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Lainey Morse certainly didn’t expect to become, as she puts it, a Goat Yoga mogul. But a cute idea to host a yoga class at her farm in Albany, Oregon, while baby goats pranced around the mats has turned into a phenomenon with a more than 500-person wait list.

Blown away. I’m blown away. Goat yoga … who knew? Every day, something crazier happens, says Morse, who is stunned that the Goat Yoga classes she hosts on her farm are attracting interest from Alaska to Australia. Morse, 44, a marketing professional who is now pursuing Goat Yoga full-time, says the idea for the class came from a yoga teacher mom who attended a child’s birthday party at her farm. Word got out not long after the first class in July, when Morse sent some cute Goat Yoga photos to Modern Farmer magazine, and from there, it absolutely snowballed, she says, with even The New York Times coming out to the farm to figure out just what’s so special about Goat Yoga (the Times article has yet to be published). I think probably right now everybody is stressed out with politics and everything going on … this is a story that’s a happy distraction, Morse theorizes.

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Então, o que há de tão especial no Goat Yoga? Não, as cabras não fazem poses, mas se estendem e às vezes parece que estão fazendo um cachorro voltado para baixo, diz Morse (mas não está, ela acrescenta com uma risada). Morse, que só recentemente começou a praticar ioga, foi diagnosticado no ano passado com a síndrome de Sjogren, uma doença autoimune que causa fadiga extrema e afeta os pulmões e o cérebro. Suas cabras ajudaram a passar por isso. Foi muito difícil para mim no ano passado ... passar um tempo no meu campo com minhas cabras foi apenas essa terapia para mim. É realmente difícil ficar triste e deprimido quando você tem cabras pulando ao seu redor, diz ela.

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A terapia animal está no coração das classes de ioga de cabra de Morse, que são ensinadas por Heather Davis . One lady had stage 4 cancer and said nothing had helped her heal more than Goat Yoga, Morse says. Plus, the classes are fun. We’ve heard of Laughter Yoga … I think it adds to that aspect of it. Yoga connects you with your mind, body, and soul, and if you do it out in the middle of nature in a field, in beautiful surroundings, and you add goats, which are friendly, social, and loving, and sit down next to people on their mats … people are so happy. After class I always say, ‘Was it as cool as you thought it was going to be?’ And almost everyone says, ‘This was magical. It was amazing.’ It’s partnering a great yoga class with nature and cute animals. The class is on trend, too, with Meowga, Doga, Lhama'ste e Yoga a cavalo ganhando manchetes recentemente.

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Heather Davis, who teaches the all-levels, vinyasa-style Goat Yoga classes, says that like Morse, she had no idea Goat Yoga was going to be such a big hit. What I can guess is that the experience of being with the goats e in this idyllic farm with a beautiful view of the mountains e the sunset … it brings yoga to everybody. People that have said, ‘I would never do yoga’ are willing to try it with goats … it takes the pretense out of it. Even if you’re anxious about not having what you may think of as a yoga body or if you’ve never done yoga before, Davis believes Goat Yoga allows people to experience something new e the joy of being on the farm with the goats. They’re so playful, curious, e fun to be around. It makes it more than a yoga class — it’s an experience, she says.

E como é difícil ser muito sério quando as cabras de bebê estão se juntando a você em Warrior I, Davis incorpora brincadeira e humor em suas aulas. Eu não acho que seja bobo. As pessoas dizem que parece Portlandia [A série de comédia de esboço que falsa Portland, Oregon]. Não é bobo ou bobo, mas certamente é divertido. Quando as cabras optam por se aconchegar ao seu lado quando você está deitado em Savasana, esse é o melhor. Davis acrescenta que ela e Morse não forçam as cabras a estarem presentes durante as aulas - eles escolhem se juntar aos profissionais em seus tapetes.

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Each Goat Yoga class is three hours long: one hour to hang out with the goats, an hour of yoga, and then what Morse calls goat happy hour, where people play with the goats and take selfies. Morse had planned on waiting until springtime to hold the next class (since it’s getting too cold for outdoor yoga), but due to demand, she’s decided to give barn goat yoga a try later this month. She’s also planning Goat Yoga retreats and goat therapy for veterans, people with disabilities, people suffering from depression, people suffering from illness, etc. I didn’t even know I could dream something like this … I’m super excited, she says.

Goat Yoga classes are . To get on the wait list for the next class, e-mail [email protected].

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