I always stayed clear of it and that's one of the first issues I address in my class-that Yoga is not a religion or cult. Anybody can do it, no matter what age, ability, religious belief, race or ethnic background. You can do it through your entire life. That's another thing that drew me to it. I wanted to be able to do something throughout my whole life.
Yoga is more than just meditation.
It's a precise science that was developed 4,000 years ago. The Yoga practitioner manipulates every part of the body in order to benefit the internal organs, the muscular skeletal system and the mind, which is where Yoga breaks off from regular calisthenics. Semester after semester my students have been asking me to make a tape. I got my act together. I went home and spoke a class into a tape recorder, then transcribed and edited it.