AL.com: “Gov. Kay Ivey has signed into law a bill allowing Alabama public schools to offer instruction in yoga.
The law ends a ban on yoga adopted by the State Board of Education in 1993 because of yoga’s connections to Hinduism.
Rep. Jeremy Gray, D-Opelika, today thanked Ivey for signing the bill and clearing the way for schools to begin offering yoga as an elective class or activity starting in the 2021-2022 school year. He said some schools are already doing yoga-like activities but use a different name, such as mindfulness movement.”