New yoga trend Relax with goats during Goat Yoga

"Goat-Yoga": Goats help to relax
Hardly any other method is better for stress relief than yoga. The relaxation exercises also have positive effects on the body. In recent years, new elements have always been combined with the millennia-old doctrine. The latest cry is called "Goat Yoga". Goats help to relax.

Yoga promotes health
Yoga has also been a popular method in Western countries for years to escape the stress of everyday life. It is not only a great way to relax, but also to do good for your physical health. This allows yoga to normalize blood pressure and relieve chronic back pain. In addition, the exercises in mental illness and help with weight loss. Meanwhile, there are more and more variants, brand new is the "Goat-Yoga".

In the US, a new trend is spreading: the "Goat-Yoga". People do yoga exercises while the goats run around them. The animals should help to relax. (Image: Carola Schubbel / fotolia.com)

Always new variants
Some shapes are not necessarily popular. Not for everyone, for example, Bikram Yoga in sweaty heat, "Naked Yoga", which is practiced completely naked or "Doga" with four-legged friends. ("Doga" is made up of "dog" and "yoga").

While the SUP yoga, practiced on a floating paddle board, was recently touted as the new trend, it is now the "goat yoga" that many in the US swear by.

Yoga with goats? That sounds a little bit bizarre. But for Lainey Morse, owner of the "No Regrets" farm in Oregon, this is the perfect combination. "Goats are perfect for yoga practice, because they not only connect nature and animals, but also yoga and that fits everything together so well," Morse told "CNN".

Goats participate in yoga
She had been running a farm for some time and had goats there as well. One day a yoga teacher at a birthday party said, "You should have a yoga class out here."

"I said okay, but the goats have to participate." That was the idea born.

People do exercises and the goats walk around them. Sometimes the animals also lean on the people or scramble up on them. "The funniest thing about it is to see the faces when distracted by a little goat doing yoga. It's a distraction, but a happy distraction. "

Animals are almost meditative
"Goats are a bit mischievous and already nibble on the yoga mat," said the 45-year-old. But that does not bother the woman, who suffers from autoimmune disease herself. The animals offer advantages: "You can totally relax by your side. They are very affectionate and they seem almost meditative in rumination. "

She's also known that goats can do no miracles in yoga: "This does not cure any illnesses, but it helps people cope with whatever they go through."

The meadows where the "Goat-Yoga" takes place are not contaminated with goat-goat. And even bad smells are not to be feared. Only goats smell strong, but not the castrated petting goats on the farm.

According to her, more and more people are interested in rural courses. "The participants are beaming all over their faces." The method has also been adopted in other places. Some advertise with a "whole new kind of Zen".

Lainey Morse wants to have "Goat-Yoga" branded and spread with franchise licenses worldwide. There are already inquiries from Europe. (Ad)