Enrollment opens December 16, 2023 8am Mountain Time (UTC -06:00)

Enrollment open to credentialed Canine Fitness and Rehab Professionals ONLY.

Train your eye and learn how to make stunning teaching graphics.

Over the last several years, teaching canine conditioning full time, Anna Lee has developed her own method of analyzing alignment in photos and videos and providing unique visual feedback. Her method uses graphic overlays to clearly and effectively communicate dog misalignment, handler errors, issues with prop setup, and details the adjustments needed visually. This approach not only saves time and prevents misunderstandings but also builds confidence and fosters independence in her human and canine students. Sometimes, this can be a complex subject, and a picture is worth a THOUSAND words at least. Now she is looking to pass those skills on to you!

Course Highlights

• Interactive Learning: This 7-week class (6 weeks of active learning + 1 week break) is highly interactive and covers a range of topics to enhance your graphic analysis skills.
• Bony Landmarks and Alignment: Learn to review and identify the bony landmarks necessary for assessing alignment in canine conditioning.
• Tips & Tricks for Landmark Identification: Discover tips and tricks for locating these landmarks on various dogs, including those with different coat types, black dogs, and dogs in motion.
• Canva Mastery: Learn how to use Canva for marking up photos, communicating adjustments, and creating stunning compare and contrast images.
• Practical Application: Practice applying your skills to static photos provided by Anna Lee to build your confidence with this feedback method.
• Video Analysis: Apply your graphic overlay skills to assess and quantify movement dysfunction in dogs using your own video, or video supplied by Anna Lee.

You will leave this course feeling confident in your ability to assess video for movement dysfunction, select applicable frames, and create graphic overlays effectively using Anna Lee's unique method.

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 recap
  • Learning the important bony landmarks for alignment purposes
  • Why these landmarks are 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 provided photos for alignment mistakes and suggesting corrections
  • Applying graphic overlay to conditioning exercises
  • Compare and Contrast photos
  • When to cheat your lines
  • Self Check Quiz
• Week 5
  • Capturing photos from video and choosing the right frames
  • How to quantify asymmetry or dysfunction and provide definitive evidence for your reasoning.
  • Final Project: Use a client 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.
  • This allows for dedicated time to prepare and complete your final project.
• 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.