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if. A j I : ;!; . \, '««*', ■m, «» ,s^>i. ■?(.' tslSh^ 1 % §0-% lisas 4^ . Participants of all ages enjoy goat yoga at the Farm Friend Bend on Franny’s Farm. PHOTOS BY JAMES HUGHES Yoga with goats inspires joy in participants JAMES HUGHES Multimedia Editor jhughes3@unca.edu SARAH SHADBURNE A&F Assistant Editor sshadbur@unca.edu The event began as a joke be tween friends weary from the 14 to 16 hour work days on the farm. Sit ting by the fire spitballing ideas it came — yoga, disco, plus goats — and the Farm Friend Bend DisGoat Yoga began. “It doesn’t matter how old I am in years. I’m young at heart and I love disco,” said Frances Tacy aka Farmer Franny, owner of Fran ny’s Farm and hostess of the Farm Friend Bend. “It’s great music to practice yoga to and it’s October, let’s face it, everybody gets to dress up this month.” Tacy said she and her friend Taylon Breeden, owner of Far Out- Farmstead, were inspired by the goat yoga craze that began last year in Oregon, additionally prompted by various links and posts from Ta cy’s Facebook followers. “We saw in Portland they had a waiting list of about 500 people for ’ ^ their goat yoga over there,” Breed en said. “I told Franny we could do it in Asheville especially, people love to do funky things.” The Farm Friend Bend on Fran ny’s Farm originally began in April, making sporadic appearances at least once a month inviting people to the farm for an hour of low-in tensity yoga with frolicking baby goats and goat-friendly disco mu sic. “I love a little Donna Summer,” Tacy said. “And I’ve done yoga through my whole life and it’s such a great way to expand your light.” Breeden said before the goat yoga sessions, she had only ever taken one class prior, but she has raised goats for about four and a half years. She occasionally will do the poses if the goats behave them selves. “We sell out every class, and it’s just a blast,” Tacy said. “It’s a great way for people to feel good; there’s so much chaos in the world, let’s just take a break, feel good and come back to Franny’s Farm.” Franny’s Farm serves as a fully functional sustainable farm as well as a private events venue. Tacy said the farm hosts many private events featuring yoga, such as business re treats and parties. Chasity Burleson, yoga practi tioner for eight years and instruc tor for three, teaches Farm Friend Bend after having Tacy as a private client. “I think it’s fabulous because if people are not used to yoga, com ing to a class like this makes it less intimidating,” Burleson said. “Hav ing baby goats around, you can’t be really nervous, and you know peo ple aren’t looking at you.” Burleson said she receives feed back from students anxious about attending yoga classes out of fear of being watched, doing postures wrong and the general intimidating CONTINUED ON PAGE 12
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