Meet the woman who started the goat yoga craze

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Goat yoga is one of those things that sounds like a joke. But it is very real! A yoga teacher leads a class of humans while goats interact with the yogis. Preferably the goats are kids because, really, you wouldn't want a 30-pound goat climbing on you. Or butting heads with you.

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00:00You know, people use horses as therapy animals, and I just wondered why they don't use goats.

00:10Because they're calm, they're funny, they just have all of these qualities that humans

00:17actually have a hard time obtaining.

00:21My name is Laini Morris, and I'm the founder of Goat Yoga.

00:31So Goat Yoga started in 2016, and it really came about because I was going through a hard

00:36time in my life.

00:38I had been diagnosed with a disease, I was going through a divorce, and life couldn't

00:44have been worse.

00:45And it was my goats, really, that pulled me through.

00:49When you're around goats, they give you a happy distraction, and that's why goats.

01:00So when I created Goat Yoga, that's really what I was striving for.

01:04It makes you escape from whatever you're going through.

01:08You walk into that class, you put your yoga mat down, and they'll just come right up to

01:12you and love you.

01:14So there's not many animals that are like that.

01:17So that's one thing that makes goats special.

01:21And so doing yoga with a goat is, it's just something different, and people have to try

01:27it before they judge it.

01:29See how calm they are?

01:44You know, I think people, when they come to a class, they don't know what to expect with

01:48Goat Yoga.

01:49And if you go to a class, a lot of times they'll be laughing so hard they're crying, and, you

01:56know, when's the last time you did that?

01:58So I think people just need to, you know, as adults we take everything so seriously,

02:05and we need to laugh a little, and laughter's the best medicine.

02:09So if you go to a class, sometimes your face will hurt the next day because you smiled

02:16so hard.

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