Downward facing dog takes a literal meaning through a new style of yoga for pet owners and their canine companions.
All photos came from The Daily Mail Online.
Marcela Castro began a dog yoga class in San Jose, Costa Rica, after taking one of her six dogs with her to a yoga session.
“Doga,” as it is commonly known, intends to help dogs stretch their legs, backs, and spines and calm them down. It also socializes the animals with other dogs, which is proven to be beneficial to improving behavior.
U.K. news site Mail Online covered Castro’s business and quotes her saying:
“Dogs with behavioural problems started to come and now are much more calm and better behaved,” Ms Castro explains.
Castro goes on to say:
“One of my dogs, a rescue dog, used to be very nervous and urinate when people touched him. He doesn’t do that now after doing Doga.”
Castro goes through a series of standing and seated yoga poses with her clients and their pets to get the dog’s tail to stop wagging, indicating that they are relaxed.
Doga is not just a Costa Rican recreation. It is popular in New York too, where it first caught on. There’s even dog yoga studios here in Missouri, specifically St. Louis.
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