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Healing
02/11/2022
07/20/2021
Testimonials up until July 22, 2021 and Comments
Welcome, Reader! Here are some people’s quotes about our work together(Please See below Worcester Zen’s Inclusivity Statement):
Will try to return with more recent testimonials. If you see yourself here thank you for writing this! This is Reggie:
Also:
I love the inclusivity and Black Lives Matter statement by Boundless Zen in Worcester MA. One of if not the best! Please scroll to the “Inclusivity” link.
1) Although most of the following notes are behavioral, in this comment, a woman grieves a beautiful Cat:
"I am totally trying not to blame myself for anything, but sometimes the guilt seeps in. I certainly didn't feel from our conversation with Mozart that he blamed me or my husband for anything. I read "The Pet Loss Companion," and it says, "Whatever the circumstances of your friend's death, you deserve to remind yourself that human beings have limitations ... we never intentionally cause harm to our loved ones." Basically, you do the best you can with the knowledge you have at the time. That's what I did."
Carolyn
http://www.thepetlosscompanion.com/
August 7, 2020
2) I did not see a place for testimonials, so I'm sending it here. I just can't thank you enough for always being there when I need you. You have helped me and my fur family though adoption grief, loss and crazy adventures with interfering raccoons. You have never said no or I can't help you. You always help, you always come through. Please post this so people know how wonderful and dedicated you are!
Elaine Harrington
April 17, 2019
3) Zan has been a great help to me and my 3 pets. She eased the transition when my sister and her dogs were back home. And another time when one Larry was ill. Both times we were able to everyone back to a good their playful selves.
Carolyn(another Carolyn)
May 22, 2018
4) Things are better here.
Princess calmed down immediately after your conversation with her, and it seems to have stuck. She's still not happy about him being here, but she's calmer and less angry. When I tell her to stop taking him so seriously it seems to help. I have seen that she is sometimes instigating. I have been telling her to stop when I do.
Ember hasn't been taking Jasper's food, so he gets to eat everything and doesn't give me that sad, "Mom, she took it," look her fed me. She is taking Ralphie's. He just takes hers, so it's a more even trade. She and Ralphie are getting along better. They can stand next to each other, even bump into each other, and be okay. He does still sometimes make her growl at him but it is not all the time.
Jasper still is having a bit of a hard time. He's not as angry as before, but he still is grouchy around him. I'd say, on the whole, we are doing better.
Sheri
January 3rd, 2019
5) The change in the cats’ behavior is dramatic; they even groomed each other a little bit. Thank you so, so much.
Tara(in a text)
March 26, 2019
Update 7-21-21:
6) Christi writes about reading body language in ordinary reality as well as modelling calm behavior with her dogs 🐕 🐶:
“Well, I haven't taken Henry out to practice behavior modification in regard to people, but, a few things appear to be changing.
1) He has not growled at Maya on my bed, since we talked. In fact, my roommate's dog has been downstairs with me since Friday, and Henry has been quite gracious, even when Winston cozies up to me. That is kind of shocking. I was expecting him to resource guard me from Winston, but he is not even displaying any stress symptoms when Winston lays with me. I'm not pushing it...Winston sleeps in a crate at night.
2) He has been sleeping close to Maya on a few occasions on my bed. I keep telling him that he is such a Good Boy. Normally, he tries to avoid her, or growls. I don't think she can hear it, because she is unfazed, and mostly deaf now. Also, she is not threatened by him. I usually tell him "Off", but have not had to do it.
3) With my roommate's dog with us 24/7, I really believe that Tess's arrival will be fantastic for Henry. Winston is a lot more energetic than Henry, but they have been playing off and on about 12 hrs a day. They do play otherwise, but not like Henry does with his very best friend Lucy. I'm pretty sure Henry is exhausted, but he is gracious.
4) I will be trimming Henry's nails tomorrow, so we will see how he takes that.
I really appreciate the time and energy you offered to help me with Henry, especially. He is a quirky guy, and I love him to pieces, but I wanted to make sure his life was enriched with me, not one of fear and anxiety. One of these days I will take the time to develop my skills talking with animals telepathically. I used to be quite good as a kid, but lost the ability as I entered adulthood. The next best thing is being able to read their body language, and help them through any stress.
April 10, 2021
Update 7-22-21
7) In a multipet household:
I believe you may have been that determining factor! Ever since you spoke to her she really seems better.
Thank YOU so very much.
JoDell
July 8, 2021
06/07/2020
On Helping Your Dying Animal(and Updated 7-24-20): On InsightPV.org in the Time of Covid and Protests
https://www.daniellemackinnon.com/rainbow-bridge/how-to-comfort-your-dog-who-is-dying/
Dear Folks, #BlackLivesMatter and let’s give to the naacpldf.org legal defense fund. A statement for Covid-19, BLM and Indigenous Peoples: Immunity=Mutiny!
Some of the recommended Anti-Racist books:‘White Fragility.’ Wow just wow. Also, ‘Why are the Black kids sitting in the cafeteria all alone?’, ‘How to be Anti-Racist’ by Ibram X. Kendi, ‘White Supremacy and Me’ workbook & ‘Why I stopped talking about race to white people’.
Danielle McKinnon has an absolutely amazing talk on going through hospice/dying & a little on how to handle it after with your dog(very transferable to cats as well). Zoopix App helped me over the death of my cat(below). Thank you, Finn & Diego the Adventure Cat. 🐱🐕
First, Ram Dass slipped in to my photos here with a very funny story about the many vehicles of awakening!
Please click the link up top for Danielle’s article. I also read ‘You Are Psychic’ by Pete Sanders which includes his healing technique, as well as other books like ‘Mind Over Medicine’ and ‘Because Internet’ on modern linguistics.
Email me if you want to join our last-Sundays book group. Finishing ‘How to a Talk to Your Pet’ by Gail Thackray, an English woman who lives in LA, including some guided imagery I will read and we’re starting ‘Beyond Words’ by Carl Safina. Starts out with Dolphins 🐬 yay! The animal with a four chamber brain 🧠 !
My personal book list goes on(privacy used to be a civil right and might still be).
📚 Topic: Animal Communication(including ‘Animal Talk’ by Penelope Smith)!
InsightPV.org is responding to first Covid-19, the ensuing grave financial losses; now...to the horrible lynching of George Floyd(not a new thing) and how we respond. We have to move from being a fear-based society to being a love-based society. Marianne Williams was/is right.
Our school continues to have wonderful teachers: Rebecca Bradshaw(former guiding teacher) a Climate Change activist and therapist, Manny Mansbach, Jean Esther, Michael Grady and Tara Mulay to name a few. Dawn Scott, Harrison Blum, Nick Boutros....
Trellis Scepter is the new President of the Board and we are so glad to welcome 🙏🏽 him! These teachers have such wisdom and many have therapeutic background or practices.
Below is my cat trying to find South African Communicator Anna Breytenbach the author of ‘Diablo’.
The late Ram Dass’s(Richard Alpert’s) mystical teacher Neem Karoli Baba: Enlarge! To me he seems to be saying, “What are you doing?” He was a hypnotic medium and great teacher in India.
10/02/2019
Re: InsightPV.org Saying Hail and Farewell to Our Guiding Teacher AND Miracle of Love in Yoga
Dear Reader,
Today is Rebecca Bradshaw’s last day as Guiding Teacher at insightpv.org and she has done a really good job of speaking and scheduling great visiting teachers!
She will be missed and the celebration is tonight. If I had played I would have sung, Heart’s “Dog and the Butterfly”(keywords: “She had to try.”) or possibly Sheryl Crow’s “Always on your Side.” She has free talks on dharmaseed.org that really rock!
Anyway, psychotherapist and Buddhist teacher Jean Esther recently did a great parable, on weeds and detaching from our attachments, that was hilarious(long story short), and the week before: Dawn Scott spoke about moderating reactivity. She is a wonderful trainee in the 4-year Teacher Training at IMS Barre, MA.
All wonderful teachers there and a great chance to become part of a community!
In other news I am so blessed to have the very professional and also maternal(and younger:) Sara Rose Page visit me twice a week for Yoga class mid-mornings. Yesterday a totally awesome thing happened. We were doing Savasana at the end to OM music, she played the brass bell my husband had bought for Yoga 🧘♀️, and so beautifully, to wake me up....
Then we faced each other in mixed lotus and said our Om’s. I usually run out of breath before she does and although I sing, her Om is stronger; but just as I dropped out I heard an overtone of a Fifth above coming from over my right shoulder way up high, like the golden light of an angel singing. I’m not particularly into golden light as it always reminds me of something else golden(LOL)
and when was the last time I called on angels, whoever/wherever/whatever they are? But I asked her, “Has your class ever been so in tune that you heard overtones?” She was not sure.
I’m not sure we were even all that perfectly in tune(!) but feel free to comment, “Have you ever been so in tune you heard overtones?” I felt as though it might be consolation for the first grey day of October!
We feel that artists tend to be clairvoyant and musicians, well they tend to hear!
02/18/2017
Yoga on Valentine's with Cat Looking On PS: Updated with correct link
Sara Rose does house-calls as well as some of the greatest teaching at yoga-sanctuary.com
Disclaimer: She is my teacher and I'm partial but I've done NYC Yoga/Pilates since the 80's.
01/14/2017
Advice from Sara Rose on Facing the Unkown at yoga-sanctuary.com
Today our fearless leader quoted another fearless leader, "Keep showing up & Keep at it!"
Yoga was always about sitting: basically a preparation for getting into meditation posture.
What we practice today isn't that ancient(although some I recognize from decades ago surely) and we are still making it up! Some themes were interweaving & yet fully independent.
Today we did the Hoberman Sphere and I believe there's no Sanskrit name for it! Wow.
We ended with a prelude to putting your leg over your shoulder. Seriously, magical class! And such a nice, grounded studio with picutre windows! I could see Blue sky with clouds from lying just in Sivasana.
End of Year(12/31) pose was Vasistasana Regular and here's Full Vasistasana(soft-porna):
01/05/2017
'Soul Comfort for Cat Lovers' Comes in the Mail
Beautiful Photos of this Ginger Cat. By the Artist Melissa Rey(with permission):
12/03/2016
09/25/2016
08/31/2016
Dogs can hear what we say
But our speech can be especially powerful when the meaning of the words we say matches our tone of voice.