WKU Housing and Residence Life hosted Goat Yoga and a petting zoo at the First Year Village Lawn on Thursday, Oct. 24.

Students who signed up were given the opportunity to perform yoga with goats provided by Westbrook Farms.

The event was organized by Chad Lawhorn, HRL area coordinator for Pearce Ford Tower, Hugh Poland Hall and Douglas Keen Hall.

Lawhorn said that this year is the third annual Goat Yoga, and he hopes there will be more to follow. He explained that after graduating from WKU and returning as a professional he wanted to find a new way of engaging with students.

“We want to provide events to where our students can have some peace of mind for a little bit, get outside of those residence halls, feel good about themselves and get them to engage with some friends,” Lawhorn said.

After some research, Lawhorn said he found goat yoga and its increasing popularity with young people.

“I’ve had students come to me in the past literally in tears and be like ‘This was on my bucket list, I really wanted to do this’ and I had no idea about it three years ago,” Lawhorn said.

Lawhorn said he believes Goat Yoga is a success. 

“I can’t even count all the smiling faces that we see,” he said.

“I thought it was a really cute idea, I’ve never done yoga with goats and I always saw people doing it,” said Savannah Miller, a freshman psychology major. 

News Reporter Anthony Clauson can be reached at [email protected].