This course is open to all, including non-professionals and professionals.

Train your eye and learn how to make stunning graphics

Do you struggle with identifying if your pup is in proper alignment during conditioning exercises? Or feel stuck knowing something isn't quite right but are unsure how to adjust? This can be an incredibly frustrating barrier, BUT there is a solution!

In this 7 week class (6 weeks of active learning + 1 week break), we will cover identifying the anatomical points needed to assess your pup for proper alignment and use graphic overlay to train your eye. The result will be increased confidence in your postural assessment, the ability to make adjustments to prop set up in real-time, and relief that you and your pup will be getting the MOST out of your conditioning efforts!!

Course Highlights

• For All Dog Lovers: Whether you're a professional or a devoted dog owner, this course is designed for everyone who wants to improve their dog's conditioning.
• Anatomical Overview: Understand the essential bony landmarks needed to assess alignment in your dog during conditioning exercises.
• Tips & Tricks: Learn to identify these landmarks on various dog breeds and coat types, from muscular dogs to those with coats of different colors, and even dogs in motion.
• Canva for Beginners: Discover how to use Canva to mark up photos, communicate adjustments, and create compare and contrast images.
• Hands-On Practice: Apply these skills to static photos provided by Anna Lee and your own dog's photos, increasing your confidence in this new feedback method.
• Final Project: Challenge your eye further by applying your new skills to video. Assess conditioning video of your own dog or use video provided by Anna Lee.

You will leave this course feeling confident in assessing video for movement dysfunction, selecting applicable frames, and creating a graphic overlay to get the most out of your conditioning sessions.

Feel supported throughout

Anna Lee not only shows you the method she has developed but also TEACHES you how to implement it using various media formats, including video tutorials, step-by-step written instructions, photo examples, and annotated screenshots. All these resources help you navigate the analysis portion of the course curriculum, Canva graphic design software, and the Canvas teaching platform.

NOTE: Please distinguish between the Canva graphic design software and the Canvas teaching platform.

Class Outline

• Week 0
  • Setting up your Canvas Profile
  • Learning how to navigate the Canvas teaching platform
  • Setting up your free Canva account
  • Self Check Quiz
  • Introducing yourself
• Week 1
  • Anatomy Overview
  • Learning the bony landmarks important for alignment purposes
  • Why Are these landmarks important?
  • Identifying these landmarks on a skeleton
  • Self Check Quiz
• Week 2
  • Step-by-Step method for identifying the important landmarks in a photo
  • Learning to navigate Canva
  • Dropping points on the bony landmarks
  • Connecting points
  • Self Check Quiz
  • 1 Hour video roundtable with Anna Lee for Q&A, sharing with fellow students, and discussing your progress so far.
• Week 3
  • Training your eye
  • Coated dogs
  • Black dogs
  • Dogs in motion
  • Self Check Quiz
• Week 4
  • Analyzing your own dog's alignment in a Stand, Sit, and Down.
  • Compare and Contrast photos
  • Self Check Quiz
• Week 5
  • Analyzing conditioning video
  • Taking screenshots and dropping lines to quantify misalignment.
  • Final Project: Use your own dog or one of the cases Anna Lee provides to put your new skills into practice.
• Week 6
  • Break
  • This week is designated for you to have sufficient time to compile your final project.
  • You'll generate a hypothesis related to movement dysfunction, support the hypothesis using photo/video analysis with graphic overlay, and arrive at a well-documented conclusion.
• Week 7 
  
  • Final Project Review from Anna Lee
  • Explaining your conclusions
  • 1 Hour Video roundtable with Anna Lee to debreif

Anna Lee believes in fully equipping you with all the skills you need to feel confident adapting the Canine Conditioning Coach method to your specific dogs and their needs. Her goal is for you to no longer rely on her. She wants to empower you to be self-sufficient.

"The biggest gift my students could give me is to not need me any longer! I don't want to be the one in possession of the knowledge you seek, and dole it out slowly. I want to give it ALL to you!!"

~ Anna Lee Sanders

A certificate of excellence will be provided to all students who complete the course requirements.