If you have even one ounce of energy tomorrow at 1pm, come out to the Yoga for NY meeting! They are doing insanely tireless, valuable work to get yoga exempted from the state’s extortion initiatives. Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 Yoga High 19 Clinton St

It’s been a busy few weeks, and I’m sorry I couldn’t deliver more posts, BUT I’m very happy to announce that the Yoga for NY website is up! (I was busy building it.) Yoga for NY, aka the Yoga Association of New York, formed in June in order to lobby against the state’s efforts to [...]

The ever-vigilant Leslie Kaminoff pointed me towards a great update on the state’s Yoga Extortion Initiative: Since the licensing battle with the Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision (BPSS) began in April, two pieces of legislation have popped up—both of which will have dramatically opposite effects on the future of teacher training for yoga studios. One [...]

For those that have been following New York State’s recent decision to treat yoga teacher trainings as vocational programs, here’s an update: Yoga Union hosted a friendly meeting last week with the state education department, who softened their position somewhat. YogaCityNYC attended, and continues to report on the situation. The New York Daily News posted [...]

Well, it’s happened. The New York state government wants to bring yoga into the fold of regulated industries. Teacher training programs are now considered “vocational training” and the state wants to require its own applications and fees. This would be in addition to the Yoga Alliance applications and fees. Leslie Kaminoff warned us (in his [...]