New York Takes Charge in Leading for Yoga

The yoga community in New York is under seige by legislators who are seeking to burden them with onerous and expensive regulations and licensing fees. They have formed a group, Yoga for New York, that is banding together to protect the community and the traditional methods of practicing and sharing yoga. Please visit their website at yogaforny.org

The following is an excerpt of a newsletter detailing the status of their cause:

Dear Members and Friends of Yoga for NY:

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More than anything, we need you and we need your support so that we can get our bills passed. Remember, licensing has nothing to do with quality of teaching, the most popular misconception about the issue. The burdens outweigh any consumer protection that licensing offers and would force the closing of small TT progams and old, well-established schools unable to meet Certificate of Occupancy requirements.

Hot-off-the-press good news-The Dept of Higher Education has shelved its plan to tweak the amendment language in our two bills, which could have taken months of committee meetings. This means that the moment an opening arises in the Assembly and Senate, our bills will get to the floor for a vote. And it looks like that will happen early in the next session. So stand by for an action alert.

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Namaste!

Alison West, Chair, Yoga for NY
Cyndi Lee, Director OM, Executive Committee
Phil Swain, President Yoga Works, Executive Committee
Denise Kronstadt, Lobby Chair
Andrew Kahn, Standards Chair
Karen Nourizadeh, January Benefit Chair
Heather Principe, Governance Chair
Sybil Killian, Data Management Chair
Erica Heinz, Communications Chair