{"id":81449,"date":"2026-03-16T12:03:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81449"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:03:43","slug":"over-puppy-yoga-try-it-with-snakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/over-puppy-yoga-try-it-with-snakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Over Puppy Yoga? Try It With Snakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>npr<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3201x2136+0+0\/resize\/1100\/quality\/50\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F1b%2F9c%2Fe985742744c2aafa360038a1001d%2Fhv0a7384.jpg\" alt=\"Christina Chang is encircled by Gemma, a carpet python, during Snake Yoga at HISSS in Portland, Ore. on Feb. 28.\" width=\"390\" height=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yoga classes featuring animals are pretty old news. You&#8217;re probably already familiar with people doing downward dog alongside\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2007\/05\/18\/10240557\/yoga-class-incorporates-canine-partners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>actual dogs<\/u><\/a>, or letting a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2018\/09\/03\/643470824\/goat-yoga-is-preposterous-says-goat-yoga-teacher-it-s-also-terrific\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>goat<\/u><\/a>\u00a0scamper across their tabletop pose. In Alaska, they&#8217;ve even done\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/06\/22\/733849625\/move-over-goat-yoga-alaskans-now-have-reindeer-yoga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>yoga with reindeer<\/u><\/a>. It seems we may have reached peak animal yoga.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s one more entry: in Portland, Oregon, one yoga class goes beyond the usual furry, adorable yoga classmates, and teaches yoga with&#8230; snakes. Yup, snakes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1773662623\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Over Puppy Yoga? Try It With Snakes\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From npr: Yoga classes featuring animals are pretty old news. You&#8217;re probably already familiar with people doing downward dog alongside\u00a0actual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}