MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Monday approved legislation to lift the state's decades-old ban on yoga in public schools even though the bill's sponsor said lawmakers added language he thought was foolish and unneeded.

The bill by Gray says school systems could authorize yoga if they choose. Yoga done in school would be limited to poses and stretches, and all poses would have to have English names. The use of chanting, mantras and teaching the greeting “namaste” would be forbidden.