Its kind of ridiculous how much I love dogs.
Scratch thatevery dog lover understands how much I love dogs.
Kidding, I was totally more excited about the dogs.
Lance Bass with his dog Dale demonstrate the dog yoga version of tree pose.
(Lance, you get it.)
My first instinct was to lie on the floor and just let their furry faces swarm me with kisses.
It took everything in my power not to run up and hug his long, fluffy fur.
Just look at this guy! So fluffy!
And then I caught a glimpse of Lance Bass holding his yorkie mix, and mentally lost my shit.
He radiates a warm, adventurous energy.
(Forgive my LA-speak.
Lance Bass with his rescue dogs Chip and Dale.
We were in LA, Im allowed.)
After a sufficient amount of butt sniffing on the dogs' part, Kang directed us to our mats.
It was time for the owners to give the dogs an ear massage.
Lance Bass with his dog Dale demonstrate the dog yoga version of tree pose.
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During cat and cow, for example, Kang suggested that the dogs lie under our bodies.
During a standing twist, people touched their dog with their downward hand.
The doga poses were modified as a way to connect with the dogs, not to use them as props or force them into any strange positions. Here, we were instructed to touch or pet our dogs during the twist.
In tree pose, people with smaller dogs held their pups at the chest.
Kang’s dog yoga partner (a.k.a.
dogi), Daisy (pictured right), helped demonstrate many of the poses.
Most of the dog-modifiedyoga poseswere ways to connect with the dognot to use the dog as resistance or support.
Some of the poses were specifically to benefit the dogs, like this dog version of a handstand.
After all, if humans benefit from stretching, wouldn’t dogs, too?
Little Daisy here had no trouble with the pose, but Kang did give modifications for larger dogs.
The activity of the dogs ebbed and flowed with the activity of the class.
They were most vocal and playful during standing poses like Warrior II and flows like sun salutations.
Kang explained that this would happen, sinceas any Cesar Millan fan knowsdogs feed off of humans energy.
you could see why I prefer biking orCrossFit.
But during our one-plus-hour class with the dogs, I didnt worry about myself once.
I was too distracted by all of the smiling furballs around me.
Judging by the amount of laughter and pup-herding going on, the other participants were in the same position.
But this is a little crutch.
People aren’t noticing that you’re horrible at yoga when you have a puppy on your lap."
Bass and his husband, Michael Turchin, have been fostering dogs for years.
Most recently, they fostered Chip and Dalechihuahua, Yorkshire terrier, and schnauzer mixes.
But they fell in love with the boys and adopted them for good about three months ago.
The two joined Bass and Turchin’s terrier mix Lily, who Bass has had for seven years.
Although this was Bass’s first time doing dog yoga, he does work out with the dogskind of.
I left feeling pure joy and not thinking one bit about myself, positively or negatively.
I truly was able to enjoy the momentmuch like dogs do every second of the day.
