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Eastern practice, Western form Western society has adopted and adapted parts of the ancient Indian tradition, yoga. Some say the practice has lost its spiritual essence as it has become commercialized. The News looks at yoga in Richmond and touches upon its roots in Hinduism. Pages 8 & 9

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Proposed new measures to protect Richmond’s farmland from illegal dumping of material are a step in the right direction, but need to be based on a sustainable funding model. That’s the opinion of Thomas Loo, a To send us former Agricultural feedback Land Commission employee and Richmond resident. Loo, who served as the ALC’s agricultural compliance and environment officer, said Richmond should enact a bylaw requiring a permit to deposit soil anywhere in the city, not just on property protected by the Agricultural Land Reserve. He said that approach is a common practice in many communities such as Abbotsford, Langley, and

Delta where he previously worked revenue for this program of enforcefor a decade as that municipality’s ment is a penalty system for the assistant environmental control offiviolation.” cer. Richmond held an open house Essentially, the city collects a fee Tuesday at city hall, inviting the of 50 cents per cubic metre of matepublic to view the proposal to hire rial being depostwo to three staff ited or extracted members to run (in the case of a soil protection Abbotsford), as program. Two well as the fee for new staff would the actual permit, cost $239,000. which can range Three would be from $25 dollars $329,000. to $300, Loo told The public is the News. also being asked — Thomas Loo “When I look if the status quo, at the current prowith no addiposal from Richmond, I think countional staff, is the way to go, and if cil is missing the boat. They want incremental permit fees, and fines to collect fees on the fill sites in the for violations of the bylaw should be ALR, which of course are ‘non-farm introduced. uses’ and generally speaking, not But a potential shortfall in fundwell supported by the ALC,” he said. ing, if the program is based on rev“So, therefore, the only source of enue from fines, could eventually

“When I look at the current proposal from Richmond, I think council is missing the boat.”

erode public support and ultimately result in it’s discontinuation, Loo said, adding that from his experience, when it is widely known that a community has stringent soil dumping measures and monitoring, violators simply move on to another destination. “To me it’s simple. Implement a soil permit in all of Richmond and include the volumetric fees,” Loo said. “When I look around and see the piles of pre-load all over in the non-ALR areas, I just think of the huge amount of money that they could be getting. “For me the answer is ‘yes,’ the soil cops are needed, but let’s fund them in a way that will be sustainable.” Online feedback on the proposals can be made at www. LetsTalkRichmond.ca. Deadline for submissions is July 29.

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Recent revelations that allegedly point to the B.C. Liberal Party’s attempt to hush a staffer has re-ignited the furore over the ethnic outreach program. NDP leader Adrian Dix told the Richmond News that new documents his party attained suggest a government staffer was offered an “inducement” to keep quiet on the matter to protect the provincial Liberal Party and premier heading into May’s B.C. election. “It’s a very serious situation that they would act that way,” Dix said from Victoria, adding the alleged conduct “raises serious issues about the ... government’s conduct.” Richmond-Steveston MLA John Yap resigned his position as minister of multiculturalism when it was learned the government had used government resources to compile a contact list. Richmond Centre MLA Teresa Wat now counts that multiculturalism position in her portfolio of ministerial responsibilities. Previously, the government has claimed the plan was developed by party staffers to use taxpayer resources to help gain ethnic votes for the B.C. Liberal Party, but was never put in place. Dix contends Yap used his personal email to avoid the scrutiny of a Freedom Of Information request in regards to the alleged offer to staff. Asked what he would like to have the government do in light of the revelation, Dix said, “First of all, there has to be accountability for what happened here. “And what plainly happened here is that the Liberal Party went out and offered an

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Richmond’s animal shelter this week beefed up its inventory of creatures lost and found. Mingling with the stray cats, dogs, rabbits and Guinea pigs is a little brown calf, who Mounties found wandering around Sidaway Road in east Richmond on Monday. The RCMP were first sent out to the 8600 block after a report of a “road hazard,” before it became apparent the obstruction had four legs, a tail and a wet nose. Once the calf was secured, it was taken to RAPS (Richmond Animal

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Mounties in Richmond are dealing with another stabbing and another case of a victim and witnesses not talking. This time, the incident, a stabbing, took place in Ceili’s bar on Westminster Highway and Alderbridge Way on July 13. According to the RCMP, the incident kicked off when an argument started between two groups of males, who are known to police. It then escalated into the stabbing of one

member of the two groups. The man, in his mid-20s, was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries and was later released. “The victim is, at the moment, being uncooperative and we’ve been unable to ascertain who was involved,” said Sgt. Cam Kowalski, of Richmond RCMP. “We’re trying to get to the bottom of what happened and hopefully make an arrest.” Earlier this month, local Mounties faced a similar, silent response after a man suffered two stab wounds to his chest in the Cambie/Shell Road area.

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Spiritual aspect of practice lost as yoga turns into fitness routine: Critics BY YVONNE ROBERTSON

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On a sunny Tuesday evening, a gathering of predominantly middle-aged women roll out their yoga mats on the docks at Britannia Heritage Shipyard. Yogi and Steveston Community Centre employee Vicky Petrescu guides the class through child’s poses, warriors, sun salutations and more. The class is usually held at the Japanese Cultural Centre, but setting suns and an inspiring natural environment draws the participants down to the docks during the warm, dry weather. But be it practised inside or out, the rise of yoga in Richmond goes unabated. As many as a couple dozen can fill the classes. “We’re all busier than we’ve ever been,” says longtime yogi Margie Hardy, who usually teaches the class. “In a way, yoga gives you more time, you get more time in your life by forcing yourself to set it aside. You can be quiet and calm down.” To her, yoga becomes an identity, a way of life. She also points to the physical and mental benefits. “It’s about how to live life and keep calm,” she says. “Yes, there’s the spiritual side, absolutely. The purpose of the poses is to find the key to inner contentment.”

gurus” from claiming ownership of postures that have been taught for thousands of years.

Return to tradition, Vedic teaches all eight limbs

This was a trend noticed by the Ram Krishna Mandir at the Vedic Cultural Centre, the Hindu temple on No. 5 Road. In response, the temple offers yoga classes that return to the Indian tradition. “We saw how it was being adopted by Western culture and wanted to share some knowledge about its origins and how it’s practised in India,” says Bimla Veer Singh, the temple’s secretary and coordinator. Free of frills, people learn not only how to transition from cobra to downward dog, but about the Hindu culture and the origins of yoga. The centre keeps the costs low and all money goes back to the maintenance of the temple. Yogis are encouraged to wear loose and comfortable cotton clothing, which is advised in some of the ancient texts. “The Western world has taken the yoga part out of the practice and focused on the body part, the physical, and people feel like that’s good enough,” said Singh, a practising Hindu. In actual fact, the poses are only one part of the eight limbs of ashtanga yoga. To

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Vicky Petrescu leads a yoga class on the docks at Britannia Heritage Shipyard Tuesday evening. Left, a statue of a Hindu god.

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engage in the full practice means incorporating all eight limbs. But Singh is encouraged that people are starting to realize that there is more to yoga than poses, “and are learning more about the practice, going on retreats.” Naseem Gulamhusein, an instructor who runs a program at Langara College, also worries the spirit of profit is overwhelming the spirit of peace and contemplation. “It’s become about how to make middleaged women sexy in these tight yoga pants,” says Gulamhusein. “Yoga pants shouldn’t be a thing. “I always like to say, ‘all good things must come to a trend.’”

Instructor helps preserve original teachings

Gulamhusein, who has been practising yoga for 13 years, started the program to become a certified instructor at Langara in order to preserve the original teachings and add a sense of standardization. “Yoga’s not regulated, so where’s the accountability?” she asks. “Anyone can take a few training courses here and there, and then start training others. The teachers have a lot of power and people are buying into it. In some cases, teachers are totally exploiting students.” see Practice page 9

While few would argue with the potential health benefits of yoga, there is also growing concern about how yoga is practised in western culture. Although some aspects are true to the ancient Indian spiritual practice, highpriced, form-fitting clothing has also jumped on the bandwagon as the Eastern tradition has moved west. Like many things Western, yoga has, in many cases, become a hyper-commercialized, capitalist venture where “yoga pants” are a necessity, expensive classes consist of moving from pose to pose, and the overall benefits focus on body toning and physical fitness. In fact the “corporatizing” of yoga caused the Indian government to put 1,300 distinct yoga positions into the public domain, preventing “self-styled yoga

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Practice: Enables one to express inner divinity Continued from page 8 Gulamhusein blames the idealization of the yoga teacher as one of the driving forces behind the high prices. It leads to the glamourization of the tradition taking it from spiritual quest to status symbol. Even more detrimental, she fears the marketing of yoga as an expensive pursuit keeps it inaccessible for the people who need it the most. “There are people who offer yoga classes to those in the Downtown Eastside or at women’s shelters,” she says. “But the domination of the expensive studio makes it harder to find these low-cost centres.”

Cultural appropriation

Moreover, the commercialization of yoga is tantamount to cultural appropriation. “It’s deep in Indian philosophy and is about deep spiritual practices that Hinduism took, so to take it out of spirituality is to appropriate it and make it a trend,” says Gulamhusein. “When you just take what you want from another cultural practice, that’s cultural appropriation.” Some of the other seven limbs of yoga include ethics, self-discipline and spiritual observances, sensory transcendence and meditation. Observing all eight is to practise yoga, the purpose of which is to lead to enlightenment and self-realization. Recently, a California judge ruled that yoga can be taught in public schools because it’s not teaching children religion, rather “despite its roots in Hindu philosophy, it is part of American culture.” However, to view yoga through a religious or nonreligious framework is problematic. In a piece for the Vancouver Observer, Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra writes, “the ‘Hindu’ way of worship, belief, practice, way of living is all part of the Yogic philosophy.” Yoga philosophy is written in Sanskrit, an ancient Indian language, in which there is no word for religion. The closest translation is dharm and the set of philosophies that make up Hinduism are called the Sanatana Dharma. These philosophies provide codes of conduct, which differ from person to person. There’s no universal code or holy book, as is the case with most religions. Instead of seeking a divine entity outside the person and needing an agent, such as a priest, the Hindu belief is that

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A yoga class, usually conducted at the Japanese Cultural Centre, takes advantage of the warm weather and practises outside at the Britannia Heritage Shipyard. every being is divine within and the purpose of yoga is to help a person reach that divinity. As Hinduism draws on numerous aspects of life including science and the environment, doing yoga doesn’t necessarily mean engaging in a religious practice, but it is engaging in the Sanatana Dharma. “But you still can’t strip yoga off Hinduism,” Bhamra writes. “By doing so, you are robbing yoga of its essence. The cultural appropriation will serve no purpose other than making yoga a new form of a quiet exercise routine, which the West has unashamedly done to a great extent.”

Awareness can only help

Unlike Gulamhusein, Hardy doesn’t mind the current trend of yoga because of what it does to an individual — whether spiritual or not — once they leave a yoga class. No matter how it’s being marketed, what goes on in an actual class through poses and breathing helps lead an individual to finding that enlightenment within. “I think it’s only helped increase the

awareness of yoga,” Hardy says. “The more awareness that’s raised about it, the better off we are as a society. It’s a very peaceful practice, so the more we can spread it throughout society, the more we can benefit from it. “Understanding the teaching is good, but it’s also a wonderful practice for your body.” Singh agrees that even if the focus is on the movement of the body, most classes do use ancient terms in an effort to educate the attendees. “It does provide some benefit, the physical still affects the rest of you, your mind, your mental state,” says Singh. “Usually when people start yoga because of the physical benefits, they end up learning more about it anyway. It’s fine if you want to just focus on the body, but I don’t think it’s always enough.” The benefits of yoga, as it is practised by Western society, are undeniable, but without the other aspects of the tradition, Gulamhusein says it just shouldn’t be called yoga. “It can be a great form of exercise, but if you’re taking the spirituality side out of it, it’s not yoga.”

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Bimla Veer Singh instructs yoga at the Ram Krishna Mandir at the Vedic Cultural Centre.

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Stealing from kids, really? The Editor, Re: “Latest theft leaves bad taste in kids’ mouths,” News, July 19. It was with great dismay that I read about yet another theft from a community garden. As one of the volunteers for the Lord Byng elementary garden club, I can understand the disappointment of the students from Spul’u’kwuks who worked so hard to grow their various crops. Lord Byng has also been a victim of theft these past three years. Our students have worked hard preparing the gardens for planting a variety of vegetables and herbs and maintaining the gardens in anticipation of a bountiful harvest. I was very proud to learn that the students unanimously decided to donate all our produce to the food bank and to community meal programs. Sadly, last year someone carefully “harvested” the scapes from the Byng garden and then came back for the garlic and many other vegetables. To add insult to injury, sometime in the last four days, someone came and relieved us of our potatoes, radishes and trampled the few remaining vegetables we had in the garden. As a result, we are again unable to fully honour our commitment of donating food to the programs. Some may call it ignorance, some may call it disrespect — I call it stealing, plain and simple. Shame on those responsible for pilfering these gardens and destroying the children’s hard work. V.A. Stevenson Steveston

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Stellar by name, but not by nature I had to take the car (I’ve owned it long enough for a simple definite article) through AirCare this week, for the last time. It got a simple pass after they hooked up its electronic guts to a computer and determined it had been a good little engine for the past two years. They printed out my pass form on the last dot matrix printer in B.C. and sent me away. It’s the last time I’ll have to get the car AirCared, as the program is ending as of this year. That will feel strange. I’ve been driving cars through AirCare testing bays ever since I started driving. The program started in 1992, two years before I got my license. My cars and AirCare have seldom been friends. Like most of us, I owned a series of early vehicles that teetered on the line between “car” and “pile of rolling metal.” My worst car was a 1988 Hyundai Stellar. Never heard of the Stellar? That’s because of its painful failure to live up to its name. A small fourdoor sedan, it’s main selling feature was the very small amount of money I paid for it. It took me to and from college and survived almost through a full year of my first postschooling job. Even before its untimely death, it had seen the white light at the end of the tunnel a few times. It’s most impressive near-death experience was

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its black lung disease. Apparently, for the entire life, the exhaust system had been building up deposits that were slowly choking the engine to death. The car started losing power so slowly that I hardly noticed, until going up hills was as painful as a three-pack-a-day smoker climbing 10 flights of stairs. I took the alleged car to two repair shops. The first one quoted me a price of $1,300 to fix it, approximately five times what I judged the car to be worth. The next shop suggested $1,600 would be an appropriate repair bill. Possibly taking pity on my sad facial expression (I was still in school and approaching dead broke) the fellow there suggested I take it to Kershaw Performance, an old-school shop that still operates here in Langley. The Kershaw mechanic poked his head under the hood, said he could maybe do something about it, and then took out a thin piece of steel rod, inserted it into the engine, and whaled on it with a ball peen hammer. After he dislodged the accumulated gunk, the car ran for another year before it succumbed to a new ail-

ment. They charged me $25. The Stellar’s tale was not yet over, however. I put it up for sale, basically willing to accept any offer. A friend of a friend of a neighbour turned up and offered me $300 for the barelymobile vehicle, and I took it without haggling. He then gave me $150 - all in $5 bills that smelled suspiciously of cannabis — and drove it away. After he was gone, I noticed that he had filled out part of the transfer papers incorrectly. I tried to call him, but for three days, he ducked my calls, probably because he didn’t want to pay me the remainder of the money. The next day, I got a call from the RCMP. Did I know that a car registered to me had sped away from a police stop, run over a stop sign, and crashed into a ditch? Had the driver, now in cells, stolen my car? I explained the situation, and I swear I could hear the officer on the other end of the line roll her eyes when I mentioned the pile of $5 bills. The car was still legally mine, she said, and I could come down to the impound yard and pick it up if I wanted to pay the fee. Otherwise, it would be crushed into a cube. It would cost about $150 to get it back. I left it to its fate, and it has now likely been reincarnated as a crate of toasters. Matthew Claxton is a reporter with the Langley Advance.

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The Editor, I am 94-years-old and walk with a cane. The other day, I caught a #401 bus at Brighouse station. The driver saw me hurrying to the stop and patiently waited for me. He smiled when I got on and waited until I was seated before he started. A real gentleman. Later, I caught another #401 at Westminster Highway at No. 3 Road. I was the last one on and the driver closed the door, catching me as I was getting on. He then started with a jerk, sending me

flying down the aisle. Luckily, I landed on someone’s lap, rather than the floor. Another passenger steadied me until I was seated. If that wasn’t enough, he sailed through my stop, even though I had pulled the cord — twice! I had to catch another bus back to my proper stop. I was too mad to get the bus number, but I will be watching for this ignorant, uncivil, nasty cowboy. Ella Johnson Richmond

Take a tug on Sister City spending reins The Editor, Re: “Only council benefits...” Letters, July 17. I certainly agree with the letter from KC Tuey regarding the useless waste of our taxpayer money on the past Sister City twinning trips to Japan, China and other locales. Who went on these junkets to far away places? Various council members, senior

Richmond staff and one or two Richmond citizens. I expressed my opinion some time ago about the need for us taxpayers to curtail such junkets using taxpayers’ dollars! As a recent headline stated, ‘Sister city spending plans put on hold.’ Let’s hope so!! Restraint starts here. L. Hillman Richmond

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Richmond deserves better answers The Editor, This past week, the issue of the Liberal government’s “ethnic-gate” scandal arose once again during Question Period in the B.C. Legislature. The BC Liberals offered money to a government employee to keep quiet about information that would damage the party and the Premier. This scandal has a significant tiein to Richmond. Former Minister of Multiculturalism and Richmond-Steveston MLA John Yap was in charge of the department in question and was forced to resign. And the current Minister of Multiculturalism, Richmond Centre MLA

Teresa Wat, gave stonewall answers when asked questions about the hush money issue on day one of Question Period. She went back home, read the Liberal scripts and came back for day two of Question Period with answers full of rhetoric. My question: Why are our elected MLAs more concerned with re-election than with serving the constituents of their riding? Why are taxpayer resources being used for political expedience? And to think, we just elected and reelected these scandal-ridden bureaucrats to office to represent our great city. Ramesh Ranjan Richmond

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Employee Pricing refers to A-Plan pricing ordinarily available to Ford of Canada employees (excluding any CAW-negotiated programs). The new vehicle must be delivered or factory-ordered during the Program Period from your participating Ford Dealer. Employee Pricing is not combinable with CPA, GPC, CFIP, Daily Rental Allowance and A/X/Z/D/F-Plan programs. *Purchase a new 2013 Focus S Sedan/2013 Escape S FWD with 2.5L engine/2013 F-150 Super Cab XLT 4x4 with 5.0L engine/2013 F-150 Super Crew XLT 4x4 with 5.0L engine $16,779/$22,204/$29,226/$31,720 after Total Price Adjustment of $870/$995/$11,673/$11,079 is deducted. Total Price Adjustment is a combination of Employee Price Adjustment of $620/$995/$4,423/$3,829 and Delivery Allowance of $250/$0/$7,250/$7,250. Taxes payable on full amount of purchase price after Total Price Adjustment has been deducted. 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