
The Training to help you understand your dog as an individual and get rid of your supplement graveyard!
Why does one dog thrive on an herb while another dog seems to get worse?
Why does turmeric help one dog's inflammation but make another dog hotter, more restless, or more uncomfortable?
Why is one dog always stretched out on the cold floor while another is buried under blankets?
The answer is found in canine energetics.
Energetics gives us a way to look beyond a diagnosis or symptom and understand the patterns happening within the individual dog. Instead of asking, “What herb is good for this condition?” we begin asking better questions:
Is this dog warm or cool?
Is there too much moisture or too little?
Are the tissues tight and tense, or weak and relaxed?
Is the body overstimulated, stagnant, depleted, or struggling to regulate itself?
Once you learn to recognize these patterns, choosing herbs becomes much more specific to the dog standing in front of you.

Rita Hogan, C.H.
Rita Hogan is a clinical canine herbalist with over 20 years of experience specializing in holistic canine herbalism and is the author of the best-selling book, The Herbal Dog. She is the founder of The Ethos School of Canine Herbalism and a member of the Veterinary Botanical Medicine Association. Rita is an educator, speaker, writer, formulator, herbal medicine maker, and plant advocate.
This Training is about giving you the confidence you need to work with nature, not against it.
Herbalism isn't about matching an herb to a disease.
A dog with arthritis doesn't automatically need the same herbs as every other dog with arthritis. Neither does a dog with allergies, digestive problems, anxiety, liver imbalance, inflammation, or chronic illness.
Two dogs can have the same diagnosis and have completely different energetic patterns.
One may be warm, restless, inflamed, and seeking cold surfaces.
The other may be cool, tired, stiff, poorly circulating, and constantly looking for warmth.
Giving both dogs the same herbs because they share a diagnosis ignores a tremendous amount of information their bodies are giving us.
Plants have energetic qualities too. Herbs can be warm, cool, moisten, dry, stimulating, relaxing, tightening and nourishing.
Canine energetics teaches you how to bring all of this together.
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Meg B. - VT
"“Canine Energetics completely changed how I choose herbs for my dog. I finally understand why the same herb can work for one dog and not another.”"
Jennifer Bier - Salem, MA
"This course helped me stop looking at symptoms in isolation and start seeing my dog as warm and dry. This changed everything!"
Carrie Goodens. - MI
"I've taken other herbal courses, but this is the first I've heard about energetics. I feel more confident choosing herbs now. "
Rochel L. - Miami, FL
"The examples made a complicated subject easy to understand. I now notice patterns in my dog that I never would have paid attention to before."
Angel C. - CO
"I loved learning how to match a dog's energetics with the energetics of an herb. It gave me a much deeper understanding of herbalism."
Jessica Winslow. - CA
"This course gave me a completely different way to look at my dog's health."
I'll teach you how to step back and look at your dog as a whole.
You'll learn how to observe your dog's behavior, digestion, temperature preferences, skin and coat, stool, appetite, circulation, nervous system patterns, moisture, inflammation, tissue condition, chronic tendencies, and other cofactors.
From there, you'll begin creating an energetic profile.
Then we'll do the same thing with herbs.
Instead of reaching automatically for a premade formula or choosing an herb because you've heard it's “good for” a particular disease, you'll learn to look at the individual plants within that formula and ask whether they make sense for YOUR DOG.
This helps so much with chronic conditions, complicated health histories, sensitivities, or dogs who seem to react unexpectedly to supplements and herbs.
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Canine Energetics
One-Time Investment: $97
The core principles behind reading and working with a dog's energetic constitution.
Understanding the full spectrum of thermal energetic patterns in dogs.
How to distinguish healthy warmth from problematic excess heat.
How cool conditions can deepen toward cold and deficiency over time.
Recognizing fluid and moisture imbalances in canine tissue states.
How tightness and laxity manifest as energetic states in the body.
How patterns appear in behavior, digestion, skin, circulation, nervous system, and elimination.
How environment, food, age, season, and health history can alter a dog's energetic profile.
How herbs are understood and categorized through an energetic lens.
How to compare your dog's energetic profile with an herb's energetic profile.
Why an herb that's perfect for one dog may be completely wrong for another.
How energetics can help you choose individual herbs and herbal formulas wisely.
Comprehensive information on herbs across the thermal spectrum.
Upon completing Canine Energetics, you'll gain the knowledge and confidence to understand your dog as an individual, choose herbs that truly match their unique energetic profile, and finally get rid of your supplement graveyard — because you'll know exactly what will work for your dog and what won't.
Understand your dog's unique energetic constitution — warm, cool, damp, dry, tense, or relaxed.
Stop guessing which herbs to use and start choosing with confidence and clarity.
Learn why the same herb works for one dog but not another, and how to tell the difference.
Build a complete energetic profile for your individual dog using observation and pattern recognition.
Match your dog's energetic patterns to the right herbs and herbal formulas for their specific needs.
Recognize energetic patterns showing up in behavior, digestion, skin, circulation, and the nervous system.
Understand how herbs are energetically classified — warm, cool, neutral, moistening, drying — and why it matters.
Make better, more informed decisions when choosing individual herbs and crafting herbal formulas.
Finally get rid of your supplement graveyard. You'll know exactly what works for YOUR dog and what doesn't. No more wasted money on herbs and supplements that aren't right for your dog's individual constitution.
Gain a deeper, more holistic understanding of your dog's health from the inside out
Enroll in Canine Energetics today and unlock a deeper understanding of your dog's unique needs, backed by a lifetime of learning and support.
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