In Pure Spirit

For open minds

  • Brains
  • Peculiar
  • Beliefs
  • Places
  • Meanings
  • Gaia
  • About

India attempts to patent some yoga poses

February 23, 2009 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Tanumânasî Meditación en postura del Loto (Pad...
Image via Wikipedia

Will your yoga classes become illegal? Let’s take a look at what seems to be happening.

India has created a team of Hindu experts and scientists to identify all of the older asanas or yoga positions.

The goal is to stop other people from patenting the positions and stealing what Indian calls their traditional knowledge.

The country has had to battle attempts by American yoga teachers attempting to patent positions associated with their classes. Yoga is estimated to be a $225 billion industry.

The Telegraph reports that up to 600 asanas have already been added to the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library.

However, the American system has granded more than 130 patents, 150 copyrights and over 2,000 trademarks relating to yoga.

In fact, India’s attempts to patent yoga poses is most likely an attempt to keep the poses and asanas free and widely available to the public.

In Pure Spirit

What do you think? Has India made the right decision here? Should the country patent yoga positions before the American system grants patents to individual yoga teachers?

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)

Related

Filed Under: Brains Tagged With: america, india, yoga

Join the conversation Cancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Search

Trending

The meaning of itches and their omens
10 types of spirits that could be haunting your home
The meaning of September
Friends of Hecate (FoH) and Clapham Wood

Join us

Join us

In Pure Spirit via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 2,007 other subscribers.

Disclosure

This blog discusses ideas and causes. Urban myth, science and faith combine here. So do editorials and technology; In Pure Spirit uses affiliate marketing and some links might earn us money. You can read more about that here.

Policies

  • Contact us
  • Privacy
  • How we earn money
  • Writing about belief

Member of The Internet Defence League

Copyright © 2022 · Beautiful Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in