Greetings and Welcome! My name is Lisa Apramian, Ph.D.

Canine Contact is my vision. I am also the director of Spiral Awakening, LLC and Canine Contact is a subdivision of Spiral Awakening; speaking to the infinite spiral pathways we can follow to awaken, heal and evolve. Canine contact explores and celebrates human-animal synergistic bonds.

A happy family I worked with. Dogs trained and family coached!

My intention is to facilitate weave emotional, mental, physical and spiritual awakenings through canine-human relationships. Yes I am first and foremost about responsible dog ownership through education and training. Yet Canine Contact is more. It is using the yearning to have a dog and the motivation to have it well behaved as a starting point. There is so much more! A quality of life that serves both you, your family and your dog.

I love to foster human-canine intelligence/IQ. Let us learn solid and fluid methods to help our dogs learn. How? By committing to being conscious of our dogs presence and our presence. Presence is a gold mine! Learning to speak and understand canines and how they understand us does not need to be a chore.

Why do we adopt or acquire dogs? I encourage you to expand and modify your behavioral repertoires with your canines and yourselves. To begin, we are willing to understand our meta communication and our dog’s meta communication. What messages are we giving our dogs? These messages can be our biofeedback or mirrors as to the energy we give off. We can focus on our subtle cues, because our dogs sure are! Let us create healthy lives, relationships, choices, and time for exercise, meditation, healing and bonding and creativity with our canines!

I encourage us all to be aware of our monkey minds and the tyranny and drive of our egos. This detracts us from presence and a quality life and deprives us and our dogs. Dogs can help us achieve something magical. The rewards are infinite!!

Human-animal bonds are for healing our dogs and ourselves. Dogs are spectacular motivators for getting away from our computers, off the couch or bed and out of the house!. With these bonds and a commitment to health and joy we can do, for example, “doga” (yoga w dogs), or sitting or moving meditation with our dogs. There is also improvisational human-canine movement, just like human-to-human contact dance or contact improvisation.

Explore human-canine sports such as running, hiking, swimming, bodysurfing , surfing, together, canine dance, agility or competitive sports (especially water sports), are very rewarding.

Dogs are perfectly designed to help us ease down and focus mentally. Dogs help us lower our blood pressure and heart rate. Dogs can increase motivation, decrease depression, isolation, anxiety and trauma. Studies show dogs can increase our dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin levels. So now, what can we give them in return? Our highest self! Let us get our dogs trained, keep improving them, nourish them, exercise them and explore they ways the two of you can play and exercise.

Foster and rescue and learn all you can. If you do not know, then reach to someone to help you take your dog and you to the next level. Then, perhaps, you can even explore owning more than one dog. Dogs learn faster and if properly trained, do better in packs.

Mindful educated structure, creativity, play, flexibility, empathy, patience, and even photographing/videoing and journaling are used to track  the process. This can be fun, invigorating and infinitely rewarding. Ok. So let’s raise your IQ! Re-examine what you do and do not do with your dog(s)

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Canine Contact is a subdivision of Spiral Awakening, LLC.