I can’t imagine what the motivation might be here. And now we’re going to transition from Downward Dog, doing our Sun Salutation, and move immediately into Corrupt Regulatory Capture. Namaste.
It’s fairly stunning that the chief regulator at the state’s Division of Private Occupational Schools is a part-time instructor for a chain of yoga studios at the time she is advocating for more regulation of yoga teacher-training studios that are essentially the chain’s competitors.
Equally relevant is the fact that the CorePower Yoga chain’s studios in Colorado already appear on the official list of teacher-training schools regulated by the state.
But division director Lorna Candler nonetheless has been publicly justifying an aggressive attempt by her agency to crack down on 82 yoga studios that are not state certified.
The Colorado Department of Higher Education said in a statement to The Denver Post that Candler “handed the day-to-day oversight of the issue to her deputy” in order “to avoid any perception of a conflict.”
Well, you couldn’t possibly allow yogis to teach yoga without the sanction of the experts in the Colorado state government. Just like you couldn’t allow people to braid hair without a license in Mississippi because licensed cosmetologists didn’t want them to. Perhaps liberals will suddenly notice exactly who gets power from increased regulation, and it’s not the little people. Nah.
Update: Another thing you obviously can’t do without a license.
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