Why Schools Are Banning Yoga

Why Schools Are Banning Yoga - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/09/why-schools-are-banning-yoga/570904/

Meanwhile, just last month the Alabama Board of Education’s long-standing ban on yoga caused some ballyhoo after a document listing it as one of the activities prohibited in “gym class” was...

Alabama Drops Its Ban On Yoga In Public Schools : NPR

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/21/999020140/its-now-legal-to-practice-yoga-in-alabamas-public-schools

Christian conservatives who back the ban said yoga would open the door for people to be converted to Hinduism. The new law allows yoga to be offered as an elective for grades K-12. While it...

Alabama Lifts Its Ban on Yoga in Schools - The New …

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/us/alabama-yoga-ban-public-schools.html

Part of the language in the 1993 ban of yoga in public schools is preserved in some of the bill’s amendments. The ban was enacted after parents in the state raised concerns not only about...

Alabama bill to allow yoga in schools stalls, as opponents fear

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/02/us/alabama-yoga-education-public-school-trnd/index.html

Studies as recent as last year have shown that yoga may ease depressive symptoms; others have shown the practice to reduce anxiety levels along with other …

School Sued for Banning Yoga | Psychology Today

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/testing-prayer/201905/school-sued-banning-yoga

1) School yoga and mindfulness programs have all been “secularized”—or else they would not be taught in schools. 2) Evidence of benefits to health and …

Alabama brings back yoga to the public schools | CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/22/us/alabama-yoga-in-schools-ban-overturned-trnd/index.html

Gray, who was a yoga instructor and has been doing yoga for more than a decade, said Alabama was the only state to ban it in public schools. Gray, who played football at North Carolina State ...

Yoga can leave you injured, psychotic and a Hindu, Christian …

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/17/alabama-yoga-ban-public-schools-christian-groups

The federal public health agency the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends the use of yoga and meditation in schools to reduce …

Why Is Yoga Banned in Alabama Schools? - Newsweek

https://www.newsweek.com/yoga-banned-schools-alabama-hindu-christian-gym-class-1491247

The yoga ban gained renewed attention in 2018 when a document listing prohibited gym class activities—including yoga—was circulated. Rep. Gray told WRBL: " …