Classes for Dogs

PET MASSAGE CLASS

Learning how to do massage work on your dog will deepen and enhance your
relationship with them.

Massage work benefits both you and your dog. It will help you to become more centered, focused and aware of your own body, breath and emotions, as well as your dogs.You can attain a different way of bonding and communicating through touch.

For dogs and cats, it helps to release current as well as past physical and emotional trauma from cells in the body. Emotional cellular memories are stored in different parts of the body. Massage can be used to desensitize dogs that have issues with being touched on different parts of their body such as ears, nails, paws, tails, etc. April has worked with several clients whose dogs required being routinely being put under anesthesia to have their nails trimmed. The people can now do it themselves avoiding the stress and trauma for the dog as well as the financial cost and risk of anesthesia

Massage helps speed recovery from accidents and illness and surgery. It helps ease pain from arthritis, and can slow down the process of spinal mylopathy promoting better circulation and muscle tone.

Massage performed on dogs both before and after competition helps
prevent injuries in animal athletes

Massage helps promote a sense of well being and bonding with humans, especially valuable with rescue animals.

April will teach you simple, easy to use and understand massage
techniques. You will also learn some of the major acupressure points and how to use them correctly, as well as how energy flows through the body.