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Will Yoga regulation affect Thai massage?
This article just came out in the NYT.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/11/nyregion/11yoga.html?_r=1&em
While the regulation move is currently limited to yoga teachers, I imagine that it is only a matter of time (I'd guess within 5 years) that we see Thai massage being similarly affected. At the moment, Thai massage teachers that are not massage therapists have sought solace in the label of "Thai Yoga."
What happens when yoga schools and practitioners are also regulated? I would imagine that, all Thai teachers will need to have either a massage or a yoga license. What do you think?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/11/nyregion/11yoga.html?_r=1&em
While the regulation move is currently limited to yoga teachers, I imagine that it is only a matter of time (I'd guess within 5 years) that we see Thai massage being similarly affected. At the moment, Thai massage teachers that are not massage therapists have sought solace in the label of "Thai Yoga."
What happens when yoga schools and practitioners are also regulated? I would imagine that, all Thai teachers will need to have either a massage or a yoga license. What do you think?
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Permalink Reply by Vicki Kemner on -
Being a certified yoga teacher, Thai therapist and LMT I am able to look at this from many different view points. The regulation for yoga applies to being a "yoga teacher" not a practitioner, which I feel should not effect a Thai practioner.
What is good about regulations it also comes with many pluses. The first and foremost in either yoga teacher training or massage you have to take anatomy, which any Thai practitioner knows is lacking in any Thai training. In my personal practice it has proven invaluable. I am attempting to take Thai into a new deminsion within the western medical system as a proven treatment for a multiple of serious illnesses.
When you are certified you are also able to purchase inusrance.
I also became certified inorder to become more agressive in marketing Thai in the west.
Certification dose not mean you have to compromise Thai, but can more openly practice it without restraints.
Vicki Kemner
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