Are you interested in The Equine Touch, but not seeing any courses scheduled in your area? Are you unable to travel to a course? Hosting an Equine Touch course is a great way to bring the modality to your area and help the local horse lovers help their horses. If you have a suitable venue and enough horses to serve as "teaching assistants" then read on.

Hosting a successful and professionally presented Equine Touch Course requires a few basic necessities. First off, the facility where the clinic will be held should be either a barn/stable with an indoor arena or some other weather protected facility with enough indoor room to allow for practicing on horses in a central location where the students are easily visible to the Instructor. Depending on the climate and season, the course may be held out of doors, but it is preferable to have an area available for shade and/or shelter from inclement weather.

A warm, comfortable area should also be available where massage tables can be set up so the students can practice on each other during instruction on the human aspect of the modality. Again, depending on the weather and climate, this could be a classroom, barn, or arena area.

And what would an Equine Touch course be without some equines? The ideal ratio of students to horses is 2:1. Some students may wish to bring their own horses, but as a rule of thumb there should be at least enough horses available at the venue to satisfy that aforementioned ideal ratio.