Lawmakers in the state of Alabama have passed a new bill to once again allow yoga instruction at school for children, from kindergarten age through to high school seniors — but there’ll be no chanting or ‘Namaste’ at the end of a class. The legislation overturns a ban on yoga in public schools that was put in place in 1993, according to state Rep. Jeremy Gray, cited by CNN. A yoga instructor himself until 2015, Gray said a conversation with a student motivated him to fight the ban. But while Gray's bill opens the door for yoga in schools once more, there are some limitations, such as only using English descriptive names, no chanting or mantras and no ‘Namaste’ at the end of class.

USA: Happy Headspace Meditation is big business, it seems. Popular mindfulness app Headspace recently completed a $93
million fund raising as it seeks to evolve into a ‘global health and happiness platform’. The money was sourced from a variety of US lenders. The mindfulness app now boasts 62 million downloads worldwide and over 2 million paid subscribers, including 600 corporate users, from coffee chain Starbucks to engineering giant GE. “Headspace has shown millions of people the power of using mindfulness to mitigate stress, anxiety, and other everyday issues, while continuing to advance the
field through clinically-validated research,” said Richard Pierson, Headspace’s co-founder.