{"id":7135,"date":"2008-10-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/10\/18\/new-york-school-students-can-practice-yoga-but-not-say-yoga\/"},"modified":"2008-10-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T12:00:00","slug":"new-york-school-students-can-practice-yoga-but-not-say-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/10\/18\/new-york-school-students-can-practice-yoga-but-not-say-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"New York School Students Can Practice Yoga, But Not Say &#8220;Yoga&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/10\/15\/america\/NA-US-Yoga-School.php\">www.iht.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">MASSENA, NEW YORK, October 15, 2008:  A high school in the state of New York has won approval to offer students a voluntary yoga program&#8211;as long as it&#8217;s not called yoga.<\/p>\n<p>Some local parents had voiced fears that a &#8220;yoga program&#8221; would promote Hinduism and thereby violate the doctrine separating church and state; but they have agreed to let the Massena High School present the program as &#8220;relaxation.&#8221; The compromise allows the school to set up an after-school club to give interested students to practice yogic postures and gain a deeper understanding of&#8230; &#8220;relaxation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is still yoga. If the parents who oppose it feel a name change solves the dilemma, I&#8217;m all for that,&#8221; Board of Education President Julie Reagan said Wednesday. &#8220;We are basically doing the same thing, we&#8217;re just calling it something different.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More than one hundred schools in 26 states use yoga in the classroom to relieve stress, Reagan said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.iht.com MASSENA, NEW YORK, October 15, 2008: A high school in the state of New York has won approval to,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}