At this point of the Optimal Performance Program training your dog (and cat) knows by heart how to relax at the Restrictions of Food with the support of the cream cheese. It’s time to take the next steps. In this Week’s Module we are going to teach your dog and cat how to deepen his

At this moment of your Optimal Performance Program Training, your dog should be able to respond spontaneously with Relaxation Signs and deepening Relaxation to most of the things that are happening to him, and around him. What is more, by now your dog should be able to connect you and your presence with Relaxation, up

During the Second Week’s practice of Optimal Performance Program you are going to learn how to support your dog in learning how to turn moments of Spontaneous Relaxation into a conscious act of will. Your dog is going to learn how to look for tensions in his body consciously in order to be able to

During the first Week of Optimal Performance Program you are going to teach your dog how to relax. You already know that the body of your dog seeks relaxation in the most natural and automatic way. It’s enough to give a body a moment of rest, and it will start to unwind. The problem with

DOs of Optimal Performance Program: Keep everything fun and light. Relaxation is the opposite of effort, seriousness and tension. When your trainings become heavy and too intellectual, your tensions make relaxation difficult for your dog. Follow instructions of the Program. The easiest way to be successful is to just follow the successful recipe.  Allow yourself

Teaching Relaxation to your dog will be one of the easiest, and at the same time one of the trickiest tasks that you have ever faced in your entire life. What will make it easy is the simplicity of the procedure and the naturalness of the whole process. You will find the process pleasurable, fulfilling

Relaxation Sign is a natural response of the body to the process of relaxation, which has already happened within the body. We can say that a relaxation sign is a pathway for the tension to leave the body, after the release of the tension already happened within the body. For example, many times when people

Relaxation is the most natural function of the body. Your and your dog’s bodies function through tension and relaxation. Let’s take a look at the breathing. It’s one of the most natural processes happening in the body, and the one that doesn’t need to be governed by your conscious mind. It’s natural succession of tension

Clench your fist. Feel it. This is tension. Muscles engaged into clenching the hand are flexed. Muscles, joints and bones of the hand are closer to each other, there is less space between the tissues. Now, stop clenching your fist. Let go of the tension in your hand. This is relaxation. How you have felt

Welcome to the Optimal Performance Program Workshop for DOGS! In the life of a modern dog stress reaction of the body is activated way too often, and most of the time — in a disproportionate way to the situation. Regular training is based on either controlling the stress responses of dogs (barking, fiddling behaviors, losing