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Well, you better stop brushing your teeth then, because it my religion, it's how we celebrate our internal goddess.[/quote]

In Judaism at least I think it is acceptable to do things that a have a general positive purpose, that idolators do, as long as there is no direct connection to idolatry. Thus -  Greek pagans used wine for libation ceremonies - thus there is extensive Jewish law on the kosher status of wines, to ensure the wine you drink did not have a libation said over it (in the strictest form of observance, this means only drinking wine that was made by Orthodox Jews)   However no one says  we should abstain from wine on this account.

So we might want to be careful of toothbrushes from people in your religion (if there was any evidence that that practice actually existed) but would not mean we would have to stop brushing our teeth.

As far as I can tell most Orthodox opinion allows the physical practices of yoga, but calls on those do those to be wary of the spiritual practices. Though I note Chabad forbids yoga completely. Most Conservative and Reform  opinion is more lenient.

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/23099/is-yoga-kosher

I know some Conservative shuls have presented yoga sessions in which the teacher incorporates specifically Jewish spiritual ideas that are compatible. 
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