A primary school in Austria has dropped yoga classes for children after a mother argued Yoga goes against Christian teachings.
Ingrid Karner taught yoga to students once a month at the school in Dechantskirchen.
But she told the Kleine Zeitung newspaper she was told to stop the classes after a complaint.
“All I heard was that according to the Bible yoga should not be allowed and it would lead the children in the wrong direction,” Karner said.
The school principal told a newspaper no parents had complained when the courses started this year.
A school inspector says schools should not offer anything linked to “esoteric” practices.
Yoga began in Hinduism and Buddhism but has been widely accepted in modern society.
