Title: Somnambulist

Gender: Female

Age: 37

Sun Sign: Leo

Chinese Sign: Metal Boar

Location: New York, NY

Some people refer to what I do as dog whispering…and they are mostly right.  I do whisper to dogs although I'm not so sure they understand what I'm saying.  So  I make sure to provide an understanding for them.

Ultimately,  my goal is to make your situation work.  This means it has to work for you and your dog. In order to be able to gauge whether something is workable for a dog you first have to “get” what that means for a dog..and not just all dogs, but dog on the floor in front of you.

My work is based in the idea that much of what we want from our dogs are things we have come to expect from thousands of years of training…their training of us!  And, for the most part, we  have low expectations…but I'll get to that later…So the basic requirements that we have of dogs are not a product of training per se, but are just the normal way a dog will be in their natural state.  What do I mean? 

 I'm pretty sure that all dogs, whether they've been through obedience training or not, know how to sit down, go to the bathroom outside of their sleeping area, and walk alongside a friend.  They don't attack other dogs or people with little or no provocation.  They aren't excessivley concerned with their sexual proclivity as to compel the need to mark every bush, tree, or lamp post.  So how do these behaviors occur?

I think that these behaviors are rooted in a series of misperceptions. Dogs, like people,  create generalizations in their thinking.  These generalizations are not literal, they are more global.  For example, if your dogs seems to not like men, it's not because a man was mean to him it's because the dog thinks of himself as in danger and men tend to stand and walk in a more potentially threatening way than women.  You can't change the way men walk and you can”t tell the dog that all men are nice.  You can however change a dog's experience  of vulnerability in general by giving him an unmistakable experience of well being.

I think every dog has a design for being that is unique to them and even with the same breeding, there is a sparkle which makes them them and not me or some dog from my childhood.  So the character of a dog is what their predisposition is…whether they learn best through touch or through sound…who they are when there is nothing but this…nothing to anticipate, nothing to lament…just this moment…and what 's true now…because now, the schnauzer next door can walk by and it's not a 3 alarm fire…it's just the schnauzer next door.  And we look at each other and have the experiece and she see's me having the experience with her… and it's just another eperience…brilliant and interesting and terrific and together.  Like this, most problems seem kind of silly, even to her and why, if we could do this, would we ever do that?

So, I focus on inducing states of being that generate access to well-formedness in dogs.. As humans we access this state for our dogs by traversing the space of inter-subjectivity…we get that we play an enormous role in the way our dogs construct reality and commit fully to establishing the rapport necessary to lead them to the state that we have idealized for them.


And this is just the first session..

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