Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that repeals the ban on teaching yoga classes in public schools.

Highlights:

• Authorizes local boards of education to offer instruction in yoga to students in grades kindergarten through 12, subject to the following requirements (Sec. 1):

• Each local board of education must have exclusive discretion to determine the duration and frequency of periods of instruction in yoga; 

• All instruction in yoga must be limited exclusively to poses, exercises, and stretching techniques; 

• All poses must be limited exclusively to sitting, standing, reclining, twisting, and balancing; 

• All poses, exercises, and stretching techniques must have exclusively English descriptive names; and 

• Chanting, mantras, mudras, use of mandalas, and namaste greetings are expressly prohibited.

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