
None dare call it ‘yoga’
More schools are teaching yoga in hopes of promoting mindfulness and relieving stress, writes Alia Wong in The Atlantic. However, yoga is controversial in some parts of the country. Georgia parents who complained yoga classes “promoted a non-Christian belief system,” forced the district to remove the “namaste” greeting and coloring-book exercises involving mandalas, she writes. San Diego County parents sued on grounds the yoga program “promoted Eastern religions.” Since 1993,