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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Dani Anguiano and agencies

Yoga classes resume at San Diego beach as court says they are ‘protected speech’

People participate in a beachfront yoga class in San Diego, California, on 5 June 2025.
People participate in a beachfront yoga class in San Diego, California, on Thursday. Photograph: Elliot Spagat/AP

Yoga classes are back on at San Diego beaches this week after a federal appeals court ruled that a city ordinance restricting such activities was unconstitutional and that teaching yoga was “protected speech”.

The three-judge panel of the US ninth circuit court of appeals on Wednesday overruled a San Diego judge and decided in favor of two instructors who had sued over a law that San Diego passed in 2024 banning yoga classes of four or more people at shoreline parks and beaches.

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