Jesus loves your downward dog, Mark Morford
Let’s just get this out of the way right off the bat, shall we?
Yoga is a religion. Oh, it most certainly is. Packed like Mary Magdalene’s cherry Lululemons with feral devotion and sweat-soaked passion, ageless wisdom and funny breathing sounds you make though your face, indicating rapture.
Like any reasonable religion, there are wild, multi-armed deities and smoky incense, sticky bodily contortions and profound prostrations, yelping lunges and powerful upside-downings, funky music and rhythmic incantations, laughter and solemnity in miscellaneous turns. Just like the Mormons.
And of course, it’s all frequently topped (or rather, bottomed) by deep contemplations where you sit for many minutes in total stillness, imagining complete re-absorption into the gaping maw of infinite, universal consciousness which smells strangely like sandalwood and pomegranate seeds and Shiva. Nice.
the rest: http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2013/06/11/jesus-loves-your-downward-dog/
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