Lenora Degen, a yoga instructor, told her after-school class at Buena Vista Elementary School in Colorado Springs about a yoga bill hearing in Denver, where committee chairman Owen Hill did the crow position afterward. The students then did their own crow poses. (Lenora Degen, Sen. Laura Woods Facebook page)

A bill to exempt yoga-teacher training studios from state certification breezed through Senate Appropriations today and now is on its way to the full Senate on the consent calendar, meaning no opposition is expected.

The bill earlier passed the Senate Education Committee where the chairman, Republican Owen Hill of Colorado Springs, did the crow yoga position after the hearing. The yogis in the crowd loved it.

Afterward, the sponsor, Sen. Laura Woods, R-Arvada, got a letter from Lenora Degen, a yoga instructor in Colorado Springs. Degen wrote:

I shared the story with my after-school class at Buena Vista Elementary School in Colorado Springs on Friday afternoon. We discussed the meaning of Democracy and how we have the right to let our elected officials know our points of view. Then I showed them the photo from the Denver Post (of Sen Owen Hill doing the crow in the Senate Committee room).

They were impressed and excited to try the pose themselves. Here they are, posing for you all. Its their way of saying THANK YOU!

Senate Education Committee chairman Owen Hill, a Colorado Springs Republican, does the crow yoga position after the committee passed a yoga bill. (Photo by Sen. Andy Kerr, D-Lakewood)

After the picture of Hill doing the crow was posted a number of times on Twitter, Rep. Dan Pabon, D-Denver, couldnt resist.

Cant wait to see how @AlecGarnett follows that in house, Pabon wrote.

The bill also is sponsored by Reps. Garnett, a Denver Democrat, and Tim Dore, an Elizabeth Republican.

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For fans of yoga, following that practice while being immersed in a foreign culture can be a double travel bonus. Perillo Tours offers Learning Journeys, which include Nomadic Yoga Journeys in locations such as Costa Rica, Vietnam, India and Greece. With its ties to ancient spiritual practices, India is a natural for a trip like this. Much of the tour is devoted to exploring Rishikesh, often called the Yoga Capital of the World and the home to an ashram visited by the Beatles in the late '60s. Here visitors will work with a yoga guru and also on their own. There also is more interaction with locals, including a trip to Parmarth Niketan Ashram to watch a ceremony featuring the prayer of river Ganges, called "Ganga Aarti." The 12-day/11-night tour is priced from $2,325 per person double occupancy, with international airfare extra. Information on this tour and other Nomadic Yoga Journeys is at tinyurl.com/pvoyfd9.

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Bikram Choudhury is facing six civil lawsuits. Photo: New York Times

Los Angeles: He is the yoga guru who built an empire on sweat and swagger. He has a stable of luxury cars and a Beverly Hills mansion. During trainings for hopeful yoga teachers, he paces a stage in a black Speedo and holds forth on life, sex and the transformative power of his brand of hot yoga.

"I totally cure you," he has told interviewers. "Whatever the problem you have."

But a day of legal reckoning is drawing closer for Bikram Choudhury. He is facing six civil lawsuits from women accusing him of rape or assault. The most recent was filed on February 13 by a Canadian yogi, Jill Lawler, who said she was raped by Choudhury during a teacher-training in 2010.

A Rolls Royce belonging to yoga guru Bikram Choudhury. Photo: New York Times

In February, a Los Angeles judge cleared away several challenges to a lawsuit from a former student who said Choudhury raped her during another 2010 teacher-training.

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The first complaint was filed two years ago. As more surfaced, and more women spoke publicly about accusations of assault and harassment, their accounts have created fissures in the close-knit world of yoga students and teachers who have spent thousands of dollars to study with Choudhury; opened studios bearing his name; and found strength, flexibility and health in his formula of 26 yoga postures in a sweltering room.

Many have stayed loyal to a man they call Boss and revere as an eccentric guru. Others are walking away.

Tiffany Friedman, owner of Haute Yogi Manhattan Beach, dropped the word Bikram from her studio name after reading of the lawsuits filed against Bikram Choudhury. Photo: New York Times

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