A Poem of Wacky, Wonderful Noises While Clawing The Mat, CAT!
In celebrating Dr. Seuss’ birthday we learned how to work our feet and our hands. Just as Suess’ Mr. Brown Can Moo!, Mrs. Cat can MEOW! In “Mrs. Cat Can Meow! Can You?” A Poem of Wacky, Wonderful Noises – While Clawing the Mat we allowed our inner animal out on the mat while paying close attention to our hands and feet. Are they wacky? Are they flat? Are they clawing the mat? When practicing this wacky flow while making Suesserrific noises you too will learn the importance of clawing the mat. In playing “Stop Foot, Go” (a zany spin on the all time favorite game, Musical Chairs) and studying the 4 corners of our feet we checked on our left foot and our right foot making sure they were fuzzy fur feet. While “Roaring”, “split – splatting” and “meowing” along with Mrs. Cat we learned that when our four paws are aligned we feel more steady, more grounded, and in balance with the universe.
To push ourselves farther and to study our hands more thoroughly, we used a block in forward fold
throughout this silly flow and colored a Feet and Hands coloring page inspired by Grounded teacher, Vanessa Braun’s Mandala picture.
Mrs. Cat Can Meow! Imagine That?! ~ A Poem of Wacky, Wonderful Noises – While Clawing the Mat
by Kelley Sue Hardin
(Inspired by Dr. Suess’ book “Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?”)
Oh, the wacky, wonderful sounds
Mrs. Cat can make!
She can sound like RAIN
Dibble, dibble
Dibble, dop
Dibble, dibble
Dop, dop, dop
She can sound like a LION
In Pride Plank while clawing the mat
“ROAR!”
She can sound like a DOG
In Down Dog
Ruff! Ruff! Ruff!
She can whisper, whisper
In Dark Seed Light
Like the soft whisper of a BUTTERFLY
She can hover over her mat
And spread her wings
FLAP!, FLAP!, FLAP!
While lying on her belly
In Flat Like a Pancake
With fingers spread wide
And her back puffed up
She can HISS!
She can CLAW!
She can stick her tail up in the air
And MEOW! MEOW!
She can sound like a HORSE
KLOP! KLOP! KLOP!
In No Table Yes
Imagine that?!
She can sound like THUNDER
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
In Go To Your Room!
She can even slam the door
SMACK!
She can sound like a CLOCK
In Do The Twist
While moving her hands
Just like this… Tick, Tock
Tick, Tock
Tick, Tock
She can SPLIT!
She can SPLOT!
She can sound like a BUG
In Baby Got Back
Oh, the wonderful sounds
Mrs. Cat can make.
All while clawing her mat.
Why don’t you try them out?
We all have a limited, contracted, outer surface. Yoga teaches us to dig deep into our center to know our true, authentic selves. Yoga Teacher Barbie was gifted to me on my birthday and I have chosen to Ground her and help her to expand her consciousness. All of my students are gifts; yet this is my first one who was born in Indonesia and had a non-existent childhood,. No wonder she has restricted knowledge.
Have you ever felt not worthy? Maybe you lacked Self-love or maybe you didn’t surround yourself with goodness at the time. Who we surround ourselves with is who we become. If we surround ourselves with downers we begin to feel down. If we surround ourselves with happy, joyous, and delightful people we become more happy and joyful. If we were to eat junk food every single day we would begin to feel down and ucky. When we eat healthier we experience delight and Self-love. Honor Your Self! Surround yourself with goodness. “The first step toward awareness is being willing to look at yourself and your life without judgment or self-criticism.” (Iyanla Vanzant) Awareness opens the heart to new possibilities.
