You can't get away from it. Politics follow wherever people go even when those people are yogis.
Signs of the existence of politics include a hierarchy, the necessity to buy into a particular brand of yoga, sticking to the "rules"of said brand, competition for rank between it's members, and the belief one brand is better than another. You're even looked down upon if you stray away to another style even it it's only for a teensy-weensy little workshop. And don't you dare try to teach things above your yoga rank unless you want to go it alone.
The one way that yoga politics work is to protect against teachers blending teaching styles. I can agree here. Tradition is important. Don't bastardize a good thing, I say.
If we could just take the ego out of it we'd be much better off. Yoga politics would cease to exist. If yogis can't figure out a way, no one can.
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