You clip the leash on. Step outside. And before you’ve even taken three steps, your body tightens.
A sudden pull.
Eyes scanning.
The rush of movement you weren’t ready for. Your grip hardens around the leash.
Shoulders creep toward your ears. Your breath shallows without you noticing.
You start scanning - forward, behind, across the street.
Every sound, every shadow, feels like a potential trigger.
And then comes the voice. Low and familiar.
“I should have fixed this by now. People are watching. I need to be in control.”
Your heart beats faster. Feet speed up. Your body braces as if you're heading into battle.
This isn’t a walk. It’s a minefield.
Something to survive - not something to enjoy.
But deep down, you know… this isn't how it's meant to feel. You crave something else.
Ease in your body. Joy in your chest. The quiet sense of togetherness with your dog.
You want to breathe deeply. To slow down.
To move with your dog- not against them. To feel both of you free, and still beautifully connected.
But that’s not what you were taught.
You were told to tighten. Correct. Control.
And that kind of walk?
It just doesn’t feel right - in your body or your heart.
You know what you want to feel. You just don’t know how to get there.
The Listening Leash is not another leash walking training session.
Most leash walking training programs focus on changing your dog’s behaviour: teaching them to heel, correcting pulling, rewarding eye contact, managing reactivity, getting them to “listen better” or using the leash better…
But in The Listening Leash, we begin somewhere else entirely...we start with you. Your breath, your body, your nervous system.
Because your dog’s behaviour on leash is not so much a training issue but a relational one.
It’s a conversation. And often, it’s a reflection.
Of the tension in your shoulders. The urge to tighten the leash when someone’s coming your way. The racing thoughts about what others must think of the kind of guardian you are. The overwhelming pressure to “get it right”.
Conventional training ignores these inner experiences and sometimes, even intensifies them.
But in The Listening Leash, they’re not obstacles - they’re the starting point for healing.
In this 2-day immersion, you’re invited to untrain and instead, to rewild and remember.
This is a space for women who are done with performing, managing, and correcting and are ready to reclaim ease, joy, and wholeness in their walks.
Because healing your walks begins with healing your relationship to your body, to your presence,
and to the leash in your hand.
Not through more control. But through connection.
And maybe, by the end, the leash won’t feel like something to grip,
but something to feel - a living chord of quiet communication.
A thread of trust that pulses between you.
What to expect over 2 days:
DAY 1: REFRAME
On Day 1, we begin the journey by gently unraveling the ways we've been taught to approach the walk - as a task to manage, a performance to perfect, or a space to prove ourselves as “good” guardians.
Together, we’ll explore how deeply ingrained narratives around obedience, control, and public pressure shape not only how we walk our dogs, but how we feel in our own bodies on those walks.
This is an invitation for you to slow down, soften, and notice what’s really happening beneath the surface - the tension in your grip, the pace of your breath, the urgency in your steps.
We’ll start to reshape the walk from the inside out, not by adding more rules or techniques, but by creating space to reconnect with your own body’s wisdom and allowing yourself to move from a place of presence, rather than pressure.
By the end of Day 1, you’ll walk away with a greater sense of self-awareness and compassion around how you show up on walks, along with the beginnings of a new internal framework - one rooted in curiosity, connection, and choice and not control.
DAY 2: RECLAIM
On Day 2, we deepen into what it means to reclaim the walk as a space of mutual freedom - for both you and your dog.
Building on the awareness from Day 1, we’ll explore how to let go of performance-based expectations and begin to co-create a walk that honors both of your rhythms, needs, and instincts.
We’ll begin to listen more closely: to the dog’s subtle yeses and nos, to their own nervous system, and to the dynamic relationship unfolding through the leash.
We’ll gently unravel cultural narratives around the “well-behaved dog,” the “alpha guardian,” and the invisible pressure to appear in control and instead, reimagine walking together as a practice of shared presence, trust, and play.
You’ll be invited to consider what a walk could feel like if it didn’t have to look perfect. We will also debrief a walking demonstration to identify ways to make your walks a space for attunement.
By the end of Day 2, you will experience a shift in how you feel with your dog - less urgency, more ease in your bodies, and a new way of walking with your dog that feels more natural and connected than anything you’ve learned through obedience training.
At the end of these 2 days…
You will start to feel differently about your walks because everything inside you would have shifted.
You might lighter in your body, softer in your grip, and more at ease in your nervous system.
The pressure to perform, manage, or control will slowly begin to loosen, replaced by a deeper sense of trust, curiosity, and connection.
You’ll start to notice the quiet signs, in yourself and in your dog and respond to them from presence rather than urgency.
Instead of rushing or bracing, you’ll start to move together with more rhythm and mutual respect.
You’ll begin to understand your dog not as a masterpiece to perfect, but as a partner in a shared experience… and the walk itself will become a space of healing, co-regulation, and quiet joy.
This isn’t the kind of leash work you were trained to expect - it’s a reclamation your body and your dog have been quietly longing for.
More specifically, you’ll walk away feeling:
- Lighter in your body as the weight of performance and pressure begins to lift
- More connected to your dog because you are no longer locked in power struggles, but moving in rhythm
- Deeply attuned to your nervous system and how it shapes your dog’s experience
- Relieved to finally understand why things have felt so hard, and that it was never about failure
- Empowered with a new internal compass rooted in curiosity, compassion, and consent
- Freer to create a walk that feels good for both of you, not one that looks “perfect” to others
