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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm of Indian descent. Yoga weirds me out precisely because of this.

Especially when they use Hindi or other made-up Hindi-like words/phrases/chants. [/quote]

I'm most definitely an atheist, but cultural Episcopalian, and I am a runner who does "yoga" exercises to help maintain limberness.  Basically, to me it's advanced stretching combined with some isometric strength and balance exercises.  I hate it when my yoga classes get tarted up with spiritual chanting and phrases...I prefer the English pose names.

ISTR reading somewhere that the origins of yoga are simply exercises done as a prelude to extended meditation (which is basically deliberate extended sedentary behavior) in order to be able to sit still in one place for a long time.  Of course, who knows the real story, a lot of spiritual yoga - like so very many religions - is a financial con designed to extract a lot of money from gullible Americans.

It's decent exercise if you clear out the clap-trap.[/quote]

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