Online Course, Sit. Stay. Breathe., Launches May 01, 2022, on the Head of Mental Health Awareness Month Guiding Humans and Dogs to a Place of Mental Well Being.
Humans tend to look outside of themselves for happiness, when in fact happiness begins on an internal level. Nothing in the world can make us happy unless we are fundamentally happy ourselves. What does any of this have to do with dogs? The obvious answer is that people look externally to dogs for happiness. You certainly don’t get a dog to make your life worse. The less obvious answer is that your misguided search for external happiness might be the cause of your dog’s unhappiness.
But there is a different way with Sit. Stay. Breathe. Acclaimed dog behaviorist expert Brad Bevill (Bevill Dog Behavior) and renowned author and meditation teacher Miguel Chen (Dallas Meditation Center, Blossom Yoga) have teamed up to create a course where the dog’s wellbeing is equally important to the human’s. This is a course where humans and dogs help each other be well in body, mind, and heart.
“While we all inherently know how important our own mental, physical, and spiritual health is, I think we forget that our dog's mental, physical, and spiritual health is just as important. What’s amazing is how the two are connected. To have a more balanced and happier dog, we must be more balanced and happy ourselves.” -Brad Bevill, Bevill Dog Behavior
Sit. Stay. Breathe offers practical tools and concepts that anybody can implement to improve their dogs' well-being and their well-being. Through practices such as simple meditation and mindful walking, students will learn how to balance their relationship with their dog and grow in the process. Happier dogs live with happier humans and Sit. Stay. Breathe. shows the way.
"As a lifelong student of philosophy and spiritual practice, I have learned that all beings are connected. None of us can ever be truly happy and free until all of us are happy and free, and this certainly includes our dogs. Together, dogs and humans can work toward a more balanced, peaceful life, that's what Sit. Stay. Breathe. is all about.” -Miguel Chen, Dallas Meditation Center and Blossom Yoga
Bevill and Chen are launching this online course at the head of Mental Health Awareness Month. MentalHealth.gov states that "Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices.” This is not only true for humans but also for dogs. Being aware of the mental health in one's relationship with their dog, for their dog and themselves is important and often not acknowledged.
Sit. Stay. Breathe. is available at www.sitstaybreathe.com starting May 01, 2022.
About Brad Bevill
Loving dogs is one thing but communicating with and leading dogs in an instinctual way is another. Brad learned that lesson at an early age while working on his uncle’s ranch in northern Oklahoma. Watching cattle dogs work was a new experience and opened his eyes to the organic bond that exists between humans and dogs. The willingness dogs have to communicate with us, their desire to fulfill our requests, and their ability to read and understand our emotions, energy, body language, and commands were so apparent on a ranch (where dogs still had real jobs). That experience on the ranch changed Brad’s life forever. In 1992, Brad started training family dogs for the first time and fell in love with a new language – the common, unspoken language between humans and dogs.
Following 18 years of high-level marketing and advertising positions in Corporate America, Brad felt the pull to do work that was in line with his deepest values and that truly made a difference in people’s lives.
Bevill Dog Behavior was founded in 2013 to combine Brad's passion for animal and human psychology with his knowledge of behavioral studies. Brad’s unique system and success rehabilitating some of the most difficult dogs alive have gained him multiple notable clients, a book deal, and appearances on numerous TV shows.
Having studied under Cesar Millan, Brad still works with Milan's Dog Psychology Center in Santa Clarita. Brad is a Trainer and also the Volunteer Director (managing a team of 15-20 volunteers) for Cesar's “Training Cesar’s Way” workshops. Brad is honored and humbled to continue to learn from the best dog behaviorist in the world while also supporting his mission of “Better Humans. Better Planet."
About Miguel Chen
Miguel Chen is a musician, author, and teacher of yoga and meditation. He is the center director of the Dallas Meditation Center. As a musician, he is the bassist (and a songwriter) for relentless punk-rock stalwarts Teenage Bottlerocket, whose latest album, Sick Sesh!, is out now. As an author, Miguel has published I Wanna Be Well: How a Punk Found Peace and You Can Too and The Death Of You: A Book for Anyone Who Might Not Live Forever, both of which combine his passion for music, yoga, and spirituality. His books have gained praise and reviews from Publishers Weekly and NYT bestselling author Sharon Salzberg among others. He has also written a children’s book, The Virus, illustrated by David Buist. When not touring with Teenage Bottlerocket, Miguel leads teachings as an ERYT-500 both online and in-person at the self-owned Blossom Yoga.
He and his various modes of expression have been featured on CNN, The Washington Post, Lion’s Roar, Spin, Rolling Stone, Alternative Press, New Noise magazine, and plenty more.
