Yoga at the beach (healthyoga.com)
To regulate or not?
ReligionDispatches.org, Susan Campbell (StillSmallVoice, Courant.com)
A bill that's moving toward Texas Gov. Rick Perry would seek to exempt from regulation the training of the people who teach yoga in the Lone Star State. That has opened a whole can of worms of who -- if anyone -- should regulate yoga, writes Andrea R. Jain, at Religion Dispatches:
"Soul of Yoga" at Stake in Texas Regulation Push
Prof. Andrea R. Jain, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ., Indianapolis
A vote away from the desk of Texas Governor (and potential 2012 Republican candidate for president) Rick Perry is a bill that has ignited a debate over the so-called “soul of yoga” and who, if anybody, is entitled to regulate it. SB 1176, which recently passed both the Senate and the House committee on Economic & Small Business Development, would exclude yoga from the definition of “post-secondary education,” thus exempting yoga teacher training programs from career school licensing requirements.
Prof. Andrea R. Jain, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ., Indianapolis
A vote away from the desk of Texas Governor (and potential 2012 Republican candidate for president) Rick Perry is a bill that has ignited a debate over the so-called “soul of yoga” and who, if anybody, is entitled to regulate it. SB 1176, which recently passed both the Senate and the House committee on Economic & Small Business Development, would exclude yoga from the definition of “post-secondary education,” thus exempting yoga teacher training programs from career school licensing requirements.