Workshop Registration November 16th, 2025 - November 30th, 2025
[ workshop starts on December 1st, 2025]
Are longer heeling patterns hard for your dog?
Do you want confident, strong heeling?
Are you interested in improving your dog's movement for heeling?
Then this is the workshop for you!
Heeling Takes a Strong Core and Ability to Shift Weight in All Directions
This workshop is designed to help you understand the physical needs of heeling and the exercises that can be done to improve strength and performance.
Who Should Participate?
Human Participants
→ Dog trainers that teach dog sports
→ Massage therapists
→ Dog sport competitors (agility, flyball, dock diving, herding, IGP, Ring, etc)
→ Vets and vet techs
→ Anyone who is interested in canine obedience
Canine Participants
→ Dogs that participate in heeling
→ Conformation dogs
→ Dogs that compete in obedience
→ Dogs that compete in dog sports
→ Dogs that have recovered from injury
Why Purchase This Workshop?
Understand the physical demands of heeling
Learn how posture affects heeling performance
Learn how to engage the lower back and abdominal muscles
Learn how to increase efficiency and precision of muscle movement through fitness exercises
Understand how to identify what exercises will benefit your dog
Recieve personalized feedback on your dog via voiceover review (Workers Only)
Advantages of the Online Workshop
✔ Convenience of online learning
✔ More time to learn the material than traditional in person workshop format
✔ Work at your own pace in the convenience of your own home
✔ Access to material for as long as BLCC exists
"I loved this workshop. I'm not very interested in heeling, but am very interested in developing core and back strength for my dog and I found this to be a fantastic resource. Plus I'm really impressed with how Bobbie's workshops integrate into her classroom platform: this is my first workshop in her class room and the content is very intelligently organized in a way that I find enhances my learning experience."
-Anna Kukhta
What's Included?
↳Real-time instruction and live Q&A via zoom LIVE sessions.
↳Bobbie will show a power point presentation that will be available to you after the workshop to download
↳Access to discussion threads and LIVE session recordings
↳Working spots will be able to submit up to 4 minute video for exercise evaluation and receive voiceover analysis
Bobbie will teach using zoom, power point, and videos. You can ask questions during the live sessions as well as later in the online classroom.
TWO LIVE sessions (approx. 2 hrs) will be held:
Workshop - December 1st, 2025 - 3:00pm Pacific
Coaching Call - December 8th, 2025 - 3:30pm Pacific
Final Coaching Call - December 15th, 2025 - 3:30pm Pacific
This is for all participants Workers and Auditors. After the workshop I will upload supporting information for download.
After the initial Workshop, workers will turn in a 1 min video per position for a maxmium of 4 minutes by December 10th.
Further instructions will be given during the workshop. Bobbie will review all videos by December 14th and another live coaching call will be held on December 15th to answer any questions you have and to give you a couple starter exercises to support good posture in your dog.
LIVE Q&A
During the LIVE Q&A sessions Bobbie will answer questions, demonstrate live, and give feedback on videos submitted for review.
DISCUSSION THREADS
There will be discussion threads for workers to post their videos and for auditors to ask questions.
VIDEO REVIEW
Working students can submit a maximum of 4 minutes (1 minute per movement) of video evaluation. Videos should be submitted by December 10th AFTER the live workshop on December 1st. Voiceover video review will be done by screen-casting for a more personalized experience and more detailed information. Screen-casting is audio-visual feedback (the next best thing to a 1:1 conversation)
START DATE
The live workshop will officially start on December 1st, 2025, with the first coaching call on December 8th, and final coaching call on December 15th. Access to material for as long as BLCC exists.
The school reserves the right to modify, update or remove this class at any time.
Suggested Pre-requisites
➤ A basic understanding of how to positively train dogs and an open mind
Training Methods
➤ A variety of training methods can be used to obtain the proper movement, position, or posture - shaping, luring, capturing, targeting, and molding. These will be discussed and demonstrated in the video tutorials and through video review but every tiny step will not be demonstrated.
Disclaimer: Some information in this class may overlap or appear in other classes due to the foundation needed for many behaviors, tricks and fitness exercises. In addition, there are overlapping skills needed for many different performance activities so you may see exercises that are the same but packaged up differently toward a slightly different goal.
Bobbie Lyons, CSCC, CCFT, KPA CTP
Lead Instructor and Program Director for the Certified Canine Strength and Conditioning Coach Program
Bobbie owns and operates Pawsitive Performance which offers dog training, fitness training and trick training around the globe. Bobbie currently is the lead instructor and program director for the Certified Canine Strength and Conditioning Coach program that is offered through North Carolina State University and North Carolina State Veterinary Medicine. She was also part of the TEAM that contributed knowledge and experience to design the CCFT II Live Lab and was a course "Instructor" for the program. Bobbie completed the certification program for Canine Fitness through the Companion Animal Sciences Institute and she is a Certified Training Partner with the Karen Pryor Academy.
Bobbie has 4 awesome dogs that train a variety of skills for agility, fitness training, trick training, tugging and dock diving. Bobbie enjoys the training process and strives to communicate in the best way she can to help her dogs and clients dogs understand the task at hand. She starts every training sessions with this question "how can I set the dog up for success and give the dog the best information to successfully complete the behavior".
To learn more about Bobbie visit:
✔ Ask questions in the discussion threads
✔ View video feedback recordings in working
student threads
✔ Access content for as long as BLCC exists
