Royalties for Yoga Poses

I keep wondering just how far the quest for IP rights will be taken before something gives. It seems to me though that those who have gone to the extent of registering intellectual property claims (whether trademarks or copyrights) on Yoga poses have taken it too far and are beginning to give the entire Intellectual Property regime a really bad name. Suketu Mehta argues in the NYT that individuals are making this big stretch and making for a laughable outcome.

Unlike the author who traces the problem with piracy of traditional Indian knowledge to the World Trade Organization's intellectual property rights rules, I am only concerned with the oddity and implications for enforcement of any violations regarding protected Yoga poses.