La Paw Spa has the longest running school in the United States in Canine Hydrotherapy and is excited to now offer an ONLINE option for the trusted LEVEL 1 and 2 Classes that have gained such a great reputation over the last 25 years.
The ONLINE option includes a dynamic 5 month private facebook group page with only 4 students involved. You will have forever access to this reference, as long as facebook allows.
This option starts every year on MAY 1st and December 1st.
Together we will do homework assignments and share, have meetings and private time. Cindy will be posting videos of various techniques in the water that address your questions and there will be case studies.
This educational opportunity will include a private 3 day training period in Cindy’s private pool, scheduled at your convenience, where techniques will be perfected and you’ll be able to practice on a multiple of dogs in the water.
The focus will be on you and your business skills with the goal to turn your skill set into a working business plan. With Cindy’s vast experience in business development and customized motivational coaching, we will be able to map a plan for your success in this line of service where your own unique gifts will be featured.
In addition to the above, this Class with have 24 Training Modules ( see below)
The 24 Modules of LA PAW SPA’s online LEVEL ONE and LEVEL TWO CLASS:
- Water Therapy – What is it? I’ll give you a hint… it’s deeper than it looks!
- Building a Therapy Pool – The laws, zoning, how to design your facility and your business.
- What You Should Expect in Your Typical Day – How to be prepared. Setting up a nice session to facilitate healing for everyone involved. Paperwork. What is the best way to take and keep client notes, etc.
- Your Tools of the Trade – A discussion and exploration of tools that are useful in this work and which ones resonate with you, and how you might use these in the pool with your canine clients.
- Your Business Skills and Plans – Cindy’s past work as a CPA and her lifelong work as an empowerment coach will be skills you’ll enjoy as you work through your business plan, vision for this work in your world, and create something sustainable.
- Legal Wording in Advertising and in Your Vet Reports – What to say, what not to say. The laws – how to stay within our scope of practice.
- Other Equipment and Tools of the Trade – Ramps, harnesses, lifts, etc.
- Watsu – Enjoy a session and write about the power of water. We’ll have extensive conversations around the emotional healing potential in water, and there is nothing like experiencing it firsthand.
- The Dog Body – From nose to tail – a discussion of every joint in the body, common injuries and surgeries, known protocols for water therapy, etc. This is a huge module that will take up a large percentage of our time.
- Land Exercises – Other tools to augment the water therapy and fun things you can share with your clients that they can do at home.
- Incontinence – How to express bowels and bladders, why it’s important, and also why this isn’t hard to do.
- TTouch – This is the Touch that Teaches, an educational tool – not a therapy tool. Let’s discuss why this might be nice to know about.
- Bodywork and Massage – So much easier in water! Stretches and bodywork positions explained and demonstrated.
- Fascia – Cindy’s training has gone deep into the world of fascia, so we’ll be working with this and expanding your knowledge around how to work with fascia in and out of the water.
- How to Get in the Water, How to Stay in the Water, and How to Get Out of the Water – It’s not as easy as it looks!
- Swimming and Working in Water – The resistance and differences of working in gravity.
- Body Language – How to read dogs and their people and use your own body language for the safest sessions possible.
- Intuition – What is it and how to use it.
- Water – How to take care of your pool and your water to keep things sanitary and safe.
- Laundry and Cleaning – Towels, towels, and more towels. Learn about different products that are best used for the healthiest options possible.
- Building a Network of Support – This is a profession that can ask a lot of you, so remember that you don’t need to provide all that your client needs. Build a network of supporting veterinarians, chiropractors, acupuncture, land therapists, etc. Taking care of the people part of your client – resources for their own massage therapists, grief counselors, hospice groups, etc.
- Death and Dying – Making a plan, keeping a list of options, and then forgetting about it. Consider a natural passing and holding the space for this process when possible.
- Listening – How to listen without your answers running – how to stay compassionate. Be aware of “The Power Ball” and make sure you always pass it back to the client.
- Self-Care – Keeping the balance in your life so that you can go the distance.