Idea: a meditation retreat with added cats. You try to sit zazen despite a dozen cats desperately trying to distract you and get your attention. It'd be many times more effective than traditional meditation. You'd leave covered in cat fur and enlightenment
Flies are great retreat companions, they transform into these wrathful teachers who invoke the funniest of reactions. Searing pain is fine, I can work with that. Equanimity with a fly on your face? That shit is some sort of yogic attainment.
