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then, a dozen lockdown gatherings held by politicians and the stuff around the investigation. the trial for an adjust nigerian separatists later accused of treason has been a joke. and nam de can. who is the head of a group called indigenous people of the from he can it campaigns for the succession of the south eastern region. it's separated from nigeria in a $967.00, which led to the nigerian civil war. and getting deposed president elsa con day has reported a been flown to the united arab emirates for medical treatment. the a 3 year old has been under house arrest in 10 minutes, recruit 4 months ago. the original blog eco was, has demanded. he's released those are the headlines i'm in language. stay tuned for al jazeera correspondent. ah ah. had scored a . my name is bonnie put knocking and i'm in london for the 11th annual competition of the international yoga sports federation whose goal is to make yoga and olympic sport. i've always thought of yoga is part of my indian heritage. i understand it to be about transformation, personal transformation. but yoga itself seems to be transforming and being appropriate, both culturally and financially, as it spreads all over the world with international your yoga, the way that we're a use. so it's really easy from the outside of the spirituality and yoga it when you come here. it's almost like a 10 years ago. i was the only guy that completed for our i place 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th by default. right. within this year to was i think it was 8 or 9 guys. a defending champion on. yeah. 2013. yeah. gonna hand the crown over this year. so i'm going to hold on. i don't like a spiritual enlightenment. i'm out of my body thing. you know, i think the way there is through here, this is matthew on america, joseph and i can trace it involved balance in most strength and involves flexibility and mental focus. and that's why i think, especially the often aspect of yoga can be displayed as competitive for 3rd place and the new international amend yoga. chad. it's not about getting up there and competing with other people who are beating them, demonstrating that total present finding it on stage 3 or 3 minute pretty soon. yoga elliptic sports represents just one way that changing the world doing appreciate the physical beauty of the postures. i'm still not comfortable with the idea of yoga as a competition. it feels very far from what yoga means to me. we're here at the other place in london. i used to live just down the street from here. can you still walk to practice my yoga? bought 6 years ago. i have good memory studio. did you hear about the yoga sport championship? they get up on stage and they perform a series of, of pulses. some of them difficult. some of them are not that difficult and they are judged, that's what i was gonna, i was gonna ask you what your thoughts are for the person about them looking within themselves, not being compared to other people. besides the usual things that you would expect the elder to do, i like it, grounds me at centers. me it calms me. and it also reminds me that i'm trying to say, sorry about that. i'm not the center of the universe, but i am as well you to reminds me that if i just am fight customala breath, the problems that keep going around and around in my head, none of it is real. that none of that is true. i committed to fabrication an illusion until i was in my twenties. i had no interest in yoga. i came to it as a form of exercise. but as i got better at the physical pastures known as often as i wanted to deepen my practice by learning more about yoga philosophy and learning how to meditate. i took a teacher training course in thailand and it was there that something occurred to me as i looked around the room at the other students. i was the only indian my instructor knew more about yoga and indian heritage than i did. i do consider myself a mix of east and west, born in sweden and having lived in india as a teenager. but my yoga teacher training made me think about yoga in the modern world. how is it changing? does it belong to india? does it belong to anyone? and does it even matter? rom comes either into your ha wall thing i think of london is my 2nd home, and it's exploding that trendy hybrid forms of yoga. one of them boxing yoga mix is traditional boxing moves with a yoga, often a practice. we don't use any sanskrit and we make very accessible frequencies various to take just the physical aspect of it. oh, just to focus, trailing with vogue is well voting and yoga gang is a direct for insane and i've used the 2 together. the homage decoding is a different kind of speed it up. although i was a market data teaches rocky rocket because in the words have it san francisco founder, it's yoga. if it gets you there, faster, people are looking into more different forms of mind, body exercise and meditation, and yoga is just coming off or not cuz people realize it's good for the whole of your rog and just want to thank you right. have a, every lots bearing carrying on i used to be a d. j for 10 years, and then everyone in every club, every teacher and now i'm a yoga teacher and everyone's a yoga teacher in the 21st century version j. j. o . for me, radio is possibly the most unusual traditional yoga mixed with great culture minus the drugs and alcohol holidays. yoga is along with others to seeing the beauty and others. it was really easy to my look a honda. i mean, i don't, we wanted to achieve that we're, we're building off, it was very traditional yoga and then we started to kind of get off with ring on the music and then everyone. oh, do all these new forms of yoga aren't just a fringe. they represent a massive growth in the yoga market with international apparel companies like lemon athletic eye opening and downtown london to grab a piece. i think, you know, western mentality is a lot about business in the house. you promote and sell certain things, right? and that's very different him and he's saying sedation and what yoga was originally meant to me. but even, you know, being here for a month earlier in the year you're, that they're, you know, they're very much adapting the western sentence. in a way it's going to be seen making it how it gets being an evolving. and it's a matter of the integrity has had what it was originally, but what was yoga meant to be originally and how is it moving away from that? i went to speak with steward gilchrist, who teaches a traditional and physically rigorous form of yoga. really simple, really straightforward. the all in your life. it's not like civility, gymnastic progress. it's about life. it's what we're doing years in the highways. what you you're likely your friends and your families. what you're like in the restaurant. you are in the bicycle. you are at your work everyday, but you're probably not just what happens in that studio or another and a half every day. it's often you'll get all of them. i think i was in one in the most violent pregnancy of them. i didn't drop a catholic, drop, it moved and brought the heat from the races. i had a very serious i did. and i go back and i had to be buying an injury and i was much mobilized, resist anger, they got renewed. and then i opened my eyes up to draw a picture of what you'll get really like your good detachment from everything in mental and physical, your possession and your desires, your senses, everyone's attaching to where you get to their studios in jimmy, what have you. there's all kinds of hybrid yoga coming out, boxing, yoga, cycling, yoga, make yoga, all kinds of stuff. what's your opinions on a quote for a new consumer vision of your good. for him, it's become so much of a business and so much of a profit had been repaired to the revenues by us. lloyd was, i'm 5050. 0, my dread locks in the year. then i've got a very style of teaching studio. so not interested in obviously wanted to be on the router. was a really tough class. i wasn't really tough less because it was really about the mysteries of the universe is i think we're kind of commercializing the mystery with the privacy. oh absolutely. that's what i do about it with. so i'm headed to the u. s. where yogurt was 1st popularized in the west. it's one of the biggest yoga markets in the world. it's mainstream, fashionable, cool, glossy. it's well american hair styles, and i'm all about working hard. and playing harder, i apply the same philosophy, doing yoga, sang town, and looking good. i believe in making my own rules and injecting fun into everything i do, tara style, the symbolic of the modern transformation of yoga in america. she has created her own form of yoga stroller and has marketing campaigns for the w hotel and re bach showing me. and we forget about being that and start getting fabulous. ah, well 1st person to put the 2 videos with yoga line like 2006 and all my friends were like a little crazy like what are you doing? and i'm like my. 6 friends like home like i back, they and i have idea of stress. what do i do? and i'm like here somebody can do to help. i'm your palms, the other bringing thumbs right up into your heartbeat. here. the new york times describe you as a yoga rebel. they did do. do you see yourself available? so the whole rebel yoga idea, i think really came out of the rebelling against the fact that it has to be in sounds great. or it has to be super serious, or it has to be has to be a certain way. but if you look at the approach of why we are doing it, it doesn't look are about a so it looks very simple and off and it's all by ease and finding what works for you. and it's very soft a 1st time you're a little earlier, you're quoted as saying why be used when you can be fabulous? or is that correct quote? well, part of the w. yeah. and definitely going to talk. yes they did. i mean, i think the point is to get everybody talking. it's like, you know, being then i think is the point of yoga to be like, like you said, connected with yourself. i would think being then is fabulous. you know, it's the same thing. but then you say that you didn't say you can, let's be then and fabulous. sure. you know, fine, i think, but i think it's changing the perception and speaking to the people that have had abuse from the over community. it's like, oh you went in and they said you're not. and then today, let me put a blanket over you. i mean, people have been like humiliated by the yoga community. think these are the little bit of sense in the yoga industry. i'm sort of holier than thou, how? yeah, yeah. you know, i don't not going to sit around like, complain about it for i just think it's more important to, you know, help people to feel better like so. your thing is like stripping out, i don't know the hand scraped the indian nest, the spirituality, maybe i don't know if that is true and how would you i took the name out of my company a couple of years ago. nobody noticed. so it's a struggle. but you to feel sure. so why, why did you pick it up? i think it's a new definition. it's an lucian, of, of yoga. you know, i mean, who are we really answering to who are we ultimately answering to india? ancient yogi. can india still claim yoga, as it's modern cultural heritage people shot of the hindu american foundation seems to think so. in 2010, they launched a take back yoga campaign to raise awareness about yoga roots. watkins is obviously, but i'll be joyce with consider, you know, the father of i shonda. this is the shiva section of the monday or for a lot of this is considered by the supreme yoga the master. muster one day a day, a day need shift. why does it matter that people should recognize yoga as a hindu practice? is that a 1st thing to say? i like the term rooted in hindu thought. because when you say for him to practice, it gives the impression that people have to convert, you know, your average person thinks of hinduism as cast cows in karma and they have multiple arms and multiple heads. what yoga espouses is this pluralistic view. you know that anybody can do it the same way that him who has and has this pluralistic view of anybody can reach divine. what's happened is that people have forgotten. that yoga means much more than just an exercise. we have seen so many manifestations. i guess yoga and we're seeing it in the kind of society we live in now. when does something stop becoming yoga? i think that a lot of the new forms of yogurt, they're not yoga. america is great at like taking what it likes from different cultures and then just like making it its own. and i feel like that's a little bit of what's happened with yoga, like it's kind of made it into its own version of yoga. so who owns yoga? nobody owns yoga. yoga is for everyone, but with him do routes. it is rooted in him the philosophy. i'm just like confused because i'm a hindu. i'm a him to buy mame and because of the way i was raised, and i believe in, you know, the general teachings of hinduism. but i'm a very open minded individual. but i can understand what she was saying. i really understood it that a lot of what yoga teaches us is what him to was him, teachers as they're the same thing. so i'm conflicted now because i want yoga to be a secular thing. the problem is if yoga is seen as a hindu practice, it might drive people away from it. i think it's the variety and diversity of yoga that makes it so popular. it fits the practitioner barstow population $23000.00 halfway between los angeles and las vegas in the heart of the california desert. it's an unlikely place to be doing yoga, but i'm not here to do just any yoga. i'm meeting the ladies of praise moves. a christian alternative to yoga. this is the very church, my husband and i got married an huh. never. thank he, he would be a pastor ito. yeah. i went to yoga class in kansas. okay. and i can do any of the moves. you know what i mean? it's such a work. yeah. it is hard. i came and i asked my husband, i don't want to offend you in any. yeah, you know, but i said, dave, can i do a yoga class and barstow? i know that you have home. can i do it? and he said, wait a minute, it all students from a religious a loss of the, you know, hand do it. so, you know, we're not, we're not. yeah, we respect you guys. sure. we're just not. yeah, absolutely, yeah. and so he got on the internet and he found this. lauren willis. praise moves where you do similar positions, but we quote scripture. your body is the temple of the holy spirit who is in you whom you have received. god, you are not your own. you are bought at a price there for honor. god with your body. first print in 619. that's fine. we're pretty good. yeah. we have a great weekend take care of our bodies and learn scripture and get it in the on is going to join our class today. so that's really exciting. it's definitely going to be for ok. we're going to start with mount zion posture and let's roll or shoulders . we've been sitting for a while. let's try the movement of the arm over here to get in. nice movements back and forth. they're going to come forward, reaching down, kind of like a windmill. good, and it's good if you could, although the same way the effect of fervent prayer for a righteous man avails much available shames 5. 16 change by 16. i'm doing yoga poses while reciting. biblical scripture. i don't have any problem with the exercise, but i find the whole situation rather odd. it look and feels like you know better, but is it job 3344. we certainly aware that it looks like yoga, you know, that's totally fine. if people say that, but we believe yoga is a spiritual practice and we're not doing out there. laura, thank you. dear. learn a thing we can operate. i we to thank you. that's really all. we have to say you're awesome god. and we appreciate you giving us your word so we can move our bodies and stay healthy. the debate over whether yoga is religious isn't just limited to the walls of churches and temples in america. it's found its way into the courtrooms to the parents and anthony to california have their own warrior stands on free yoga classes being taught in their school district, saying yoga is a form of doctrine, a parents in this room that don't want yoga taught and practiced in the entity, the school district say that it cannot be separated from religion, sovereign were being lived through sun salutations while being asked questions about why they were thankful to the sun. they were being asked to thank the sun for things they were lad and something called a number stay circle, where they were asked to acknowledge the light in each other. and what i found was that they were not at all talking just about exercise. they were talking about teaching children life skills based and you'll get philosophy that's almost a direct quote. yoga philosophy is a very specifically religious philosophy. the big story here is that america has been sold ally yoga is being marketed deceptively deem. broyles is a lawyer who represented the parents in their lawsuit against the anthony to school district. american sorry to say, oh i can adopt this has exercise because we like to be healthy. and they think that by removing the meditation that sanskrit terms that that suddenly transforms yoga into a non religious practice. but social science research has proven that just during the poses and just doing yoga breathing as enough to to cause spiritual transformation. so have you ever done yoga before by accident? actually i how is that possible? well, it was just to move, i think it a p 90 video that i realized later were or i think one of them was a downward dog. and i think one pose was a warrior pose and i realize later that does where yoga poses. and so i don't do that anymore. but you call you guys just to pose. it isn't gonna take you away from gus to do that because i know i'm not gonna find that out because i stopped doing it. but if you asked hindus in india, if yoga is religious, what do you think they would tell you? i think you'd get a mixture of answers to be honest with you. well, i think the vast majority would say yes, it is. children all over in city that are spontaneously at birthday parties play grounds on weekdays and weekends getting into the lotus position. putting their hands in the genre, madura and, and meditating. it seems to me the dean broyles and the n cynita school case is part of a larger culture of war in america. and it's hard for me to see yoga dragged into that battle. back in a lay my friend, karen invited me to her neighbors. 4th of july party and i suspect dean would have had a problem with what was going on there. my 1st night in america. and i could mess with her american kids do with great grades, raising the kids are the ultimately of living in the moment as foreign do can learn a lot with it take to ships to democracies, activists to corporations, control of the message is crucial oil companies and become very good at recognizing ways to phrase what they want into 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headline time. emily anglin sy chew now for al jazeera correspondent. ah, ah, diamond dallas page is a former w, w, f wrestler. and he's created his own brand of yoga, dd p o flexibilities one course, right? this whole moran want to focus on your bra and lock it out. duty viagra, baby. it ain't your mama's, yo, yo. oh, i wonder how flexible he is. how are you read it to me? if i am a very good to me, would you personally find it? i know guess my mano, but my new yes, exactly. how are you? i'm a guy who wouldn't be caught dead doing yoga for the 1st 42 years of my life. you know, with the guys and i was brought up live and yeah, what was, it seems like pansy abdel bad and feminine. it's so far from the truth. my younger wasn't going to do it until i blew my back out. i would just find a multi 1000000 dollar 3 year deal. wow. so i'll try anything at that point. so then i started to figure out, okay, let me see if i clicked here in a pool here, i just pull it just like i'm engaging, just like i'm curly with my heart rate right now. i want 15116, just pulling from the flow. so what mike watch like, so my gluten, i'm going to pull you in help you feel better and then you're gonna want to do more . and then you really excited. what's all bro? hey, go back. that's a d d p yoga is at any level anyone can do this a half and i take all the spiritual stuff out of that. i call spiritual mumbo jumbo . not that there's anything wrong with that. it's just, it's not for you. it doesn't work with my people, you inhale, touched out. i developed for guys originally. accel real well thought. poor can hear you. 32, why and hold it up. down at back 5 or 321 i called the only, oh, he's already all do in order to prevent a yoga. cool. julie miracle over here though. now because they're going to love the energy. i'll that like i would if i saw someone do what i was doing. i to come over here because i was, i want to be a part of that makes it, ah, a joy at i me a lot of money into such a rustling, really towards the end of my career and my game, the beginning for years. but the p o has already doubled everything i've made there . i'm not trying to change yoga in any way. i'm trying to change the way people look at to work yoga. that's it. it ain't jo, mom of yoga. and ha, one thing is for sure. the opportunity for money and yoga is changing the way people think about yoga and maybe even the way they're practicing at work. according to a recent yoga journal study, there are 20000000 yoga practitioners in america. and over 40 percent of adults say they want to practice at a yoga journal conference in san diego. business is booming. hello, cool. what did exist? simulate tad award on the water. right? well, we can do it in for say, i am attracted to growth industry. that's, we're going to expand and you're going to make some money. yoga is obviously one of those it is because you remember when he can go out dough. yeah, gotta go in down. this appears to research a booth where i can get my picture taken and put on the hummer of yoga journal. it's kind of cool. when i came here, i was like, well, let people, it's a little bit, you know too much, but now i'm like a kid in a candy. i'm totally falling for, you know, all is like products in, you know, yoga paraphernalia, spiritual materialism, saffron and we donate for every night. so those people are that they're not in this necessarily to, you know, to make money their own, you know, they're trying to spread the joy of yoga for the same time. for us to exist. we have to be a business. we're going to get more and more people cap lies on the growth of yoga . that means being competitive in the business world. one area hotly contested today is intellectual property, ownership. in the yoga world, the battle over intellectual property started in 2002. when victim showed that he tried to copyright his sequence of $26.00 poses in a heated room. big room is arguably one of the most influential and controversial names in yoga today with over $900.00 affiliated studios around the world. he's facing allegations of sexual misconduct from former students and criticism over his efforts to copyright his secret meditation. but i want to mark drove is a former student who spent many years teaching at the big school and lay when he left to start his own studio. he was sued by big room, and he sued us and many different friends, many false charges, but the core of it, the goal of it was to get much tied up in court on the issue of the sequence. and a summary judgement was one on our part to dismiss that idea because it's very clear that there is no such thing as a copyright protection for a yoga sequence in the united states law. one company that successfully got a patent for its approach to yoga is yoga glo, a leader and online yoga classes. patented the way in which their classes are filmed. derek males is yoga close founder. this is it. this is where we hold our classes. we have this set up such that the camera is at the back of the room. uh huh. and we wanted to create an experience that was not like a stoning studio or recording studio. is it the placement of the camera and the height is that it is actually relevant? yeah, yeah, the, there are a variety of specifications or the can replacement, the high, the court or the details of the court or, and there are other specifications as well. ok. you know them off the top, your head. right. i don't know for sure. yeah, i would, i leave a lot of numbers involved. i leave that to the intellectual property attorney. a lot of work goes into the entire class creation process to make sure that you know what people experience online is a high quality, safe experience. it's a look and feel that people have associated with you and to look and feel that we we certainly plan to protect last year yogurt. lo did set out to enforce its intellectual property rights. they informed a competitor yoga international that some of the yoga videos would be in violation of their pending patent. we received a letter from, from legal firm who was representing an organization called yoga gloves. a letter essentially said that we were in violation of their pending pattened is come to our attention that yogi international operates the website. you'll get a national dot com which streams an online fitness classes that mimics the method and techniques set forth. and you know, it was us patent application which has been closed for your reference. the patent is pretty straightforward. i mean, they've patented putting a camera in the back of the classroom, having an aisle down the center, which seems fairly obvious, because now you wouldn't be able to, to the teacher and pressing play. and that doesn't seem to a lot of people like a particularly novel idea or something that's really worthy of an invention, which is what patents are for protecting intellectual property rights of inventors? are you trying to patent your own style of shooting a class? now here at this organization, the truth is we've thought about whether it's prudent to seek to patent our own camera angles because what happens if those get taken up? i mean, it leads to those types of questions. how do we know what's going to be left? if we don't do it, what you would think would be the most important thing is, what is the quality of the teaching that you're giving? are you doing something that's, that's helping people are you doing something is not helping people. but this doesn't even look at that. this is looking at what camera angle you feeling from. it's not even about yoga at all. it's really about this core business. but it has deep reaching implications into what the future of yoga is going to look like. yoga glo has an impressive repertoire of classes and teachers, but owning a camera angle and stopping others from building a certain way seems to me like it could prevent people from sharing yoga. and besides, people have been filming yoga this way for more than 20 years. i showed derek a video of the topic, joyce, teaching yoga media which i didn't, $993.00 clear central. i'll, as you can see, obviously the mats are in a different place, but i don't see how that's different from your patent for the match or, or configure differently. well, they are configured different bit. so basically what you're telling me is the difference is the configuration of your mat correct with the mat facing forward. and you know, in parallel to the corridor, you are transformed. you're, you're taken into the studio with, with real students. there may be other differences relative to what you can understand people thing. how is that an invention? can you, can you understand how people would ask that question going encourage you to go look at the specifications of pattened because there are, there are, you know, righty of them. a few weeks after filming this interview, derrick published a blog post saying that yogurt low has forfeited it's patent. however, he says they will continue to protect the look and feel of their online classes. which to me sounds like just another approach to owning yoga. not everyone who's contributed to the evolution of yoga feels they need to protect it. brazilian born time, a metro is a respected yoga teacher in new york city. he's been practicing yoga postures for decades, and he's even created some of his own offering them as a gift to the world. it's a pleasure to meet you. i'm busy doing like my headstand practice. so my question for you. uh huh. i have hundreds of ponies. it's like, i'm not saying i create, but due to lots of black snow, this variation came, but i don't say it belongs to diamond me today. this is universe. so is from yoga not from darma. i don't have any ego here. e. griffin, this 2nd cause pena shove thing is very yes and good to escape everything i do. i don't think it's that perfect. you understand? i think here in this physical plane is impossible to do something perfectly. but of course, the b side, you have your good intention to do it perfectly and do your best. so that's the main thing i don't care about. very so. so heard on a firm related did you go to study in india or where did you, who do you consider? i never been in my life. what department? i love one to see oh this holy places. but there is a pawn can yogurt and you find something inside the, in your i do what i the lions got a lion wine and i was heading to india to the roots of yoga. before going i spent an afternoon with sharon gannon and david life at their home in upstate new york were looking for a cad total. so we've been told if you do, yoga you've most likely heard of them. they're the founders of given lucky a widely practiced yoga method. look us, i'm a star suki. no bob on 2 names may all beans each and everyone everywhere be happy and free and may the thoughts, words and actions of our own life contribute in some way. when we started teaching yoga was not a career, in fact it was seen as kind of where losers might have a possible last chance. do something in their life. you know, because they didn't have anything else going. and it's not that now it's the visit . it's a big business is a career of choice traditionalists on the one hand and innovators on the other. david and sharon have turned a yoga into activism, animal rights, and veganism in particular, yogi, as someone who is striving to live in harmony with the earth, with the environment, with other animals like a very hot you are going to yogi, we're not supposed to come involved in politics or activism of any sort, they should be passive, self satisfied, and contempt in their lotus hut, right. our students come to class. yeah. and they find peace, but then they go out and they make these all over the west. yoga has turned into a purely physical practice. what are your thoughts on that? and do you think even the physical practices is, is a good place. so there is no such thing as a purely physical practice. that's the 1st error. we need to have a new perspective. so that no longer a spirituality in opposition to physicality. but that nature and the world the earth is seen as a spiritual place as well. and leather oak trees nectar. oh yeah. for what an on your face. grandmother, oak tree. i speak on behalf of humanity. may you forgive our bumbling nurse? may you guide us so that we can live more kindly on this planet and enhance all of life on this earth? yes, we're, we're tree huggers into. we're not ashamed. lou . for many in the yoga community. india isn't just a country. it's a place to find yourself to find wisdom, the birthplace of yoga. for me, india is all of those things and a part of my heritage. oh, you would think yoga has always been popular in india, but like in the west, yoga has experienced a resurgence in recent years. and no one epitomizes that revival more than swanny rom, dave. he's a household name and his yoga is a political one. he's an outspoken supporter of the nationalist party, a jump to party and prime minister that under moody who himself, practices, yoga, and recently spoke about his benefits at the united nations job id put on. i'm body ammonia in the b j. p. when a landslide victory in the last general election, swami ram dave was credited with bringing people out to vote. could on this the guy that the valet yorker anthy wheat. who asked about them, nick of a jedi gunther. we don't get v dot m nicola with a fellow what, but he was going to give them in the article or, or so kinda kids on the ground. the article that was sees dish, me, it could i genetic grant, the building, and i was ready, but he went and behold it. ah, the yoga is facing the same political battles in india is in america. the supreme court in india is now considering whether yoga is secular and should be taught in schools. so on the rom they've thinks it should yoga see honeycutt yogis. yeah. honey grey beauty are yo sucrose eco, my 70 by the the yoga 100 percent. secular order is secular practice, corcoran him up with the gay. the battle isn't only over the secular nature of yoga . it's also about national heritage in response to u. s. copyright claims the indian government has taken steps to create a traditional knowledge database of yoga poses to prevent anyone from trying to own yoga, yoga, gilbert you think our corporate identity was that? you can think of of what the nic is exactly. a method is okay. are there you have kick alone? unclear, yoga, make a c b prosperity. they didn't car process your make. you see beat regular oldie. so i'm, it was caught up not gonna ye again that you thought that i in nice, that are a yeah, a man of yet. i are ye, yoga casey done. don't get kilogram swami rom. dave has shown that yoga can bring about political change. but i'm concerned that politics can change yoga to, and that, using yoga in politics, could be just another way that people try to own it, thump of come to southern india to meet such good jackie vasa, dave who describes himself as a mystic and yogi. and his followers around the world. yo yo, yo again in her i'm drawn to some glue. he appeals to the young and urban middle classes of india. he speaks their language. he speaks to me. oh the festival of group warner mar, said grew and built a new satchel shiver. also known as the are the yogi, the 1st ever yogi. the whole system of how to yoga is just this to bring your system to a certain level of symmetry, where it is a certain geometric perfection. do you that if you sit or stand here, everything is at least ah, how do you think india is changing today? and is that having an impact on yoga, india, the to not just india, the whole world. the moment human to human intellect starts asking, pertinent relevant questions, beliefs systems will start thing. they will look for something more sensible, more scientific, which appeals to that logic and a bow or something that works. so is that why you think yoga is becoming as popular as it is? or other reasons it makes sense and it works. you know, the reason there's a lot of innovation in yoga, is that a good thing is that there's this part of the that is the most painful part. okay. explain that to me. you don't have a garland, but instead you wear it for your flowers. but there is never a garland without a thread. it is the most white thing. so you can add whatever you want, but you don't distort the fact. you cannot do innovations in the fundamental dimension of yoga. but from your experience, you can add weight dimensions, do it without distorting the fundamental nature of what it is. has yoga moved beyond being indian, just because son touches indian shores before it touches doha, can reclaims, on his indian. because yoga is just like that it's, it's a certain light that arose here. fust, this does not mean it's in, in, in indian, in any sense, india and identity. today's a national and a political identity. yogurt does not belong to that identity at all. it is the sickness of modern societies to day that if i discover something in nature, i must own it. intellectual property. what i'm saying is the nature of this culture has always been. if something is for the well being of human beings, nobody can ever own it, did must belong to everybody ah . busy busy busy ah, i agree with such yoga should belong to every one. but i'm afraid that simple truth is getting lost in a world that so commercialized and politicized. i set out to ask who owns yoga, but i'm finding the question and impossible one to answer. what i have found in my journey is that no matter how much people try to own it, yoga remains deeply personal. it is all about intention. it doesn't matter whether you can stand on your head or, or you can do a hand stand or something like that. it's the intention that you come with to the math. and so the intention that you come to the ganges or any other places, a sort of pilgrimage, is a beautiful thing. before heading back home, i went to meet an old high school friend of mine who's now living in deli, i'm at and i both practice yoga, but we've had very different journeys. i came to yoga as a physical exercise. um it came to yoga as a last resort. he's a recovering cancer patient who turned his life around when the doctors said there was no hope. he brought it all home to me. yoga meditation was such a key part of getting me mentally to the right place to not only fight the disease but to accept it. and then one step further to embrace it. oh, i'm here, i'm a product of having tried so many different things and finding the right combination that worked for me. and i think we all need to be on those jr. ease of self exploration to find what works for us. ah, because that is what's going to get us there. ah, i'm back and doha, back to my life, working in a fast paced newsroom and teaching yoga with come to realize that there are as many yoga in the world as there are people. when i see the diversity of yoga today and a lot of fascinating people, i've spoken to even those i disagree with. i can't help but feel proud that this ancient indian science of the soul is relevant and applicable even now. no matter where i am in the world, i think by virtue of connecting your breath with your body, i think it is profoundly powerful activity. it sounds so simple, but i do try live my life or see the world to real good guys. and i kind of feel like my own life could be a metaphor for what's happening to yoga indian, but not indian spiritual, but not religious. and on that point, i feel that yoga has become a more spiritual undertaking for me more so than before. but i'm coming to realize that my yoga journey is just beginning, and that journey is unique to me. a journey of personal discovery. my great grandfather, he was a slave of the li property al jazeera is james gannon, explores his family's legacy of slave ownership. now like my family's status and wealth has benefited from their choice translate people and america's debt to the black people today, some of us. so star, we've a scale to speak out because it's a bradley out there, a correspondence, a moral debt. ah, [000:00:00;00] with you cannot of missed the story of extreme snow on the eastern side of the u. s. nissan canada. because that real kodak came up against its rival, the warmer stuff from you get explosive results that you probably know about half metro snowfall in toronto. it's been the 2nd snow yes day on recording, not one more step console to use inside a canada. the window follows is a cold wants to be a lake effect snow for toronto. for example, in the us it's more case of it feels cold is more like the rain, the snow because the breeze is not coming from the southwest. nevertheless, proper winter, as you can see, that's on its way through then following it really cold air. look at these temperature, the high temperatures on wednesday in, for example, kansas minus 4 in kansas city. the average is about 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