What Is the Bowen Technique and How Can It Heal Your Pet?
In the 1950’s, Australian healer Tom Bowen created a method of touch and massage that helped people in pain feel better. Today, holistic practitioner, Barbara Ahern, has expanded on Bowen’s work to include animals, and the power of this practice is helping animals both near and afar. How does she do it? She breaks it down in this episode.
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BIO:
Barbara’s career in the field of natural medicine has spanned 20+ years. Her love of dogs gave her the desire to help the canines in the same way she has helped her human clients, She discovered that there is a 94% correlation in physiology between humans and canines.
So, through continued study, research, and trials came the creation of a unified therapy Barbara calls Canine AcuTouch. Originally a student of Bowen Therapy from Australia, Barbara found that an interpretation of Bowen is just as effective on dogs as Bowen Therapy is for humans.
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Jody Teiche: We've all heard about the power of touch.
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Jody Teiche: In experienced hands, it can cure.
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Jody Teiche: So my guest today, Barbara Ahern, is a holistic practitioner.
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Jody Teiche: She's experienced in something called the Bowen Technique, which is a specific type of touch and a massage that was introduced by an Australian healer named Tom Bowen.
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Jody Teiche: You're going to learn today what the Bowen Technique is, what makes it different, and the vast kinds of conditions that it's helped in people and pets.
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Jody Teiche: I'm Jody L.
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Jody Teiche: Teiche, and you're listening to The Pet Health Coach on Pet Life Radio.
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Jody Teiche: Welcome back.
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Jody Teiche: You're listening to The Pet Health Coach with Jody Teiche.
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Jody Teiche: This is on PetLife Radio, and we're here today with Barbara Ahern, who is a holistic healer who specializes in something called canine accu-touch.
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Jody Teiche: This is a healing tool that resolves many types of issues.
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Jody Teiche: So we're going to learn more about this.
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Jody Teiche: It could relate to your pet.
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Jody Teiche: And let's meet Barbara now.
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Jody Teiche: Hey, Barbara, how you doing?
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Jody Teiche: Good.
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Barbara Ahern: Thank you, Jody.
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Barbara Ahern: Thank you for having me.
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Jody Teiche: I'm really happy to have you.
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Jody Teiche: I want to share what you do with my listeners.
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Jody Teiche: Tell my listeners how you got started in natural healing.
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Barbara Ahern: Well, actually, it came about, I guess you could say, the hard way.
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Barbara Ahern: I sustained an injury at a job that I was at.
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Barbara Ahern: And for quite some time, I was in 24-7 pain.
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Barbara Ahern: And I vowed that if I ever overcame that, that I would dedicate my vocation to helping other people in that same kind of pain.
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Jody Teiche: Wonderful.
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Jody Teiche: So tell me where that took you once you got over it.
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Jody Teiche: How did you get over it?
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Jody Teiche: And where did that take you?
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Barbara Ahern: Well, one of the things that helped me for short term anyway was massage therapy.
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Barbara Ahern: It helped release and just calm my muscles and the pain and the constriction that I had.
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Barbara Ahern: It helped me relieve the tightness and give me a sense of calm, even though it was for a short amount of time.
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Barbara Ahern: So I did take my training in massage therapy.
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Barbara Ahern: I thought, oh, I can help so many people with this.
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Barbara Ahern: So I graduated with my massage training.
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Barbara Ahern: And then as I was doing massage and I opened a couple of day spas, but anyway, while I was doing massage therapy, I was introduced to something called Bowen therapy from Australia.
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Barbara Ahern: And the difference between massage and Bowen is I feel that Bowen has more long-term effects and it has helped so many of my clients overcome acute and chronic issues, no matter how long they go back in time.
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Jody Teiche: How, my listeners, what the Bowen technique is and what makes it different, yes, longer-term effects is critical, but the way in which you use your hands in Bowen and that one factor that a lot of people don't pay enough attention to when it comes to Bowen, which is what happens after you stop doing that, right?
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Jody Teiche: You tell what the difference is because it is very different from what other people do.
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Barbara Ahern: It is, it is.
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Barbara Ahern: So Bowen therapy was created by a gentleman named Tom Bowen in the 1950s in Australia.
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Barbara Ahern: And he was, I call him a self-made practitioner.
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Barbara Ahern: He was just an average lay person.
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Barbara Ahern: And he did experimented with a series of different moves, activations very gently on the body.
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Barbara Ahern: And he found that certain patterning of these moves that he did encouraged pain relief and problems that, again, people that have had neurological issues, people that have had problems with digestive issues, people that even had restrictions or constrictions where they were in a wheelchair because of blockage.
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Barbara Ahern: And some of these things were, I mean, miraculously relieved.
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Barbara Ahern: And some people got up out of wheelchairs when they had this work.
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Barbara Ahern: So he perfected this over 20 years.
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Barbara Ahern: And now what we use is his system of activations in a patterning sequence with a two minute wait period in between these sets of activations.
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Jody Teiche: That's what I was talking about, that wait period.
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Jody Teiche: Why the wait period?
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Barbara Ahern: Well, that is the secret.
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Jody Teiche: The secret thoughts, yes, exactly.
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Barbara Ahern: The wait period, okay, so just to explain, Bowen is a balancing of the nervous system and a stimulation of the immune system.
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Barbara Ahern: So what it does is it encourages the relaxation response which is a calming of the nervous system and evening out and balancing everything into homeostasis.
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Barbara Ahern: So the two minutes come from, let's say that you do like an activation on one part of the body.
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Barbara Ahern: What happens is we do it very gently.
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Barbara Ahern: And the reason for that is we're only trying to talk to the fascia, the nerve tissue in the film between the skin and the muscle.
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Barbara Ahern: So we're just trying to wake that up.
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Barbara Ahern: And once we stimulate that in a particular area, we wait for that signal, that neurological signal to reach the brain and the brain reconfigures and it says, just a moment, give me just a moment.
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Barbara Ahern: And it sends back a corrective neurological feedback to the area of pain and trauma or correction.
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Jody Teiche: So without that wait period, continuing to work on that or other parts of the body, it sounds to me, and correct me if I'm wrong, like the body is experiencing a multi-lane highway of information without the ability to process it right.
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Jody Teiche: So that's huge.
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Barbara Ahern: It's the, like I say, it's the secret to it.
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Barbara Ahern: Not only just the points of sequence, which help the body to take the information as we give it, but also the ability to allow the brain to translate what we're asking it to do.
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Barbara Ahern: And if you rush it, it takes too many commands and it's like, oh, just a minute, let me dump everything until you decide what you would like me to do.
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Jody Teiche: Yeah, confused.
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Barbara Ahern: But when we give it that activation and we give it the time, now it says, okay, your wish is my command, what would you like me to do next?
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Barbara Ahern: And so then it allows the body to literally listen for the changes requested.
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Barbara Ahern: And so then it builds on each of these sets of moves.
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Barbara Ahern: So we've got that one down.
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Barbara Ahern: Okay, now we're gonna ask it to do something else.
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Barbara Ahern: So then it takes this complete pattern and the time that we've given it to process what we're asking it to do.
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Barbara Ahern: And then we go five to seven days normally in between sessions, because we want to, now that we've asked the body what to do, okay, it's acknowledged what we want it to do.
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Barbara Ahern: Now let's give it the time to do what we've asked it to do.
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Barbara Ahern: And it's a process to do that.
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Barbara Ahern: You know, a lot of times in the US, we're so into instant, we don't allow the body to make the corrections in its own time.
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Jody Teiche: Yeah, I think that more and more we're realizing how incredibly powerful, precise and capable our bodies are of healing if we get out of our own way.
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Jody Teiche: And this, to me, is so fascinating that the body is taking this information in through the energetic work of the hands in this special way.
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Jody Teiche: And then needs that time to process it, so we can actually do what you've asked it to do, which, wow, let's take a bridge now between the work that you did with humans and tell us how you got involved in working with animals.
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Jody Teiche: What took you there?
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Barbara Ahern: Well, one of my clients that I had called me one day and she said, you know, Barb, you have helped me so much with the work that you have done with me with Bowen Therapy.
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Barbara Ahern: My dog Princess has injured herself and I would like to know if you could please help her.
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Barbara Ahern: And I thought I would love to help her, but I didn't really know how to do it.
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Barbara Ahern: So I took the moves that I'm familiar with in Bowen Therapy and I did the best I could at mimicking those moves on her.
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Barbara Ahern: And so what was happening was she had a lab mix and the dog jumped up in the air to catch a ball and when she came down she screamed and couldn't stand.
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Barbara Ahern: And so the vet said that it was a shard of cartilage that shot through the spine.
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Barbara Ahern: And he said, surgery will not help.
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Barbara Ahern: It will take six weeks for her to be able to have this dissolve and get the function of her legs back.
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Barbara Ahern: So you have to beat her back legs for six weeks.
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Barbara Ahern: So she called me a few days after Princess had had this accident and I came over and I did the work and I thought, you know, time and time will tell.
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Barbara Ahern: And she calls the next morning and she said, you know, Barb, four hours after you left, Princess stood up on her own and walked to the door to be let out.
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Jody Teiche: Oh, my God.
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Barbara Ahern: I got the chills did that.
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Jody Teiche: Wow.
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Barbara Ahern: That was the very first of my aha moments of some of the animals that have responded so well to this.
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Barbara Ahern: And so since then, I have even advanced the work, the work that I've been doing.
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Jody Teiche: Incredible.
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Jody Teiche: You also told me that you've worked with an organization that also inspired you to do this work.
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Jody Teiche: Tell us about that.
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Barbara Ahern: Well, after I was working with the dogs for some time and the work that I do with K9 AccuTouch, I was in the Bay Area, San Francisco Bay Area, and I had the opportunity to work with service dogs, dogs in training to help people that were blind.
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Barbara Ahern: And in the work that I did there, I was able to help these dogs that were in training with being able to focus, being able to have more stamina, more time in the field with their clients.
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Barbara Ahern: And it helped them deal with the stresses of the tremendous demands that a service dog carries.
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Barbara Ahern: It's just unbelievable the responsibility of a one and a half to two year old dog and what they're expected to do for the life of their career.
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Barbara Ahern: So that really made my heart think, okay, it's important to do a training course that would help these dogs perform not just at their maximum ability, but also for the longevity of their career because the people who receive these dogs, it's a part of their life and they want these dogs to be with them for a long time.
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Jody Teiche: Very deep relationship.
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Jody Teiche: So that's beautiful.
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Jody Teiche: Explain a little bit about, I know you said you mimicked the moves that you did on humans on Princess.
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Jody Teiche: Now it's many years later of working on lots and lots and lots of animals and having lots of successes which later after the break, I want you to tell a couple of stories because I think it's important for people to know about these successes.
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Jody Teiche: But tell us a little bit more about the kind of work that you do on the animals to relieve certain conditions.
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Jody Teiche: Like what you would do.
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Barbara Ahern: So canine accutouch is, I call it a hybrid therapy, because I took the work that I learned as a Bowen practitioner on humans, which has the sequencing pattern and it also has the weight periods.
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Barbara Ahern: So I found that the moves that Tom Bowen did actually correlated with the acupoints of the body.
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Barbara Ahern: So I found those acupoints and they were the same points in many areas where Tom worked that worked on the nerve pathways of the body, the chi, the energy of the body.
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Barbara Ahern: So then the third confirmation, the third therapy that's involved in this therapy of canine accutouch is trigger point.
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Barbara Ahern: Now trigger points are areas of the body that are constricted and tight and restricted, large areas of muscle that, and tendon and ligaments that are constricted.
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Barbara Ahern: And so when that area is relieved, then the body goes back into its relaxation point again.
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Barbara Ahern: So I found that all three of these therapies coincide at certain points in the body.
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Barbara Ahern: And so I took those three and I'm able to utilize all three of those in one touch.
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Barbara Ahern: So it's like three proven therapies that turn into one.
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Barbara Ahern: And so the dogs are, they're very relaxed by it.
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Barbara Ahern: When I do the work on an animal, they relax before I even finish the session.
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Barbara Ahern: The moves are very gentle.
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Barbara Ahern: They are calming for the dog.
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Barbara Ahern: They really help with so many different issues that dogs present with when I work with them.
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Barbara Ahern: So it's a very rewarding vocation to have.
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Jody Teiche: Absolutely.
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Jody Teiche: Two things.
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Jody Teiche: One, do you ever work on cats?
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Jody Teiche: Cats are wily creatures.
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Barbara Ahern: That's a good question.
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Jody Teiche: So that's one.
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Jody Teiche: And then the other is what kinds of issues has canine accutouch helped with in animals?
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Barbara Ahern: Okay, good questions.
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Barbara Ahern: First of all, yes, I have worked on cats and I do work on cats, also horses.
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Barbara Ahern: But because I specialize with the canines, then that's why it's canine accutouch.
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Barbara Ahern: But these moves work on any kind of an animal.
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Barbara Ahern: Even I had someone come to me one time and they said, well, you help my dog, can you help my chicken?
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Barbara Ahern: And my chicken was attacked.
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Barbara Ahern: And I said, you bring me the anatomy of a chicken and I'll work on your chicken.
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Barbara Ahern: Did it work?
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Barbara Ahern: And I've also worked with veterinarians that have used this on their farm animals because one large animal vet asked me, she said, she asked me about the work and I told her about it.
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Barbara Ahern: And she said, you know, I've got a sheep that this would be really good for.
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Barbara Ahern: I think I'm going to try it on the sheep because I told her that I would come over and show her how to do this.
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Barbara Ahern: And so she watched me and then she, and she repeated a couple of the things.
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Barbara Ahern: And yeah, work on the sheep.
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Jody Teiche: The sheep felt better.
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Jody Teiche: All right.
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Barbara Ahern: All animals, anything more than this.
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Jody Teiche: Tell us some of the conditions that this work has helped animals with.
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Barbara Ahern: Well, if you have, for example, an animal that you have, that has been rehomed, let's say you've adopted a dog, a cat or a dog, and this animal has a problem with stress and fear and separation anxiety, you know, can't relax.
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Barbara Ahern: Depending on where they came from and what their history is, we don't know what that is.
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Barbara Ahern: I always say canine accu-touch because dogs don't meditate.
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Jody Teiche: That's a good tagline.
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Barbara Ahern: It instills that relaxation response passively for them.
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Barbara Ahern: So it helps them in a way to let go of things that they don't know how to let go of.
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Barbara Ahern: They don't know how to do deep breathing, you know, they don't know how to, you know, repeat a mantra.
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Barbara Ahern: They don't know how to do things that can help them let go.
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Barbara Ahern: So this passively helps them do that.
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Barbara Ahern: Another thing that I think is fascinating with this work, as I mentioned, I've actually worked on seven dogs that couldn't walk at the time, and six of them recovered completely.
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Barbara Ahern: The seventh one, the client waited quite a while and didn't bring the dog in, you know, in a shorter amount of time.
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Barbara Ahern: But the six that recovered, half of those dogs were told by the pet owners to have them put down.
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Barbara Ahern: They said, that's our recommendation, and they didn't want to do that, and they wanted to try something else.
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Barbara Ahern: And so it helped those dogs because it helps with, what happened was with Princess, for example, that cartilage was broken down by the treatment.
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Barbara Ahern: Canine AccuTouch helped to dissolve that calcification in record time.
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Barbara Ahern: So that's what it does.
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Barbara Ahern: It processes the toxins out to the lymphatic system.
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Barbara Ahern: It balances the nervous system to allow the body to absorb the information we're giving it, and it stimulates the immune system to activate much faster.
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Barbara Ahern: So all this happened in a very short amount of time.
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Barbara Ahern: So things like inflammation, breaking down calcifications, whether it be, you know, let's say you have a bone spur, you have plantar fasciitis, you have something like that.
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Barbara Ahern: Anything that prevents the body from overcoming it because of that long-term calcification.
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Barbara Ahern: Things like the spasms, muscle spasms and seizures are addressed because it calms the nervous system.
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Barbara Ahern: It has a way to isolate the one problem that is getting a mixed signal from the brain.
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Barbara Ahern: Let's say that you have Tourette's, you have a ticking or a dog that has a seizure or has head tremors or has some kind of a muscle spasm constantly, the brain is not getting the right information from the nervous system.
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Barbara Ahern: So instead of calming the whole body with some kind of, you know, drug or instead of allowing that tick to continue, what K9 AccuTouch does is it isolates the one misfire from the brain and with that neurological feedback saying, okay, I've got the new signal, I'm sending back the corrective action.
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Barbara Ahern: So it knows how to isolate.
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Barbara Ahern: I call, I always say it's smarter than a dolphin.
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Jody Teiche: You know, I love these like expressions that you created.
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Jody Teiche: You've got like a tagline a minute over here.
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Jody Teiche: Well, that's amazing.
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Jody Teiche: I know there are more things that this does, but people will see this when they find you.
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Jody Teiche: Because when we return, you're going to learn exactly what happens in a session, any side effects associated with a K9 AccuTouch session, and amazing success stories of animals healed through this work.
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Jody Teiche: If you've just joined, you're listening to The Pet Health Coach.
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Jody Teiche: I'm Jody L.
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Jody Teiche: Teiche, and we are on PetLife Radio.
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Jody Teiche: We're here today with Barbara Ahern, who is a practitioner and expert in canine accutouch, which helps animals recover quickly from a host of conditions and illnesses.
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Jody Teiche: Barbara, let's talk about what happens specifically during a canine accutouch session.
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Jody Teiche: How long it takes?
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Jody Teiche: How often a pet needs to do it?
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Jody Teiche: And what can people expect?
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Barbara Ahern: Oh, that's a very good question.
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Barbara Ahern: Okay, well, what happens during a session is I work on the dog wherever they are.
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Barbara Ahern: Let's say that they want to walk around a little bit.
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Barbara Ahern: They are not quite, you know, okay to lie down.
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Barbara Ahern: Whether they're standing or lying or moving around, I'm able to work with them by doing the activations.
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Barbara Ahern: I do usually two sets of activations at a time, and then I allow that two minute wait period in between.
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Barbara Ahern: So again, they can be walking, they can be standing, they can be lying down, sitting, but normally they lie down for the treatment.
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Barbara Ahern: And if they're not lying down yet, within a couple of activations, they're lying down.
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Barbara Ahern: Because it's like something, you know, some kind of a switch is hit.
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Jody Teiche: Yeah, the parasympathetic nervous system switch.
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Barbara Ahern: That's exactly right.
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Barbara Ahern: Exactly right.
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Barbara Ahern: So that relaxation response starts right away.
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Barbara Ahern: I find that animals are so in tune to that.
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Barbara Ahern: You know, there's no placebo effect.
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Barbara Ahern: So it's not like, well, you know, she's hardly touching me.
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Barbara Ahern: So, you know, I don't think this is going to work.
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Barbara Ahern: They just allow it to work.
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Barbara Ahern: You know, they have no preconceived notions of, well, I don't think so.
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Barbara Ahern: They just allow it to work.
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Barbara Ahern: And so in doing that, I give them two minutes in between each one, each set of the moves.
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Barbara Ahern: And it takes about 30 to 45 minutes in total to finish that series of moves for the animal, depending on which moves that we're doing at that time.
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Barbara Ahern: Now, the first session, I say it like this, the first session resets the body.
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Barbara Ahern: The second session reminds it like, oh, you want me to stay in this direction.
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Barbara Ahern: The third session retains it like, oh, I got it.
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Barbara Ahern: You want me to go on this for the long term.
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Barbara Ahern: You don't want me to go back to my old habit of that limp that I had.
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Barbara Ahern: And then the fourth one maintains it.
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Barbara Ahern: So now they're on for a longer term in between sessions.
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Barbara Ahern: So I usually do four sessions about a week apart.
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Barbara Ahern: And we reassess and decide, you know, when their next session is going to be to keep up their maintenance.
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Jody Teiche: And maintenance is important, right?
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Jody Teiche: I mean, is this something that they do on going?
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Barbara Ahern: Maintenance is important.
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Barbara Ahern: And here's what happens, because this is, you know, smarter than a dolphin, it re-educates the body, it actually resets it.
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Barbara Ahern: And now it says, okay, now I know exactly how to stay in this pattern.
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Barbara Ahern: But just like if, let's say, a person receives Bowen and they step in a hole, and then it's like, okay, well, I guess I should go back for maintenance.
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Barbara Ahern: Or I guess I should go back sooner than what Barbara said, that my maintenance session should be.
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Barbara Ahern: And what that does is when you do the maintenance, it allows the body to stay longer term on the pattern that we've corrected for it, or put it back in its own sink.
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Barbara Ahern: So sometimes it can be, maybe the first maintenance session is two weeks out, and then the next one would be three weeks, and a month, three months, six months, like that.
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Barbara Ahern: But the body retains so much of this that normally when an animal receives the treatment, sometimes it's corrected in the first session.
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Barbara Ahern: Sometimes it's two or three sessions.
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Barbara Ahern: They respond very quickly to it.
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Barbara Ahern: But maintenance is a really good idea, because I have a three-legged dog that has maintained and retained its balance without going crooked for years because she's keeping up the maintenance.
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Barbara Ahern: So I've been told by a lot of the people that have tripods is that their problem is they go crooked because they have to tweak their balance.
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Jody Teiche: Overcompensate.
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Barbara Ahern: Exactly.
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Barbara Ahern: So this allows for the body to stay in balance, and it reminds it to stay in balance.
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Jody Teiche: I think, yeah, it makes sense to me because I think like with learning anything new, shifting from something you've done one way for a long time, you have to constant spaced repetition.
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Jody Teiche: You have to remind the brain over and over again until it really becomes a part of the subconscious.
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Jody Teiche: You know, it really seeps into the body in a deep way.
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Jody Teiche: So yeah, that makes complete sense to me.
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Jody Teiche: Are there any side effects to a session, a K-9 Accutouch session?
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Barbara Ahern: No, because the practitioner is not making any kind of magical, you know, unusual, different kind of moves.
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Barbara Ahern: Basically, we're not instilling anything other than removing the blocks that allow the immune system and the nervous system to go back into its corrective balance.
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Barbara Ahern: We're just getting those blocks out of the way.
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Barbara Ahern: And so now your body can perform the self-healing that it was intended to do, because we all have the ability to do that, people and animals.
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Barbara Ahern: But sometimes, you know, things happen, traumas happen, physical, emotional, physiological, mental, those things happen and they get in the way.
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Barbara Ahern: And then the body now has memorized those new things.
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Barbara Ahern: Not positive, but still memorized nonetheless.
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Barbara Ahern: And so this helps break that pattern and brings it back into homeostasis, into balance that it needs to have in order to perform.
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Jody Teiche: Yeah, I love that it's gentle and effective.
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Jody Teiche: Tell us a couple of stories, a couple more stories.
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Jody Teiche: About your successes and what helped.
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Barbara Ahern: So one about anxiety, separation anxiety, stress, fear.
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Barbara Ahern: I had this one client, this canine client that was brought to doggy daycare every day.
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Barbara Ahern: And I remember the owner said that she would like me to work with him.
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Barbara Ahern: Because of this, he was afraid of, he was, had phobias of noise and men and, you know, being separated from mom and just a little basket case, you know, just shaking all the time.
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Barbara Ahern: And so the first time I worked with this little dog, he calmed down even halfway through, he stopped the vibrating.
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Barbara Ahern: And so I worked on him for a series of, I think I did maybe at least two, possibly three series, you know, of four.
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Barbara Ahern: And I had not just the owner, but I had the attendants from the doggy daycare say, you know, Barb, I can't believe how much Odie has changed.
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Barbara Ahern: Instead of being afraid of the, you know, of the male attendants here, he goes with them without a problem.
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Barbara Ahern: And instead of trying to chew his way out of the chain link fence in the yard, he sits in his little bed and just watches everything go by.
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Barbara Ahern: And he's asocial with the other dogs now.
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Barbara Ahern: And I said, gosh, that's wonderful.
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Barbara Ahern: I love to hear that.
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Barbara Ahern: And then the owner told me the last time I spoke to her, she said, I want to send you a video, Barb.
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Barbara Ahern: Here's a video of Odie.
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Barbara Ahern: I never told you that he was only able to make one of his jumps in his agility classes.
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Barbara Ahern: Here's a video, all nine jumps, his focus, his stamina, his, you know, his just intent focus on the course.
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Barbara Ahern: So it addressed his attention span as well as his phobia of, you know, the fear that he had with stress and anxiety.
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Jody Teiche: Yeah.
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Jody Teiche: And God, that pet parent must be so over the moon.
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Jody Teiche: Yes.
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Jody Teiche: Yes.
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Jody Teiche: Can you share one more?
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Barbara Ahern: I worked with a dog that had a response to a seizure medication that he was given.
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Barbara Ahern: So he was, first of all, he had a seizure.
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Barbara Ahern: He went to the vet and the medication that they gave him, he had a very adverse reaction to.
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Barbara Ahern: And when I went to work on him, I went to this person's home and oh my gosh, I saw this firsthand, a seizure that was so violent, I just could hardly fathom what that dog was going through.
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Barbara Ahern: And of course, he was walking back and forth and whining and all kinds of things.
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Barbara Ahern: And I said, what were you told about this?
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Barbara Ahern: And she said, well, it's probably going to take two to three weeks for him to calm down and be able to accept the medicine.
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Barbara Ahern: And I thought, oh my gosh, to live like that for two or three weeks, I couldn't imagine two or three minutes.
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Barbara Ahern: So I worked on him and of course was the same when I left.
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Barbara Ahern: There was no change when I left.
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Barbara Ahern: And we set up an appointment to work five days afterwards.
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Barbara Ahern: So we met in five days and I said, that can't be the same dog that I worked on, can't be.
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Barbara Ahern: And she said, you know, Barb, the day after you left, there was a tremendous turnaround, a tremendous change.
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Barbara Ahern: And she said, over the next couple of days, things calmed down even more.
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Barbara Ahern: And she said, he's back to his old self.
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Barbara Ahern: It's like it never happened.
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Barbara Ahern: So it really calms the nervous system.
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Barbara Ahern: It really stops that misfire.
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Barbara Ahern: And he was just the perfect, perfect little dog.
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Jody Teiche: So over the course of your sessions, his seizures went away, and he never had to go on medication or anything like that.
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Jody Teiche: Wow, that is so beautiful.
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Jody Teiche: Oh my God.
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Jody Teiche: Very, very exciting.
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Jody Teiche: So tell my listeners, first of all, how are you able to work with pet parents?
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Jody Teiche: And then we'll get into like the packages that you offer.
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Jody Teiche: But how are you able to work with pet parents?
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Jody Teiche: What are the options?
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Jody Teiche: Because not everybody is in the city that you live in, where you can go to them or they can come to you.
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Jody Teiche: And I know that you started working remotely.
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Jody Teiche: Tell us about that.
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Barbara Ahern: Well, the thing about this work is it's not just hands-on.
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Barbara Ahern: I mean, it is hands-on.
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Barbara Ahern: But when we do the hands-on, when I do the hands-on on an animal, it actually stimulates and activates vibrational frequency in the nervous system, in the muscle tissue.
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Barbara Ahern: Yeah, energy medicine.
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Barbara Ahern: And energy medicine conveys.
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Barbara Ahern: So the same work that I do, the same results that the dogs get under my hands, they also receive the exact same, if not even, even more of a balance is the distance work that I do.
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Barbara Ahern: And so I work, I'm here in California, and I work on the clients that are near me, but I also work with clients that in North Carolina, in New York, I work with clients across the miles, so to speak.
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Barbara Ahern: Yeah.
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Barbara Ahern: Yeah, and it's fascinating because when someone asked me to first do that, they said, Barb, you know, you've done remote sessions with me.
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Barbara Ahern: I've really benefited from it.
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Barbara Ahern: Can you work with a friend of mine who has a dog that has issues, you know, with really bad hips?
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Barbara Ahern: And I said, okay, wait a minute now, you can tell me that you could lie to me and tell me, oh, yeah, hey, Barb, I feel really good.
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Barbara Ahern: The dog can't lie.
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Barbara Ahern: It can't lie.
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Jody Teiche: This is the North Carolina Labrador.
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Barbara Ahern: Yeah, North Carolina.
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Jody Teiche: Tell that story because this was your first remote session, right?
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Barbara Ahern: This was my first remote session.
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Barbara Ahern: And so when she asked me to work on this dog in North Carolina, I said, okay, and we'll try this.
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Barbara Ahern: So I worked on the dog that night, and the next morning I got, well, first of all, she took a video and this dog had laryngeal paralysis, which affects the whole nervous system.
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Barbara Ahern: So things start to go south as far as the swaying in the back and the inability to breathe very well.
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Jody Teiche: Yeah, I mean, this sounds like a rabies vaccination side effect.
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Jody Teiche: It's very much like that.
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Jody Teiche: But anyway.
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Barbara Ahern: So what happened was she sent me the video of the dog before I did the session.
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Barbara Ahern: And it was, you know, really laboring to breathe.
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Barbara Ahern: And so I did the session that night.
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Barbara Ahern: And the next morning, she sent me a video.
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Barbara Ahern: And she said, take a look.
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Barbara Ahern: And the video, he was breathing normally.
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Barbara Ahern: And he was calm.
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Barbara Ahern: And she said he wanted to go for his walk this morning.
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Barbara Ahern: And normally it's like he's just laboring and just really, you know, lobbing around.
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Barbara Ahern: And she said, I can't believe the difference just in one session.
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Barbara Ahern: And I thought to myself, that's great.
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Barbara Ahern: Because like I said, dogs don't lie, you know.
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Jody Teiche: No confirmation.
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Jody Teiche: This works with pets remotely.
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Barbara Ahern: Dogs can't lie.
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Jody Teiche: So anybody listening who has a pet wherever you are, who has an issue, this may be able to really benefit them.
00:38:26.120 --> 00:38:29.860
Jody Teiche: And you don't have to be in the same place as Barbara.
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Jody Teiche: That is phenomenal.
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Jody Teiche: Now tell pet parents what kinds of packages you offer so they know what to expect.
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Barbara Ahern: So there are several different kinds.
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Barbara Ahern: There are, you know, I had someone ask me one time, well, I have a puppy and my puppy doesn't have, you know, hip problems, so I don't need this work.
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Barbara Ahern: And I thought, oh my gosh, I must not be, you know, telling people everything there is to know about this.
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Barbara Ahern: So I do packages for puppies.
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Barbara Ahern: Puppies, in helping the immune system, it really helps their digestive health because that's a critical time for puppies when they're, when they're very young, they need to make sure that their immune system is very strong.
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Barbara Ahern: It also helps in with resiliency and helping keep their muscles and their tendons and their ligaments strong and flexible.
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Barbara Ahern: Because, you know, they can get hurt when they're little, when they play really rough.
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Barbara Ahern: So this really keeps them strong that way.
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Jody Teiche: Also, Barbara, one thing I have to interject, and I'm sorry to interrupt, puppies are getting their puppy vaccines.
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Jody Teiche: And they all do.
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Jody Teiche: And even holistic vets would not say don't give them puppy vaccines.
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Jody Teiche: They may tell them do it a little bit older, do it spread apart more, but they won't say don't do it.
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Jody Teiche: So this sounds to me like it could help mitigate any fallout from those puppy vaccines.
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Barbara Ahern: Yes, because what this does is, as I said, because it pushes the toxins through the lymphatic system in record time.
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Barbara Ahern: So any kind of poisons or toxins or anything that the body is trying to discharge because it cannot assimilate all of it in a healthy way and kick back and do something derogatory to the body, this helps process that.
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Jody Teiche: That's so important.
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Jody Teiche: So tell us about any other packages that you have.
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Barbara Ahern: If a dog, for example, has had a serious injury or surgery, there's a package that I do that has to do with accelerating the healing process so much faster.
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Barbara Ahern: So whether they've had surgery or let's say that they have an extreme gait issue that they can't overcome, a spasm muscle or something like that, this helps to really target the areas of concern.
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Barbara Ahern: So each package I do, I actually customize it for the animal, as well as the situation that they're going through.
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Barbara Ahern: So surgery, recovery, there's also a package I do for, I call it the Golden Years.
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Barbara Ahern: It's for senior dogs that have dysplasia.
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Barbara Ahern: Just because they have dysplasia doesn't mean it's a life sentence.
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Barbara Ahern: You know, when they have the, the ball doesn't go into the socket joint correctly, and so it wears and it rubs and it creates arthritis.
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Barbara Ahern: This helps the alignment of the body, so that can be corrected.
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Barbara Ahern: It doesn't have to be something that's lifelong for them.
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Barbara Ahern: So that kind of thing happens with senior dogs, that's where you're going to see the limping, the gait issues, the pain, the arthritis form.
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Barbara Ahern: So I have a package for that.
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Barbara Ahern: Also, performance and service dogs, oh my gosh, what they're expected to do, all the things that they have to do, it keeps their focus, their stamina, you know, their longevity in their career.
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Barbara Ahern: It's wonderful for all service and performance dogs that have to be in the height of focus at that time.
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Barbara Ahern: And so, yeah, there's certain things that we do that really helps with whatever issue that they have.
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Barbara Ahern: I do also one having to do with, it's called keeping Fido fit.
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Barbara Ahern: You have a healthy dog, let's keep them that way.
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Barbara Ahern: Let's make sure that they, you know, that they stay strong in their immune system to fight off anything that can come at them and be able to keep them, you know, just healthy and happy for the rest of their life.
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Barbara Ahern: Health and wellness is something that needs to be at the forefront instead of, you know, practicing something by way of catch up.
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Barbara Ahern: So I think if you keep a dog in shape and you keep that, you know, you keep their maintenance up, I mean, you don't change your oil one time.
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Barbara Ahern: And so, and expect the car to continue to work for you.
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Barbara Ahern: So it's basically just taking care of their wellness and then they'll give you so many more happy years together.
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Jody Teiche: Beautiful, beautiful.
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Jody Teiche: Where can people find you, Barbara?
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Barbara Ahern: My website is canineacutouch.com.
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Barbara Ahern: So it's canine spelled out and then acutouch.com.
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Barbara Ahern: Also Instagram is canine underscore acutouch.
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Barbara Ahern: And my LinkedIn is Barbara Ahern.
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Barbara Ahern: And you'll recognize me as Barbara Ahern with a picture of a beautiful, massive German shepherd that's getting ready to give me a kiss.
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Jody Teiche: Oh, love that.
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Jody Teiche: Thank you so much, Barbara, for being a guest on my show.
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Jody Teiche: It was so interesting to learn about what you do.
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Jody Teiche: I hope that pet parents listening, that you also got value out of hearing what Barbara does and knowing that there's yet another natural option to help your animals heal and be well and have more health, vitality and longevity.
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Jody Teiche: So I really appreciate you being here.
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Barbara Ahern: Appreciate it.
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Jody Teiche: Sure.
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Jody Teiche: And thank you all for listening.
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Jody Teiche: As a pet health coach, my mission is to share holistic healing options for pets and their parents seeking a natural approach to wellness.
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Jody Teiche: So tune in next time for information, expert interviews and tips to give the animals we love the longest and most vibrant life we can.
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Jody Teiche: I'm Jody L.
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