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Sound Yoga and Mantra for Pets

The Benefits of Sound Yoga and Mantra on Calming Pets

In our busy lives, stress is something we all encounter, and our pets are no exception. While we often seek solace in yoga, meditation, or soothing music, did you know that these practices can also benefit our fur friends? Sound yoga and mantra chanting can be powerful tools to help calm and soothe pets, promoting a harmonious and peaceful environment. Let’s delve into how these practices work and their remarkable benefits for our pets.

Understanding Sound Yoga and Mantras

Sound yoga, also known as nāda yoga, is the practice of using sound and vibrations to bring harmony, attunement, and some might even say cosmic connection, to body, mind and spirt. It may include the use of musical instruments and/or vocal sounds to bring us into greater listening awareness, inner connection and peace, and to create a serene atmosphere – in both our inner and outer worlds. Mantras are repetitive sounds, words, or phrases chanted during meditation to focus the mind. They can bring a sense of tranquility and support a vibrational shift within our being.

How Sound Yoga and Mantras Affect Pets

  1. Vibrational Healing: Animals are highly sensitive to vibrations. The sounds and vibrations produced during sound yoga and mantra chanting can resonate with pets, helping to calm their nervous system. This can be particularly beneficial for anxious or hyperactive pets.
  2. Stress Reduction: Just like humans, pets can experience stress and anxiety from various sources such as loud noises, changes in routine, or separation from their owners. The soothing sounds of mantras can create a calming ambiance, reducing stress levels and promoting relaxation.
  3. Improved Sleep: Pets often struggle with sleep disturbances due to stress or discomfort. The calming effect of sound yoga and mantra can help regulate their sleep patterns, ensuring they get the rest they need.
  4. Behavioural Improvement: Regular exposure to calming sounds can lead to noticeable improvements in your pet’s behaviour. They may become less aggressive, more obedient, and exhibit fewer signs of anxiety.

Practical Tips for Practicing Sound Yoga and Mantras with Pets

  1. Create a Calm Environment: Choose a quiet space in your home where you and your pet can relax without interruptions. Gentle lighting and a comfortable temperature can support the experience.
  2. Use Gentle Sounds: Start with gentle sounds such soft music, or maybe a singing bowl. My preferred option is vocal chanting using mantras. Observe your pet’s reaction and adjust the volume and type of sound accordingly.
  3. Consistency is Key: Regular practice is essential to see the benefits. Set aside a few minutes each day for sound yoga and mantra sessions with your pet. Over time, they will start to associate these sounds with relaxation and comfort.
  4. Be Patient: Every pet is different. Some may take to sound yoga immediately, while others may need more time to adjust. Be patient and gentle, allowing your pet to explore the experience at their own pace.

Mantras In Stressful Moments for Pets

Sometimes we can’t always control the environment and pets might be triggered in a stressful circumstance. I had a recent experience of transporting a friend’s dog on a long drive. Pickles, the staffie, and I had never met. I could feel her concern as we drove off, leaving her owner behind. Inspiration led me to chant mantras for much of the 6.5 hour journey. Within a very short time the sounds helped her relax so much that she happily slept for most of the journey.

Conclusion

Incorporating sound yoga and mantra chanting into your pet’s routine can be a wonderful way to enhance their well-being. By creating a peaceful environment filled with calming sounds, you can help reduce their stress, improve their sleep, and promote overall better behavior. It’s a beautiful transformational practice that not only benefits your pet but also strengthens the bond between you and your fur baby. Give it a try and watch the positive transformation in your pet’s life!

Learn Some Mantras to Use with Your Pets

Have you tried sound yoga or mantras with your pet? If you’re new to this practice, start with short sessions and observe how your pet responds. If you’d like some tips on mantras you can work with, then get in touch for a mantra coaching session.

 

With the holistic approach of sound yoga and mantra chanting, we can offer our beloved pets a sense of tranquility and joy, enhancing their lives and ours in the process.

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Mantra For Mental Well Being

The use of sacred sound in the form of mantra is a powerful tool to transform our inner landscape. The invoking of the sounds through the use of certain mouth placement creates an energy which promotes changes within our ‘beingness’.

For example, certain vocal sounds will promote the release of nitric oxide within the body, which has an impressive list of natural health promoting benefits, releasing ‘feel good’ chemicals that aid in stress relief, relaxation, boosting the immune system and building resilience.

The use of mantra is a simple, safe and powerful way to give the mind a point of focus, to achieve a state of calmness to help us enter into meditative states of inner stillness and connection. It’s a tool of personal empowerment, to help us reclaim and direct our energies and sometimes turbulent inner landscape into a place of greater clarity, peace and stillness.

There are many studies emerging about the power of mantra to effect change and make a difference in conditions such as PTSD.

It has been a pathway of tremendous personal transformation for myself, and I love sharing these tools of empowerment with others.

If you’re interested in connecting to find out more and experiencing your own mantra practice for mental wellbeing, please get in touch for an obligation free chat. We can arrange 1-1 or group sessions if you have a few people interested. Currently sessions are via Zoom or phone given the restrictions around movement.

No previous experience is required.

Check the event calendar for upcoming Yoga of Sound group classes using sound frequencies and mantra to support mental health and wellbeing.

 

Reference Article

Boston University, School of Public Health, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Mantras Repetition Effective in Treating Veterans with PTSD.

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Meditation For Mental Health

Imagine what you could achieve if you were operating from a place of deep inner calmness, clarity and vibrant energy.

How can you offer your best if you’re strung out and an emotional wreck?

Now significantly mainstream, managing one’s mental wellbeing through meditation is an increasingly adopted practice. There are some links at the bottom of this post to other interesting mainstream articles. Essentially they cite benefits of adopting meditation in the workplace: reduced sick leave, enhanced creativity, greater emotional intelligence and capacity to communicate with colleagues, stress reduction, improved productivity, increased happiness and work satisfaction, and more…

The unique style of meditation I facilitate is a unique blend of relaxation and stress relief techniques, combined with energy clearing, breath work and cognitive refocussing.

Think of it as an energetic spring clean to lift your energy and vibration. A short guided session can help you chill out, calm down and slow down, so that you can actually power up in the things that matter, connect to your innate clarity and direct your energy where it matters most.

Learn simple skills to better manage your energy, time pressures and challenges. Connect with greater peace, productivity and personal power.

Online Or In Person, Groups or 1-1

The ‘flavour’ of each session is generally informed by you and/or the group energy. It is tailored to your current circumstances and what is going on in your life or workplace. Please get in touch to discuss customising a session for you.

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In-house (Zoom or in-person) guided meditation for your workplace team.

  • Support the wellbeing of your most valuable assets – your people.
  • Experience techniques to enhance clarity, productivity and personal connection.
  • Build resilience. Alleviate stress. Access creative and inspirational states of awareness.
  • Cultivate positive mental mindset, and responsiveness rather than reaction.
  • Enhance the quality of your interactions operating from a stronger, clearer internal compass.

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Power Up. Reboot, Reset, Re-energise.

  • Build team connection, trust and cohesiveness with an interactive playshop with a difference.
  • Enhance resilience, creativity and inspired leadership.
  • Experience simple skills to better manage your personal and team energy, time pressures and challenges.
  • Connect with greater inner calm, productivity, authenticity and personal empowerment.
  • These guided interactive sessions can shift blockages to team trust, connection, effective collaboration and flow.

Previous Clients And Corporate Highlights

  • Superhuman Healing Online Summit
  • Facilitating a Higher Power Leaders Masterclass for senior business executives, Human Power
  • Strategy day meditation, Being More Human
  • Corporate meditation, energy healing and transformation sessions for Kerwin Rae’s team in their Sydney office with Shakti Durga.

Benefits of Workplace Meditation

Here are links to some articles about companies implementing meditation in the workplace:

Harvard Business Review | How Meditation Benefits CEOs

Monash University | The Health Benefits of Meditation & Being Mindful

Arianna Huffington, Linked In | Mindfulness, Meditation, Wellness & Their Connection to Corporate America’s Bottom Line

Henry Stewart, Linked In | Five Big Companies Who Swear By Mindfulness

Chopra Centre | How & Why big Businesses Are Promoting Meditation

Chopra Centre | 5 Ways Meditation Can Benefit Businesses

Huff Post | How Meditation Benefits the Working Brain

The Entrepreneur | Why Meditation Works and How It Benefits the Workplace

Marino Wellness | 9 Incredible Benefits of an Office Meditation Program

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What is Energy Healing?

If you’re interested in the wellness of your body, mind and spirit, or just generally want to feel better about yourself, energetic healing is a powerful means of transformation.

Most people have challenges to deal with at some point in their life. Perhaps you’re feeling stuck, low energy, lacking direction, depressed, unable to let go of the past, struggling with difficult relationships at home or work, low self esteem, lack of confidence, or just generally a bit flat?

Ignite Your Spirit energy healing can help you transform the energy of the situation.

Experience this powerful form of non-touch energetic healing. It works through the multi-dimensional aspects of your being – the physical, subtle energy centres, mental and emotional. Get in touch today to find out more or book an appointment. If you can’t find a time to suit you, drop me a message and we can work in with your schedule.

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