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1. Yoga isn't a corporate fitness program where you can just get certifications like you're teaching fucking pure barre and Pilates. It's a religious practice, and the physical asanas are just one very, very narrow part of it. "Namaste" does not have a watered-down New Age meaning like, "I bow to the light within you." It means "I bow to the God within you." External yoga is useless without internal yoga - meditation, pranayama, etc - and the purpose is to achieve union with the Divine.
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I am sorry this is making you angry.  However, whether you like it or not, this "corporate" fitness program is doing many people, especially elderly people, a great deal of good.  External yoga is not useless without internal yoga.  It just may be helping people with things that don't interest you (like maintaining mobility into old age).  Maybe you could consider that this kind of kind of practice may eventually lead people to explore the real yoga that is so important to you.  But please don't try to bully people away from doing something that helps them so much.[/quote]

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