Amid all the participants and poses at a yoga session in Minneapolis' Powderhorn Park on Friday evening, there was a lot of kidding around. Welcome to goat yoga.

Take a deep breath. Exhale around the goat that just head-butted your stomach. Stretch to the left. Pat that goat as it gnaws on your shirttail. Relax in the knowledge that goat yoga is pure and good and a lens through which we can come to understand the struggle of...

You never know what will happen when you have live animals on the show… thanks to the Minneapolis Parks Foundation and Have Ya Herd for bring goats on the show to let us try the hot trend of goat yoga. Looks like we may need a new carpet…

It was pure and unexpected happiness. I would love to do it again soon, although after getting shooed off the farm for continually threatening to steal Frosty, the white Nigerian Dwarf goat, I’m not 100% sure I’ll be welcomed back.

Cute write upon Have Ya Herd from the Edina Sun Current on the event that we hosted with Edina Community Education! What a fun day! Big thanks To Andy Wig for writing about us!

Jess Lubich of Have Ya Herd near Roberts, which offers goat yoga classes year-round, said goat yoga is like swimming with sharks; for some people, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime activity to cross off the bucket list. Others, however, come back for more.

“Goat yoga” is being offered, at least one more weekend at Have Ya Herd farm in Roberts, Wisconsin, about half an hour east of the Twin Cities. Goat yoga is still happening this Saturday and Sunday and maybe further into the season, depending on weather.

It was a below freezing Sunday morning in Roberts, Wisconsin. I had just spread my yoga mat out on a thick layer of hay when a white goat in a frog costume nudged me aside and released a small dried turd at the edge of my mat.

After their plans to add dairy goats to an existing 60-cow dairy fell through, Paul Lubich and his son and daughter-in-law, Kevin and Jessica Lubich, are finding themselves as not only dairy farmers, but yoga studio owners.

A new way of staying in shape while having a good laugh is gaining popularity just across the border in Wisconsin. The new workout class just launched last month and combines yoga and adorable goats.