ABOUT US - JOCK AND IVANA
JOCK RUDDOCK
Jock (John) Ruddock, the pioneer and founder of ET, is a former Scotland Yard Police Officer who spent 28 years of an eclectic life as an international professional wrestler, entertainment director, hotel manager, song writer, show writer, record producer and part time bodyworker. On retiring from the ring he turned to the world of complementary health qualifying as a clinical hypnotherapist before opening five successful bodywork clinics in his native Scotland. A qualified clinical hypnotherapist, Jock was already an accomplished 'wrestler taught; skeletal manipulator and in 1995 turned his attention to studying the muscular skeletal system in the form of Aikido, Dynamic Ki, Bowen, Kinesiology, Cranio Sacral, Isogai and Hyperton-X. In 1996 he started to develop his own modality, first as additions to those which he already practiced and then combining it into a single identifiable and definable approach he called Vibromuscular Harmonization.
Working with physiotherapists, chiropractors and osteopaths he put together a training manual that has been described as the most user-friendly bodywork manual yet written. Not satisfied with his original he has over the past eleven years painstakingly rewritten and re-illustrated the manual no fewer than five times. His attitude being that no matter who gives advice or asks a question be it a doctor or a car mechanic if the point is of value then it should be passed on and if it assists practitioners and ultimately their clients than it should be taught.
In 1996 Jock started his own International School in Scotland despite numerous threats and intimidation from other quarters. In November 1999 Jock's syllabus and teachings were accepted for full accreditation in the UK, Ireland, Scandinavia, Europe, New Zealand and Australia, and his VHT clinics filled with qualified therapists and instructors from other well known schools such as ECBS and BTAA.
In 1997 he introduced VHT into Hawaii, in 1998 to the Czech Republic and in 1999 to Zimbabwe where in spite of riots, chaos and violence he returned to teach through until 2004. In 2000 he also taught packed seminars in South Africa, Scandinavia, England, Scotland with such success that he has been invited to teach in, Hungary, Slovenia, Germany, Spain, Israel, Denmark, Sweden, Ireland, Zambia, Holland, New Zealand and the USA as well as Australasia.
In 1997 he was requested to help a practitioner work with VHT on a horse. As a result he found himself in overnight demand as a 'horse whispering horse healer'. A casual conversation in Czech a few months later saw him being invited to treat Cipisek the most famous horse in that country. An invitation, to teach vets in Europe Jock’s equine technique, followed from a senior veterinary surgeon, who had observed the procedure and so "The Equine Touch" was born. Since then it has been taught in 23 countries world wide, to vets, trainers, riders owners and horse lovers with great success. Although they no longer officially recognize animal modalities "The Equine Touch" was the first equine complementary modality to be recognized as such by the Institute for Complementary Medicine and the British Complementary Medicine Association.
Jock has been featured regularly in the media, on radio and on television, he has been acclaimed by Bodywork Practitioners and Instructors throughout the world as brilliant, innovative and extremely entertaining with a high level of integrity that manifests itself throughout all his course. His courses have been described as extremely enjoyable, thorough, professional, packed with energy and integrity and quite simply "the best".
Dominique Shelton of Maui, a highly respected and qualified bodyworker had this to say. "Clearly Jock has committed himself and his life to the study, practice and teaching of the work. He has compiled and refined an excellent thorough, user friendly manual. His big hearted roughish personality spices the class with laughter. It's one of the best classes of this type I have attended in the last 20 years."
Two years before his ultimately death in November 2011, Jock Ruddock took a great leap evolving VHT even further. Not satisfied with having produced six new enormously illuminating modules, and while battling with cancer, he launched and taught a new module, namely ‘VHT and Beyond’, bringing it in line with emerging new energies. Students on this course found themselves shifting their consciousness to new dimensions, an expanded state of awareness, through muscle testing, hypnosis, ancient mystic, shamanic, TCM, kinesiology and Aikido philosophies that had influenced this Great Man. Key virtues, Intent and integrity, which are key to VHT, took on a profound new meaning for most participants.
DR IVANA RUDDOCK
Ivana Ruddock is qualified veterinary surgeon, former researcher in animal immune system and anatomist as well as being a respected VHT and ET Instructor. In 1999 Ivana joined Jock in traveling the world teaching ETF disciplines. With her qualifications and consummate passion for research she has brought to the Complementary Health world of ETF a credibility and substance which has been applauded by all who attend their courses.
Their combination has been described as a perfect "tag team" teaching combination, Jock the intuitive hands on specialist while Ivana the purist, the ultimate seeker of knowledge, the lecturer with the ability pass on that knowledge and to answer all questions raised whether allopathic or holistic that have passed within her field of study and understanding.
1999 Jock and Ivana began to research more and more into both the Equine Touch and VHT amending, testing, discarding, developing and choreographing complete new procedures based upon the rules and principles of holistic bodywork They discovered that by vibrating the muscles in a certain sequence and at specific points in the body using slightly more pressure combined with a Tai Chi flow that the entire body would slip into a state of relaxation and confusion. The syndrome is something similar to an entire orchestra tuning up prior to a concert, out of this confusion and chaos order within the body emerges and homeostasis is attained. After considerable studying and fine tuning this new approach, they decided to name it The Vibromuscular Harmonization Technique (VHT).
Ivana continue to teach ETF classes and her unique Whole Horse Dissections worldwide.
