Hollywood star Wesley Snipes teaching yoga in jail

Hollywood actor-producer Wesley Snipes (Blade), who is serving time at Federal Correctional Institution (FCI)?McKean (Pennsylvania, USA), is teaching yoga, according to reports.

Wesley Trent Snipes, 48, is reportedly serving a sentence on tax issues.

Reports suggest that he recently requested yoga mats for himself and other inmates. FCI?McKean is a medium security facility housing male inmates. An adjacent satellite prison camp houses minimum security male offenders.

Hindu statesman Rajan Zed has termed it a ?step in the right direction?.

According to Patanjali, author of the basic text, the Yoga Sutra, yoga is a methodical effort to attain perfection, through the control of the different elements of human nature, physical and psychical, Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, explained.