EEN 'GELUKKIGE AFLEIDING': KIJK EENS IN DE GEITEN YOGA -TREND

Boven: Lainey Morse knuffelt een geit.

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.

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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.

Het verhaal achter het geit -yoga -fenomeen

Dus wat is er zo speciaal aan geitenyoga? Nee, de geiten doen eigenlijk geen poses, maar ze strekken zich uit en soms lijkt het erop dat ze naar beneden gerichte hond doen, zegt Morse (maar dat zijn ze niet, voegt ze toe met een lach). Morse, die pas onlangs begon met het oefenen van yoga, werd vorig jaar gediagnosticeerd met het syndroom van Sjogren, een auto -immuunziekte die extreme vermoeidheid veroorzaakt en de longen en hersenen beïnvloedt. Haar geiten hielpen haar er doorheen te krijgen. Het was echt moeilijk voor mij vorig jaar ... tijd doorbrengen in mijn vakgebied met mijn geiten was gewoon zo'n therapie voor mij. Het is echt moeilijk om verdrietig en depressief te zijn als je babygeiten om je heen springt, zegt ze.

Diertherapie vormt de kern van de geiten yogalessen van Morse, die worden gegeven door 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, Lama’ste En paardenjoga Onlangs de krantenkoppen halen.

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Wat gebeurt er echt in geitenyoga?

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 En in this idyllic farm with a beautiful view of the mountains En 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 En the joy of being on the farm with the goats. They’re so playful, curious, En fun to be around. It makes it more than a yoga class — it’s an experience, she says.

En omdat het moeilijk is om te serieus te zijn als babygeiten je vergezellen in Warrior I, neemt Davis speelsheid en humor op in haar lessen. Ik vind het niet dom. Mensen zeggen dat het klinkt als Portlandia [De Sketch Comedy -serie die Portland, Oregon vervalst]. Het is niet goofy of dom, maar het is zeker leuk. Wanneer de geiten ervoor kiezen om naast je te nestelen wanneer je in Savasana ligt, is dat de beste. Davis voegt eraan toe dat zij en Morse de geiten niet dwingen om aanwezig te zijn tijdens de lessen - ze kiezen ervoor om zich bij beoefenaars op hun matten te voegen.

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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