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Please be aware of the following potentially devastating pending legislation in New Jersey. Even if you do not live or teach here if this bill passes it is only a matter of time before other states follow suit. Please take the time to follow the link and let your voice be heard.

Love and Light

Jane Bentley--- On Sun, 10/26/08, Charles D. Frohman <cfroh wrote:

Charles D. Frohman <cfrohRe: [HWPNetwork] Fw: e-Sutra :: "LEGISLATIVE ALERT -New Jersey Bill Seeks to License Yoga Instructors and Studios was just posted to e-Sutra :: The WorldWide Yoga List"Jane Bentley" <janebentley8Sunday, October 26, 2008, 10:30 AM

 

Jane,Sat nam, and thanks for this information.Could you please also forward to 3HO's international as well? It's address is kundalini-yoga (don't forget the hyphen). I didn't see this email address in your list of recipients.If you haven't joined yet, to do so just send an email to kundalini-yoga- .Blessings,Amar Atmacreator, 3HO

 

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Please see the attached for dire news regarding the state of Yoga in New Jersey. All teachers regardless of domain should submit their opinion of this bill to Representative

Joesph Roberts because if this passes in New Jerse your home state could be the one targeted .Just follow the link below and enter "Brooklawn" as the municipality, Then his name will pop up. Check it and let him know your opinion. Clearly the right of students to learn and teachers to teach is being called into question. Please note that the 300 hour certification is in excess of the 200 hour certification required by the Yoga Alliance. Please raise your voices to protect rights of your students and yourselves, Many thanks for your efforts.

Love and Light

Jane Bentley--- On Sun, 10/26/08, Princeton Center for Yoga & Health <princetonyoga wrote:

Princeton Center for Yoga & Health <princetonyoga[HWPNetwork] Fw: e-Sutra :: "LEGISLATIVE ALERT -New Jersey Bill Seeks to License Yoga Instructors and Studios was just posted to e-Sutra :: The WorldWide Yoga List"Hwp network" <hwpnetwork >Sunday, October 26, 2008, 12:48 AM

 

 

 

Please note this bill was recently introduced. I've sent an inquiry to Leslie Kaminoff, an internationally recognized yoga teacher and moderator of E-Sutra, an international email group list.

We have grave concerns about this bill. It adds huge layers of beaurocracy, the specter of yoga teachers and other 'fitness professsionals' being regulated by people who know very little about our professions. It affects much more than yoga teachers, including those who teach martial arts, pilates and more.

There are some 'curious' exceptions, including any services provided by non-profits. (why would that make a difference if the interest was professionalism or safety?)

I wonder if anyone knows what prompted this bill, who the other sponsors are, who might oppose it.

This has happened before in NJ with other holistic professionals.

Please take note and forward to your constituent groups and others you think would be interested.

Deborah

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LEGISLATIVE ALERT -New Jersey Bill Seeks to License Yoga Instructors and Studios

 

My thanks go out to Deborah Metzger of the Princeton Center for Yoga & Health, who alerted me to this today. This is the real deal. Unlike the "backdoor" New York licensing bill I fought in 2005, this New Jersey bill explicitly targets yoga teachers and studios, and would require them to be licensed by the State. It also contains a minimum 300-hour training provision that would supercede the Yoga Alliance's 200-hour minimum for RYT

registration. Here is some of the wording of the bill: “Board” means the State Board of Fitness Professionals. .. “Exercise facility” means a health club, fitness center, wellness center, private personal training studio, yoga studio, martial arts studio, Pilates studio, or any facility that sells or offers for sale group exercise instruction. .. “Fitness professional” means a personal trainer or a group fitness instructor who is licensed as a fitness professional pursuant to the provisions of this act.... “Group

fitness instructor” means an individual who instructs more than one person at one time, with or without equipment, in exercises designed to improve cardiovascular conditioning, muscular strength, flexibility and weight loss in classes that include, but are not limited to, martial arts, Pilates, yoga, kickboxing, boot camp, spinning and any other group class that is taught at an exercise facility.... “Personal trainer” means a person who evaluates an individual's health and physical fitness; develops a personal exercise plan or program for an individual; and demonstrates, with or without equipment, exercises designed to improve cardiovascular condition muscular strength, flexibility and weight loss.... This bill is being sponsored by Rep. Joseph J. Roberts, Jr. (D) and was introduced on October 23, 2009. Here is a link to an HTML version of the bill. Here is Rep. Roberts' district office address: Brooklawn Shopping Plaza Rt. 130 South & Browning Rd. Brooklawn, NJ 08030 Here is Rep. Roberts' phone number: (856) 742-7600 Follow this

link to contact him via e-mail. If you or anyone you know teaches yoga in New Jersey, I urge you to start e-mailing everyone you can, and ask them to pass this information along to their lists. As we proved in New York, lot of noise can happen very quickly. Rep. Roberts needs to know that there are a great many people who find this bill to be an insufferable intrusion into the student-teacher relationship, and an intolerable violation of our right to conduct those relationships freely. The bill is very new, so hopefully there's time to fight it. If you know anyone in the NJ yoga community who's pushing for this bill, I'd like to be in touch with them. Also, there might be legislators opposing it and we need to find out who they are so we can let them know that yoga teachers don't want this. Please keep me posted with any new information. log on to e-Sutra: The Worldwide Yoga LIst

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Sat Nam,

 

I don't see the links in this post to the online version of the bill or

Rep. Roberts' email. Am I just missing them or do they need to be

posted?

 

Thanks.

 

Nirvair Kaur

 

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Kundalini-Yoga , Jane Bentley <janebentley8

wrote:

>

>

> Please be aware of the following potentially devastating pending

legislation in New Jersey. Even if you do not live or teach here if

this bill passes it is only a matter of time before other states follow

suit. Please take the time to follow the link and let your voice be

heard.

> Love and Light

> Jane Bentley

> --- On Sun, 10/26/08, Charles D. Frohman cfroh wrote:

>

> Charles D. Frohman cfroh

> Re: [HWPNetwork] Fw: e-Sutra :: " LEGISLATIVE ALERT -New

Jersey Bill Seeks to License Yoga Instructors and Studios was just

posted to e-Sutra :: The WorldWide Yoga List

> " Jane Bentley " janebentley8

> Sunday, October 26, 2008, 10:30 AM

>

>

>

>

>

> Jane,

>

> Sat nam, and thanks for this information.

>

> Could you please also forward to 3HO's international as

well? It's address is kundalini-yoga (don't forget the

hyphen). I didn't see this email address in your list of recipients.

>

> If you haven't joined yet, to do so just send an email to

kundalini-yoga-

>

> Blessings,

> Amar Atma

> creator, 3HO

>

>

> Charles D. Frohman

> 202-536-4346 (W)

> 202-258-8027 (M)

>

>

> * My Blog: http://dcflow.gaia.com/blog

> * My Bio and Consultancy: www.cfrohman.com

> * Charter School where I teach: http://www.iapcs.com/

> * Friend Me at Facebook or LinkedIn

>

>

>

>

Jane Bentley janebentley8

> Kundalini Yoga East kundaliniyogaeast; kundalini_yoga;

Kundalini-Yoga Moderator kundalini-yoga-owner ;

kundaliniyoga

> Sunday, October 26, 2008 7:05:10 AM

> Fw: [HWPNetwork] Fw: e-Sutra :: " LEGISLATIVE ALERT -New

Jersey Bill Seeks to License Yoga Instructors and Studios was just

posted to e-Sutra :: The WorldWide Yoga List

Please see the attached for dire news regarding the state of Yoga in

New Jersey. All teachers regardless of domain should submit their

opinion of this bill to Representative

> Joesph Roberts because if this passes in New Jerse your home state

could be the one targeted .Just follow the link below and enter

" Brooklawn " as the municipality, Then his name will pop up. Check it

and let him know your opinion. Clearly the right of students to learn

and teachers to teach is being called into question. Please note that

the 300 hour certification is in excess of the 200 hour certification

required by the Yoga Alliance. Please raise your voices to protect

rights of your students and yourselves, Many thanks for your efforts.

> Love and Light

> Jane Bentley

>

> --- On Sun, 10/26/08, Princeton Center for Yoga & Health

princetonyoga wrote:

>

> Princeton Center for Yoga & Health princetonyoga

> [HWPNetwork] Fw: e-Sutra :: " LEGISLATIVE ALERT -New Jersey

Bill Seeks to License Yoga Instructors and Studios was just posted to

e-Sutra :: The WorldWide Yoga List

> " Hwp network " hwpnetwork

> Sunday, October 26, 2008, 12:48 AM

>

Please note this bill was recently introduced. I've sent an inquiry to

Leslie Kaminoff, an internationally recognized yoga teacher and

moderator of E-Sutra, an international email group list.

> We have grave concerns about this bill. It adds huge layers of

beaurocracy, the specter of yoga teachers and other 'fitness

professsionals' being regulated by people who know very little about our

professions. It affects much more than yoga teachers, including those

who teach martial arts, pilates and more.

> There are some 'curious' exceptions, including any services provided

by non-profits. (why would that make a difference if the interest was

professionalism or safety?)

> I wonder if anyone knows what prompted this bill, who the other

sponsors are, who might oppose it.

> This has happened before in NJ with other holistic professionals.

> Please take note and forward to your constituent groups and others you

think would be interested.

> Deborah

>

>

>

> -----Forwarded Message-----

> e-Sutra@null, " : The Worldwide Yoga LIst " , null@null

> Oct 25, 2008 10:21 PM

> debyoga

> e-Sutra :: " LEGISLATIVE ALERT -New Jersey Bill Seeks to

License Yoga Instructors and Studios was just posted to e-Sutra :: The

WorldWide Yoga List

>

e-Sutra :: The Worldwide Yoga List

> Making Waves in the Yoga Community since 1998

> hosted by Leslie Kaminoff

>

>

Here are the email updates from e-Sutra for debyoga (AT) mindspring (DOT) com

> LEGISLATIVE ALERT -New Jersey Bill Seeks to License Yoga Instructors

and Studios

>

>

>

> " LEGISLATIVE ALERT -New Jersey Bill Seeks to License Yoga Instructors

and Studios was just posted to e-Sutra :: The WorldWide Yoga List

>

> LEGISLATIVE ALERT -New Jersey Bill Seeks to License Yoga Instructors

and Studios

>

>

> My thanks go out to Deborah Metzger of the Princeton Center for Yoga &

Health, who alerted me to this today.

>

> This is the real deal. Unlike the " backdoor " New York licensing bill I

fought in 2005, this New Jersey bill explicitly targets yoga teachers

and studios, and would require them to be licensed by the State. It also

contains a minimum 300-hour training provision that would supercede the

Yoga Alliance's 200-hour minimum for RYT registration.

>

> Here is some of the wording of the bill:

>

> " Board " means the State Board of Fitness Professionals. ..

>

> " Exercise facility " means a health club, fitness center,

wellness center, private personal training studio, yoga studio, martial

arts studio, Pilates studio, or any facility that sells or offers for

sale group exercise instruction. ..

>

> " Fitness professional " means a personal trainer or a group

fitness instructor who is licensed as a fitness professional pursuant to

the provisions of this act....

>

> " Group fitness instructor " means an individual who instructs

more than one person at one time, with or without equipment, in

exercises designed to improve cardiovascular conditioning, muscular

strength, flexibility and weight loss in classes that include, but are

not limited to, martial arts, Pilates, yoga, kickboxing, boot camp,

spinning and any other group class that is taught at an exercise

facility....

>

> " Personal trainer " means a person who evaluates an

individual's health and physical fitness; develops a personal exercise

plan or program for an individual; and demonstrates, with or without

equipment, exercises designed to improve cardiovascular condition

muscular strength, flexibility and weight loss....

>

> This bill is being sponsored by Rep. Joseph J. Roberts, Jr. (D) and

was introduced on October 23, 2009.

> Here is a link to an HTML version of the bill.

>

> Here is Rep. Roberts' district office address:

> Brooklawn Shopping Plaza

> Rt. 130 South & Browning Rd.

> Brooklawn, NJ 08030

>

> Here is Rep. Roberts' phone number:

> (856) 742-7600

>

> Follow this link to contact him via e-mail.

>

> If you or anyone you know teaches yoga in New Jersey, I urge you to

start e-mailing everyone you can, and ask them to pass this information

along to their lists. As we proved in New York, lot of noise can happen

very quickly.

>

> Rep. Roberts needs to know that there are a great many people who find

this bill to be an insufferable intrusion into the student-teacher

relationship, and an intolerable violation of our right to conduct those

relationships freely.

>

> The bill is very new, so hopefully there's time to fight it. If you

know anyone in the NJ yoga community who's pushing for this bill, I'd

like to be in touch with them. Also, there might be legislators opposing

it and we need to find out who they are so we can let them know that

yoga teachers don't want this.

>

> Please keep me posted with any new information.

> log on to e-Sutra: The Worldwide Yoga LIst

>

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