I am MNTU

I woke up this morning triggered.

Mornings already the hardest time for me. Morning, and right before sleep. This has never not been the case.

And reasons could range from being socialized early on to traumatic REM states of childhood mntu* unmanaged, to or many other things linked to being puoin, Mi’kmaq, mixed, trans, disabled, etc.

One could worry about it – but if the reason is meant to surface, it will.

So how did I fix it?

I didn’t. It balanced out on it’s own.

I rode my riteous wave, because life goes in cycles.

And I’m mntu*.

*MNTU: the Holy Spirit of everything

I’ve been having cluster migraines, numbness in my hands, and other forms of emotional and energy disturbances, so in addition to Qigong purging, I’ve been grounding down on the anxiety that attempts to rise with my natural life cycles.

This, to some, likely sounds like garble. Even simplified, the practice of following cyclic rhythms is not only denied most Americans (and at the very least, to those living in oppression), but is shamed.

The idea that one’s physical and mental means are mirror to one’s emotional and spiritual state is generally rebuffed as being new age, granola, and other terms used by white supremacy and other colonist tactics make those of us still very much involved and attached to our root heritages incapable of maintaining a healthy, mindful life.

And yet this morning as I canceled clients in a glow of pain and compassion for myself (one of the hardest things for me to attain), I felt what would have been a clawing anxiety dissipate. Grounded back to zero, repeating my personal mantras through meditation, these concerns that I suddenly was a horrid person for having individual, diverse health needs that came before all else, including pulling in needed income, went back to the void from which they came.

“Wela’lin.” (Thank you)

As Mantra Pet proceeds forward, I will be riding my wave, walking my path, respecting my cycles, and doing what I’m meant to. This means continuing to allow colonistic works ideals that I have bought into to the detriment of my and other’s health and cycles to die out. Be zero’d. Go back to the void, instead of being stuck where they do not belong.

I will not worry how my time is spent, it will be spent how it is meant to.

I will not try to fix what is put before me, it will cycle as it is meant to.

I will not tell life I know better, because I designed this as I am meant to.

I look forward to where we are headed

but I will patiently land

Where ever

I am

What a busy year!

Buttons 2017

Buttons 2017

Hello folks!

Now that Ty and I have had some time to settle into beautiful Jersey City, we're hoping to bring you more site updates in the upcoming weeks. 

While we refine a few new articles to post, here are a few exciting things we would like to share with you:

  • Hound About Town and Mantra Pet are working together to assemble community pack walks every other week this summer! Our first pack walk had a great turnout and we look forward to seeing more of you there in the future. Keep an eye out for flyers posted at Hound About Town as well as on our event page!
  • Ian is now open to booking new clients for pet photography. We are offering a 10% discount on any photo packages (and an additional 10% off for active Mantra Pet training clients) booked before September 2017!
  • Ty has dusted off our instagram to start posting photos and short videos of client pups during their training sessions, if you haven't already, follow mantra_pet on instagram for more cute updates! :)
  • In the upcoming weeks, we plan to launch a monthly online newsletter! The newsletter will have updates regarding any local events on our radar, answers to frequently asked questions, a review/advice column ("written" by our fluffy friends), and more. We will be sending out an email to current clients as well as adding a button to the front page to subscribe to the mailing list once we've started!

We are so excited to be bringing you more content and look forward to updating you again soon!

Ian & Ty

How busy can we be?

Very!

Seems we've taken JC by storm, and I'm happy to say Mantra Pet is currently happily filling our schedule with pets and owners in desperate need of behavioral counseling. Seeing so many pets succeed so quickly is a dream come true.

I'm also very happy to announce that our first catification project in JC has begun with a client - baby on the way, multicat home, and an excitable pooch too! Perfect formula to get vertical kitty realty rolling in an apartment setting.

Expect actual article updates shortly - a piece on "Force Free" training, as well as a Catastrophe: Multicat Tension in the Home are both sitting on my desktop, waiting for my hands to free up a smidge.