Fighting yoga on a wing and a prayer

Posted: March 14, 2015 at 9:46 am


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Students hold their position during a yoga class at Capri Elementary School in Encinitas in December 2012.

Om, my.

After oral arguments, I checked my email in the lobby of Symphony Towers.

Top of scroll was an e-vite to a tennis/yoga party.

Game, set, sun salutation!

In the Fourth District Court of Appeal, three justices had just heard both sides of the constitutional conundrum posed by privately funded yoga in Encinitas public schools.

The question: Is yoga OK if its served up as vanilla yogurt, stripped of its religious toppings, so to speak.

The districts initial yoga classes, funded by the Jois (now the Sonima) Foundation, did feature religious trappings that arguably ran afoul of the First Amendment. Complaints erupted.

Then the bleach came out. Sanskrit scrubbed.

The district could tout its own secular brand of yoga as distinct as Lululemon from Yves Saint Laurent.

Continued here:

Fighting yoga on a wing and a prayer

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