Dog Yoga on Mission Bay!

How does my dog do yoga is a very common question when we tell people we teach a Dog Yoga class.  The answer is, they don’t!! You do and your dog is just with you as they are in all of our Leash Your Fitness class and events!  Our dogs read our energy so as long as we are sending out calm and relaxing energy, our dogs will follow our lead. If we become excited or agitated, guess what? Our dogs will too! In every class that we teach, one dog shows up all excited to be there BUT it never fails–as long as we all stay calm and focused, the dogs do too! Now, there is often one dog that needs SOMETHING TO DO while we are doing yoga so it never hurts to bring a chew toy.  Ginger, our Pitt Bull, used to go through an entire toy, we would get before and after photos, but now she just lays there with her mom being happy that she is not at home alone while her mom is at yoga class. We give the dogs belly rubs and massages at the end of class as their reward for being good and of course there is always treat time!  Our June yoga class was set on beautiful Mission Bay.  We began with a short walk with standing stretches along the way and then returned to the mat for balance and floor work.  Everyone left feeling relaxing and lengthened.  Yappy hour followed at Bulls Smokin’ BBQ.  They are very dog friendly and loved having us. Enjoy the photos, we hope to see you in July for our next Dog Yoga Class on the water in  Liberty Station!