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Change ACC's coding on Yoga (yoga is not a sport)

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Inga Becker
11 years ago

Please get better understanding of concept of Yoga and what Yoga has to offer!!

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Lynette Stenning
11 years ago

shame on ACC

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Kerry McGregor
11 years ago

please take a closer look at your classification for yoga teachers - this is ludicrous!

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mirella
11 years ago

change the acc levy to accommodate the reality of a yoga teacher!

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Glen Crofskey
11 years ago

Over three times as much ACC tax as a fitness instructor? Come on - there's not a "no pain no gain" manta in yoga - the saying goes if you get injured doing yoga then you weren't doing yoga as the physical practice of yoga calls for a degree of mindfulness that means you get in tune with your body and "listen" to it. This is an integral teaching of yoga. Also, yoga is not a sport, but a way of healing body and mind and overcoming your tendencies and habits.

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Patricia Greenhough
11 years ago

Please reduce the ACC levy for yoga teaches to a fair and reasonable level such as dance.

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Neal Ghoshal
11 years ago

We must change this ACC classification - it is ill-informed and crazy beaurocracy. I fully support this petition and appalud the effort it takes to change ACC.

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Aroha Hawkins
11 years ago

Sounds very reasonable & you have definitly researched the issue well!

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Amanda Lowry
11 years ago

Yoga is a spiritual practice, a way of being. Not one aspect of it reflects the genre of 'sport'!

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Kerrily Aitchison
11 years ago

Definitely should be in the same category as ballet and dance. Not a high risk sport.

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Brigid Macalister
11 years ago

I believe that ACC should do more research into where Yoga Teaching best fits as a category. I believe that Yoga Teachers should fit in the dance and ballet teachers or personal health and fitness categories. Many thanks

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Ana PIckering
11 years ago

ACC shoidl use some of their data to make an evidence-based decision to lower the ACC levy for yoga teachers - it is yoga not martial arts folks !!

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Mike Nixon
11 years ago

yoga properly taught has actually prevented serious injury to me and my recovery is quicker. In no way should yoga teachers have a higher rating than firefighters ! , absurb

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Jennifer Carty
11 years ago

I teach gentle yoga. Very very low risk!

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Kristen Hoy
11 years ago

As a health care provider and and yoga student I can't recall seeing a yoga injury, but every weekend I see streams of people injured from their sports or from poor lifting technique.

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Annabelle Kent
11 years ago

I've been doing yoga for 10 years there is unequivocally no comparison with yoga and snow sports and/or the dangers involved in rock quarries.

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Nick Lyttle
11 years ago Featured

Is it posible the industry classification simply was the lazy way forward. A default inclusion rather than specific review of the real risks and criteria for inclusion in the current category CU84500.

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Jacqui Nokes
11 years ago Featured

Yoga is a holistic health and wellbeing practice with rigorous standards for certifying teachers to instruct on the physical aspects of the practice. The ACC levy rate is completely unsupported by an even cursory cost/benefit analysis of the practice.

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lisa brown
11 years ago

Yoga is not a sport!!

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Deirdre Russell
11 years ago

Yoga is not a sport!!