About Calm Energy Dog Training

Calm Energy Dog Training is run by Anthony Newman from 468 11th St in Park Slope, serving Manhattan, Brooklyn and the surrounding city. He is described as a former university lecturer who left academia for dogs, with two decades of experience in the city, and New York Magazine named him Best Dog Trainer in its Best of New York 2013 edition.

The central argument

The practice is built on a specific claim rather than a general philosophy: calmness is the key to peaceful, social, balanced, problem-free behavior, and is largely incompatible with the mindsets behind the problems owners call about – anxiety including separation anxiety, fear of things like skateboards or the car, and aggression toward dogs or people. From that follows the methods themselves, which the site describes as non-treat-centric and repeatedly contrasts with trying to distract a dog with food. The site even applies the principle to how a treat is given: the dog must not snatch, jump or approach, but take it calmly while remaining in a sit or a down.

What you can book

Private one-on-one in-person sessions are the core service. Alongside them there is an instructional video series – leash walking at 41 minutes, off-leash obedience at 40, stopping misbehavior at 44, curing phobias at 29 and separation anxiety at 30 – sold at $30 each or all five with a 20% discount, plus a YouTube channel. For an owner who wants to try the approach before booking, that is an unusually low-commitment way in.

Press and public work

The site records being filmed by VH1 and Huffpost Live, an interview with The Dodo on reading dog body language, and regular speaking at the New York Fellowship for the Interests of Dogs and their Owners.