Wade House Historic Site offers goat yoga, Prairie Schooner wagon rides, and museum tours in Greenbush this summer and autumn.

Yoga also is a good activity for children with special needs such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, she said. The movements are fun, but they also teach discipline and control.

The course, Kids Yoga Teacher Training, provides a way to put fun and creativity into the poses and stretches and breathing exercises that the meditative exercise is known for.

Jeannine Luby was introduced to laughter yoga — a practice that uses a series of laughing exercises to improve demeanor and well-being — in 2006 during an event in Philadelphia organized by ...