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Goat farmer?Lainey Morse is hosting sold-out goat yoga classes. Yes, you read that right: goat yoga. It’s not yoga for goats, but rather, yoga?hosted inside a barn or perhaps a field, with goats wandering around, looking for a back rub as you forward fold. Currently, a lot more than 1,800 individuals are on a waitlist.
“Some people fly in, or drive 300 miles,” says Morse. “We were built with a class in my barn when it was 25 degrees out.”
It might seem silly to anyone who’s not a goat lover, but it is sensible to Morse, who started offering the classes in August.?She’s always felt there is something therapeutic about goats. They helped her through a rough patch in her own life years back, when she was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease?Sj?gren’s syndrome. Today?Morse?has eight goats-five miniature goats, one adult?Boer goat, and 2 baby Boer goats-living on her behalf farm in the Willamette Valley. Six of these?are rescues.
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“It’s difficult to be sad or depressed if you have baby goats jumping around you,” Morse says. “I started having people over who were going though crisis or were distressed to hang by helping cover their the goats. I called it Goat Happy Hour because everyone always left in a good mood.”
When a yoga instructor who had been going to the farm inspired to teach a class on the scenic property, Morse?was completely aboard. As word about goat yoga spread, classes started selling out?and also the waitlist grew. “Everyone who tries it says I’ve really got something special here,” says Morse. “It’s about disconnecting using the world and getting out in nature and getting together with animals.”
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And the goats are loving it too. “They want to be in which the people are,” says Morse. “They’ll walk around and sit on the mats and chew their cud, that is so methodical. They’re going into a sort of meditative state when they get it done, and it is calming to watch.” Morse has partnered with Oregon State University to provide goat yoga to students this spring.?
“I think the goats make people really happy,” says Morse, “and staying positive and happy has a big impact on your health.” Cute goats, nature, plus?a good work out? It does not get a lot better than that.
If you’d like to sign up for the waitlist?and?learn about special attractions, visit goatyoga.net.?
