Although many people have Goat Yoga on their fun-things-to-do bucket-list, we feel that under the surface, what we do is a little bit deeper then that. Mindful Goat Yoga inception took place in a backyard of a friend with some dairy goats and a 150 lb. goat named Feta with 9 inch horns. (Shout out to Maison de Chevre Dairy Farm) We brought some of our friends by, most of whom attend a special needs adult school here on Cape Cod, where some of our team had worked as 1:1 behavior specialists and psychotherapists, and what we observed was pure JOY. Our visiting friends who typically suffered from both physical and behavioral issues, experienced an obvious diminishing of outbursts and typical physical behavioral issues in the hours immediately following their time with the animals. It seemed like, for a moment in time, their physical and emotional buckets had been filled and that the intimate relationship often felt between human and animal had sweetly left its Zen-like mark on each one of them. After all, yoga translates to “union”, indicating a perfect harmony between mind and body and man and nature.