Yoga Fights Back!

[paulsby]

from volokh.com citing the new york times...

http://www.volokh.com/
Regulation Is Bad Karma As state regulators discover yoga is an "industry," they've rushed in to regulate, and now the yoga "industry" is fighting back. The NYT reports:

Citing laws that govern vocational schools, like those for hairdressers and truck drivers, regulators have begun to require licenses for yoga schools that train instructors, with all the fees, inspections and paperwork that entails. While confrontations have played out differently in different states, threats of shutdowns and fines have, in some cases, been met with accusations of power grabs and religious infringement — disputes that seem far removed from the meditative world yoga calls to mind. . . .

Regulators said licensing the schools would allow states to enforce basic standards and protect customers who usually spend $2,000 to $5,000 on training courses, not to mention provide revenue for cash-starved governments. “If you’re going to start a school and take people’s money, you should play by a set of rules,” said Patrick Sweeney, a Wisconsin licensing official, who believes that in 2004 he was the first to discover the online registry and use it to begin regulating yoga teaching.

It appears from the story that the yogis have won their battle against regulation in New York; in other places, not so much.

[tekisui]

1. What does this have to do with guns?

[paulsby]

3. my bad

i posted in the wrong forum. should be GD. sheepish grin. can this be moved?

[tekisui]

4. Alert on it and request a mod to move it.

[paulsby]

7. thx. doing now nt

[Ken Burch]

2. And the reason this is in the "Guns" forum IS.......?

[NOW tense]

5. When you do enough Yoga

Your arms are the gun show....

[Ken Burch]

9. Or, to put it another way

"Happiness Is A Warm Guna".

[NOW tense]

11. Nice. n/t

[frebrd]

6. ???

:shrug:

[slackmaster]

8. Nobody bashes Yoga instructors who are armed with guns

How's that for relevance?

[Ken Burch]

10. "What's the sound of one hand reloading"?

n/t.