Outdoor goat yoga with Anna Kowalski

Outdoor goat yoga with Anna Kowalski at Red House Stables and goat walking and petting sessions.

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00:00Yeah I'm Anna from Outdoor Yoga Peak District and I'm Francesca and I do the goat walking here at

00:05Red House Stables. I've been doing alpaca yoga for a few years but then I found Francesca who's

00:12got goats and she wanted to do goat yoga together so over the summer we've been doing lots of

00:16sessions it's been really really fun and something different. So yeah the goats have like you say

00:23through each session got more used to sort of people and they definitely know what the yoga

00:27mats mean now they they like getting on your back and it's yeah it's a good experience for

00:31the goats as well as everyone that sort of joins in the sessions it's very enjoyable all around.

00:36Yeah yeah definitely it's something different and people are just loving it they're finding

00:42it so fun and just makes them feel so relaxed and happy and at the end of the sessions people

00:48don't usually want to leave they're just sitting basking in the sun taking in the views just

00:53stroking the goats and it's just it's wonderful. So what does it involve? Well it's like a normal yoga session

01:01except we have the interaction of the goats as well because goats are so gregarious and curious

01:06they come in and want to meet everybody and and join in so it just adds like an element of

01:13playfulness and humour rather than being like breathing and serious and postures it just makes

01:18it more natural and playful. And so what type of goats have we got today? So they're pygmy goats so

01:24we've got a range of sort of ages my oldest ones are four years old and then we've got the youngest

01:29being six months old it was a pygmy goat so like you say a smaller breed of goat so it makes it a

01:34bit better for the yoga really because they're not too big to be sort of climbing on people

01:38and getting involved with the yoga.