Patenting Yoga - A Crime against Humanity

What's next, we will have to pay a toll to meditate? How can it be morally right for a U.S. patent on a 5000 year old system is founded in India? Who should have the right to claim that yoga?

What about the "cultural heritage of the Indian people?" It is obvious to see, Yoga is definitely part of the heritage of Indian culture.

Most of us believe that the theft of intellectual property is wrong, but we combine them wrong, with another theft of cultural heritage for profit.

According to the Times of India, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has reported that the 150-yoga related copyrights, 134 trademarks on yoga accessories, yoga and 2315 brands. "

As a result, the Indian government is organizing a group to collect, Sanskrit and Tamil texts, the catalog of yogic techniques and ayurvedic medicine in multiple languages, to prevent patents of Yoga and Ayurveda. This measure would be the information about Yoga and Ayurveda, more accessible to patent offices around the world.

What can happen when corporations buy all yoga technique? It seems stupid to think, but we would be obligated to pay royalties or to negotiate rights to Asana Pranayama or order?

A yoga teacher Bikram Choudhary copyrighted A 26 yoga posture (asana) sequence, which he claimed as his own. But most of "Hot Yoga" hot yoga teachers and studios around the world, the same sequence without paying him a dime. How do you police the asana sequence?

Consider: If the patent Brahmari Pranayama how do you manage to track the performance in every corner of the earth? The idea is ridiculous, and the patent is not really enforceable.

Yoga is a complex issue, and some people are still trying to understand what yoga is. Some people think that yoga is exercise. I suppose you could patent an exercise, but it has never been a successful strategy for patenting an exercise.

Each time you mark an exercise, another person will label it as something similar but not the same. You can not prevent everyone in the world of push-ups, because you bought the trademark and patent.

But yoga is not exercise. Yoga is the unity of mental, physical, mental and emotional health, for the improvement of all mankind. Yoga is a philosophy, a science, health maintenance, and the "mother of all self-improvement systems." Yoga is simply too big a topic to view it to have.

The purchase of patents Yoga is a lesson in futility. Should we buy patents for mantras, breathing, good posture, nutrition and legal? They are also valuable components of yoga, but an integral part of yoga is not all of yoga. Yoga consists of many parts. Maharishi Patanjali wrote that yoga consists of eight parts in his Yoga Sutras.

According to Swami Ramdev, "Yoga is not in possession and as a company. There are attempts to patent this tradition (of yoga) in America, the center and yoga organizations should take measures to prevent it."

He is not the only one, the Guru is concerned about the patenting of yoga. That is worrying for most yoga practitioners and yoga teachers. So, what can the rest of us do? We can change the action in writing, by e-mail, fax, and our law makers.

Stop the foolishness - Say: "No," Patents on Yoga.

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