The small screen, yoga teacher

New Delhi, February 6, 2007. - India, the birthplace of yoga, assists the growth of teachers as "swami" Ramdev, who has built a pharmaceutical empire while teaching positions in a television program with audiences in the millions and a style reminiscent American televangelists.
Every night, Ramdev, dressed in an orange tunic, congregate around television sets to hundreds of thousands of viewers willing to follow the breathing exercises known as "pranayam to", hoping to alleviate and even cure hypertension, diabetes or cardiovascular disease.
In fact, the popular yogi presents his program ascetic sitting position, while a huge tapestry of hundreds of people live up the legs to the rhythm marked by the "swami" (master), which mixes the rhythmic capabilities of an aerobics teacher with the charisma of a televangelist.
And, in a move that raises passions among the Indian audience, the Yogi takes his long beard so that viewers look good star position: a vertiginous agitation stomach the way that moves the clothes washing machine, while claims that everything is You owe it to yoga exercises.
With the show put on by the "swami", no wonder the parks of New Delhi in the afternoon avail free yoga classes, to which hundreds of people flock to the wealthy classes, partly persuaded by the message of Ramdev, but demonstrating that yoga is an ancient tradition in India.
However, the success of Ramdev goes beyond television, as evidenced by the decision of the regional government of Madhya Pradesh in central India, to make yoga a subject discipline formal education in schools, at the suggestion of yogi.
"Sex education in schools should be replaced by yoga education. The Government should stop polluting the minds of innocent children. The morale will not improve teaching sex education in schools, "said Ramdev told the newspaper" The Times of India ".
Following in the footsteps of thousands of students, the Army has become the latest institution to join Ramdev's teachings, in order to manage stress among men, reported the agency IANS.
Concerned about the high rates of homicides and suicides among soldiers in risk areas, the authorities have sent a group of military personnel to a six-day camp organized by Yogi himself, who will teach the basics of one aspect Yoga, the "pranayam a" (life force control).
However, it is surprising that the yogi to maintain its status as moral leader after controversial reputation threatening cyclically.
In January 2006 a report accusing the pharmaceutical company Ramdev, Divya Yog Trust, using human and animal bones to make their medicines, in line with a similar charge made ​​by former employees.
Although Ayurvedic medicine sometimes allows the use of animal material in the manufacture of medicines, Ramdev denied the allegations and won the official support of government laboratories.
Last December, however, a new scandal broke out after a few claims Ramdev in defending the healing properties of yog to diseases like cancer or AIDS.
"I never said that AIDS can be cured by yoga. It was a misunderstanding with the media. Cancer can be cured, but in the case of AIDS the patient can at least get clear improvements through yoga, "the" swami ".
However, Ramdev's statements sparked immediate reaction from the Health Minister Ambumani Ramados, calling it "junk" words and promotes teacher and a law which seeks to eliminate misleading advertising of medicines.
While waiting for that law, Ramdev continues to fill stadiums with their camps for practicing yoga and making money with your company's traditional medicines and their TV show.

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