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About Us
We are Tara Martinson and Frans Baars.
We started "On the Trail" Personal Development, Animal Wellness & Dog Sports in order to help you incorporate a truly holistic approach towards your and your animal companions' well-being.
"On the Trail" Personal Development brings you a unique approach to your personal development. Let your dog be one of your guides on a journey into the meaning of life.
"On the Trail" Animal Wellness offers you an integrative Mind, Body and Spirit approach towards your furry friends' well-being. Holistic Consultations; Canine and Feline whole and raw foods Nutritional Counselling; Herbal Therapy; Aromatherapy; Flower Essences, Homeopathic Therapy.
"On the Trail" Dog Sports offers you the opportunity to form a true team with your dog: Search & Rescue Tracking, Agility, Integral Awareness Training.
Tara's background as Herbalist and Holistic Practitioner goes back almost 10 years.
"More and more people see the value in a holistic approach towards life, where all four aspects of our existence are incorporated: the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. Gradually we are moving away from the 'feel-good' society of the 20th century towards a sustainable relationship with everything and everyone that surrounds us. Our pets play a very significant role in this process, in many cases functioning as guides as much as companions. The same holistic approach towards their well-being shows surprising parallels to our own life, such as the movement towards natural whole foods as opposed to processed foods and the refusal to rely any longer on the pharmaceutical industry for immediate symptom relief at the cost of long-term health and well-being."
Frans has been involved in various forms of canine training since the mid 1980s. Over the past ten years, his attention and studies have been focused more and more on the fields of spirituality, philosophy and psychology, leading to the development of various workshops and a unique one-on-one methodology which integrates the valuable lessons our animals have to teach us with your personal journey through life.
“In all my years of working with dogs it has become increasingly clear to me that they have an incredibly powerful lesson to teach us: how to accept the present moment as the basis of our reality. Obviously, as human beings we are in many ways more evolved than other animals on this planet. However, this has come at a great price, in that our collective consciousness has reached levels of insanity that are threatening our very existence. It is my belief that it is human destiny to transcend the neuroses, psychoses and pathologies that we have created and to reach a higher level of consciousness that will look a lot like that of the animals on this planet – with one all-important difference: we will have chosen to arrive there by transcending the lower levels of consciousness – whilst incorporating all the wisdom that these levels have to offer - levels that most animals haven’t reached (yet). Our animals can be powerful teachers on this journey, by showing us how easy it really is.”
will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.’
- T.S. Elliot
Frans has been called a spiritual teacher by those whose lives he has influenced, usually through working with their animals.
We are located in Canmore, Alberta, which is nestled on the Eastern Range of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. It is a place of great physical beauty and spiritual energy where the local Native American tribes used to come to perform their most sacred rituals and Vision Quests.
We are convinced that the combination of our skills points the way to a much more enlightened awareness of the well-being of you and your animals, and ultimately of all of creation.