Diggidy Doggy Day Care in Melbourne is offering Doga classes – yoga you can do with your dog. Okay, okay, before you start on downward dog, what about these poses? Can you imagine your dog doing them?
And yes, that is Gert demonstrating the poses.
Dog image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/6695118@Noo/306978182
All others are from Pixabay.
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That would be a stretch, in more ways than one!
Leslie
Have you got a dog,Leslie?
Our older daughter and younger son have dogs. I had a dog when I was a young girl.
Leslie
Well, get them to try some of these moves out on their dogs.
Not doggedly possible.
Leslie
My dogs would watch but that is all.
What about your giant tortoise?
She would definitely watch. She hears my car arrive home and comes to greet me.
How sweet. I can see the two of you standing on your heads together.
We’re thinking of writing a book set in academia. There could be a role for a giant tortoise that does yoga.
I wrote a flash fiction piece about the world turtle. Love the Yoga turtle in academia.
The turtle on whose back the world is perched?
Yes. He gets bored with holding up the world and goes off to see what the world is like — here are a couple of paragraphs from the middle of the story:
He walked across Europe, and heard Aesop’s tale of the Tortoise and the Hare. He stopped on the Greek island of Aegina where the people showed him pictures of the turtle on their flags and coins. He saw statues of Aphrodite with her foot on the back of a turtle (fellow did OK for himself, thought Turtle). Then he swam across the Atlantic and found himself at the foot of the Statue of Liberty. Looks a bit like Aphrodite, he thought, but more of an attitude.
He hauled out of the water at The Battery, and started up Broadway. It wasn’t long before a cab screeched to a halt beside him. A guy jumped out and said, “Dude! We are making a musical and you will be perfect for the title role. Come with me.” Turtle did, and spent the next three months as the star of “Tortoise Toes,” a musical that featured dozens of dancers singing the wildly popular hit, “Slow to love, but toe-tally yours.” Luckily, Turtle didn’t have to dance.
His adventures nearly ended one night on his way home from the theater when the cab driver suddenly twisted in his seat, and said, “You and me, bud, we’re going to make soup together.” It turned out that the cabbie was a contestant on a reality cooking show, and had to show up the next morning with an exotic meat to cook in front of the audience.
I think that musical has a future. Can you draw? You could make a great comic strip out of the adventures of Turtle.
I can, but it takes me a long time. Maybe after the MFA . . .
Fame and fortune await.
I have good models in the authors of “Writing is Easy,” and “Crane Mansion.” Looking forward to the next one . . .
They seem more suited to cats. Mine joins me now and then in morning asanas. He wins every time, for flexibility, and especially for his mastery of Dead Man’s Pose.
Ah, yes, my cat is quite helpful too. At yoga we sometimes use sandbags to encourage a joint to relax, and she acts as a very effective sandbag.
What a good partner — not Quaxo. He’d be gone like a shot at any suggestion of cooperation not entirely on his terms.
When I do yoga in the living-room, my dog always joins in. He also participates when I play the piano, but that’s another story…
I imagine you and your dog are having more difficulty than usual with these one-arm balances since your dog-fall.
Yes! Dogs don’t understand about broken arms.