you know i've met a lot and. i used to be a d.j. for 10 years and everyone in every club every. soldier everybody go to touch my sister 21st century version of the d.j. . come up it was 6 for me radio is possibly the most unusual traditional yoga mixed with race culture minus the drugs and alcohol trouble is you know this it's really hard to get the ratios along. the way we were. seeing. was really easy to. say. really hard. i mean we wanted to keep it that we'll build a little building up to this very traditional thing i say yoga and we sort of

started to kind of get on see with. going on the outlook that everyone has. played. all these new forms of yoga on just a fringe they represent a massive growth in the yoga market with international apparel companies like lemon athletica opening in downtown london to grab a piece. i think you know western mentality is a lot about business and how soon you come out and sell certain things right and that's very different from the certain tradition and what you know that was originally and makes believe that even you know being in jail for a month earlier here you can see here is out there you know their image adapting the western sense in a way it's going to be seen they think it's hell it's. seeing and evolving and it's

a matter of. integrity at what it was originally. but what was meant to be originally and how is it moving away from that i went to speak with stuart gilchrist who teaches a traditional and physically rigorous form of yoga. release them to really straightforward. yeah. the awful. the won't do you. feel good about life is not like the village. gymnastics i was at the boat life it's what we do in years and never going to the highway what you like with your friends and your family what you're like in the restaurant how you are going to bicycle how you are at your work every

day with your probably not just what happens in that studio for another and a half of the day it's often not. all of them. i think i was probably one of them was filing a pregnancy to post them i didn't do them right off the top like drop me off the. from field to defy he says i had a very serious accident and my daughter bike and i had to be a spinal injury and i was pretty much over my guilt is the stronger they're going to do and then opened my eyes up to the broader picture of what you're good the boys your good detachment. from edison mental and physical your possessions. and your desires your senses. everyone's attaching when you're going to their studios in gym and what have you there's all kinds of hybrid yoga coming out boxing yoga cycling yoga and they can yoga all kinds of stuff to put your opinions on the. prophesies basin and consume and ideation of yogurt is

important it's become so much of the business and become so much of a profit i've been repaired to the revenue stream. by us he might have a point. 5050 you regret folks in the beard and i've got a very sort of style of teaching studio is very interesting since you don't want to be on the road so. it was a really tough class it was a really tough class. because yoga is really about the mysteries of the universe is a very we're kind of commercializing the mystery and usually there isn't i wouldn't trust all absolutely just what i do about it you keep teaching me to teach and something more from the old. i'm headed to the u.s. where yoga was 1st popularized in the west it's one of the biggest yoga markets in the world it's mainstream fashionable cool glossy it's well american.

and hairstyles and it's all about work hard and playing hard i play the same philosophy doing yoga sandstone and working. i believe in making my own rules and injecting fun and everything i do tara styles is symbolic of the modern transformation of yoga in america she's created her own form of yoga stronger and has marketing campaigns with the w. hotel and reebok still he is the forget about the things that are getting idealist . the 1st person to put you tube videos but you know the line like 2006 and all my friends were like that's so crazy i like what do you do we're going to make my friends back home like i backed away and i have no idea strikes what i do like here's something you get out of your eyes with your palms you know bring it comes right into your heart to hear. the new york

times describe you as you know the rebel made it and then do you see yourself and you know the rebel so the whole rebel you know got idea i think really came out of rebelling against the fact that it has to be in sanskrit or has to be super serious or it has to be has to be a certain way but if you look at. the approach of what we are doing it's it doesn't look rebellious it looks very simple and soft and it's all about ease and finding what works for you and it's very soft percent. higher who. says are your kids or you're quoted as saying why be when you can be fabulous. like her is that a correct approach was part of the double you can do that indefinitely i read talk yes said this i mean i think the point is to get everybody talking it's like you know beings and i think is that is my point of view going to be like like you said connected with yourself i would think beings and it is fabulous you know it's the same thing but then you didn't say that you didn't say you can let's be zen and

fabulous so are you know fine i think but i think it's changing the perception and speaking to the people that have had abuse from the community it's like oh you went in and they said you're not presented a let me put a blanket over you i mean people have been like humiliated by the you know the community thing there's a little bit a sense in the younger industry of sort of holier than thou. you know i don't know going to sit around like complain about if i just think it's more important you know help people to feel better like so your thing is like stripping out i don't know the sanskrit the indian spirituality maybe i don't know and i. truly how would you like took the name you know got out of my company a couple years ago nobody noticed so it's a struggle. but you to feel sure so what i was taking i think it's a new definition it's an evolution of you know that you know i mean who are we really answering to. who are we ultimately answering to india ancient yogis can india still claim yoga as its modern cultural heritage. of the hindu

american foundation seems to think so in 2010 they launched a take back yoga campaign to raise awareness about yoga's roots says obviously but i'd be too if it was considered you know the father of russia i'm going to be is the. question to come under for a lot of these he's considered by the supreme yogi and master of mustard here yeah . one. thing. they need right is a matter that people should recognize as a hindu practice is that a 1st thing to say i like the term rooted in hindu thought because when you say the hindu practice it gives the impression that people have to convert you know your average person thinks of him their wisdom as caste cows and karma and they have political arms and opal heads what your spouse is is this pluralistic view you know

that anybody can do it the same way that him there was and has this pluralistic view of anybody can reach divine what's happened is that people have forgotten that you're going to have much more than just exercise we have seen so many manifestations i guess you know and we're seeing it in the kind of society we live in now when the something stop becoming you know i think that a lot of the new forms of yoga are there not you know that america is great at like taking what it likes from different cultures and then just like making it its own and i feel like that's a little bit of what's happened with yoga like it's kind of made it into its own version of yoga. who. already owns. this for everyone but with a hindu roots it is definitely rooted in hindu philosophy. i'm just like confused because i'm a hindu i'm

a hindu by me because of the way i was raised and i believe in you know the general teachings of hinduism but i'm a very open minded individual. but i can understand what she thought was saying i really understood it that a lot of what yoga teaches us is what him the wisdom teaches us there the same thing so i'm conflicted now because. i want yoga to be a secular thing the problem is if yoga is seen as a hindu practice it might drive people away from it i think it's the variety and diversity of yoga that makes it so popular it fits the practitioners. barstow population $23000.00 halfway between los angeles and las vegas in the heart of the californian desert it's an unlikely place to be doing yoga but i'm not here to do just any yoga i'm meeting the ladies a priest moves

a christian alternative to yoga this is a very true as my husband and i got married and he never thinking he would be a pastor you know i went to yoga class in kansas ok and i you know i can do any of my you know what i'm here yeah it's such a workout it is hard i came and i asked my husband i don't want to offend and yeah you know but i said hey can i do a yoga class and barstow i know they have can i do it and he said wait a minute it all sounds from a religious. you know hindu is you know we're not we're not you know and we respect you guys sure yeah absolutely yeah and so he got on the internet and he found this well this priest my. where you do similar positions but we quote scripture your body is the temple of the holy spirit who is in you whom you have received from god you are not your own you were bought at a price therefore honor god with your body 1st corinthians 619 and that's why we're

thrilled to see after we are afraid to. take care of our bodies and learn scripture and get in on this going to join our class today so that's really exciting. is stephanie said then to. you for ok we're going to start with mount zion posture and let's roll our shoulders cakes we've been sitting for a while ha let's try some movements of the arms to our hair skin nice movements back and for the are going to come forward reaching down kind of like a windmill and it's good if we could all go the same way effect a fervent prayer for her of a righteous man righteous avails much shame 516560. i'm doing yoga poses while reciting biblical scripture i don't have any problem with the exercise but i find the whole situation rather odd it looks and feels like yoga is it. 334.

certainly aware that it looks like yoga you know that's totally fine if people say that but we believe yoga is a spiritual practice and we're not doing that there are thank you to learn i say. we can all pray. we just think you are that's really all we have to say they're not some god and we appreciate you giving us your word so we can move our bodies and say healthy. the debate over whether yoga is religious isn't just limited to the walls of churches and temples in america it's found its way into the courtrooms to. their parents and in sydney to california have their own warrior stance on free of the classes being taught in their school district saying yoga is a form of the doctrine in the character of this room that don't want yoga taught

and practiced in the interview to school districts say that it can not be separated from religion children were being lived through sun salutation and while being asked questions about why they were thankful to the sun they were being asked to thank the sign for things they were lied to and something called a number a circle where they were asked to acknowledge the light and each other and what i found was that they were not at all talking just about acts or science they were talking about teaching children life skills based on your. about the almost a direct quote you know the whole lot of feet is a very specifically religious philosophy the big story here is that america has been sold a lot yoga is being marketed deceptively dean broyles is a lawyer who represented the pair. since in their lawsuit against the and city to school district american started say oh i can adopt this and exercise because we like to be healthy and they think that by removing the meditation in sanskrit terms that that suddenly transforms yoga into

a non-religious practice but social science research has proven that just doing the poses and just doing yoga breathing is enough to cause spiritual transformation so have you ever done yoga before by accident for activity you know not possible to well you know i think it was just 2 moves i think it appeared 90 video ok yes i realize later were were i think one of them was a downward dog and i think one pose was a warrior pose and i realized later that those are yoga poses and so i don't do that anymore but if you call your grace just a pose right is it going to take you away from god if you do that pose when i know i'm not going to find that out because of stop doing it. but if you asked hindus in india if you was religious what do you think they would tell you i think you get a mixture of answers to be honest with you why i think the mid vast majority would say yes it is children all over in c.d.'s are spontaneously at birthday parties playgrounds on at weekdays and weekends getting into the lotus position putting

their hands in the shiner mudra and and meditating. it seems to me the dean broyles and the n.c. need a school case it's part of a larger cultural war in america and it's hard for me to see young get dragged into that battle back in l.a. my friend karen invited me to her neighbor's 4th of july party and i suspect dean would have had a problem with what was going on there for 1st tonight in america and i couldn't ask for better the flare up or americano those kids to build up great kids grades raising the kids are the ultimate yogis. living in the moment i saw her do we have to learn a lot of good. stuff. i. was such. a mess

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are the headlines and now it's back to al-jazeera correspondent who owns yoga to stay with us. diamond dallas page is a former w w f wrestler and he's created his own brand of yoga d.d.p. . flexibility is one thing core strength is a whole nother and one through focus on your breath. and lock it out due to be out of baby and age your mama's yogurt. i wonder how flexible he is how are you and good to me if i'd only a very good to me when she 1st thing buy a new gas or my notebook my new yes exactly how are you i'm a guy who wouldn't be caught dead doing yoga the 1st 42 years of my life nobody

guys and i was brought up with yeah well that scene is like and not go about feminism but in the end it's so far from the truth but i wasn't going to do it until i blew my back out i was assigned a multimillion dollar 3 year deal so i'll try anything at that point so that i started to figure out ok lucy pipelines here in a pool here i just took a whole week just like coming in gauging just like uncurling the grandma right now 115116 just pulling them to someone so mike watch clicks in my glutes i'm going to pull you away and help you feel better and then you're going to want to do more and then you want to get excited what's not broke. back that's the d.d.p. yoga is at any level anyone can do this and they take all the spiritual stuff out of the michael spiritual mumbo jumbo not that there's anything wrong with that it's just that it's because i'm not for you doesn't work with my people you inhale the touchdown i develop this for guys ritually exhale. around the farm for care

you 3 to one and hold it up down the back plot hole 3 to one hold the only o.t. is over you're all doing all the typical yoga cool. q. limerick over here though you know because they're going to love the energy of that like i would if i saw someone do what i was the eye to come over here because of the i want to be a part of that it's awful that your. addie. i mean a lot of money and professional wrestling really towards the end of my career in the game to be getting for years but. he's already doubled everything i've made there i'm not trying to change you know get in any way i'm trying to change the way people look at the work you know that's it. it ain't so mom of the yoga. and. one thing is for sure the opportunity for money in yoga is changing the way

people think about yoga and maybe even the way they're practicing it according to a recent yoga journal study there are 20000000 yoga practitioners in america and over 40 percent of i don't say they want to practice at a yoga journal conference in san diego business is booming. we're cool with it. it's just simulate. paddleboard on the water right we just do it. all out in 1st thing i am attracted to a growth industry that's where you're going to expand and you're going to make some money. is obviously one of those it is because you remember when he can go out go yeah gotta go in. this appears to be 1st a booth where i can get my picture taken. and put on the hummer of a younger journal it's kind of cool. so i came here i was like

a lot of people just know but you know too much but now i'm like a kid in a campus i'm totally falling for you know all these like products and. you know. from media. spiritual materialism. takraw now i'm really joni very much so those people are that they're not in this necessarily to you know to make money there or you know they're trying to spread the joy of it but the same time for us to exist we have to be persistent going to get as more and more people capita. lies on the growth of yoga that means being competitive in the business world one area hotly contested today is intellectual property ownership. in the yoga world the battle over intellectual property started in 2002 when big 3 tried to copyright his sequence of 26 poses in a heated room big room is arguably one of the most influential and controversial names in yoga today with over 900 affiliated studios around the world he's facing

allegations of sexual misconduct from former students and criticism over his efforts to copyright his sequence but i want to mark droste as a former student who spent many years teaching at the become school in l.a. when he left to start his own studio he was sued by bikram he sued us on many different fronts many false charges but the core of it the goal of it was to get us tied up in court on the issue of the sequence and a summary judgment was won on our part to dismiss that idea because it's very clear that there is no such thing as a copyright protection for a yoga sequence and united states law one company that successfully got a patent for its approach to yoga is yoga glow a leader in online yoga classes they patented the way in which their classes are filmed derek males is yoga gloves founder this is a knife this is where we hold our classes we have this set up such that

the camera is at the back of the room and he wanted to create an experience that was you know not like a filming. studio recording studio is it the placement of the camera and the height is that true is that the relevant yeah yeah the there there are a variety of specifications or the camera placement the high court or the details of the court or and there are other specifications as well ok you know them off the top your head. all right i don't put your id i leave a lot of numbers involved i leave that to the intellectual property journey of a lot of work goes into the entire class creation process to make sure that you know what people experience online is a high quality safe experience it's a look and feel that people have associated with yoga class and it's a look and feel that we certainly plan to protect last year goodloe did set out to enforce its intellectual property rights the informed competitor yoga international

did some of its yoga videos would be in violation of their pending patent. we received a letter from a from a legal firm who was representing an organization called the ogre glow a letter essentially said that we were in violation of their pending patent is come to our attention that yoga international operates the web site you'll get a national dot com which streams in on line fitness classes that mimics the method and techniques set forth and you know it was u.s. patent application which is enclosed for you reference the patent is pretty straightforward i mean they've patented putting a camera on the back of a yoga classroom having an aisle down the center which seems fairly obvious because there are now you would be able to see this the teacher and press inquiry and that doesn't seem to a lot of people like a particularly novel idea or something that's really worthy of an invention which is what patents are for protecting intellectual property rights of inventors are

you trying to patent your own style of shooting a class now here at this organization. the truth is we've thought about whether it's prudent to seek to patent our own camera because what happens if those get taken up i mean if it leads to those types of questions how do we know what's going to be left if we don't do it what you would think would be the most important thing is what is the quality of the teaching you're giving are you doing something that is helping people are you doing some of it is not helping people but this doesn't even look at that this is looking at what camera angle you feeling from it's not even about yoga at all it's really about this core business but it has deep reaching implications into what the future of yoga is going to look like yoga glow has an impressive repertoire of classes and teachers but owning a camera angle and stopping others from filming a certain way seems to me like it could prevent people from sharing yoga and besides people have been filming yoga this way for more than 20 years i showed derek a video of pataki joyce teaching yoga at that video was shot in 1903 players central

as you can see obviously the mats are in a different place but i don't see how that's different from your patent so the mats are configured differently well they are configured different but so basic what you're telling me is the difference. is the configuration of your mats correct but the mats are facing you know forward and you know in parallel to the cord or you are transformed you're you're taken into the studio with with real students there may be other differences relative to what you don't understand people saying how is that an invention can you can you understand how people would ask that question i would encourage you to go look at the specifications of that and because there are you know variety of them a few weeks after filming this interview derek published a block post saying that yoga glow has forfeited its patent however he says they will continue to protect the look and feel of their online classes which to me

sounds like just another approach to owning yoga. not everyone who's contributed to the evolution of yoga feels the need to protect it brazilian born tommy try is a respected yoga teacher in new york city he's been practicing yoga postures for decades and he's even created some of his own offering them as a gift to the world with a pleasure to meet you i'm busy doing like i have to practice so like quite a few. i have a hand is that like i'm i'm not saying i create but due to lots of practice this variation came but i don't say it belongs to dominate

this is universe is from yoga not from dharma i don't have any ego here. egress and the 2nd cause a pang is suffering is very different good but everything i do i think is that perfect you understand i think here in this physical plane. impossible to do something perfectly but of course deep inside you have your good intention to do it perfectly and do your best so that's the main thing i don't care about very sour. on hold on. did you go to study india or where did you who do you know consider i never been

named in my life. what's the point i loved one in the sea of this holy place but there is a point to neo there and you find something shy. in you you wrote i had to lie on the line while. i was heading to india to the roots of yoga before going i spent an afternoon with sharon dan and david life at their home in upstate new york we're looking for a cat totem so we've been told. if you do yoga you've most likely heard of them they're the founders.