The Exercise Paradox: When More Movement Isn't Better

Discover why exercise might be reinforcing harmful movement patterns in both you and your dog.

Learn how to transform regular activities into healing opportunities through movement awareness, and unlock the secret to more effective, mindful exercise routines that benefit both ends of the leash. 

Enjoy Freer Shoulders in Ten Minutes!

Follow along with this video to make playing with your dog more comfortable and enjoyable.

By understanding the natural connection between your shoulder blade and rib cage, you'll discover how to throw balls, hold leashes, and play tug with greater ease - without stretching or strain.

Can a Paralyzed Dog Learn to Run Again?

Discover how Chilee, a Chihuahua who was paralyzed from a stroke and facing euthanasia, defied the odds.

This former therapy dog's journey from paralysis to running and playing again demonstrates the remarkable power of neuroplasticity and holistic approaches such as Debono Moves. 

Mindful Movements: A New Way to Communicate with Your Dog

Discover the transformative power of shared awareness.

Learn how gentle, mindful contact can create profound connections with your dog, reduce stress, and open new possibilities for movement and behavior—benefiting both you and your dog.

Age-Proofing Your Dog: Easy Ways to Preserve Mobility

Discover gentle age-proofing techniques to support your dog's lifelong mobility and well-being.

Learn simple hands-on methods to enhance body awareness, potentially reducing the risk of injury or stiffness as your dog ages. Create an optimal environment for your canine companion's active future.

Gentle Movements, Big Results: A New Approach to Easier Mobility for You and Your Dog

Discover how gentle, mindful movements can transform your life and your dog's.

Learn Debono Moves, inspired by the Feldenkrais MethodⓇ, to improve flexibility, balance, and overall well-being. Unlock the potential for pain-free living and enhanced mobility at any age or physical condition.

Rewire Your Dog's Brain for Better Mobility

Explore "Grow Young with Your Dog" by Mary Debono, a revolutionary approach that redefines aging.

Learn how Debono Moves can rewire neural pathways, deepen your bond with your dog, and unlock hidden potential for both of you. Discover the science behind canine-human connection and movement. 

The Body-Mind Connection: Your Key to a Happier, Healthier Dog

Explore the powerful body-mind connection between you and your dog. Learn how your physical and mental state influences your pet's behavior and wellbeing.

Discover practical tips to enhance awareness, reduce tension, and deepen your bond for a happier, healthier canine companion.

Rethinking Solutions: A Fresh Take on Canine Mobility Issues

 Discover a holistic approach to canine care that transcends quick fixes.

Learn how Debono Moves combines mindfulness, gratitude, and gentle hands-on processes to enhance your dog's mobility, ease anxiety, and enrich both your lives. A path to lasting well-being awaits!

Why Changing Your Dog's Environment Boosts Learning

Discover how changing the environment and context when working with your dog can lead to lasting improvements in their movement and well-being.

In this episode, Mary Debono shares practical tips to help your dog's nervous system integrate and generalize new skills.

Rethinking Routine: How to Boost Your Dog’s Health

Discover how introducing safe novelty into your dog's routine can improve well-being, reduce stress, and strengthen your bond.

Mary Debono shares practical tips to create positive changes for both you and your dog, enhancing your connection and overall quality of life.

Why Your Dog’s Nervous System Resists Quick Fixes

Discover why trying to “fix” your dog's movement issues might not be the best strategy.

Mary Debono explains how to work with your dog’s nervous system for improved mobility and well-being, offering a gentle, effective approach that honors your dog's natural tendencies.

Pausing with Purpose: A New Approach to Dog Care and Well-Being

Discover the transformative power of taking a pause with your dog.

Mary Debono explains how stepping back can lead to breakthroughs in mobility, training, and behavior. Learn hands-on practices, such as Rhythm Circles and Connected Breathing, to deepen your bond and improve your dog's well-being.

From Fear to Freedom: Helping Dogs Recover From Fractures and Surgery

Hear how two dogs relearned how to walk and run again. Scooter, who had a broken back and pelvis, and Zoey, who had hip surgery. Both of these dogs had difficulty relearning to walk, despite the fact that their bones and soft tissue had healed.  

By using methods that engage the nervous system in a non-threatening way, we can help our dogs recover fully, improve their movement, and enhance their overall well-being.

Creating Safety: The Key to Your Dog’s Physical and Emotional Health

 Discover why emotional safety is key to improving a dog’s physical health and mobility. Using the example of a Labrador named Sunny, Mary explains how her Debono Moves approach helps dogs feel safe, easing their pain and improving their movement without force.

This episode offers practical advice for enhancing your dog’s well-being by creating a safe, supportive environment.

More Flexible Knees: A Mindful Approach to Easier Movement for YOU 

Ever wanted to enjoy more active time with your dog but struggle with physical discomfort? Check out our free 7-minute video to help you have more comfortable, flexible knees.

Discover how the Feldenkrais Method can transform your walks and adventures together. Tune in now and start moving better today! 

The Power of Perception: Changing How You See Your Dog 

In this episode of "Easier Movement, Happier Dogs," Mary Debono explores the hidden habits of perception and how they shape our interactions with dogs. Learn simple techniques to enhance awareness, shift focus, and uncover new possibilities for a more joyful, connected life with your canine companion.

Otis the Boxer: A Journey From Limping to Leaping

Join me as I unravel the healing journey of Otis, a brown Boxer with a persistent limp and stiffness.

Discover how Otis' issues are resolved through hands-on work that focuses on the overall coordination of a dog's body, addressing issues at their root rather than the apparent problem area.

What Do Tea Bags, Worms and Dog Training Have in Common?

Are you seeing things as they are? Or how you EXPECT them to be?  

Discover why you may fall for certain dog training methods despite them not being in your dog's best interest. Let's sharpen our critical thinking skills in our latest podcast episode!

The Power of Belief: How Your Thoughts Shape Your Dog's Actions

Ever wondered how your thoughts and emotions might be shaping your dog's behavior?

Join me as I share a personal story of a dramatic shift in a dog's demeanor that shed light on this fascinating connection.

Transforming Dog Training: From Commands to Connection

Discover the power of teaching, not just training your dog!

 Mary Debono's latest episode explores creating a dialogue with your dog for better learning, a more joyful partnership and a happier pup.

Decoding Your Dog: Understanding Canine Body Language

Curious about what your dog's tail, ears, and eyes are really saying?

Our latest episode decodes canine body language for a deeper bond! Learn the subtle cues and strengthen your connection with your furry friend. 
 

Redefining Aging: How You and Your Dog Can Grow Young Together

Did you know novelty can slow down time? Discover ways to infuse variety into life with your dog and promote healthy aging.

 Listen to our new episode for inspiring stories and tips. 

Help Your Dog Heal by Integrating Debono Moves with Veterinary Care

Want to help your dog reduce the effects of aging, anxiety or arthritis? 

Debono Moves can help dogs heal and recover FULLY from injuries or surgery.  And even reduce the effects of aging.

An Easy Way to Improve Your Dog's Well-Being and Deepen Your Bond

Discover a simple, powerful hands-on technique to help your dog in body and mind while strengthening your bond. The technique involves a gentle scan of the dog's body, stimulating specific receptors that process sensory information through the emotional part of the brain.

Is Your Anxiety Making Your Dog Reactive?

Feeling stressed on walks because your dog reacts to things like bikes, skateboards or other dogs? You're not alone! 

Discover how your anxiety can affect your dog's behavior.

Learn innovative ways to stay calm and make walks enjoyable for both of you!

Helping Your Dog Enjoy Having Their Paws Touched

Learn tips on making dogs comfortable with paw handling. You'll learn how to use incidental contact with things besides your hand can help your dog stay relaxed during the process. 

Discover the benefits of being patient, relaxed, and creative to ensure you keep this an enjoyable, stress-free process for your dog - and you!

"Untrainable" Dog or Unwilling Human?

Kristi Noem admitted (bragged?) to shooting and killing her 14-month-old wire-haired pointer pup.

As abhorrent as this is, can we ALL learn something from this cruel and violent act? Are there questions we can ask ourselves about how we’re thinking about our own dogs? Are there areas where WE can do better by our dogs?

Working with Dogs Who Dislike Being Touched

Learn strategies for working with touch-averse dogs through heartwarming stories of transformation.

From an Akita's orthopedic challenges to a senior dog's mobility struggles, discover non-confrontational approaches, trust-building techniques, and the importance of reading canine body language.

Are You Addicted to Stressing About Your Dog?

Stressing is often a habit. A bad one! Training your brain to focus on what's going well can break the habit of constantly finding what's wrong. Focusing on the positive can lead to more positive experiences in life.

This mindset shift can create a richer, more rewarding relationship with your dog.

The Invisible Link How Human Well-Being Affects Canine Health

Discover the fascinating correlation between physical issues in dogs and their human owners. Learn why addressing both human and dog is crucial for resolving these issues. Explore how humans' movement, breathing, and thinking can affect dogs, and how mirror neurons may play a role in this "invisible link." 

Inviting the Healer Within: Empowering Pets and Their People 

 In this short episode, you'll be introduced to the inner healer. You have one and so does your dog.

You'll learn about the role of the nervous system and the importance of collaboration between dogs and their guardians in facilitating improvements in mobility and well-being.

De-Stress in Minutes: How You and Your Dog Can Relax and Connect

Learn a simple, yet effective practice that can transform your relationship with your dog. It's like a RESET button for your dog's nervous system.

 And it can help both you AND your dog feel better in body and mind.

Anxious or Fearful Dog? This Simple Approach Can Help

Have a dog who cowers around strangers? Or who gets nervous on car rides or on walks? Do you feel your dog is often nervous, anxious or fearful?  

In this episode, you'll learn how to help sensitive, fearful, and anxious dogs.

Why Focusing on Possibilities, Not Problems, Can Help Your Dog 

Learn how you can improve a dog's quality of life despite health issues. You'll hear inspiring stories about dogs with degenerative myelopathy and hip dysplasia. Learn how to focus on expanding possibilities and thinking creatively. 

Improving Quality of Life for a Dog with a Serious Diagnosis (DM)

Hear about Sheba, a German shepherd (GSD) diagnosed with degenerative myelopathy (DM), and how I helped Sheba and her owners improve her quality of life. Learn how this approach may help your dog, even if your dog is a young and healthy! 

Helping a Dog Recover from a Knee Ligament Injury (CCL/ACL)

If you're interested in helping your dog recover fully from ANY injury (or to help reduce the risk of injury), I hope you tune in to this episode where I discuss how I helped a Labrador retriever recover fully from his knee ligament (CCL/ACL) injury. 

How a Dog with Spinal Arthritis Became Young Again 

Have you ever wanted to turn back the clock and help your dog feel and move like a younger dog? Learn about a dog who went on to live a healthy, active life despite having severe spinal arthritis. Click here to get NEW free video training!

Dog Getting Stiff? The Importance of Relieving Your Dog's Back Tension

Want to help your stiff, senior dog feel more flexible? Join Mary Debono as she shares the heartwarming story of a dog with spinal arthritis, who improved her mobility and greatly enhanced her quality of life. Get free video training!  

Your Hands Have the Power to Help Your Dog

If you’d like a FREE, in-depth training to learn how to use this gentle, effective approach with your dog, please register for my friend Marilyn Mele’s FREE canine summit, featuring 20 top canine experts (including me!). The link to register is in the show notes.

Develop Intuition with Your Dog

Do you want to know what your dog is feeling? Doyou want to "read" your dog (and others) more clearly? This episode will de-mystify intuition and start you on the path to developing informed intuition so you can help your dog move easier and feel better!

A Better Story Makes a Better Dog

Are you creating a story about your dog that’s not serving you? Are limiting beliefs impacting your dog training? Do they interfere e with your enjoyment of your dog? Learn how to replace unhelpful beliefs with ones that elevate your life. And your dog’s life.

3 Easy Ways to Help Your Dog Feel Better Right Now

Learn 3 easy ways to help your dog feel better right away. They’re easy to fit into your day, no matter how busy you are. They can improve your dog’s body awareness, which is important for mobility, balance and coordination. They’ll reduce stress and deepen your bond with your dog.

How Optimism Can Heal Your Dog

Would you like your dog to heal from physical or behavioral issues? In this episode, you’ll learn how shifting your focus AWAY from the problem can help you make better choices to help your dog recover. This new way of thinking can create more hopeful possibilities for you and your dog.

Reduce Canine Mobility Problems

Do you have a senior dog? Or do you want to reduce your young dog’s risk of injury? Learn simple steps to reduce your dog ’s chances of having a mobility problem. Start safeguarding your dog ’s health and wellbeing today!

Are you or your dog dealing with aging, injury, arthritis or anxiety? Do you want more flexibility, balance and confidence?

 Join international Feldenkrais® teacher, NLP Practitioner and bestselling author Mary Debono as she helps you discover easier, more comfortable movement AND a deeper connection with your dog. 

If you’re a dog lover who’d like to learn simple, powerful body/mind strategies to help you and your dog feel more connected, flexible and balanced at any age, this show is for you.