Yoga to the People

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Yoga to the People was a chain of United States-based yoga studios which offer free or donation-funded modern yoga classes to any kind of student, including casual practitioners.

Services[]

Yoga to the People has a business model that tries to provide classes to all people regardless of their ability to pay.[1] Yoga to the People founder Greg Gumucio modeled the cost model after the ideas of yoga teacher and Power Yoga founder Bryan Kest.[2]

The studio in East Village, Manhattan has eight classes a day with up to 150 people in attendance at a time between the different rooms, and is sometimes at capacity.[3]

Copyright claims on Bikram Yoga[]

Main article: Copyright claims on Bikram Yoga

Bikram Choudhury claimed from 2002 onwards that his modern yoga practice, Bikram Yoga, was under copyright and that it could not be taught or presented by anyone whom he had not authorized. [4] In 2011 he started a lawsuit against Yoga to the People.[5] As a result of that lawsuit, the United States Copyright Office issued a clarification that yoga asanas could not be copyrighted in the way claimed by Bikram, and that Yoga to the People and others could continue to freely teach these exercises.[6]

Closure[]

Founder Greg Gumucio has been accused by over 200 victims of sexual assault, among various other crimes of sexual nature.[7][8][9][10]

References[]

  1. ^ Steele, Rachel (11 February 2010). "Yoga To The People in New York City (aka Yoga With A Lot of People)". Elephant Journal. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
  2. ^ Seniff, Juliet (2014). "yoga to the people, by the people, for the people". yogitimes.com. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
  3. ^ Hughes, Kathleen A. (16 February 2015). "Crowded Classes Test the Zen of Yoga". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
  4. ^ staff (17 June 2004). "Face value: The litigious yogi | The Economist". The Economist. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  5. ^ "Bikram Sues Yoga to the People". Yoga Journal. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
  6. ^ "Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 121 / Friday, June 22, 2012 / Rules and Regulations" (PDF). U. S. Government Printing Office. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
  7. ^ "'He Knew Everything': Fear, Control, and Manipulation at Yoga to the People". www.vice.com.
  8. ^ Aggeler, Madeleine (4 August 2020). "Yoga to the People's Dark Secrets". The Cut.
  9. ^ "Yoga to the People won't be reopening on St. Mark's Place".
  10. ^ SFGATE, Amanda Bartlett (12 July 2020). "Popular yoga studio chain in the Bay Area closes amid allegations of sexual assault, discrimination". SFGATE.

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