POCAHONTAS, Ill. – Less than an hour from St. Louis in Pocahontas, Alicia and Josh Davis prepare for the 2018 goat yoga season on their Green Finned Hippy Farm.
“Goat yoga is just like it sounds,” said Alicia, who leads the goat yoga sessions in her front yard. “We’re doing yoga on pasture but we have a lot of goats joining us, staying low to the ground so that the goats are interested in us. They like to be playful and jump on our backs.”
Initially most of the 15 goats, some of them just weeks old, wandered among the yoga participants and it didn’t take them long to warm up to the strangers on yoga mats.
Alicia Farris drove from Highland, Illinois because she likes “everything” about the goats.
“They’re sweet and they’re cute and entertaining,” said Farris as she hugged a young goat. “What’s not to like?”
Alicia Davis said her goat yoga sessions are sold out through mid-June and they've added Sunday sessions because of the demand. Davis observed that the popularity of goats has risen in recent years, from viral videos to commercials.
“Baby goat videos are going viral, there’s goats in pajamas, goats for the yoga videos,” said Davis. “The cuteness of baby goats is overwhelming. They jump sideways, they hop really whimsically, and to be able to spend that time with them on pasture and have them do that with you there, maybe jumping on your back, doing a side kick off your back, it’s just overwhelmingly cute.”
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