Whether your dog is aging, recovering from surgery, or simply deserves the best foundation possible, this episode explores how gentle hands-on support can help reduce tension, improve movement, and create greater ease, confidence, and well-being.Â
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- Many dogs develop habitual movem...
What if your strong desire to help your dog is making it harder to help them?
It sounds counterintuitive, but when we become attached to a specific outcome, we often bring hidden effort, worry, and mental rigidity into the interaction.
And your dog feels all of it.
In this episode, I explore why ...
What if the starting point for real change wasn't finding what's wrong, but finding what's already right?
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In this episode, Mary Debono reflects on a critique of self-help culture by author Tim Ferriss, who observed that to continually improve yourself, you must continually locate the ways you ar...
There's an important distinction in movement education between effort and strain, and understanding it can change how you think about your own body and your horse or dog's soundness.
In this episode, Mary Debono breaks down what healthy effort looks like: energy directed toward what you want to ach...
We've all heard "practice makes perfect." But what if repeating the same movement is actually making things worse?
In this episode, Mary unpacks one of the most important distinctions in nervous system-based movement work: the difference between repetition and refinement. While repetition strengthe...
Movement expert Mary Debono reveals the simple yet powerful 3-step framework she's used successfully for over 35 years to help dogs of all ages and conditions rediscover easier movement, reduce anxiety, and improve their overall quality of life.
Mary shares compelling stories from her practice, inc...
Did you know your horse or dog might be bracing before anything even happens—because their brain is predicting discomfort?
In this episode, we explore the fascinating science behind predictive brains and how both humans and animals can get caught in loops of fear, tension, and restricted movement. ...
In this episode, movement specialist Mary Debono reveals why forcing change in your horse, dog, or yourself often backfires—and what to do instead. Drawing from the Feldenkrais Method and the Debono Moves approach, Mary explains how the nervous system's primary job is protection. When we try to "fix...
