Welcome to a Thursday night members webinar. My name is Bruce Stevenson, and I have the privilege and honour of chairing tonight's session once again. I do not believe that we have any new members in tonight, so not too much on housekeeping, usual rules, questions into the Q&A box come through to me and Victoria has agreed to take on those questions and chat about them at the end of the session.

So, don't be shy, pop those questions into that box. So Victoria Smith Gillard is a people and pet therapist, and her mission is to create deeper unity, understanding and compassion between people and their pets so that they can all live more harmoniously. Her passion is helping dogs with canine flow dog training, allowing dogs to feel safer, calmer and less reactive.

She has worked in veterinary referrals for 8 years and has always had an affinity with animals. And she now runs her own company, Amatetrine Holistics Limited. Victoria, welcome to the webinar, vet and it's over to you.

Thank you very much, Bruce. So good evening everybody. So, as you can see, obviously, my name's Victoria Smith Gillard, and some of you, if you're in the Kenton, Essex and Surrey area, may recognise my surname more than anything because it's not exactly a common one.

As Bruce very rightly said, I worked for, just up to 8 years in veterinary referrals. So, I am indeed a people and pet therapist. I'm not gonna go through all of my qualifications, as that's quite boring.

But obviously the main ones we're focusing on this evening is the fact that I'm a canine flow practitioner and certified to do this. Now in terms of my experience, obviously we've talked about the veterinary referrals and, with regards to animals, literally since I was a little girl, I've always had an affinity with them and an empathy for animals. Both myself and my brother have been in the veterinary industry.

And even at the age of 7, I was hand rearing wild kittens. I've communicated with a big cat, a tiger, quite accidentally, but it did happen. And I've just always kind of felt into them, and I've always kind of known very well what's been going on with them, even so much so that with my own cat that I had from the time I could have her in my hand, she was a hand re for my brother's vet nurse course.

At the end, at the beginning, sorry, of 2016, I actually said to my mum, I know I won't have her at the end of this year. And at the time, there was absolutely no presenting symptoms. She had no ailments that would have suggested that in any way.

But I just said, I just knew. I just know that I won't have her at the end of this year. And, unfortunately, that was the case in May.

Bless her cotton socks, she didn't need to be put to sleep because of, mainly kidney failure, but also cognitive deficit, which was having a, a, an impact on her emotionally as well. So, just moving on to the next slide. So canine flow itself, so the founder of Canine Flow is this lovely lady here called Caroline Griffith.

Retreats and you can see obviously all the different qualifications there. So she is a dog trainer and behaviour specialist. She's trained in Tellington Touch, she's obviously a nutritional therapist and she's the facilitator of canine flow retreats, which she currently runs in the UK and the USA, so mainly in Wales.

And her website is canineflow.com. So I do have permission obviously to to do this, and this is my owner take on canine flow and obviously the way I combine it with actually my people side of things, so the people therapies that I'm actually trained in.

So what is canine flow, because most people don't know what this is. So canine flow is a unique form of dog training. So this is where we're working with the dog's emotions to influence and transform their behaviour.

And now this is heart-based dog training, so we will, I will go on to define that in, in the next couple of slides. And for myself, I'm helping owners as well as dogs and pretty much across the board with all the practitioners. So at the moment, certainly when I trained and qualified, there was around 13 practitioners.

It's slightly more than that now, and obviously that number is ever growing. So from the founder of Canine Flow herself, so there's The description she gives is the unique difference with canine flow is a recognition that feelings are at the root of all behaviours. So showing up simply as an expression of energy.

And I just wanted to define that last term. So emotion, whether that's in a human being or whether that's in an animal of any sort, is just energy in motion. So if we talk about emotion today or energy, that's really what I'm meaning.

So. You can actually get rid of headaches in human beings just using energy techniques, and I have done that with a lady that took me about 5 minutes. So that just explains to you a a little bit, hopefully, as to how we progress with this when we're talking about energy.

But we use that phrase pretty much every day when we say, Oh, I've just got no energy today, or I feel very energised. So energy is just to say, emotion, it is just energy and motion. So canine flow itself includes the use of professional canine hypnotherapy and as you know, obviously I'm a trained hypnotherapist.

It includes the use of a practical technique which is called spirals, and also trademarked relaxed dog classes, which effectively is the canine hypno. Therapy, meditation with the owners, and also the spirals technique and any other techniques that each different practitioner obviously wants to bring in that will help both the owner and the dog, emotionally and how that's, how they're interacting with each other. Now Caroline obviously runs retreats as well, and I'm going to be actually running my own canine canine retreats this year.

And we also do one to ones as well, obviously consultations with clients. So that's mainly at their home because we need to see what environment the dog is in, we need. To see, effectively the backyard, if you like, of the garden, and that will be gradually explained as we go on.

And really just what's around them because that all has an impact. Now my own addition to canine flow is I, last year run a charity, Tea Party, so I did it in, in favour of the Blue Cross, who helped me with when my cat passed away. And the teaporties themselves are actually a combination of healthy, healthy cakes, so healthy food that the dog can have that's safe for them.

Umuppuccinos, which is literally kind of frost milk with water, and we very much or very much focus on canine enrichment in these particular teapot teas, so. The games are based a little bit more around that side of things. So the prizes are things like licking mats, snuffle mats, snuffle balls, so things where they can actually start, using their, their emotions, and that will be explained a little bit later.

So the canine enrichment helps to release, helps them to release emotionally. And then the other side of this T40 is I actually then do a relaxed or class with them, so they get kind of double whammy on that. So, as I say there, yeah, my own canine flow retreats.

Now this will be combining people therapy and canine flow. So I will actually be working with the owners to allow them to see, how they actually do affect their pets, not just dogs, but actually how they do affect their dogs in that particular instance. So this is things like when people describe their dog to you, often people will say, my Dog is loyal or my dog's a little bit needy or he's attention-seeking or he's anxious.

And often, really what they're describing is themselves. There's certain qualities where if you took out the word dog and said heart, so your, your heart is, You know, loyal, your heart is, you know, a good listener, that kind of thing. So again it's kind of going back to the owners and it's describing them and that will make a little bit more sense as we go through.

So how can canine flow help with with regards to yourselves, the vets? So this is an overview, we'll get more specific as we go on. So canine hypnotherapy and spiral work helps the dog to release stuck cellular memory.

So we are talking here about kind of trauma they've had. It might be abuse, whether that's verbal abuse, you know. Physical abuse that they've experienced.

It could be accidents they've had, so things like where they've fallen off the settee, or they've tried to chase after a cat and they've shoved their head through a fence. And it's also helping them to release emotions. So that literally could be any emotion going, but the most common ones are fear, stress, and grief, to be fair.

It promotes relaxation, calmness, and well-being, because the canine hypnotherapy, especially actually kind of guides them to actually release this emotion. But also a little bit on the owner side of things, obviously when we're doing the meditation, it is very much calmer dog, calmer owner. So very often in my consultations, the dogs, as the owner starts to be guided into meditation, you can literally sort of see the dog relax.

You can actually hear the dog kind of, so that happens quite often, but it's a really good visual reminder for owners that actually no matter how Stressed or not stressed they think they are, actually they are having an impact on their dogs. So it's very much about kind of, being very aware of themselves and how they're feeling. So the canine canine flow or canine hypnotherapy and spirals promotes feelings of safety and flexibility, and it promotes safe emotional expression for dogs.

So it can be used for general relaxation, or it can be used for specific issues, so things like separation anxiety, loud noises, aggression, postoperative recovery, it's a really good one, stress, excessive barking and phobias. And anything really where emotions are having a negative or limiting impact on a dog. So, obviously, for instance, with pain levels, and if these are being Impacted by their emotions.

So if they're quite stressed, or if their owners are quite stressed and they're picking up on that, or tensions within their body, then obviously, by doing this, we can actually help them kind of reduce those pain levels. It's very similar to us if we get very stressed, often our muscles will start to get tight and taut, and we may well start to get used to kind of shoulder pains, and we, you know, we're gonna get pains and aches everywhere else. So, obviously, the more relaxed we are, the more flexible we are.

And it's, to be honest, no different. In dogs with that respect. So we can work, we don't have to see the behaviour in order to have an impact, so we can work outside of the behaviour.

But sometimes, especially with, for instance, border collies, often there'll be situations where actually it's a, a, a, a herding issue, if you like. So they're not being able to kind of express that kind of natural instinct in them. And by seeing them do that behaviour, we can then suggest things to the owners, which, I will briefly talk about later on.

So I hope this is making sense, obviously please nudge Bruce, as we go if, if, there isn't anything that makes sense and then hopefully I'll be able to clarify that later on for you. So why do we feel this is the missing piece to the dog training puzzle? Well, the current forms of dog training focus very much on the physical side of things, so exercise, movement, often nutritional education comes into that as to what they're feeding the dog, what they're being allowed to ingest, especially as often owners will want to give them birthday cakes, but not necessarily, ones that are suitable for dogs, so they'll give them things that got sugar in it, ice creams, things like that.

Dog training also focuses on the mentors, so things like the commands, that the dog's thinking of doing things or the dog is actually doing something. Whereas this heart-based dog training focuses on the emotional aspects of a dog. So this is about their feelings, and it's about.

Frequencies. So that will be explained in the next slide. But basically, frequencies are things like electromagnetic fields, is obviously the big one.

And also their state of being. So we mean literally how they are at any moment in time, emotionally. And of course, this heart-based dog training is not just for the dog very much.

As I say, when I work, I work very much with the owners as much as I do, and sometimes more so than I do with the dogs. So we're gonna learn today the three principles of canine flow. We can go to those in depth.

So #1, is that dogs feel they don't think. Number 2 is that all behaviour is vibrational flow. Number 3 is that dogs are the strongest mirror to an owner's subconscious.

And to give you a little excerpt on that, I'm sure there's many vets out there who can appreciate that often when you get an anxious dog, you'll often get an anxious owner tagging along with them, or if you get a stressed dog, often you've got a stressed owner, and so on. So #1, so principle number 1, dogs feel they don't think. So in the canine flow world, there are two ways that a dog senses the world.

So the first one is through their BNO, the vomero nasal organ, which is not something we're gonna specifically target today, but the main way that they also sense the world is electromagnetic fields. Now there is also being research done, they actually do have pieces of magnetite magnetite in their ears, and there is being research done at the moment as to whether that has any influence on their emotions, but nothing, scientific has come out yet with regards to that. But certainly in birds, birds have magnetite and it's actually what helps them migrate and know which direction to migrate in.

So why is this important? Why is it important that they sense the world via electromagnetic fields? Well, the heart is the strongest electromagnetic field there is, and the Heart Math Institute, which is in the further information I've dictated for you further along the line, it, there's links there to go and have a look on their website, and they have a lot of research on there.

So the heart is 100,000 times stronger electrically, and 5000 times stronger magnetically than our brains. OK. And often, with regards to this, often there is more going up from the heart to the brain than there is going from the brain to the heart.

And again, I've included a study on that in your further information from the Heart Math Institute, so you can actually see that I see in more detail. Now dogs feel, they don't think. So dogs are empathic.

Now I'm an empath myself, so I completely get where they're coming from. So effectively they can pick up energy in their environment and within other people and animals. So for instance, often if you had an angry person, you'll often find that the dog is displaying that in some way.

So someone around me had a lot of anger in them and their dog used to rip up door frames, which obviously the owner didn't appreciate very much, but they weren't willing to work on their own stuff, unfortunately. So dogs are heart-based creatures. So what we're meaning by that is actually all their kind of actions, their behaviours, their intentions are all .

All the behaviours, sorry, . Are regulated kind of through their hearts, so it's what they sense, it's what they pick up, OK. And they can connect to us by heart, so there's this heart to heart connection, and again, there is a, a study as to how owners affect their dogs, in your further information as well, so you can know a little bit more about that.

So the heart is the strongest electromagnetic field. They are heart-based creatures, so they are sensing obviously what's going on in our hearts, in other people's hearts and in other animals as well. And so what this is called, this is called like the group energy bond.

Rupert Shell Drake himself, so Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist who's best known for his theory of morphic resonance. And again I think included, him in the further information. And the reason I've done this obviously is so you can obviously have a look at his website and see.

Now he has a video on there of a doggie called JT and he is owned by a lady called Pam. And Pam, I believe, worked or certainly knew Rupert Sheldrake very well, and they did some behaviour experiments about dogs knowing when their owners come home. And he's actually, Rupert's got a book actually entitled that, Dogs Knowing when their owners Come Home.

And in this experiment, what they did was they used different vehicles, they used different times. They went to different locations, and Pam didn't actually know at all, you know, where she was going, when she was going, when she was coming back, what she would be coming back in. And, each time, what would happen is JT would actually know, exactly when she was coming home, even though obviously she was nowhere near him, nobody had been told, no.

Nobody knew, he would go and stand by the window, as soon as she had that thought that she was gonna come home. So please go and view that video. It's only about 5.5 minutes, but it has a lot of, a lot of information to as to what he's saying about this group energy bond.

And this is what happens with, with the animals. They are picking up on their owners, so much so that then they start to kind of resonate to see what's going on within the owner's heart, because that's what's being emitted. Now there is also a study, a 2013 study by Frontiers and or published in Frontiers in Zoology, which is also about magnetic pull.

Now the reason I just wanted to mention this very quickly, is they've actually done a study that shows that dogs will actually defecate in alignment with magnetic North. And so actually when dogs are spinning to, to go to the tourist and actually have a poop, what will happen is they will just keep spinning around until they feel where that magnetic north is, and then that's when they will like kind of settle down and actually decide that they want to go. So again, that information has been included in your extra information so that you can see that.

So proprioceptive feedback, now I know certainly from working in referrals, all vets will know what proprioceptive deficit certainly means. So in terms of obviously the canine flow side of things, effectively what this means is the dog's nervous system is aware of any limitations to that. Flight response to them being able to flee, to the movement of its body and if there's any restrictions in that way.

So a dog's nervous system always knows how it is in time and space, so it knows how it is being, if you like, how it feels at that moment in time. And what happens is that nervous system then gives feedback to the dog as to how safe it is in the environment. So, for instance, if it's tense or injured or inflexible in some way, this feedback tells the dog that's it's actually less capable of movement and therefore it's deemed automatically unsafe in its environment.

And this is a very instant internal process. There's no thought in it at all. There's no thought needed.

And this can change moment to moment depending on how the dog is actually feeling. So how tense they are. And to give you a comparison in the human world, think about if you injure or or break your arm and somebody said, well, Let's, let's go to London and you have to go on the underground.

Often what happens is you will kind of try and protect that arm. You will try and keep people away from you, because you're feeling a bit unsafe, you're feeling quite injured, inflexible. And it's similar with us with the fight or flight response, you know, if, if, effectively, when we're stressed, we go into that fight or flight response.

All our energy, if you like, all our, And she does go to our arms and our legs so that we can fight or we can flee. And if for any reason, obviously that can't get there, then obviously we're gonna start to feel unsafe. So a dog is in the now.

They feel, they react, they feel, they react. But, everything they do is ultimately to feel safe. So that's something that we always keep in mind.

It's something that I always remind owners and just say everything your dog does is to feel safe. And often that can just help them to understand that the dog's not being naughty, they're not being spiteful. Everything they are doing is to feel safe.

And often with dogs, they will actually hold a lot of tension in their hind quarters. Now this makes sense, I'm an energy healer, so we work with energy medicine and. The dog's root chakra, so this is an energy centre within the dog, is at the base of the tail, and the root chakra actually does relate to safety and survival.

So to me it makes absolute sense if they are feeling unsafe in any way, that that area at the base of their tail and around kind of their hips and their hind quarters would effectively feel very different because obviously they're feeling unsafe, so it's not quite as balanced as it should be. So principle number 2, so the core motivator for a dog's behaviour is to keep their energy or their emotion moving consistently by being able to release or ground their emotion. Now you will hear me use the term ground during this presentation, and effectively all that means is to release their emotion, a little bit like when people say lightning grounds in the earth, it releases its charge into the earth.

And that's effectively what we're saying with grounding, it's they're releasing their emotion. So main ways that dogs ground, main ways they release emotion is through their mouth and through their paws. So they're the main ways that they do do it.

For us practitioners, we have a three step process when we're with owners. So we're looking at the dog and we're actually looking at what information or energy is coming into them, so what's influencing them. So that might be their environment, whether that's the electromagnetic fields that's going to be around them.

Whether that's people around them, other animals, we're looking at what obviously is going into them. So that would be, for instance, nutrition would be obviously the obvious one. And obviously, we, you know, we're not telling them what to put in their dog, but obviously we're looking at obviously what they are, ingesting.

We're looking at what their own state of being is. So this is looking up to how how safe a dog feels at that moment in time, or when the behaviour occurs. We're looking at how the owner is feeling when the behaviour occurs because often that will definitely come into it.

We're looking also at the ailments that the dog's got, not in terms of obviously trying to cure those, that's nothing obviously that we're, we're dealing with, but more so in terms of obviously their feelings of safety. So how, how might that affect their ability to flee? So we're then looking at not just what's coming in and how they actually are, but we're also then looking at, OK, so how are they able to release that emotion?

How are they able to express that emotion. So I've got a hand out one for you, which, if you look at that, I've just described there, we see dogs as an emotional battery. So for instance, obviously if they are quite relaxed and they're able to kind of express themselves quite easily and release their emotions, then that battery is going to be charged at a low level.

So there'll be less emotional charge in them. So they're gonna feel safer, they're gonna feel calmer, and they're therefore gonna feel less reactive to external things around them, external stimuli. If, however, there are restrictions to them releasing that emotion or limitations in any way, then effectively these unexpressed emotions cause kind of resistance to build up, so the emotions build up and up and up until that battery gets to a full capacity and spills over.

So think about it in terms of if you're stressed, if you're not, if you aren't able to release that and it keeps happening, then what happens is that builds up and up and up. And then for instance somebody might borrow your pencil from the consult room and you just flip, and they'll kind of get everything at once, and they'll be like, I just borrowed your pencil. So it's thinking about it in terms of that.

So we very much think about the dog is not trying to be in charge, just the dog has a charge emotionally that needs to be released. OK. And often what a dog is doing most of the time is trying to find how it can release that energy, and often it will do that by trying to connect with somebody or something.

So that's often what they're doing, and that something is often another animal or it can also be the ground itself. So it can actually be the earth because the earth has an energy to it that helps them. So everything they do is to feel safe and to be in flow and to keep that energy moving and to express their emotions.

It's all about them living in the now and actually kind of responding to everything that is actually around them. So I hope that makes more sense to you as we go along. So expressions of emotion, obviously there's going to be tonnes of these that, obviously vets will already know.

So vocalisation, obviously is gonna be things like barking, growling, whining. And how out too gives you a, a small part of the case study that I was working with, which was a lab pointer called called Dylan. I'd gone to see him one day and effectively I was doing the spiral work with him.

I wasn't actually, I didn't even have my hand on his body. You can actually do it off the body. Because they have what we call an energy field around them the same as we do.

So it still has an impact. And it's really good to see if a dog is very untrusting or is aggressive in any way, or it's just unsure of you as a person, you know, when they meet you, you can actually kind of work from the outside and gradually get nearer to them. And especially around the face, obviously, you can imagine if somebody had a hand to your face, you probably wouldn't like that very much.

So we tend to work a bit further away, especially around the face. But with him, I'd worked with him quite a few times, so he definitely trusted me. I built rapport with him.

And I was working just with spirals on the top of his neck, and he growled at me. And he only said to me, that's not a growl, he's just enjoying it. Now I'm very empathic and I really did feel that was a growl.

And I basically said to Dylan, telepathically, if, if you don't want me to do this, then please, I'm gonna try one more time, and if you don't want that, then that's absolutely fine, growl one more time for me and I will stop. And so that's what I did. I tried one more time, and he did growl again and it was a slightly longer growl.

And so I said, right, that's it, I'm completely stopping, you know, for me that is the ground. And I said to the you know, it's very interesting because it's around his neck and I'd also tried it under his chin once, to see obviously if there if there was any difference and the same thing happened. And so I said to her, has he done anything that might actually be where he's actually affected his neck in any way?

Has he had a problem in in that respect? And she actually said to me, well, he actually just clothes on the lead this morning. And I said, right, well, that's him telling me everything they do is to feel safe.

In some ways, something's going on in that area that is troubling him and doesn't make him feel safe. So he's feeling vulnerable. I said, obviously, I'm not a vet, I can't tell you what that is.

You need to take him to the vet and just get that checked. And the lady actually was seeing her vet that afternoon, and they did diagnose that there was probably a little bit of whiplash or, or whatever the, the animal equivalent would be of that. But obviously it wasn't long standing, and they believed it would just be kind of the next couple of days and it would settle down.

So that just shows you that he was telling me I'm not feeling safe, so I need you to step back and that goes back to the human comparison if you like of the London Underground, you know, a similar thing, you're trying to keep people away if you're not feeling obviously up to par. So physically, we're looking for tension in the coat patterns. We're looking for muscle tension, we're looking for shaking, often ear positioning, which is quite common.

Calming behaviours, well-being, especially, so you're looking at, allergies they might have intolerances, but more so with us it would be just that we, you know, if an only says that they've got that, we're not doing anything with regards to that, that's obviously your. Capacity aspects. We're looking at skinner coat issues and their location more than anything, to show us where there's actually perhaps blocks where there's a motion there, so energy and motion, obviously they can have energy blocks in certain areas.

So we're looking at areas that might be hot and cold, we might be looking at areas that are dry or greasy or where the coat's raised and it isn't normally. We're looking at digestive issues, so a little bit similar to us, obviously, if we get stressed often what happens, the body automatically says, I don't need to digest anything. I need to put all the energy to the arms and the legs.

So I'm gonna let go of all the food you've just eaten, putting that politely. And it's very similar, with regards to dogs emotionally. They will often hold quite a bit of emotions around their tummy area.

In different ways. So, again, we don't deal with the, the kind of more medical side of that. We deal with the emotional side and helping them to release emotion.

Wanting to release emotion, so obviously ways that might be noticed is things like sniffing. So sniffing and smelling helps them release emotion, pouring, chewing, especially things like items of emotional worth of owners. Biting, jumping up, ingestion.

Now that's not just about food or water. This can be them ingesting a toy, a lead, their tail, but often when the dog gets excited, it's quite common that I'll go into consults, they'll get excited when they first see us, and the first thing they want to go and do is then actually take some water or take some food. And again, it's kind of them sort of stuffing down that emotion, if you like.

Other behaviours will be things like spinning and pacing. Now owners are asked to consult with their vets. Most people that come and see me have already been to see their vet, or, and or a dog trainer, and also because I've worked in veterinary referrals, certainly if I see anything, I'm not a vet, and I tell people obviously that I'm not a vet, I don't diagnose.

But for instance, if I saw a dog with a cloudy eye, my instinct would be to say, obviously, have they been seen by a vet at all for that. I, and if not, then I, my recommendation, recommendation would be that they go and do that. So, canine flow is not about us in any way, being an alternative to vet medicine at all.

As I say, obviously, I am quite happy to say to people if I feel that, from the work that I do, for instance, with Dylan, that he should go and see his vet. So we very much work in conjunction, in regards to that. So resistance, so we've talked a tiny bit about this, but basically when the dog isn't allowed to express themselves, the emotions build up and becomes unresolved emotion that gets trapped in their cells, and this then creates disease in the body.

Now this is exactly the same with humans, and we have exactly the same thing when we have trauma responses or we've been through things in life, especially in childhood, and they have an emotion attached to those experiences or memories. That has not been resolved, that has not been worked through at the time. What will happen is, if it keeps happening, and it normally does keep getting triggered, this will happen as well.

So it traps in our cells, creating disease in our body, and I speak from experience in that respect, but that's another story. So, unless there's another way for them to release it, effectively it gets trapped in those cells, it starts creating disease in their body, often creating that kind of physical tension as well. And so that's what we're looking to actually try and prevent for them.

We're looking at getting that energy moving consistently, getting them to release emotion. We're training owners, educating owners about how they release their emotion and healthy ways of being able to do that. So often owners and some forms of dog training don't allow them to express.

At their emotion. Partly socially unacceptable. Obviously, you can't have a dog just barking all the time.

And also, often it's a time drain for owners. So things that we would normally talk about in that regard would be sort of sniffing on walks. You know, lots of owners don't necessarily have the time, so they just want to kind of carry on, and especially if you've got a beagle, you know, .

A 20 minute walk could turn into an hour and a half, let's face it, bless them. So, you know, we try and get owners to understand that actually sniffing when they're going out or they're going in the garden is really important and actually if you can take the time to allow them to do that, it helps them to release emotion. And obviously the other reason is obviously fear.

So, so what we're looking at is we're helping people to, to get healthy ways for the dogs to express themselves. So examples there are sniffing on walks, walking on the earth, sand and grass versus pavements. I'll explain that in a second.

Chewing appropriate chews and toys, canine enrichment, obviously there's lots of different games and puzzles out there and kongs that they can fill with foods, herding games for those kind of breeds, so sheep balls, and it's a great herding game for border collies with regards to that. So we obviously give that to owners as well. Now walking on the earth, sand and So I'm just gonna explain that a little bit.

So I want you to think about a time when you've actually gone and walked on the beach, had a really lovely walk along the beach, barefoot with perhaps, you know, that hot sand between your feet or the seawater just kind of running around your ankles. And often what you will feel after you've done this for a period of time is very relaxed. And the reason that this is is because the earth itself has a kind of an electrical current to it that actually neutralises what's going on within yourself electrically.

So effectively it helps you to release emotion. Now this is called Earthing, or you can also call it grounding, which is what we tend to call it here. And there is a great book called Earthing, which I've put on your further information list, and there's also a great YouTube documentary by a guy.

Called James Oshman called Electric Universe that talks very much about that. And it's exactly the same with dogs that actually, obviously, it is better for them to walk on those surfaces that connect to the earth rather than concrete, because again, it helps them to release emotions. So we do encourage that, you know that obviously that they do that unless there was any medical reason obviously why they shouldn't, and that would be between yourselves and them, obviously, if that was the case.

So influences on their emotions, so restrictions to their freedom, so things like no freedom of movement if they were tied up, for instance, limitations imposed, so a really great one obviously for vets would be postoperative care. So certainly you know from working in referrals with dogs and TPLO and TPOs, things like that, there's often 6 week cage rest. Now this is a medical requirement, at no stage would myself or any of our practitioners go against that at all.

But with regards to the dog's emotions, it means that that's building up and up and up because obviously they're not able to get out. They're not necessarily able to go out and sniff and smell, walk as they would normally do, you know, walk on the grass, walk on the earth, and connect to that. So canine flow can actually really help them release emotions built up during that time.

Now, we wouldn't have to be near them to do that. You know, I can often do sit on the floor. We can sit, you know, outside of the cage and actually work with them in that regard.

So we'll see it can really help them release emotions, which hopefully, you know, by them releasing emotions, it's promoting well-being. It's allowing the immune system to kind of do what it does best and actually help with the healing side of things. And it also means actually, if we did that sort of during that time, that actually, when they come back into the vets, for their checkup and perhaps their, Re-examine an x-ray that actually they're gonna have less emotion within them, so they're less likely to kind of be bouncing around and bouncing off walls.

So inability to release that energy or emotion, so physically and also through connection and touch. So for instance, that would be things like being alone. It would be not being allowed to sniff, it would be too much or too little exercise.

It would be things like astroturf. There's so many people now that are having astroturf for convenience, but actually it's the worst thing ever with regards to dogs and their emotions because it's, it's false. There's no connection to the earth, so there's no way they can just go out in the garden.

And obviously be able to kind of connect to the earth and help them release emotion. So other influences are things like their environment, so it goes back to the electromagnetic fields, for instance, as well, that we said about earlier. So that will be the hearts of other people, of other animals.

It's going to be electrical items, so that's going to be all of the, you know, computers, the Wi Fi, the smart metres, lights, I mean, to give you an example, I was at a networking meeting once the heater, the storage heater behind me was not on. I felt absolutely fine when I walked into that meeting. And actually by the end, I literally couldn't even keep my head up.

I was actually falling asleep. And a lady there actually had an EMF metre, and she tested the storage heater, even though it was actually turned off at the mains, and it was still well above the levels of electromagnetic fields that should be emitted. So it just shows you that things can have an impact.

So one tip is to turn off Wi Fi at nighttime. And even just think about that obviously in terms of kennels and where things are sort of in relation obviously to pets because they can pick that up, the electromagnetic fields, but I appreciate obviously that's not always gonna be easy. You can't just physically remove computers and things from obviously the treatment rooms.

So in terms of the environment, that's gonna be things like toxins, so smoke, air fresheners, scented candles obviously are the most common that we alert people to, temperature, so whether it's too hot, too cold, noise, busyness, so if it's a really chaotic household, if there's loads of. Kids that have got like super duper energy like all the time bouncing off walls because they're being fed a lot of sugar, that has a massive impact on dogs and other pets actually. So if they're not getting chances to relax, that really can have an influence on their emotions and hunger and thirst as well.

. With regards to owner, so the handling, so if they're jerking the leads or if they're pulling the leads, people's intention, they, they know people's intentions towards them, or they don't know it, they feel it. It's being emitted from that person's heart, so they can definitely feel if somebody is angry towards them, if there's kind of an intention of violence, and if there's an intention of threat. Now they also pick up on expectations, so what we mean by that is owner's beliefs.

So we definitely say to people, focus on what you want from your dog, not what you don't want, because they do pick that up. Excuse me, everything is energy in the world that I live in. So your thoughts, your beliefs are just, they're all energy.

So a dog will pick up on those beliefs, within. So often people will focus on what they don't want. So for instance, an owner will know that their dog is reactive to German shepherds.

They'll see a German Shepherd on that walk. They'll be focusing on the German Shepherd. They'll be feeling feelings like, Oh my God, the dog's gonna go and do this.

You know, they'll probably. Visualising it, and they might have fear going on, stress going on of what might happen. And actually what's happening because of that kind of group energy bond, is the dog knows exactly or feels exactly what the owner is focusing on.

They can feel the emotion with the owner, and then obviously they feel, you know, they're in the house, they feel they react, they feel they react. So we very much encourage owners to focus on what you want, not what you don't want from your dog. Also demands.

So often owners will, and I'm sure you'll see this in daily practise quite often, it's, you know, lots of pets, but especially dogs and cats, are kind of made to meet an owner's need for something such as, obviously, that surrogate child. So obviously that comes into it as well as obviously that big demand that's put on them as to who they need to be. So we've covered the electromagnetic field, so I'm gonna just move on to the next slide.

So principle number 3, so dogs are the strongest mirror to an owner's subconscious. Now why is that? So the dog has the biggest heart per body mass of any animal on earth, and I have included documentary in the information there, so you can certainly access that information and and see that.

So one way that dogs sense the world we know is through electromagnetic fields, which is through the heart, and they then pick up on what is unresolved within us. So they're actually messengers for us. So as we said earlier, anxious dog, often you'll have an anxious owner.

Now, why am I telling you this? Well, it's not just owners. So anyone with a heart, so that.

Vets, nurses, kennel assistants, receptionists, etc. They will pick up on all of that, and how you're feeling. So it's really important to notice how you and your team are feeling before any consultations and treatment procedures, because obviously conscious pets, will pick up how you feel, how the environment feels.

So they're very close to us, obviously they will have a group energetic bond, normally with one owner. So if you've got 2 dogs and 2 owners, often one dog will go will be very much a, a mirror of one owner and vice versa. So they reflect back to us anything that's unresolved within us.

And that's normally things from our past, so our charthood or the present. And hand out for, especially details that. So Wendy and Elvis now are gonna allow you to read that on your own, just to see in terms of time.

I just want to keep an eye on that. And that explains very much about the group energetic bond in very two separate ways actually. So certainly please do have a read of that.

So they're empathic, they pick up our emotional states, anything unresolved and unhealed within us. So anything we've not learned to love in ourselves, so what we would call our shadow, the things that you don't like in other people, is the things you don't like in yourself. And often the reason we don't accept this is because it makes us feel vulnerable, and if we feel vulnerable, we feel unsafe.

So if you feel unsafe, then obviously your, your dog will pick that up and will potentially obviously act that out. So dogs show us where we are not in flow in our hearts. They show us where we're resistant, where we're stuck emotionally, or where we don't have where we have something that we haven't resolved ourselves.

So, often with anxious owners, if they're feeling quite ungrounded, uncertain or anxious in any way, dogs will often sit on their feet. I get this so much in my consultations, and I won't have even known the owner was anxious, and I'll see the dog sit on their feet, and that's my first question. Are you feeling anxious or ungrounded in any way?

And 100% the answer is yes. So spirals, this is one of the techniques in canine flow, so I'm just very briefly gonna cover that. So spirals are part of all of life, so part of the creation of life.

You can see it everywhere in nature. An example here obviously I've got is ferns, you've got spider webs, snail shells, cats being curled up. Our DNA is a triple helix.

Our blood even moves in the spiral pattern. Our heart itself is actually a spiral, and this all relates to the Fibonacci sequence. And again, there's further information on that if you did want to to see that.

But there's all science and data behind the Fibonacci sequence. So spirals help because every living creature has enzymes, and the enzymes actually function in a spiral fashion. And this means that they are a catalyst or enzymes are a catalyst for change within a cell.

So when we are working with the spirals, it activates the enzymes in the body. And that that creates the opportunity for physical change in the cells, and it can also speed up reactions in cells, which actually then obviously promotes healing. So this is why I would love to use it more with postoperative recovery to really actually help those, dogs obviously feel much better.

Now, it can educate the dog's body to go back towards optimum health for them at that time in life. We're not expecting an elderly dog to go back to being a puppy. So this is just a a visual graphic of this.

So doing the spiral work activates the enzymes, creates that physical opportunity for change within the cells, speeds up cellular reactions, which then can promote healing. So for an owner, why is this good for an owner to do? Well, it creates the opportunity for connection with their pets, trust, excuse me, understanding.

It's good education, it creates that closer bond because what we're asking them to do is consistently observe their dog's body. When I'm with consultations, I'm asking them to do these spirals in between the sessions of when I see them. And they're doing this through touch.

They're doing it through sight of just seeing kind of where the dog's holding tension. They can often actually start to observe that more and more and see where the dog is holding tension. And also, just on one of those sections there often during the hypnotherapy, where they're releasing is what we're looking at.

So for instance, a dog that's very sound reactive will often be releasing around their, face, around their ears, you know, if they're vocalising a lot often you'll see a lot of releases around their mouth, and their muzzle. So we're getting them to locate where tension is, we're getting them to look at coat changes, this ear set, any areas of sensitivity to touch or see, again, you know, I would always say to an owner if you're unsure as to whether that there might be something going on, please go and speak to your vets. But actually, obviously again, there's also the option for them to at least do spirals in the meantime as well.

So, aroma flow briefly as well, so it's, it's an add-on, but it's not canine flow in itself, so I just want to make that clear. So one of our practitioners is an animal aromatics professional and certified trainer. So she's allowed to train us and she's trained us in 9 essential oils that can be used for specific emotional issues with dogs, things like anxiety, past abuse, whether it's verbal or physical, they need to ground, that if they're kind of sensitive.

Of the heart. So we're trained to do that safely with dogs only. I appreciate obviously you cannot choose that with cats.

So we're trained to respect, obviously their communication signals for their likes, their dislikes, when they're processing it, when they're releasing, so not to obviously, kind of force something on them. Now, often a dog will actually choose an oil that is for their owner as well, which makes perfect sense when you think back to that group energy bond that they're picking up on how their owner's feeling emotionally. So it's chosen based on how the dog's feeling and flowing at that moment in time.

And oils have a certain frequency, so when it matches or merges with the frequency of that dog's emotions, and there is documentation online about obviously frequencies of of emotions, it can help them to release or experience emotion at a cellular level. So this is what canine flow can help with is releasing emotions at a cellular level, cellular memories of any trauma that they've gone through as well, and anything like dog fights, that they've had, or if they've been attacked by the dogs. So briefly, how I work with clients for the People and pet side.

So how can it help an owner heel? So we know that dogs are a mirror of our subconscious. So they're communicating through their behaviour, the emotional expression or lack of.

So if they're, if there's a dog that's excessively barking, then often that's actually that the owner's got a lot of emotion in them that they need to work with. And obviously how this is all manifesting in their body, basically. So if they have any ailments, I do a very metaphysical approach actually when I'm working with humans.

So I'm also always thinking about that in terms of ailments. So most clients just say I've been to see a vet previously or a dog trainer before they speak to me. And as I say, obviously, they are recommended to go to their vet with any issues that haven't been diagnosed or if I feel or see something during my time that I, I feel would need attention.

I'm not a vet and they are told that, that I don't diagnose. So during my people work, I work a lot with parts of them. So this is part of you that would have experienced something earlier in life, often childhood, that still has an unresolved emotion to it that hasn't been fully processed kind of through your system.

And what's happening is that's then being emitted from your heart, from that electromagnetic field. So when an owner then heals that issue by doing this work and processes that emotion and lets kind of that trauma or that memory go, and the emotion with it, then it's no longer there for their dog's heart to pick up on and act it out. So the owner is more what we call heart coherent and has more peace, and there isn't article on your further information with regards to that.

I have had a dog act out of water phobia. The owner categorically said to me she didn't have one, and then on session 5, she told me she did have one. So that just explains how amazing they are obviously preempting these things.

So prime examples, during consult, I slightly covered that. So how an owner describes their dog often relates to their own heart. So someone often says to me, my dog was abandoned, unwanted and unloved.

What I'm doing is actually selecting those words and looking at the best time to actually go into that side of things, because often it actually means that they feel abandoned and unloved and unwanted or a part of them does. So how the dog's behaving makes them feel. So often it can be a reminder of something unresolved within them, and it's just actually that their dog's kind of bringing that up for them to be able to release that.

If an owner has experienced a similar trauma themselves, and again I won't go into that because we don't think we've got time, but Handout 5 has a great example of that where an owner had a very similar trauma to what was happening with regards to the dog. So please do read that, as well. And then demonstrations, so obviously we've got the spirals and I work with the meditation, as I said, and even with the hypnotherapy, the canine hypnotherapy, it's very common that my owners pretty much spark out as well as the dogs, but as I say, I'm a hypnotherapist, so I know exactly how to bring them back to the room and wake them up appropriately, so it's all good.

And also I give them therapy resources, so help for any emotional issues that might be impacting their dogs, so things like anxiety, depression, stress, even things like bereavement or grief, as well. And that brings me on to my next slide. So I utilise all the knowledge as we've been talking about really from all the different modalities I'm trained in, to assess where to help the dog, where to help the owner, to obviously help emotionally and behaviorally.

And as I say, obviously, if an owner is grieving, that can also affect, obviously, how the pet is grieving. And Bella, she's actually on one of my banners, bless her, she's amazing, Rhodesian Ridgeback, who's actually passed away now, unfortunately. But she's in handout 6.

So again, obviously it's a great case study to read to get an idea of what we work with and how we do. So just a quick summary, canine flow heals at a cellular level. It reduces tension, it promotes feelings of flexibility and that flight response.

It promotes wellbeing physically and emotionally and it allows dogs to feel calmer, safer and less reactive. So a dog feels they don't think. Everything they do is to feel safe.

The core motivator for their behaviour is to keep their energy flowing by effectively grounding it or releasing it. They're a messenger for us and what's going on within our own hearts. And lastly, obviously, as I say, please do refer to the handouts of the different case studies and information from Kevin Beehan's book, Your Dog is your Mirror, there's a reference to that as well and the further information for all the different.

Scientific data that I've got to, to let you know of. And last thing you'll see here, is contact details. So if you would like to contact me in any way, my website's there, my Facebook is there, and obviously telephone numbers.

The one thing I would love to do is lunch and lunch and learns. I can't necessarily afford to do sandwiches and stuff at the moment, but I'd be quite happy to bring in snacks and doughnuts, which I know. Nurses especially absolutely love most of the time.

Relaxed classes would be another option, 1 to 1 with a particular patient if obviously only consent was, sought and and is needed. And also, if you have any case studies where you have any postoperative, recovery cases where you would be happy for me, to go and obviously, do this, so that you can see, and obviously then I've got obviously more backup, with regards to evidence that obviously this can help in post-operative recovery. So, that is canine flow.

That's how I work as a people and pet therapist. I won the Mobile Business of the Year award in 2019 from Kent Health and Beauty Awards, and that was for the work that I do in terms of being a people and pet therapist. And so, I shall now hand it over to Bruce to see if there's any questions.

So thank you everyone for listening. Thanks, Victoria, and, yeah, you certainly hit the nail on the head there with the, the doughnuts and the snacks to keep the nurses on your side. See, I know, I know.

Comes from years of working in the profession. Successful, happy hospital is by keeping the nurses happy. Victoria, we have no, questions that have come through.

I think it is nice that you have given out your email address and your, your, website address, that people can actually contact you and look into this, to, to take it further if they're interested and, and, get some more information. As always, the recording will be up on the website in the next couple of days, and, all those who attended will, you know, be able to get the handouts and everything else as well through the office. So that's all great.

That's all tonight, folks. Victoria, thank you for your time here on the webinar, vet. We really appreciate you coming and, and spending this time talking to us.

You're more than welcome. To my controller in the background, Phil, thanks for all your help and for all of you for attending. Thank you as always, and we will see you on the next webinar.

From myself, Bruce Stevenson, good night.