Laughing Yoga!

Me-Ommmmm! Have my devoted yogi cats and admirers heard of Laughing Yoga? All you have to do is laugh, laugh, laugh! It helps to relax the body and the mind so Joy can fill you from the inside out! MOL! Me-Ommmmm

Here's a little something to get the laughing started…

Have a most pawesome day efurrybuddy!

Me-Ommmmmmmmmmmm

The Happiest Cat Pose or Super Anandamarjari Asana!

Me-ommmmm Efurrybuddy and devoted yogicats! I can't believe its been two months since I posted about my purrrrrrfection in Advanced Supta Padahastasana! Clicky here to see it fur yourself! Me-Ommmmm…

Today I am feeling most blissful, and so I am sharing with you Super Anandamarjari Asana, or the happiest cat pose:

When practicing this pose remember to gently rock from side to side and lift the corners of your mouth towards your ears. :-) My you all be blissful, happy, and joyous! Me-Ommmmm

P.S. If you are looking fur a most pawsome holiday gift fur all the children you know, Mama is giving away the e-version of her holiday fairy tale fur all to view! Clicky here get it!

Purrrrrfection!

Me-Ommmmm! My fellow yogicats and devoted followers, I have done it! I have reached divine purrrrrfection with the pose Advanced Supta Padahastasana! Me-Ommmmm...

Happy Birthday to Me and a Gift for You!

Me-Ommmmm Me-Ommmmm Efurryone! Caturday July 5th will be my 13th birthday! I know, I know, I don't look a day older than two. That's what a lifetime dedicated to a yoga and meditation practice will do fur you! :-D

Now, I know thousands of you will be out celebrating the eve of my birthday with fireworks galore - thank you, thank you - but I'd also like to give all of you a gift too! Me-Ommmmm!

As a selfless and generous yogicat I am giving away the e-version of my book, Daily Yoga for a Happy and Healthy Cat! Click here to download from July 4-8th. If you do not have Kindle, you can also download a Kindle App for free here!

For those of you wondering how my intensive extensive yoga retreat has been, well, it's been furrabulous! I will start posting here again, but more in balance with my practice now. On a sad note, my brofur Apollo passed away about a month ago. He now climbs giant beautiful trees by the Rainbow Bridge. Me-Ommmmmmmmmmmmmm

Going on Retreat

Me-Ommmmm Efurrybuddy! As a great Swami and Yogicat I have committed myself to a life of constant practice and selfless service. Me, Mama, and Brofur Ku have been working furry furry hard to promote my book and Ku's book to raise awareness and money fur animal rescue. 

We thank those who have bought my book and who have tweeted, re-blogged, etc.!!! However, sales are almost nil and we must turn our attention to other ways of spreading the word. We have also told Mama that she could spend more time building her animal healing and her spiritual counseling practices (Astrology and Tarot/Oracle Readings - she is furry furry good!), which she juggles around caring fur the Grandma who has Alzheimer’s.

However, do not worry about Me, for I will of course continue on as the great Shri Swami Sattvapurrrrrananda and be on an intensive Yoga Retreat! Me-Ommmmm

A Most Blissful Review of My Yoga Book!

50% of proceeds go to animal rescue!

Me-Ommmmm Efurrybuddy! I was so pleased today when Mama finally got off the computerinterwebbernetz so I could go visit some of my bloggy furriends, and my soul filled with divine bliss when I discovered that Samantha and Wag 'N Woof Pets wrote a loverly review of my book: Daily Yoga For a Happy and Healthy Cat! Me-Ommmmm

Check Samantha's review Here! She is such a natural yogicat, I have declared her to be Swami Samantha! 

Go-Ommmmmmmmm Seahawks!

Me-Ommmmm Efurrybuddy! I have to admit I was too busy purrrfecting an intense Yoga Nidra practice to watch the Super Bowl, but I made sure Mama clicky-fingers secretary kept an eye on the score. I was born and raised in Seattle, so I felt immense bliss and pride when my hometown team won!!!

Go-Ommmmmmmmm Seahawks!!!! 

Yin-Yang Yoga

Me-Ommmmm Efurrybuddy! Today I'd like to demonstrate a lovely Yoga Asana for the Chinese New Year, called Yin-Yang Yoga. All you need is a yoga partner, preferably a cat of the opposite gender or personality type or color or something opposite.  And then you position yourselves curled up in opposite directions. Here let me demonstrate:

This is close, but brofur Apollo is hogging my space.

Now that he's repositioned, we stretch first to make sure we can get into this very challenging Asana!

Now this is a purrrrfect example of Yin-Yang Yoga!
Hold the pose for an extended period of time, or
until you feel at peace and in harmony with All.

Gung Hay Fat Choi! Me-Ommmmm

Easy Sunday Award!

Me-Ommmm Efurybuddy! I am so honored to have received another pawesome Bloggy Award. I have received the Share the Love, Share the Box Award from Speedy the Cheeky House Bunny. I love, love, love boxes! Hop on over to Speedy’s to see how cheeky he’s been lately!

Mama and Brofur Ku have received a whole bunch of awards too, so head on over to Mama's Bloggy here to read all about them and check out the nomination list, which includes pet bloggers! 

Now I am going to meditate on the overflowing gratitude in my heart! Me-Ommmmm Shanti Me-Ommmmm!

Me-Me-Me-Me-Ommmmmmmmmm

Me-Ommmmm Efurrybuddy! As many of you know chanting Mantra is an integral part of a yoga practice. Today I'd like to demonstrate an excellent Throat Chakra (Vishuddha) opening pose: Cobra Pose or Bhujangasana:

Here I am doing Cobra Pose with the lower body rotated to squeeze out any extra air from the abdomen. Remember to fully lengthen your neck and chin. Here I am also demonstrating how to use a pillow prop to assist the throat opening. 

Sing and chant away my dear yogicats! Me-Me-Ommmmm!

Happy re-Birthday My Brofur Ku!

Me-Ommmmm Efurryone! I'm so excited to tell efurryone that Saturday the 11th is my little brofur Kuruk's re-Birthday! Yes, you read that right. You see, Ku was born at a puppy mill in Alaska and lived on a 4-foot chain his first couple of years of life. Luckily the puppy mill was shut down and Ku and his whole pack of nearly 160 snow pups went into rescue. That day was 1-11-11!

Before: Brofur Ku not long after the puppy mill when he 

was with his foster Mama. He was scared of efurrything!

After: Brofur Ku now as a happy happy pup!

When Mama brought Ku home, she decided that since no one knew Ku's real birthday that 1-11-11 would be Ku's first re-Birthday! So Ku is going to be 4!!! He's come such a long long way in the past three years. Me and Mama and efurryone are so so proud of my little brofur Ku! We wuvwuvwuv you Ku!

Fur his re-Birthday, Mama got brofur Ku and sisfur Nalle new XL beds! It was a pawesome find! Here, let me show them to you:

This new big big bed is so fluffy and cozy! Purrrrfect 

for some hours-long meditations!

Ku is so nice to let me use his bed fur my yoga too!

Brofur Apollo and sisfur Nalle napping together!

Please visit my brofur fur his re-Birthday on Saturday! I want him to be surprised with lots of extra birthday wishes. He deserves them! Ku's bloggy is: Haiku By Ku, and if you want to know more of his story:

To read the newspaper story about his rescue, click here.

To see a video about his rescue and journey from Alaska to Washington, click here.

If you’d like to support animal rescue and learn more about his rescue and healing journey, you can buy his book. Check out Kuruk: The Little Bear That Could here!

Me-Ommmmm!

Sunday Easy Yoga

Me-Ommmmm Efurryone! For today's Sunday Easy, I'd like to demonstrate Yoga Nidra, which is yoga "sleep." It's really a very deep state of meditation, where you are fully conscious or lucid, but look like you are asleep. It's very easy!

Here I am practicing Yoga Nidra with Brofur Apollo. 

He is to my right, practicing under the covers because 

he felt chilly. Yoga Nidra is often practiced in Shavasana,

but it can be done in any comfortable yoga pose.

Here we are in Parivritta Shavasana

(revolved corpse pose).

Here I am practicing Yoga Nidra with sisfur Nalle.

I am in Sphinx Asana, and Nalle is in Parsvashavasana

(side corpse pose).

Here brofur Apollo is practicing Yoga Nidra in

Shashankasana (pose of the moon or hare pose).

Have a Happy Easy Sunday Efurryone! Me-Ommmmm!

Christmas Thanks!

Me-Ommmmm Efurryone! I hope you all had a wonderful Holiday, Christmas, Catmess, and Catmouse! And that you got lots of pawesome presents from Santa Paws. I know you did, because we cats are the bestest! MOL!

Me and Brofur Apollo got lots of yummy treats (Mama didn't get pics of those because we ate them so fast!) and new pawesome catnip-filled toys! Me-Ommmmm! Here are some pics of me and Apollo with our new toys, which we love to play with all through the night! MOL!

This would make for a great support prop
for Sirsasana (head stand)!

Mine, all mine!

Maybe I will try head stand too!

Yumyumyum!

Hmmm…this could also be a great prop
for Bhujangasana (Cobra pose)!

Merry, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Me-Ommmmm Efurryone! Only ten days left until Christmas Eve and Yule Celebrations! As my our gift to our Secretary Clicky-fingers Mama, Me and Brofur Ku at Haiku By Ku will be taking a bloggy break. In the meantime I am going to work on new Yoga Asanas furr all of you!

Have a lovely and blissful Christmas, Yuletide, and Holiday Season all my wonderful bloggy furriends and yoga devotees! Me-Ommmmm

Easy Sunday Asana!

Don't forget to gently rock side-to-side!

Me-Ommmmm! For the Sunday Easy I thought I'd demonstrate what I feel is the easiest, and most blissful!, yoga pose: Anandamarjari Asana, Happy Cat Pose! You can very easily hold this pose for hours! Me-Ommmmm!

Upcoming Event at the Tabby Cat Club! Yoga Purrrfections!

Me-Ommmmm Efurryone! Practicing Yoga and Meditation is a pawesome way to stay warm during the chilly days of winter. So I came up with the most brilliant idea to have us Tabbies share our favorite yoga practice, position, or meditation to help each other out.

Save the date: Next Tuesday December 10th I am hosting a Tabby Cat Club Event:

Yoga Purrrfections!

Pop on over to the Tabby Cat Club here to see me demonstrating some warming yoga practices! Me-Ommmmm!

My Channelled Meditation Continues...

Me Meditating on Gratitude and
Petey the Pup!

Me-Ommmmm Efurryone! First this: In alignment with my duty to practice Karma Yoga and give of myself selflessly, I have volunteered to write a third chapter in the adventure of a pup named Petey on his quest to find his lost owner. This NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) writing club meets over to Rocco's House! This has been so fun! Thank you Rocco and Rocco's Mom for hosting this creative writing blogosphere project!

And this: Before I go into my meditative trance to channel the mind of a pup, I would like to say Happy Thanksgiving to all, even all my international devotees. I am thankful for all of your devotion and send you all my divine blessings and love for a life full of things to be thankful for! 

Can't forget that: Special thanks to my Mama for being so patient with me while I tirelessly work towards purrrrrfecting my yoga practice. As I quote in my book Daily Yoga for a Happy and Healthy Cat from the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, I-14:

Practice becomes firmly grounded when well attended to for a long time, without break and in all earnestness.

By the way this: The proceeds of my book go towards animal rescue and welfare! Bless my selfless swami heart! Me-Ommmmm!

And now for that: Officially I am signed up for tomorrow, but no one signed up for yesterday or today, so I am posting a little early for all those who have been hanging off the edge of their beds, couches, trees, and litter boxes! 

Oh, and don't forget this: Visit these previous chapters to get the whole exciting story!:

1. Rocco 
2. Bongo 
3. Haley and Zaphod 
4. Easy Rider 
5. My Rotten Dogs 
6. Sophie Doodle 
7. Haiku by Ku  (My Brofur!)
8. Oh My Shih Tzu 
9. Sparhawk Scotties 
10. Critter Alley 
11. (brief pause between installments)
12. Bark and Lounge 
13. Alasandra, The Cats & Dogs 
14. Swami Zoe  (Me!)
15. Tenacious Little Terrier 
16.  Miro M 
17.  Haiku by Ku  (My Brofur!)
18.  Miro 
19.  Rocco’s House
20. Swami Zoe (Me!)
21. Sophie Doodle
22. Haley and Zaphod 
23. (Intermission for the sake of suspense!) 
24. My Brofur Ku again!
25. My Mini Pet Pig
26. (Potty Breaks)
27. (Nap Breaks)

Me-Ommmmm, me-ommmmm, me-ommmmm………..

Chapter 28 of Petey's Adventure!

We all stared at the lights coming towards us. Beast and I kept quiet and the smell of treat crumbs on the ground was a bit distracting. The Lady, however, began to call out to whomever it was: "Help! Help! We're over here!"

Beast and I raised our noses into the air. Could it be? sniff….sniff….. It was! It was pizza! The man from the cabin in the woods must have come looking for us! 

"Sweetie, I'm coming!" he shouted. "I saw the string you tied to all the branches and followed them. I'm so glad we took that outdoors survival course last month!"

They embraced in a passionate Hollywood kiss. Enough with this mushiness! I started to bark and growl to let them know my owner and Beast's mom, oh, and those Three Stooges-like officers, needed to get out of the cold, wet, icy, dark ravine! The lovebirds finally let go of their embrace and began brainstorming on what to do. 

The outdoorsy man did not have a cell phone - too high-tech for him. They called down into the ravine but no one answered. Oh Dog! I hope they are ok. I whimpered and barked hoping my owner would respond. After a few minutes we heard fumbling and they all woke up. Phew! No one was seriously injured, but still stuck in the ravine.

Sniff…sniff….I could smell it before seeing it. The sun was about to rise…

Check out chapter 29 over at Boingy Dog!

And This 'N' That: Thank you 2BrownDawgs and Ruckus the Eskie for hosting the This 'N' That Thursday Thanksgiving Edition!

Oh and this: Thank you efurrryone furr reading, and I will be back to my yoga posts soon!  

And that: And I am thankful for turkey! Yumyumyum! Me-Ommmmm!

Sunday Yoga Asana

Me-ommmmm Efurryone! Today Brofur Apollo has kindly offered to demonstrate a lovely and stress-relieveing yoga pose: Shashankasana, or hare pose. Furr those bunny bloggers out there, this should be quite natural!

Hind legs are folded and tucked under, then stretch your front legs forward and rest into the pose. As you can see, Apollo is having a little trouble keeping his spine straight and in alignment. This is due to the extra cushy surface. I recommend practicing Shashankasana directly on the floor to maintain proper positioning. Hold for a few minutes to an hour for maximum benefits.

To learn the most essential poses for health and happiness, you can purchase my book, Daily Yoga for a Happy and Healthy Cat here. It is quite suitable also for practitioners of Doga as well as other sentient beings. Most, if not all, of the proceeds will go towards animal rescue, my practice of Karma Yoga! Thank you and Me-Ommmm!

Vinyasa or Yin Yoga?

Me-Ommmmm my fellow felines and furriends! In my quest to purrfect my yoga poses, I often practice Yin Yoga, where one holds a pose for an extended period of time. For me, that may mean up to a couple of hours! Me-Ommmmm!

But lately Mama has been suggesting that I should start doing some Vinyasa, or continuous flow, Yoga because she says I am getting a little more rotund than a most beautiful pink princess great Swami ought to be! I say I am divinely purrfectly pluxurious! Me-Ommmmm

Mama! You're disturbing my Shavasana! Besides, this is such a
bad angle for a proper photo! Me-Ommmmm

Caturday Sun Puddling with Brofur Ku...Me-Ommmmm

Me practicing Anandamarjari Asana (happy cat pose) while sun puddling with fluffy brofur Ku.

Me meditating in Parsvashavasana (side corpse pose) with brofur Ku.
Happy Blissful Caturday Efurryone! Me-Ommmmm