驯鹿瑜伽
If you want to incorporate quality time with animals into your yoga practice, you have a lot of options these days.
如果你想在瑜伽练习中融入与动物相处的美好时光，如今你会有很多选择。
There's puppy yoga, cat yoga, and perhaps the most famous — goat yoga.
有小狗瑜伽，猫瑜伽，也许还有最著名的——山羊瑜伽。
Now, in Fairbanks, Alaska, there's a new offering: a yoga class with fauna particular to the cold northern climes of the subarctic. Reindeer.
现在，在阿拉斯加的费尔班克斯，有了一项新服务:跟亚北极地区寒冷的北部地区特有的动物驯鹿一起做瑜伽。
In a grassy pen at the Running Reindeer Ranch, adult and baby reindeer are milling around — grazing, nosing curiously at water bottles, and pawing yoga mats as people shake them out for class.
在奔跑的驯鹿牧场的草棚里，成年驯鹿和幼鹿正在四处乱转——吃着草，好奇地用鼻子嗅着水瓶，当人们摇着瑜伽垫去上课时，它们还在蹭着垫子。
The air is buzzing with mosquitoes, and the sky is threatening rain, but a good two dozen or so people have shown up for this petting zoo and exercise experience.
空气中蚊子嗡嗡作响，天空似乎要下雨了，但还是有二十几个人来到宠物动物园参加锻炼活动。
"I've wanted to do goat yoga, but this is like one step up," says Tarah Hoxsie, one of the attendees. "This is like the ultimate, OK. ”
“我一直想做山羊瑜伽，但这就像上了一个台阶，”与会者之一塔拉·霍克西说。“这就像是终极版，好吧。”
“So while everybody's doing goat yoga in the lower 48, we're doing reindeer yoga, which is way cooler."
“所以，当所有48岁以下的人都在做山羊瑜伽时，我们在做驯鹿瑜伽，这要酷得多。”
The reindeer yoga class is a brand new offering for the ranch — it's only the third class.
驯鹿瑜伽课是牧场的一个全新课程——它其实是第三节课。
They usually give natural history walking tours with the animals.
他们以前通常会和动物一起进行自然历史徒步旅行。
Jane Atkinson, one of the owners, does yoga herself.
简·阿特金森是瑜伽馆的老板之一，她自己也练瑜伽。
She thinks that reindeer are particularly well-suited to it.
她认为驯鹿特别适合这个项目。
They're twisty creatures — especially in the springtime when their antlers are growing and itchy, and they scratch them with their back hooves.
它们是很柔软的动物——尤其是在春天，它们的鹿角长得又痒，它们就会用后腿挠它们。
"So you'll see the reindeer getting into these amazing poses," she says, "and it's like wow ... look at this little yoga move that they do!"
“所以你会看到驯鹿摆出这些惊人的姿势，”她说，“就像哇……看看他们做的这个小小的瑜伽动作!”
One of Atkinson's employees at the ranch, Elsa Janney, happens to also be a yoga instructor.
阿特金森在牧场的雇员之一埃尔莎·珍妮碰巧也是一名瑜伽教练。
She starts the class with a safety talk — things like, don't touch the reindeer's sensitive antlers because it could hurt them.
她上课时会先说安全问题——比如，不要碰驯鹿敏感的鹿角，因为这会伤害它们。
From there, much of the class follows a typical yoga class script.
从那时起，大部分课程遵循典型的瑜伽课程设定。
But there is some extra stuff mixed in, like what Janney says after she asks the class to pay attention to the sounds around them.
但是他们还加入了一些额外的东西，比如珍妮让全班注意他们周围的声音后所说的话。
"Reindeer make a click when they walk," she says.
“驯鹿走路时会发出咔嗒声，”她说。
"That is a ligament connected to two different ankle bones. That is unique to both caribou and reindeer."
“这是连接两个不同踝骨的韧带发出的。这对麋鹿和驯鹿来说是它们独一无二的。”
At the start of class, most of the reindeer are standing up or slowly wandering around the mats.
在开始上课的时候，大多数驯鹿都是站着的，或者在垫子上慢慢地走着。
But as the class goes on, one by one they all lie down.
但是随着课程的继续，它们一个接一个地都躺了下来。
Rocket, an elegant male reindeer, spreads out between the first and second rows and spends most of the class making a soft, breathy, grunting sound — like snoring.
火箭，是一头优雅的雄性驯鹿，在第一排和第二排之间伸展开来，大部分时间都在发出轻柔的、有呼吸的、咕噜咕噜的声音——就像打鼾一样。
The whole thing is pretty surreal.
整个场景看着相当超现实。
There's a lot of giggling.
有很多人都笑了出来。
Especially when one of the reindeer relieves itself on the grass.
特别是当一头驯鹿在草地上放松时。
After class, Beth Ann Chase says she didn't really mind sharing her mat with Rocket the lounging reindeer.
下课后，贝丝·安·蔡斯说，她并不介意和懒洋洋的驯鹿火箭分享她的垫子。
"It was awesome. It was super cool," she says.
“这真是太棒了。太酷了，”她说。
"I could hear him snoring the whole time that I was doing it. ... It definitely brought me to like, a peaceful place."
“在我练瑜伽的时候，我能听到他一直在打鼾...这绝对让我仿佛进入了一个宁静的地方。”
And Diana Saverin says that trying to maintain focus was part of the workout.
戴安娜·萨维林说，保持专注也是锻炼的一部分。
"As the rain came down, the mosquitoes buzzed, and the reindeer snored, it was like, can you stay with your breath?" she says, laughing.
她笑着说:“雨下得很大，蚊子嗡嗡叫，驯鹿打着呼噜，好像在说，你能屏住呼吸吗?”
"It's good hard work."
“这还是有点不容易的。”
Plus, all the participants now have some kind of animal yoga bragging rights.
此外，所有的参与者现在都可以去炫耀动物瑜伽了。
问题：
文中提到了哪些动物瑜伽？
A.狗
B.猫
C.山羊
D.驯鹿
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