The country\u2019s top three exponents of \u201cauthentic yoga\u201d have joined hands to stop the likes of Shilpa Shetty, Bikram Chaudhary and Ana T Forrest from giving a modern twist to the ancient Indian practice of mental and physical exercise.
\nYoga guru Baba Ramdev, Art of Living\u2019s Sri Sri Ravishankar and Shantikunj head Pranav Pandiya recently floated Indian Yoga Association at Haridwar in Uttarakhand to take on the new-age promoters of what they called \u2018synthetic yoga.\u2019
\nThey also formed a technical committee to work out the modalities of their action plan and submit a report to the Centre before the next International Yoga Day on June 21.
\nRamdev, whose Patanjali Ayurvedic Limited has a turnover of R 5,000 crores, will head the association.
\nShetty\u2019s \u2018Quick Fix Yoga\u2019, Chaudhary\u2019s famous \u2018Hot Yoga\u2019 and Ana\u2019s specially-designed \u2018Forrest Yoga\u2019 have millions of followers worldwide. But the \u2018trinity\u2019 of traditional Indian yoga is not impressed.
\n\u201cSome people have designed the \u2018Hot Yoga\u2019, some have founded European Yoga\u2026It\u2019s an ancient Indian practice and India should have intellectual property rights over it (yoga),\u201d said Pranav Pandiya.<\/p>\n
Yoga is believed to have emerged as a money-minting industry with the annual business touching roughly anything between $30 -50 million. Hundreds of yoga studios are being run across the US, UK and Europe, besides India.
\nRamdev, Sri Sri and Pranav Pandiya have their own centres in several countries. Through these centres, they now plan to spread the traditional version of the breathing exercise.
\nThey also collaborated with a Portugal-based yoga master, Amrta Suryananda Maharaj, who was conferred Padma Shri in 2015, to prevent the concoction.
\nThe trio said their objective is not only to promote ancient yoga but also to bring uniformity in the yoga curriculum taught in various schools and universities.
\n\u201cOur aim is to spread Indian yoga world over. The idea is also to bring uniformity in yoga education so that we can have trained yoga professionals,\u201d said Ramdev.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The country\u2019s top three exponents of \u201cauthentic yoga\u201d have joined hands to stop the likes of Shilpa Shetty, Bikram Chaudhary and Ana T Forrest from giving a modern twist to the ancient Indian practice of mental and physical exercise. Yoga guru Baba Ramdev, Art of Living\u2019s Sri Sri Ravishankar and Shantikunj head Pranav Pandiya recently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}