Comments on: Senate Bill Passed! VA Yoga Freed from State Regulation

By: sarahiduponline.com » Blog Archive » What Do YOU Want from Yoga Alliance? Notes from Meeting with President John Matthews

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:15:50 +0000

[...] knowledge based. This is going down right now with a battle in Texas similar to what happened in VA and NY. Matthews is involved, and you can read more about it [...]

By: What Do YOU Want from Yoga Alliance? Notes from Meeting with President John Matthews

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:35:49 +0000

[...] knowledge based. This is going down right now with a battle in Texas similar to what happened in VA and NY. Matthews is involved, and you can read more about it [...]

By: this week in yoga: the gita, the law & a different kind of yoga boom « it's all yoga, baby

Sat, 08 May 2010 00:04:08 +0000

[...] do have something to fear, actually, as similar proposals have gone further along the system in Virgina and NY state. In both instances, the yoga communities have fought back with a warrior spirit, just [...]

By: emily

emily — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:30:03 +0000

It is ironic how VA is a conservative state and as such believes that gov’t intervention is bad for business. Yet they have a lot of regulations on the state level that do just that.

I’m glad that the yoga teachers won.

By: Julia

Julia — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:45:11 +0000

We don’t believe the State should be imposing fees and burdomsome paperwork onto small mom-n-pop type yoga studios during a time of recession. Nor should the government have any role in regulating yoga – a 5000+ year old tradition that frankly the State knows nothing about. To top it off, VA already has a consumer protection law in place that already protects future yoga teachers from nefarious yoga teacher training programs.

This is a huge win for us and hopefully for other states dealing with this issue.

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:01:05 +0000

Hurray for sangos, it is not about taxation, it is about regulation. We pay our taxes. Yoga Alliance is voluntary (yogis regulating themselves) whereas government regulation is unwelcome. Do you want the government to regulate your meditation practice, your tai chi, your aerobics, your swim class? Yogis in Texas have launched the Texas Yoga Association now in a big way to fight the power and have been discussing with yogis and attorneys about how to approach the Texas Workforce Commission, the State Legislature and how to build a grass roots campaign. Check it out: http://www.texyoga.com

I will say that the larger, corporate yoga institutions do not seem to mind regulation or otherwise seem to encourage it, and my personal opinion is that the reason is that licensing fees will be a barrier to entry for smaller studios to have teacher trainings, and hence elimination of competition. The majority of smaller studios and non-big business affiliated teachers that make up the majority of yoga studio owners and teachers do not want the gummint meddling in their affairs.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:59:45 +0000

Congrats to Yoga VA and its teachers.

By: emma

emma — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:24:09 +0000

i mean, it is regulated, in a sense by the yoga alliance. most programs fall under that…

By: sangos

sangos — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:30:17 +0000

I thought this was about taxation(correct me), which is OK considering the big bucks Yoga teachers in the west make (no correction needed and unbelievable for us in India)