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India Documents 900 Yoga Poses to Block Patents | Economy | English
- Anjana Pasricha
- A Hindu devotee performs yoga on the banks of the Ganges River, in Varanasi, India
- India has catalogued hundreds of yoga poses in an effort to block entrepreneurs and companies in other countries from getting yoga-related patents. Yoga is a centuries-old technique of exercising, breathing and meditating that has gained in popularity in recent years and grown into a huge industry.
The yoga postures or "asanas" have been documented by New Delhi's Traditional Knowledge Digital Library following a three-year effort by a team of yoga gurus, scholars and other experts.
After scrutinizing ancient Sanskrit texts they have made video recordings of nearly 900 poses, which are widely used by those teaching and practicing yoga. It aims to record at least 1,500 poses.
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