starting 11 Aug - 15 weeks
This is a long, slow course with deliberate ease of progress, designed to build learning and awareness, not seek fast results. Quality not speed. Balanced variation not a check list of “have done”.
Group learning, share progress, share learning expand your own understanding.
➤ Movement for fitness, building skills, self-awareness.
➤ Games for learning about arousal, intensity and energy expenditure combined with mental discipline: aka “not going wild, “not going OTT”, not getting frenzied
➤ Focus and comprehension: not driveyness
➤ Intensity without arousal or hyper excitement and tension.
A dog seeking connection, seeking cues and signals and reliable information
We will teach a balance of connecting behaviours built for the benefit of your dog through
➤ Figure of 8 for balance and proprioception development
➤ Lateral actions, engaged walking and trotting in patterns.
➤ Backing with flow and balance
➤ Pivoting and rotating
➤ Standing in balance
➤ Contained waiting prior to activity
➤ Duration in position to build muscle engagement
➤ Slow walking or stalking
No, you cannot do "everything". We will plan a balance e of different types of movement for your dog and develop each action to the "for life" standard. You can come back and continue the work over the next 2 years!
➤ Stand and observe
➤ Controlled precise movement to sit or down with good form
➤ Rock and roll exercise, the bow and lift
➤ Play with toys or games with food developing arousal skills.
➤ Dogs over 5 months old that may be in particular need of self-management (clumsy buggers).
➤ Older dogs feeling their age.
➤ Any partnership that may benefit from some purposeful learning.
Feedback and coaching is available for one dog per person.
If you are enthusiastic about learning, developing and building your relationship, connection and skills then you will be very welcome.
£280.00
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✦ Practical Activities: planned to suit individual benefits that can be developed over four months.
✦ Weekly Live Sessions: recorded held on ALTERNATE Tuesday 8pm UK (1900 GMT/UTC), for discussions, focus on specific topics and your questions.
✦ Individual Feedback: upload up to 3 minutes of video per week.
✦ Course Material: available for 8 weeks after the course.
✦ Participants only: no auditors or spectators.
✦ Attendance Certificates: available for active participants: joining the live sessions, questions, contribution to forum discussions etc.
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