As the sun sets on another beautiful day in Comox Valley, 10 kids are getting ready to go to work. And by kids, I mean baby goats. The doors to the yoga studio open, and then in pour the yoga instructor’s gang of adorable assistants. These kids weren’t born yesterday, (well maybe 2 or 3 of them were) so they get to work immediately. That meant jumping into laps and onto backs as we students stretch (and laugh) through about 15 different yoga poses.

I’d heard about Black Creek’ famous baby goat yoga program for years. It is, after all, taught at the very same hall where I spent years teaching thousands of puppies and their humans. I think I ran the only course for circus dog tricks there too. But tonight, there is no room for fond reminiscences of puppies and their people. It was time to focus on my downward facing dog, pigeon pose and the happy baby pose. All while an army of tiny toddler caprines ran and hopped over the whole affair.

Anyone who had naively considered keeping a straight face during this class would know better by the end. Watching baby goats cavort around, over and under neighbouring students is not conducive to improving your balance in Vrksasana or any other pose. However, that’s definitely not the point of this exercise for most of us here.

As students, we’ve all come here as a ind of “mini-break”. It’s a little vacay from lives that are often filled to the brim with achieving perfection in one form or another. And The goats bring a levity into these classes that makes it so much fun that you forget how good the actual yoga is for your body. By the end of class, my muscles were telling me I’d I’d had a great workout. But I knew that now there would be only one type of yoga class for me- all the others would be missing baby goats.

Black Creek Baby Goat Yoga happens every Saturday night at 7 PM. It’s run by Barnyard Party Animals on Miracle Beach Drive in Black Creek. You can sign up for a class online via their Facebook Page.

Check out the featured video in this post to see a visual description of the class.

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