SB308 Summary

• Authorizes local boards of education in Alabama to offer yoga instruction to students in grades K through 12, reversing the current prohibition on yoga in public schools.

• Yoga instruction must be offered as an elective activity with students having the option to opt out in favor of alternative activities.

• Restricts yoga instruction to poses, exercises, and stretching techniques limited to sitting, standing, reclining, twisting, and balancing positions, with all poses using only English descriptive names.

• Expressly prohibits chanting, mantras, mudras, use of mandalas, and namaste greetings as part of yoga instruction.

• Local boards of education have discretion to determine the duration and frequency of yoga instruction periods.