My Popular Brofur!

Me advising Ku on how to stay Zen amidst
all the busyness and fame.

Me-Ommmmm! It's been a busy week so far getting back to my regular yoga and meditation hourly practices after Speedy's Pirate Pawty, but Brofur Ku has been even busier! He's been working very hard to promote his book, Kuruk: The Little Bear That Could One Rescue Pup's Journey of Healing, so he can raise money for animal rescue organizations. He's been taking Mama and sisfur Nalle to pet stores to leave some of his business cards, he gives his cards out to other pups on their walks, and he's on tour around the blogosphere. Check out these places Ku has been this week:

Savannah's Paw Tracks' Monday Meowsie News

K9 Miss Harper Lee's A Special Soft Spot for Ku

You can also check out Ku's Interview at Peace, Love, & Whiskers and his touching article at Untold Animal Stories.

Now just enough time to finish watching my nature show about my feline cousins in the wild before going back to my practice! Me-Ommmmm

The Waning Moon, A Time to Rest

Me-Ommmmm! Tonight is a Full Blue Moon! With this rare occurrence, Mama and I have decided that it was time to take a short break from the blogosphere (Mama has four blogs to manage!). The Waning Moon is a time to rest, but rest is also an activity in itself, so I will of course be keeping up on my yoga and zen mediation practice! If you need assistance with your yoga practice while I am away, you can purchase my book or eBook. A portion of the proceed will also go towards animal rescue! Me-Ommmmm

Me and Apollo in a focused mind-melding meditation!

Activity and rest are two vital aspects of life. To find a balance in them is a skill in itself. Wisdom is knowing when to have rest, when to have activity, and how much of each to have. Finding them in each other – activity in rest and rest in activity – is the ultimate freedom.

- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Practicing Peace and Love

Me-Ommmmmmmm

World Cat Day!

Me-Ommmmm, Me-Ommmmm, Me-Ommmmm! I am so thankful to learn that we felines are getting the divine recognition we deserve! Today is World Cat Day! I think that means all creatures are supposed to be more like us most yogic and zen cats today! Me-Ommmmm!

Me teaching sistah Nalle how to be more cat-like with meditation!

Eternal Gratitude!

Me-Ommmmm! I'd like to give eternal thanks to handsome kitty Cody over at Cat Chat for writing a pawesome review of my book: Daily Yoga for a Happy and Healthy Cat! Apaws and Purrrrrs to you sweet Cody! Me-Ommmmm

Click pic to read the pawesome book review!

Cody says: For kitties out there that might be experiencing more than their share of stress and for those like me, that are more of the laid-back type, this book is right up your alley! ... I suggest you light some incense, grab a sunpuddle or go to your favorite cozy spot, grab a snuggly blanket and you are all set to put some of the moves that are shown in this book into practice!

Meditating with Old Brother Simba

Helping Others

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

- Dalai Lama 

Practicing Karma Yoga by being of service and helping others helps to free one from karma. I like to help Mama do chores like making the bed, especially when she's putting on freshly washed sheets!

Me-Ommmmm

Love Needs No Words

Big Kitty Wisdom

May we all have the courage of the lion! Me-Ommmmm

Meditating with Others

Mediating with others can enhance the vibrations of Spirit and connection to the Divine. Me-Ommmmm

Me meditating with sistah Nalle

My Brother Ku's Article!

My Handsome Brother Ku

What a special day! My pup brother Kuruk had an article published at Untold Animal Stories, where they "inspire small acts of kindness through connection and compassion."

Ku's article, Kuruk The Little Bear That Could, is an introduction to his soon to be published book about his rescue and healing journey. Like me, he will be donating a portion of the proceeds to animal rescue groups. You can also visit his poetic blog Haiku By Ku! Me-Ommmmm

Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. 

- Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher

Please Paws for the Rainbow Bridge Prayer

Dear Furrends and Friends, yesterday was National Pet Fire Safety Day, and unfortunately nearly 100 rescue kitties transcended this realm to wait by the Rainbow Bridge due to a house fire. Please paws for a minute to say the Rainbow Bridge Prayer for them and all dear furrends who have passed:

The Rainbow Bridge inspired by a Norse legend By the edge of a woods, at the foot of a hill, Is a lush, green meadow where time stands still. Where the friends of man and woman do run, When their time on earth is over and done. For here, between this world and the next, Is a place where each beloved creature finds rest. On this golden land, they wait and they play, Till the Rainbow Bridge they cross over one day. No more do they suffer, in pain or in sadness, For here they are whole, their lives filled with gladness. Their limbs are restored, their health renewed, Their bodies have healed, with strength imbued. They romp through the grass, without even a care, Until one day they start, and sniff at the air. All ears prick forward, eyes dart front and back, Then all of a sudden, one breaks from the pack. For just at that instant, their eyes have met; Together again, both person and pet. So they run to each other, these friends from long past, The time of their parting is over at last. The sadness they felt while they were apart, Has turned into joy once more in each heart. They embrace with a love that will last forever, And then, side-by-side, they cross over… together.

© 1998 Steve and Diane Bodofsky. All Rights Reserved.

Practicing Zazen

The more you practice zazen, the more you will be able to accept something as your own, whatever it is.

- Shunryu Suzuki

Everything around me is my own - the bed, the desk, the house... Though Zazen meditation is usually done in the seated position, here I am practicing it in the more beneficial reclining paw-paw pose, or Supta Padahastasana, which I discuss in my book. Everyone should practice this every day! Me-Ommmmm

Peace and Love

We may wear different hats, but we are all part of the same community, the Universe. 

Peace, Love, and 
Me-Ommmmm,

Swami Zoe

Gratitude

The attitude of gratitude is the highest yoga. 

-Yogi Bhajan

I am thankful for my brother even though he buggies me sometimes. It gives me the opportunity to practice patience.

Me-Ommmmm

Wordless Wednesday

Doing Nothing

This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural.

- Osho

Need I say more?                           Me-Ommmmm

- Shri Swami Sattvapurrrrrananda, aka Swami Zoe