From The Republic . Given the size of the business, the Americans are trying to "privatize" yoga. In the United States goes crazy race to patent methods. Hundreds of "positions" are you lust for those who want to put its copyright. Anyone practices should pay the copyright owner. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has officially recognized 131 patents, and there are another 3,700 applications waiting to be examined. So far are mainly books, clothes, DVDs. But there are those who want to extend the copyright on the movements, positions . And this time India, usually tolerant of so many distortions of yoga, rebels. In India, yoga has ancient roots: the earliest forms date back to 2500 BC. It is related to Hindu religion, it was almost always taught free of charge, in ashrams or in public gardens. The idea of \u200b\u200bmaking a private business is sacrilegious. "Theft of yoga, called the Indian newspapers. The reaction is held, the guardians of the ancient discipline to fight back. governmental agency in New Delhi, the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library, has pulled together the most influential yogis of the nine major schools, and accompanied them to two hundred scientists. Their mission: to retrieve and scan all the years that contain the texts of the yoga sutras. Complete the knowledge of this subject include 900 positions. Will play with digital technologies and put it on video, at least for 250 years the most popular. " is a world heritage site, available to all, and must remain free " is the official target of the operation according to its director VK Gupta. From 34 million pages - the immense amount of documents collected - the Indians want to get to a "summary" to be translated into English, Chinese, English, German and Japanese. "Beware if someone wants to take possession of this wisdom, beneficial to humanity." Paradoxically, the war of privatizing yoga was launched by an Indian right. In 2004, the guru Bikram Choudhury of Calcutta, who landed in Beverly Hills, California, launched the Hot Yoga in gyms temperature sauna. When he realized that in all of California spreading the dummy, he tried to patent and 26 years to collect royalties. Today Yoga "hot" is practiced in 400 centers, from San Francisco to Paris. And Choudhury has won 7 million dollars in copyright.
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