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Free to Om.
Oh it is so official. Governor Paterson has signed the bill! NY yogis (studios with teacher trainings) are now lawfully exempt from government regulation and costly licensing fees. Karate instructors can rejoice as well (they’re included!) as NY Governor David P-dog signed the legislation just earlier today.
“This legislation is important in that it [...]
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Earlier this month we reported that the bill passed through the Senate and State Assembly. Now NY Yogis anxiously await Governor Paterson’s signature on the dang thing so it can be official: yoga teacher training will be exempt from state government regulation — along with martial arts so we found out:
Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal said, [...]
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We just got word… Yoga bill has passed through the Senate just moments ago! Developing…
Via Yoga For NY’s facebook page:
HOORAY!!! Our bill passed the Senate just minutes ago! A huge thank you to all of our helpers. One more step to go…
UPDATE 5:30pm: full article via nysenate.gov…
Senate Passes Bill To Protect Yoga Studios From Burdensome [...]
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UPDATE 3/11/10: VA Gov. Robert F. McDonnell signed the bill Tuesday night…(WashingtonPost)
Hear ye! Hear ye! We just got word from Suzanne Leitner-Wise…the Senate bill has passed! Based on the constitutional right to freedom of speech VA yoga teachers beat the gov for exemption from regulation and from falling under the terms of “vocation” in VA [...]
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The mission is underway and you can help! Haven’t been keeping up? Read about it here and here.
In short, NY State is in the process of shaking down yoga studios for cash and control over teacher training programs. Yoga for NY is an organization of teachers and studios across the state rallying together to protect [...]
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PLEASE NOTE: Event has been postponed. more info as it comes!
Remember all that hubbub over NY State trying to regulate yoga studios and enforce licensing fees for teacher training programs? Well the end of ‘09 saw the shiny light of victory with the swift and nimble action taken by the newly formed org, Yoga For [...]
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MO: [LATimes] “The state, which views the discipline as strictly recreational, has levied a 4% tax on studio owners and instructors. But yogis say their pastime should be exempt as a spiritual pursuit.”
Earlier…Missouri Taxes Studios, Texas to Join in Licensing Battle, Everyone Tries to Define Yoga
VA: Yesterday there was a Washington Post editorial on the [...]
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Yoga Teacher Training: Vocational? Or Avocational?
Update! The licensing battle of VA Yoga studios VS. the State is getting hairy – Three yoga teachers have moved to sue! Operating on the defense that regulating YTT is “just dumb” and that any sort of state clampdown is a threat to free speech, VA yoga teachers are coming [...]
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This Just In! Missouri next in the yoga taxation smackdown! Texas to follow in licensing regulation.
Kansas City, MO (via KCStar): “The Department of Revenue on Sunday began enforcing collection of a 4-percent tax on yoga and Pilates classes…”
Why? Because they are now considered commercial and places of “amusement, entertainment or recreation.”
But Debbie Borel, studio director [...]
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Hear ye! Hear ye! We have most fortunate news! NY Studios are off the licensing hook! (pretty much, just need the little ol bill to get the full pass)
Exemptions have been introduced and plans that would have had yoga studios (with teacher training programs) paying the gov through the nadis, including $50,000 fines, have been dropped. Hooray! [...]
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