SILICON VALLEY, JUNE 18: What is good for the master
must also be good for the pooch. Bizarre as it may
sound, but a US chain of gyms is now offering yoga
classes for dogs. Crunch, which has gyms in several
cities, is currently offering master-and-pooch ‘‘ruff
yoga’’ at its branch in New York and is considering
offering the class in its other locations.

‘‘We do the traditional poses. The dogs just get
incorporated,’’ Crunch’s yoga director Suzi Teitelman
told Fox News, adding that the whole process was
bonding time. ‘‘The opinion of the general public
might be that either they’re really weird, really
lonely, really ugly or really decrepit,’’ said Steve
Dale, pet writer for USA Weekend and host of Animal
Planet Radio.

‘‘It’s probably none of the above. It just means they
have a special relationship with their dog.’’

Yoga guru Bruce van Horn, who addresses the pup-yoga
connection, says the relaxed state people achieve
through yoga rubs off on their animals if they’re
nearby during the exercises. (PTI)

Natalie