I've taught yoga, with an emphasis on meditation and a big love of chanting Sanskrit mantra, for about 20 years. My house has a yoga room in its centre, and my cats and I live in rooms around it. I have to be careful with allergies, and any cats I have are used to baths. And students just have to accept the fact that the cats need to greet them before they go off into the bedroom during the class.
My cats also become very used to chanting, and I've noticed how extra-ordinarily they respond to it.
Our chanting group met last weekend, and my new kitten had his first experience of many people doing this practice (as opposed to him looking around the house for the thing making the Aauumm sound when I do my personal practice; I can talk to him and he knows its me, but Aums are a whole new thing - he literally looks into the air, all round the room, searching).
Our chanting group sits in a circle on cushions. Sundar ran around, being his kitteny self, but once the chanting started he came over to a spare cushion, curled up and just watched us, in a really relaxed state, and finally fell asleep.
Kitty meditation
My cats also become very used to chanting, and I've noticed how extra-ordinarily they respond to it.
Our chanting group met last weekend, and my new kitten had his first experience of many people doing this practice (as opposed to him looking around the house for the thing making the Aauumm sound when I do my personal practice; I can talk to him and he knows its me, but Aums are a whole new thing - he literally looks into the air, all round the room, searching).
Our chanting group sits in a circle on cushions. Sundar ran around, being his kitteny self, but once the chanting started he came over to a spare cushion, curled up and just watched us, in a really relaxed state, and finally fell asleep.
Kitty meditation