--- title: Horse Yoga at Doma India School description: Yoga for horses exists. canonical: https://time.com/57373/now-theres-yoga-for-horses/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-10T14:18:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:41.035Z og:title: Now There's Yoga for Horses og:description: It's a way to pacify difficult, easily-spooked horses og:url: https://time.com/57373/now-theres-yoga-for-horses/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Now There's Yoga for Horses twitter:description: It's a way to pacify difficult, easily-spooked horses twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Now There's Yoga for Horses  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 10, 2014 2:18 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 10, 2014 2:18 PM UTC Avid yogis may be familiar with [“horse face pose”](https://yoga.com/pose/horse-face-pose-right) (Vatayanasana), but they may not know that horses do yoga, too. An Outside Online [article](http://www.outsideonline.com/news-from-the-field/Yoga-Goes-to-the-Horses.html) going viral this week highlights yoga as a method of taming [“wild, traumatised or nervous horses”](http://scarpatiindiantaming.com) at Doma India School in San Luis, Argentina, a philosophy championed by father and son pair Oscar and Cristobal Scarpati. This [video](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2600963/Hes-not-horsing-horse-YOGA-The-bizarre-art-taming-wild-stallions-doing-handstands-them.html) of a horseman working with the animal — even doing a handstand on its girth — [reportedly](http://perezhilton.com/teddyhilton/2014-04-09-horse-yoga-is-a-real-thing-watch-the-video-here) provides a glimpse of this technique in action: **PHOTOS:** [This Little Girl Is Amazing at Yoga](http://time.com/23719/laura-kasperzak-yoga-laurasykora/) Horse Yoga at Doma India School ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/57373/now-theres-yoga-for-horses/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/57373/now-theres-yoga-for-horses/"},"headline":"Now There's Yoga for Horses","datePublished":"2014-04-10T14:18:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:41.035Z","description":"You'll neigh-ver believe it","url":"https://time.com/57373/now-theres-yoga-for-horses/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/57373/now-theres-yoga-for-horses/","name":"Now There's Yoga for Horses"}}]}] ```