You can try a goat yoga class in Fort Collins

After you rise out of child's pose, breathe in through your nose, out through your mouth and say "namaste."

Make sure you accentuate the "ste." As in, "stay." As in, there's a puppy right next to you. Because if you're a yogi in one of Kaitlin Mueller's classes, chances are there will be an animal nearby.

The 28-year-old founder of Om Kai Yoga in Fort Collins has been hosting puppy yoga classes to benefit Fort Collins' Bounce Animal Rescue. As summer nears, she's planning a kitten yoga class and adoption event and goat yoga at area farms.

Yes, goat yoga.

It all started with videos and photos Mueller saw circulating on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.

"You see people doing yoga with their dogs, you see people doing yoga with goats," she said. After visiting a friend who fosters puppies for Bounce Animal Rescue, Mueller got the idea to incorporate the shelter and its pups in an interactive yoga class.

The first puppy yoga class took place in January at Ascent Studio Climbing & Fitness with 16 class spots that sold out in about 12 hours.

"It just took off after that," Mueller said, adding that the monthly puppy yoga classes are now announced a month before tickets go on sale. The last one sold out in about three minutes, she said.

Goats are next.

Videos of baby goats climbing on giggling yogis have made the rounds on the internet. Now goat yoga classes are planned through Om Kai on April 23, May 7, June 10 and June 24 at farms like Small Acre, Woolly Goat and Laughing Buck.

Colorado State University veterinary students also held an April 8 goat yoga class at a vet student's family farm. Hosted by the university's student chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), 15 students were selected as part of a lottery to do yoga with baby goats.

"It's a little bit more chaotic than you're expecting," said Claire Tucker, the second-year veterinary student that helped organize the event. "You're used to having this very mindful practice and all of the sudden, you're surrounded by animals who don't...care about that," she added.

"They would climb on you, they would play fight, they would pee on your yoga mat, they would suckle on your fingers," she said.

And it was all a success, even with the goat pee, Tucker said, adding that the purpose of the chapter's events are to get students out of the classroom and reconnect them with their passion for animals and veterinary medicine.

To try goat yoga, check in with Om Kai Yoga's Facebook page  or omkaiyoga.com as Meuller plans to announce goat, puppy and kitten yoga classes this summer.

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