Doing yoga with your pet isn’t exactly a new phenomenon. But what if your yoga partner were a different kind of furry friend, say a goat?
That’s where Goat Yoga comes in.
Lainey Morse’s Oregon-based yoga class featuring her eight goats currently has a waiting list with 1,200 people on it, according to the Washington Post. The goats mill about the yoga practitioners during the class, and some go as far as to scurry onto people’s backs while they execute poses.
“The look on these people’s faces is just pure bliss,” Morse told the Washington Post.
The goats seem to have less involvement than in other pet-friendly classes, like ” doga.” (Sometimes, for example, dogs serve as weights for people performing certain yoga poses. Both dogs and humans are said to benefit from this practice.)
Nonetheless, this goat yoga class has become so popular it’s even attracting tourists. “Pretty much no one in my local community comes to these classes. It’s mostly people that live in big cities like Seattle and Portland,” Morse added. “They all live in these big cities, and they don’t get to experience country life or have interaction with goats.”
People can also visit Morse’s Facebook page called “Your Daily Goat,” which boasts more than 13,000 likes.
Morse has had her share of struggles, from divorce to living with Sjogren’s syndrome, which is akin to lupus. “Every day I would come home from work, sit out in my field and spend time with my goats,” Morse told the Post. “It ended up being so therapeutic to me. It’s hard to be sad and depressed when you have baby goats jumping around you.”
That’s for sure.
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