EVIDENTLY THERE WAS PUPPY YOGA IN ITALY UNTIL THE HEALTH MINISTRY BANNED IT
Yoga is really good for you. Of course, that means not doing poses that pose a particular risk of injury for any particular person. Like how people with vertigo maybe should never be inverted. But anyway, yoga is really good for you. It decreases stress, increases circulation, helps with muscle tone, improves flexibility, etc. But there are all sorts of yoga out there, more than I’d likely recognize as yoga. But some people like doing yoga with their dogs (downward facing dog notwithstanding). And evidently there’s also puppy yoga? What in the world is that? Because I only know about it as Italy just went and banned it.
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PUPPY YOGA INVOLVED PUPPY YOGA POSES, GENERAL CUTENESS, AND PLAYTIME AFTER CLASS
The news hit after Italy’s health ministry banned any and all puppies from “participating” in yoga classes. Evidently, puppy yoga involves puppies pretty much being cuteness running around or doing whatever puppies do in a yoga class. Sometimes, teachers evidently also incorporate your puppy into a particular yoga pose. And yes, there would often be some extra playtime after puppy yoga for baby dog play. All in all, it sounds like cute, if ridiculous, fun. But for some reason, some government officials in Italy decided to ban all puppy yoga moving forward. But why?
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Well, it involves how people taking the puppy yoga class can be “overtaken with a wave of emotion after experiencing sensations of well-being from the close proximity to the puppies.” And evidently, the problem with that is that those overtaken people would then be more likely to adopt the puppy they just did yoga with “without really thinking through the implications and the consequences.” It’s not clear to me, but it seems that some puppy yoga classes were maybe just puppy mills. Taking that out of action makes some sense. But isn’t it odd how Italy’s health ministry made a negative out of the well-being people felt from doing yoga?
Ah, well. Puppy yoga, we barely got to meet you. Doggy yoga seems to still be fine.
