Acupressure for the horse - a practical guide

Insight into traditional Chinese veterinary medicine with Karin Kalchofner Guerrero

29.05.-01.06.2025

What horse person hasn't experienced it - your horse has recurring lameness, a chronic cough, seasonal allergies, stomach problems, high liver values, etc.?

In this seminar I would like to show you a way to help your horse, without medication and without equipment, just with your hands and natural feed. Conventional medicine often reaches its limits with these chronic complaints, and traditional Chinese veterinary medicine (TCM) can help us in many cases with a different approach to these complaints; in many cases TCM can also be used to support veterinary treatment. As a veterinarian, I can also shed light on both sides and show all the possibilities.

This seminar will help you:

• Recognize your horse in the 5 elements of TCM
• Understand the different forms of TCM treatment
• Be able to carry out certain forms of treatment such as acupressure and moxabustion yourself

We will spend 3 half days studying the necessary theory and 3 half days practicing on horses (the beautiful La Perla Lusitanos):

A: Theory part

Introduction to Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine (TCVM)

• How does acupuncture work?
• Yin/Yang
• The 5 elements
• The meridian system
• The diagnosis according to TCM
• The different modalities: Acupuncture, acupressure, moxabustion, feed therapy
• Possible applications and limits

TCVM at

• Lameness
• Diseases of the respiratory tract
• Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract
• Reproductive disorders
• Behavioral problems
• Skin diseases

B: Practical part on the horse

• Pulse and tongue diagnosis, sensitivity of the points
• Meridians and important acupuncture points in horses
• Application: Acupressure, moxabustion, feed therapy
• Case studies: you are also welcome to bring cases that we can look at together

Price
780.00 euros per person
(incl. drinks, coffee, tea, snacks and fruit during the day)

Arrival and accommodation

The accommodation will be booked by the participants themselves. Tips on hotels, guesthouses or apartments can be found here.
Price categories from about EUR 55 per night and person.

The nearest airport is Madrid. From there you can reach the stud farm, about 130 km from the airport, best by rental car. Google Maps is the easiest way to find the Yeguada la Perla.

We are happy to link you as participants to each other so that you can, for example, join forces to book a rental car together. If you wish to do so, please give us your consent to pass on your contact details to the other participants.

Registration
by email to info@tierakupunktur-kalchofner.ch

More information about Karin at https://www.tierakupunktur-kalchofner.ch/

The face of the course - Karin Kalchofner Guerrero

Karin is a veterinarian specializing in anaesthesia, pain therapy and acupuncture. After several years as a senior veterinary anesthetist at Zurich Veterinary Hospital, she taught at an American university in the Caribbean. There she came across acupuncture and was so fascinated by it that she trained for several years at Chi University in Florida and Spain. Back in Switzerland, she then set up her own business and has been running her own practice as a pain therapist and acupuncturist for animals since 2019.