Capitol Weekly: Hot Yoga Guru Warms to Jerry Brown

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Attorney General Jerry Brown may not yet be a declared candidate forgovernor. But one well-known yoga guru has already cast his vote with theonce and possibly future governor.

Brown’s gubernatorial campaign exploratory committeereceived a $25,900 donation from the L.A-based Bikram’s Yoga College of India earlier this month– the maximum allowable donation under California law.Bikram yoga is the hot yoga practice created, and patented,by Bikram Choudhury. The practice has franchises aroundthe world, but its global headquarters is in Los Angeles.

Accolytes of the hot yoga practice include Madonna,Sting and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. In a 2005 interview with LA Yoga magazine

Capitol Weekly: Hot yoga guru warms to Jerry Brown