I should have known better. I told my dad I'd taken a yoga class and loved it. This week, a book on yoga arrived. I'll only looked at the back--it's basically yoga=eastern religion=a no-no for Christians. Now, I know yoga has connections to eastern religion and is very much a part of the modern spiritualist movement. However, I think that it is not inherently religious, when stripped of the meditation aspect. The yoga class I'm taking in on an air force base, has no meditation practices, and the focus is on an effective workout. Personally, I loved it. Additionally, with the exception of the half-moon pose that I still can't do, every pose we've done I've already learned from other "western" workouts. Plus, RB's "Yoga Drills for Belly Dancers" has been part of my bd practice for years.

Do you think yoga is inherently part of eastern religion and that the two cannot be separated? Is practicing yoga practicing Hinduism? If so, and you do not practice eastern religion, does that trouble you? Or do you think it in a form of exercise that has been attached to religion, and can easily be separated?