ET/VHT has given her business a very strong foundation.  Trudy lives on the Central Coast of California with her husband, horses and dogs.

SUZ ANNE KURTEN, Regional Instructor for Texas:

Suz Anne is a certified massage therapist for humans, and shares her expertise for horses through being a Regional ET instructor, Teaching the Foundation and Intermediate classes throughout Texas. In addition Suz Anne is the senior VHT instructor in the United States and has been responsible for achieving recognition of VHT as ongoing education for Licensed Massage Therapists in Texas. Devoted to horses not only as an ET practitioner and instructor but as a competitor and breeder. She has ridden since childhood and thanks to her desire to help the horse through bodywork has a inbuilt committment to assist all her students to help their horses have a better quality of life.