The Healing Power of Dogs with Erin Jorich

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

I love hearing how longtime yoga teachers make this career work. This week's guest, Erin Jorich, has figured out how to use her skillset as a yoga teacher and combine it with her love for dogs.

Along with her dog, Wallace, Erin works part-time for Canine Inspired Change, an organization that brings dogs into schools, juvenile detention centers, and other settings to improve the well being and social emotional skills of the people there.

On this episode, Erin talks about how her yoga skills are transferable to the dog therapy work she does: Her years of teaching yoga make it easy for her to communicate clearly and effectively with the dog/human "teams" she trains. Her trauma-informed yoga certification means she understands the importance of giving kids choice and agency when they're working with the dogs.

Erin finds that splitting her time between Canine Inspired Change and working as a yoga teacher afford her balance and stability that she might not have if she chose one over the other. Most importantly, as the folks she works with gain a variety of skills -- from more confidence to self-compassion to self-regulation -- she gets to witness the healing power of dogs firsthand.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is Yoga Land.
0:04.0	Today my guest is Aaron Jorick.
0:14.0	Aaron is a yoga teacher and a personal trainer, a movement coach in the Minneapolis area.
0:20.0	She also works as a trainer for an organization, a nonprofit called Canine Inspired Change,
0:26.8	and that's what we're going to focus on today. We know Aaron really well.
0:30.0	Aaron has been a long time student of Jason's. She's also been a mentor in our teacher
0:35.2	trainings, so we know her and love her. And I thought it would be so interesting to talk to
0:41.0	her about her work for this organization for a few reasons.
0:44.4	First of all, because Aaron has been a yoga teacher for a long time and like so many of you out there,
0:50.4	it's a grind. It can be difficult and so she's really figured out a way to wear different hats
0:56.8	and employ her different skills and her different interests to build a career for herself.
1:04.0	What I learned from this conversation and what I suspected before we talked
1:06.0	is that a lot of what she does as a yoga teacher
1:09.0	comes into play in her work for canine-Nine-inspired change.
1:12.8	So K-Nine-inspired change is an organization
1:16.2	that brings therapeutic dog teams,
1:18.8	so the person and their dog is considered a team,
1:22.2	brings these teams into different settings to help improve the well-being,
1:30.0	the mental health, the social emotional skills of the people in these settings.
1:33.8	So a lot of it is done at schools and then there's also some adult programs too for people
1:38.6	experiencing homelessness.
1:41.2	And it's all trauma-informed and relationship-focused group therapy dog sessions.
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