This Cat Yoga Trend Serves A Much Bigger Intention

The classes are about more than cats and flexibility.
For exercise fanatics and cat lovers, free classes full of cat buddies sounds just like a deal that is pretty good. However, these classes can be obtained with a bigger goal in mind.

The P.A.W.S. Animal Adoption Center in Bangor, Maine, offers free monthly kitty yoga courses as a means to expose potential new pet owners to some kittens in need. P.A.W.S. executive director Shelley Butler informed the Bangor Daily News Monday the courses were a “win-triumph” because yoga has therapeutic gains cats bring happiness to many people.

Butler got the concept for the monthly courses after studying about additional animal shelters in the U.S. with similar offers.

The trend began when yoga practitioner Skaluba, a volunteer at the now-closed Homeward Bound Pet Shelter, in Decatur, Illinois, published a video of her performing the practice with kitties to YouTube, according to Yoga Journal.

Skaluba began a web site devoted to the notion called Yoga For Cats, although the trend has also been named Mega.

At Nyc’s Meow Parlour, the Big Apple’s first cat Kitty , Yoga and restaurant courses are offered five times monthly in partnership with all the non-profit business KittyKind. The Amy Apgar that is parlour directs organizations in 45 minutes of yoga and half an hour of cat play-time.

These cats are all up for usage. A few of them are needs that are special,” she told CNN.com. “Some of them have been through a lot.”

And there’s a happy-ending for the cats in Bangor also. Because P.A.W.S. began providing the sessions in January, every one of the felines that have participated were adopted, the organization informed Bangor Daily Information.

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