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by Ian Ritter

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Baa-lance Your Mind: Deanna Rose Children’s Farmstead

Overland Park’s Deanna Rose Children’s Farmstead is a well-known destination in the metro for school field trips, and over the last several years, it’s also turned into a good spot to hold a cobbler’s pose with others surrounded by stumbling baby goats.

The city-owned farmstead (13800 Switzer Road, Overland Park) has more than 250 different animals at the farm, giving kids the ability to touch livestock and experience activities like cow milking and blacksmith work.

Yoga classes with baby goats began at Deanna Rose in the summer of 2018, a couple years after the trend of deep stretching with bleating young animals took off nationwide.

This year, Deanna Rose offers four different goat yoga classes grouped by participation age. The most inclusive is “Farmstead Family Flow” for children four years and older, in which participants do basic yoga poses surrounded by baby goats. “Baa-lance Your Mind” is a class for those 13 and up that brings “attention and intention to spinal and hip alignment, the use of breath and incorporate[s] techniques for quieting our minds to seek mindfulness and peace.”

Meanwhile, there are classes just for kids, such as “Goat Giggles and Yoga Wiggles” for the five to seven age range and a class called “Stretch and Snuggle: Kids Only!” for those between eight and 12 years old.

Classes are on various weekends throughout the summer and cost $15 in addition to the $5 Deanna Rose admission fee. For more information, check out opkansas.org. -Ian Ritter

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