India Fires Shot Across Yoga Pirates Bow
Jun 29th, 2008 | By admin | Category: YogaClaiming that yoga gurus in Europe and the United States are stealing asanas, the Indian government recently announced plans to create a digital database to house 1500 yoga postures that appear in ancient Indian texts.
The asanas being digitized appear in texts going back thousands of years and include the writings of Patanjali, who is credited with being the first to “codify” the art of yoga. Officials in the Indian government are accusing yoga gurus across the world of patenting and copyrighting poses and yoga techniques that originally appeared in the texts. The biggest pirate? Salty Uncle Sam, aka the United States, where yoga has grown to become a $30 billion-a-year fitness force.
The yoga database, once completed, will be made available to patent offices around the world.
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