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Friday, June 9, 2017

Yoga Teachers Need a Code of Ethics; New York Times, June 7, 2017

Sarah Herrington, New York Times; Yoga Teachers Need a Code of Ethics

"According to the 2016 Yoga in America survey co-sponsored by Yoga Journal and Yoga Alliance — the largest nonprofit in the United States representing the yoga community and providing teacher-training requirements — there are 36.7 million yoga practitioners nationwide, 72 percent of them women. Though Yoga Alliance has published a bullet-point code of conduct, few know it exists until they are explicitly looking, and by then it may be too late."