FARGO — Fargo Veterans Affairs is offering new fun and exciting activities this summer.
The Fargo VA’s Whole Health Department and That’s the Dream Farm teamed up for a third session of goat yoga.
The goats were brought to the farm to eat the brush and help clean up the shelter belt, because it hasn’t been maintained for many years. But then they started to realized they loved yoga too.
Both organizations share a mission in reaching and giving veterans an opportunity to increase health and wellness. It’s a Mission of helping to empower veterans to take care of their health, while equipping them with new skills.
Since the summer began, one Friday a month, they’ve hosted free well-being events for enrolled veterans at the farm. The events included self-care programs that helps the body physically and mentally. If it wasn’t yoga, it was Tai chi, or a round-pin demonstration to demonstrate the concepts that are taught at the farm.
“When we can find a point in our life to relax and breathe, we can carry that forward with us as we leave,” said Dawn Robson, owner and director of That’s the Dream Farm.
On Friday, 10 veterans came out for a therapeutic healing experience with four interactive goats.
“Its about using and thinking about the important health elements of being out in nature and how important it is for us to have sunshine and that fresh air to be outside, to walk in the trees and to be around animals, said Nancy Ruud, a whole health coach and registered nurse with the Fargo VA.
Ruud also said many veterans grew up in rural farms.
“Veterans don’t get the opportunity inside the walls of the VA health care system, so going out and doing some of these things as a way to really reach veterans in new and interesting ways,” Ruud said.
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