Recently turned 2-month-old baby goats Lexi and Goldie were roaming around a field full of tall grass and wildflowers. As the two “kids” — as goats under a year old are called — explored the large space, their caretaker Michelle Tritten began to feed them pellets, warming them up for their first solo goat yoga gig on April 21 at the Press Paws Ranch Retreat in Agua Dulce. As attendees for the goat yoga fundraiser trickled in, the goofy, galloping personality of both kids brought out smiles and laughter from all the people.
Tritten, owner and founder of Los Angeles-based “Hello Critter Goat Yoga,” founded her company in 2017 after she stumbled across a viral video of goats standing on top of people performing yoga poses such as downward dogs, planks and lunges. “It was originally started in Oregon ..
. I’ve had goats since the ’80s and started practicing yoga in the ’90s, so they were two of my passions,” Tritten said. “I had been kind of asking the universe for a change in direction and I just followed the breadcrumbs.
” Her friend helped her plan her first goat yoga experience and the rest was history. “There were 10 people at the first one, and two weeks later it went viral on Facebook and 1,500 people said they were interested in going and on a drizzly day in L.A.
, 70 people showed up,” she said. At the Press Paws Ranch Retreat fundraiser, participants attended the goat yoga experience to help raise money and awareness of the newly founded organ.
