What if you step outside instead, not with tension in your chest or urgency in your steps, but with a grounded exhale, your feet meeting the earth with presence?
Your dog glances up at you, not for instruction, but in quiet connection. The leash between you isn’t tight, nor forgotten; it’s a living thread, loose and light, pulsing with shared rhythm.
There’s no rush, no pressure to perform, no bracing for what might go wrong.
Instead, there’s space - to pause, to notice, to breathe. You walk as two beings in relationship, not one controlling and one complying, but two nervous systems co-regulating in motion.
You feel your body guiding with calm clarity, not command.
You notice how your dog responds - not out of obedience, but out of trust.
You linger while they sniff. You listen when they resist. You honour your own yes, too.
And the walk becomes something else entirely - not a task, but a ritual. Not something to get through, but something to sink into.
The walk then becomes a site of attunement instead of tension.
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 start enjoying their walks with their dogs.
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.
Inside The Listening Leash, I will guide you through the following modules:
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’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
This isn’t the kind of leash work you were trained to expect. In fact it's not even leash work.
It's a reclamation that your body and your dog have been quietly longing for.
Here's what women who stepped inside had to say:
"I'm taking away how much more I need to actually listen to my dogs on a walk."
"It's extremely uncomfortable to sit with how much my walks are about performance than actually how I am feeling or even my dog is feeling."
"I'm thinking about the purpose of the walks right now and wondering...is this to show the neighbours that I'm a good guardian? And is that what these walks should really be about?"
Meet your guide, Surabhi
My walks with my dogs used to be stressful. Whether it was Mutton who would lunge and bark at anything that moved or Masti who would be all over the place, would sit down and just refuse to move if we didn't go where he wanted to.My body still remembers the dread it carried in these moments, the bracing for the complete collapse I knew was going to come my way every time I stepped out with my dogs. And this continued......Till I shifted the focus from what they were doing to how I was feeling when I was with them. And I realised that the whole time I was out with them, I'd be anxious, stressed and ready to flee at the slightest hint of "danger". I was constantly aware of people's eyes on us, feeling the pressure to "keep my dogs in control and not be walked by them", to demonstrate how compliant my dogs were to every cue of mine. I realised that I was bringing so much baggage into the walk that there was no space to be present with my dogs and even process what they were communicating to me. That awareness was a game-changer for me. Because it empowered me to prioritise what I needed on these walks to show up present and attuned to my dogs. And once I started to do that, my walks became...easeful, peaceful and filled with so much joy.
The Listening Leash isn't a formula for success.
It's a way of being with our dogs to deepen trust, communication and togetherness.