"It's like soccer and Britain," Suneel Singh–identified as a leading Indian yogi–told the Guardian. "You have given it to the world which is wonderful and generous. But imagine that people started saying they had invented the sport. That would be annoying."
Maybe he should try some pranayama? Meditate on that? Seriously, annoyed as a rationale?
In that same article we are reassured by a Dr VK Gupta, one of the movement's main proponents, that "there is no intention to stop people practising yoga but nobody should misappropriate yoga and start charging franchise money." That is spit-take worthy. Has he seen what they charge at the Astanga Yoga Institute in Mysore? Or he's okay with that because it's in India? What about the Western dude who popularized the shala? Isn't he entitled to a kickback? Is this about kickback? I just don't get it. "Our job is to provide the evidence and let others decide," is what he says, but decide what?
Speaking to the Hindustan Times, Gupta was more direct: "Video recordings of the asanas are also being made and recorded to prevent them from being stolen."
OK, so what if the alignment is different in their Triangle than mine? If you're a regular practitioner you know, yes, those micro-adjustments make a huge difference. And who exactly are we stealing from? This implies that we owe recompense. If anything, this idiotic move encourages people to do yoga and call it something else.
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