Can yoga be “just” exercise or must it be more?
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With the explosion of yoga over the past decade, we’ve seen a Westernization of traditional practices to make yoga more accessible to a Western audience. While the intention to make yoga more inclusive is a good one, sometimes the result is a trivialization of the practice to the extent that it barely scratches the surface of its traditional purpose. In many facilities, we end up with yoga as not much more than an Eastern form of calisthenics or a fashionable and exotic form of “working out”.