Patanjali International Yoga Foundation Code of Conduct and Ethics

Code of Conduct & Advice: (or dos and don’ts) Regarding Legal Issues:

Under © term and policy

1. Teachers will not be responsible for any kind of health injury. No one knows your body better then you do. Keep practicing at your physical level to prevent injury.

2. Students should take care of their health, diet, rest, sleep, activities, room, hotel, company, speaking, thinking, walking, etc. If in any circumstance one damaged his health during the course Foundation will not be responsible and money will not be refundable.

3. Use of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, allopathic medicine, strong Ayurvedic and homeopathic pills are strictly prohibited during the course. Vitamins and minerals are allowed. If there are any medicine which you must use temporarily, please inform your teachers. All the information will be kept confidential.

4. If anything is damaged in the ashram (practice hall, dinning hall, living space) by any student, (s)he will be responsible for fixing the damage, or pay monitory compensation. Writing, painting, sticking etc. anywhere in premises are not allowed.

5. Students should take care of their belongings. After check-out, PIYF is not responsible for any personal item that is left behind in the room. Therefore, check your room thoroughly before checking-out from PIYF.

6. Students must not share/give PIYF printed material to third party and must not use materials for their centre or personal teachings, without written permission from PIYF.

7. The yoga students not allow to do any kind of business involvement like sell, purchase, promote, leading etc, also not allowed personal leading/receiving from anybody inside/outside person, if found foundation have rights to ask student/s to leave institute without any explanation.

Inappropriate Behaviour and Conduct:

As the employee, teacher and assistant and as the student, the following is required in establishing and maintaining appropriate behaviour and conduct:

• Maintaining professional boundaries.
• Not making or soliciting unwelcome advances or insinuations - physical, verbal, visual or in any other form - to other staff members, seva volunteers, students or guests.
• Be aware, conscious and watchful for sexualized and seductive behaviour towards any students and staff and report as necessary.
• PIYF Yoga Institute specifically affirms that no staff member may engage in conduct or make comments which tend to create a hostile or unsafe environment.
• Forms of unwelcome and unacceptable behavior, harassment and other conduct prohibited by this code of ethics include, but are not limited to:
• Sexually suggestive language or gestures, propositions or requests for sexual favours.
• Use of derogatory nicknames based on an individual’s race, national origin, handicap or age.
• Deliberate, frequent and unwelcome ethnic jokes, cartoons or remarks about a person’s age, race, sex, etc.
• If such incident arises, please report immediately (within 48hours) it to the General Manager/ Director/ head of staff in verbal/written.

If you don’t want the teacher’s assistance or correction please let us know on the first day of the program so we can inform all relevant instructors.

Please note that India is a very traditional country with strict behavioural norms and expectations. PIYF is an educational and spiritual place and any kind of sexual misconduct towards other students or PIYF staff will be considered a violation against this policy.

To avoid misunderstanding we request you to respect traditions and cultural policy of Indian society, kindly advised and requested to all students to wear adequate modest clothes for the classes where buttocks, perineum, breast are covered.

Such prohibited conduct may include, but is not limited to the following:

• Discriminatory Conduct: Conduct based on a person’s race, national origin, sex, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, ancestry, religious affiliation, union affiliation, political affiliation, or sexual orientation.

Other conduct that creates an intimidating, offensive or hostile work environment, or otherwise interferes with a person’s work performance, when motivated by consideration of race, sex, religion, age, etc.

• Verbal Conduct: Conduct such as disparaging remarks, slurs, jokes, innuendos, epithets, threatening, screaming, cursing, taunting, heckling, spreading rumours, and unwanted sexual advances, comments, or propositioning.

• Physical Conduct: Conduct such as gestures, leering, unwelcoming contact, pinching, patting, grabbing, blocking or impeding movement, assault, or any action which physically interferes with or unnecessarily impinges upon an individual person’s work, privacy, or movements.

• Visual Conduct: Conduct such as derogatory, sexually oriented, prejudicial, or otherwise generally offensive photographs, posters, objects, cartoons, drawings, graffiti, email, letters, or other writing.

FORMAL REPORTING PROCEDURE:
Where a Staff Member(s)’s complaint is found to be valid based on the evidence as determined through the investigation, the Staff Member(s) who appears to be guilty of harassment will be subject to disciplinary action. The level of discipline will be based upon the nature and severity of the behaviour and may result in a verbal or written warning, suspension or termination.

LITIGATION SPECIFICS:
In the event that an accusation progresses to formal proceedings in a court of law, the following will be in effect: Jurisdiction will be in the County of India, in the State of Uttarakhand, District tehri Garhwal.