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Yoga With Goats Craze Takes Off in US
Channel News Asia ^ | 15 Jun 2017

Posted on 06/14/2017 11:03:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Adonna Ebrahimi is stretched out on her yoga mat, struggling to maintain a cobra pose - and her composure - as a couple of baby goats do a balancing act on her back.

Welcome to "Goat Yoga", the latest fitness craze sweeping the United States, where young and old are lining up for the popular classes that leave participants not only saying "namaste" but also in stitches.

The new workouts taking place on farms across the country involve Nigerian Dwarf goats - miniature goats of West African origin - roaming about as yogis practice their exercise routines.

"At first, it was a bit scary because I didn't know the goats were going to jump on my back," Ebrahimi, 53, said on a recent afternoon after completing her first "Goat Yoga" class outside Los Angeles.

(Excerpt) Read more at channelnewsasia.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Pets/Animals; Sports
KEYWORDS: fitness; goats; yoga
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No kidding.
1 posted on 06/14/2017 11:03:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Is that one trying to nurse?

2 posted on 06/14/2017 11:07:05 PM PDT by Rio (Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
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To: Rio

3 posted on 06/14/2017 11:08:38 PM PDT by Rio (Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
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4 posted on 06/14/2017 11:09:54 PM PDT by Rio (Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
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Is that second goat ‘nursing’?
When did that become a part of Yoga?
I don’t see any little goat diapers.
I guess one is just supposed to ignore the odors.


5 posted on 06/14/2017 11:17:59 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: nickcarraway
How do you say "Stupid Americans" in Hindi? I think we're about to find out.

Imagine Indians taking a Western religious ritual, turning it into an exercise routine and then adding monkeys to it.

6 posted on 06/14/2017 11:26:46 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
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Yoga? Pff Goats prefer the martial arts!

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7 posted on 06/14/2017 11:27:05 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: nickcarraway

People getting stupider.


8 posted on 06/14/2017 11:27:24 PM PDT by W. (String up the whiners!)
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To: lee martell

They are called kids.


9 posted on 06/14/2017 11:30:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: KarlInOhio

Yoga is of Scandinavian origin.


10 posted on 06/14/2017 11:30:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Nigerian Dwarf goats - miniature goats of West African origin

Ha...foreigners doing the job American goats don't want

Just wait till Trump hears of this...(wonder what type of goats on his winery...?)

11 posted on 06/14/2017 11:38:42 PM PDT by spokeshave (In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth)
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To: W.

“fitness craze sweeping the United States”

Puh-lease. So embarrassed by our first world BS.


12 posted on 06/14/2017 11:49:40 PM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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To: nickcarraway

Social conditioning to accept Islamic prayer rooms and muslim comfort goats, or girlfriends.


13 posted on 06/15/2017 12:27:00 AM PDT by Daniel Ramsey (Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best!)
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To: Rio

trying to keep the breast implant from falling out


14 posted on 06/15/2017 12:53:05 AM PDT by RouxStir (No peein' allowed in the gene pool.)
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“Yoga is of Scandinavian origin.”

Wrong.

Yoga comes from the posses used by Hindus to chant their mantras.

That is why a Hindu holy man is called a Yogi.


15 posted on 06/15/2017 1:52:26 AM PDT by Fai Mao (I still want to see The PIAPS in prison)
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That is why a Hindu holy man is called a Yogi.

My favorite bear is a Hindu holy man?

16 posted on 06/15/2017 2:07:45 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: nickcarraway

Paging PETA.


17 posted on 06/15/2017 2:59:40 AM PDT by FES0844 (G)
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To: nickcarraway; al baby; Albion Wilde; Allegra; BufordP; EveningStar; Gefn; GunsareOK; JRios1968; ...

Wouldn’t this be funny if it got a predominately Muslim clientele?

DANG!


18 posted on 06/15/2017 3:30:00 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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Wouldn’t this be funny if it got a predominately Muslim clientele?

...and at the end of the class, the goat would be bar-b-qued.

19 posted on 06/15/2017 3:42:39 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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From the looks of her unwashed hair I bet the goat recognizes the smell and think she is one of them


20 posted on 06/15/2017 3:55:24 AM PDT by okie 54
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