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Jivaakabhasana_Yogi
USA
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 Posted - Feb 12 2010 : 2:44:42 PM
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Aauummm
Anjaneyaye Vidmahe
Mahabalaye Dhi-Mahi
Tan No Hanuman Prachodayat
Aauummm Shanti Shanti Shanti
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Aauumm
I meditate on the son of Anjana
Oh, son of Vayu Deva (the god of air)raise my intellect
Let Hanuman illuminate my mind
Aauummm Peace Peace Peace...
***
Namaste' Ya'll!
Curious of other peoples experiences with their resident animal friends...
I do cat rescue, so don't askhow many I have, although they are all kenneled except for my one eyed female "Betsy." I also have the pleasure of sharing my life with Boris (a Rat Terrier) and Natasha (terrier/poodle/Heinz 57 variety.)
Now, I used toattempt keeping my critters out of the room during practices, but to no avail...
I awaken around 4:45, bathe, and begin my practices with an hour of Hatha (been doing it this way for years)...and Boris and Natasha will jump off the bed, and of course the first thing they do is Adho Mukha Svanasana (downward facing dog!) They will continue this for a few minutes, then settle and watch me do Hatha practice...
I then go on the inversion table for 10 minutes (cat's look really funny upside down!), then come back upstairs to do my SBP and DM...More often than not, I open my eyes at the end of practices to find a cat in my lap and two sweet dawgy faces resting on either side of my asan. It obviously doesn't interfere with my practices, often I don't even know they are there until I'm through...
I used to be finickey about not letting them do this, but if I put them out (of the room) they whine and scratch at the door! LOL, besides once I am in my formal sitting practices, then don't usually budge until I'm through.
This got so regular that I put two "meditation cushions" next to my asan, and they will often sit there during my meditations (not the cat, she thinks my lap is a throne.)
Oh, and yea, when I do Ganapati Puja or Arti and blow the conch, often B & N will howl with delight!
On this note, I couldn't figure out, during my practices, why I thought I kept hearing a "blub blub girgle blub," so faint as to wonder whether or not it was "inside or outside." Turns out that Sir Betta (my fish) has matured to the point where he is creating his bubble nests! LOL (they make nests of bubbles on the top of the water for the female's eggs.) Problem solved :-)
Anyone else have experiences with their resident critters they'd care to share?
~Jivaakabhasana Yogi |
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Clear White Light
USA
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Posted - Feb 12 2010 : 3:20:35 PM
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| When I read this post, my cat which was sleeping on my bed woke up and came and jumped on my lap, desperate for attention. How's that for an experience? lol |
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Jivaakabhasana_Yogi
USA
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Posted - Feb 12 2010 : 5:18:20 PM
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Originally posted by Clear White Light
When I read this post, my cat which was sleeping on my bed woke up and came and jumped on my lap, desperate for attention. How's that for an experience? lol
Yaa, I find my animal friends to be highly intuitive :-) Natasha; if I'm sitting at the computer here, will come behind me up on the bed, and put her paws on top of my shoulders, like she's reading over my shoulder!
I can say that I learned more life lessons from my dog Boris, than any person alive...when I was deathly ill a few years back, one of the chemo drugs sent me into seizures, while I don't remember this, I'd called 911, and they arrived to find Boris laying across my chest licking my face, whinning and barking. If he hadn't been there, I don't know if I'd had the presence of mind to call 911, etc...
I've always had animals in my life, for a long time I raised rats, and people just could not understand how I would be at the point of tears "over a rat" dying in my hands..."its just a 'rat'"...to me, she was Brahman, no different between my"self" and her"self".
~Jivaakabhasana_Yogi
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brother neil
USA
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Posted - Feb 12 2010 : 5:50:15 PM
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Originally posted by Jivaakabhasana_Yogi
Aauummm
Anjaneyaye Vidmahe
Mahabalaye Dhi-Mahi
Tan No Hanuman Prachodayat
Aauummm Shanti Shanti Shanti
***
Aauumm
I meditate on the son of Anjana
Oh, son of Vayu Deva (the god of air)raise my intellect
Let Hanuman illuminate my mind
Aauummm Peace Peace Peace...
***
Namaste' Ya'll!
Curious of other peoples experiences with their resident animal friends...
I do cat rescue, so don't askhow many I have, although they are all kenneled except for my one eyed female "Betsy." I also have the pleasure of sharing my life with Boris (a Rat Terrier) and Natasha (terrier/poodle/Heinz 57 variety.)
Now, I used toattempt keeping my critters out of the room during practices, but to no avail...
I awaken around 4:45, bathe, and begin my practices with an hour of Hatha (been doing it this way for years)...and Boris and Natasha will jump off the bed, and of course the first thing they do is Adho Mukha Svanasana (downward facing dog!) They will continue this for a few minutes, then settle and watch me do Hatha practice...
I then go on the inversion table for 10 minutes (cat's look really funny upside down!), then come back upstairs to do my SBP and DM...More often than not, I open my eyes at the end of practices to find a cat in my lap and two sweet dawgy faces resting on either side of my asan. It obviously doesn't interfere with my practices, often I don't even know they are there until I'm through...
I used to be finickey about not letting them do this, but if I put them out (of the room) they whine and scratch at the door! LOL, besides once I am in my formal sitting practices, then don't usually budge until I'm through.
This got so regular that I put two "meditation cushions" next to my asan, and they will often sit there during my meditations (not the cat, she thinks my lap is a throne.)
Oh, and yea, when I do Ganapati Puja or Arti and blow the conch, often B & N will howl with delight!
On this note, I couldn't figure out, during my practices, why I thought I kept hearing a "blub blub girgle blub," so faint as to wonder whether or not it was "inside or outside." Turns out that Sir Betta (my fish) has matured to the point where he is creating his bubble nests! LOL (they make nests of bubbles on the top of the water for the female's eggs.) Problem solved :-)
Anyone else have experiences with their resident critters they'd care to share?
~Jivaakabhasana Yogi
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amoux
United Kingdom
266 Posts |
Posted - Feb 13 2010 : 05:34:35 AM
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I used to do a lot more yoga than I do now, and the cats used to just love it when I did Sun Salutations - they used to dive bomb me! Which was a little disconcerting  When I meditated, a cat usually ended up sitting on my lap, and another tapping at my legs for attention. These days I sit in a room with the door closed and only the fish in the tank to overlook me. It's a lot more peaceful |
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yogathai
Thailand
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Posted - Feb 21 2010 : 03:49:29 AM
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I currently live at a mediation and yoga center in Thailand. We practice the yoga in an outside sala and there is one cat in particular who lives in the neighborhood and joins us everyday. She usually will make her rounds with the students and then chills on the teacher's mat!!
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Edited by - yogathai on Mar 05 2010 10:02:52 PM |
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karl
United Kingdom
1812 Posts |
Posted - Feb 21 2010 : 06:06:00 AM
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Makes me feel like i should get another cat with all these stories of pets  |
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insideout
USA
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wigswest
USA
115 Posts |
Posted - Mar 07 2010 : 10:10:15 PM
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I finally had to admit it to myself a coupla weeks ago: my old bulldog *knows* when I've settled in to meditate. She could be sleeping in a room halfway across the house...I'll be ten minutes in, and I hear her claws ticking on the floor, coming up to me to demand laptime.
What can I say? She's 14 years old, I accommodate... ;) |
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Victor
USA
910 Posts |
Posted - Mar 10 2010 : 7:00:01 PM
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| Cats can be so loving and intuitive or can be a pain as well. I was doing my pranayama today when my cat decided to step over my litle meditation table. I tried to gently brush him away and he jumped all over the table knocking things over! Took me awhile to get settled in my practice again. Needless to say he was tossed out the door before I sat for mantra meditation. Its kind of like having a kid that you love dearly but pisses you off sometimes and will never grow up. |
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