You may want to try reading the links you post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga#Reception_in_the_West http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga#Reception_in_the_West

You may want to try reading the links you post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga#Reception_in_the_West http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga#Reception_in_the_West Let me save you the trouble while I'm here: "...legitimizing yoga as a purely physical system of health exercises outside of counter culture or esotericism circles, and unconnected to a religious denomination."