Goat yoga is one of those things that sounds like a joke. But it is very real! A yoga teacher leads a class of humans while goats interact with the yogis. Preferably the goats are kids because, really, you wouldn't want a 30-pound goat climbing on you. Or butting heads with you.
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00:00You know, people use horses as therapy animals, and I just wondered why they don't use goats.
00:10Because they're calm, they're funny, they just have all of these qualities that humans
00:17actually have a hard time obtaining.
00:21My name is Laini Morris, and I'm the founder of Goat Yoga.
00:31So Goat Yoga started in 2016, and it really came about because I was going through a hard
00:36time in my life.
00:38I had been diagnosed with a disease, I was going through a divorce, and life couldn't
00:44have been worse.
00:45And it was my goats, really, that pulled me through.
00:49When you're around goats, they give you a happy distraction, and that's why goats.
01:00So when I created Goat Yoga, that's really what I was striving for.
01:04It makes you escape from whatever you're going through.
01:08You walk into that class, you put your yoga mat down, and they'll just come right up to
01:12you and love you.
01:14So there's not many animals that are like that.
01:17So that's one thing that makes goats special.
01:21And so doing yoga with a goat is, it's just something different, and people have to try
01:27it before they judge it.
01:29See how calm they are?
01:44You know, I think people, when they come to a class, they don't know what to expect with
01:48Goat Yoga.
01:49And if you go to a class, a lot of times they'll be laughing so hard they're crying, and, you
01:56know, when's the last time you did that?
01:58So I think people just need to, you know, as adults we take everything so seriously,
02:05and we need to laugh a little, and laughter's the best medicine.
02:09So if you go to a class, sometimes your face will hurt the next day because you smiled
02:16so hard.