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HURRICANE — Goat yoga is not a ba-a-a-a-ad way to relieve stress, and you can immerse yourself in all the baby goat goodness at this local farm.
In the city of Hurricane, you'll find Inner Peas Farm, a 1½-acre property that's home to 25 goats. Among those are six 2-month-old kids and more under 1 year old. And they're ready to play all day.
"Each of our baby goats this year was named after an author," Inner Peas Farm owner and yoga teacher Camille Zolman said, pointing at the fur babies. "This is Fitzgerald, there's Jay Kay and Rowling, Jane and Austin and those two are Earnest and Hemingway."
Zolman, who is certified as an experienced registered yoga teacher, has been a student of yoga for 10 years and has taught the practice for eight years. She also leads yoga teacher training courses along with regular classes at Sun Rock Yoga and Moqui Yoga & Wellness and offers private one-on-one and group yoga sessions by appointment.
But throughout those years, she dreamed of starting her own Goat Yoga. And this year that dream came true.
Growing up, she said her parents had chickens and a garden, but neither she nor her partner, DJ Zolman, grew up on a "real" farm. While living in Ivins in 2020, the pair found themselves ready to escape the craziness of the world and slow down. When they found the acre property in Hurricane, they jumped on it. They have since purchased an additional half acre.
"We wanted more of a cool, relaxed life," she said. "I wouldn't consider us farmers, but what we do forces us to slow down a bit. And we wanted that for our kids, too."
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