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legal action over school yoga - Captain - 10-22-2012 [size=26px]Parents considering legal action over school yoga [/size][size=14px]ENCINITAS, Calif. (AP) — A group of parents is bent out of shape by free yoga classes at schools in this San Diego County beachside community, fearing they are indoctrinating youngsters in eastern religion.[/size][size=14px]"There's a deep concern that the Encinitas Union School District is using taxpayer resources to promote Ashtanga yoga and Hinduism, a religion system of beliefs and practices," the parents' attorney, Dean Broyles, told the North County Times [/size] [size=14px]In an Oct. 12 email to district Superintendent Tim Baird, Broyles called the yoga program unconstitutional and said he may take unspecified legal action unless the classes stop.[/size] [size=14px]The lessons are funded by a $533,000, three-year grant from the Jois Foundation, a nonprofit group that promotes Asthanga yoga. Some schools began classes last month and others will begin holding them in January.[/size] [size=14px]The classes involve traditional eastern breathing techniques and poses. The district chooses teachers and sets the curriculum while the foundation trains the teachers.[/size] [size=14px]The district has removed any religious content from the twice-weekly classes, Baird said.[/size] [size=14px]"I think that they really would like to think that, but I don't think that, in actuality, it has been done," said Mary Eady, who removed her son from the classes. "There's really a lot of unease among a lot of parents."[/size] [size=14px]The superintendent said only a few parents have pulled their children from the yoga classes and he did not expect district trustees to cancel the program.[/size] [size=14px]"Our goal is that kids get a really healthy workout, that they get a chance to relax and reduce stress and yoga's perfect for that," Baird said.[/size] [size=14px]"Yoga is a worldwide exercise regime utilized by people of many different faiths," he said. "Yoga is part of our mainstream culture."[/size] [size=14px]Jois Foundation Director Eugene Ruffin denied the group is religious and said the board of directors includes people from various faiths.[/size] [size=14px]"These therapies are headed toward trying to find solutions for some of the stress that these children find themselves in," he said. "We're trying to solve problems."[/size] Re: legal action over school yoga - ketchim - 10-22-2012 Yogurt as well .... :blank: Re: legal action over school yoga - ketchim - 10-22-2012 [quote author=ketchim link=topic=72485.msg450092#msg450092 date=1350411169] Chobani yoghurts are labelled as containing 'evaporated cane juice'                               [/quote] Nuff Sugar ..... ::redcard:: Re: legal action over school yoga - Snoopster - 10-22-2012 Yoga instructor.  Best damn job in the world. ::lol:: Re: legal action over school yoga - ketchim - 10-22-2012 Hahahahahahahahaha....Best Job in California    ::rofl::