Goat Yoga For Every Body

Gilbert, AZ    morning temp of upper 70s with sunshine so just about perfect.

I'm sure some of you out there have done goat yoga. I hope you had as much fun as we did.

I was trying to find something for the three of us to do and found Baby Goat Yoga in Gilbert. Baby goats - could anything be sweeter than that. 

AZ Goat Yoga has been featured on Americas Got Talent and are in the Guinness Book of World Records. 

One major problem. The three of us girls are "older" so the thought of getting down on the ground and doing yoga was NOT happening. (But it's baby goats!)

So I got hold of one of the instructors and asked whether we could bring chairs and pet the goats while we watched everybody else actually do goat yoga. As long as we were willing to pay for the class, we were more than welcome.

What an experience. We arrived about 8:30 for a 9:00 a.m. class. They told us to go on in and set up our chairs over by the pen where they kept the baby goats. Just make sure we weren't in the way of those who were actually there to do yoga.

We no sooner sat down then the instructors and helpers were there with three baby goats for us to hold. And I mean babies. Mine was three days old and I think the other two were five days old. The softest, cutest things ever. 

 My little girl snuggled right into my arms and fell asleep. After a few minutes I began to feel my body relaxing along with hers and all was right with the world. I got to hold her the whole hour we were there. I know Pat and Marilyn felt the same way. 

Sorry about the fat finger in the picture. She was so sweet.

 

It was really fun to watch everybody else actually doing yoga with the bigger goats (they are pygmy goats so not real big even as adults). It's amazing what the goats will do for a treat from the instructors. There is one pose where the goats go underneath the people. And lots of goats on their backs. And lots of goats just wandering around being goats. 

 

They also have a couple of alpacas entertaining everyone. One of them came over to nuzzle us (but it's because the instructor put a treat on our shoulder).  

 

This little one got stuck under my chair and was happily munching on grass and could have cared less.

This baby was hungry. He was in the pen and started bleating for mama. She came running across the field and they let the baby out. He knew exactly what he wanted.

 

 

It was a fantastic adventure and we want to do it again next year. Baby Goat Yoga is definitely for every body even if you can't get on the ground.