Yoga was made as a bunch of poses done in service to false gods. Whether you believe they are bad or not, you are still practicing something dangerous to yourself, and weird. Yoga = YOKE-a. Don't let demonic "yokes" get put on your back!
"but muh excerises!!" Don't be lazy. Invent new and useful positions that have NO occult/pagan meaning. Try different excersises. Eat right.
Does anyone wish to elaborate? Or prove me wrong on any of my statements?
It's my understanding that when you do it, you're making your body into an idol of one of the 1000s of "gods" in the Hindu religion. The whole warrior sequence is a reenactment from when one of the gods killed another one.
I borrowed a book about it from the 70s a long time ago and it detailed how it was a lifestyle intertwined with their spiritual beliefs. It wasn't about exercise or stress relief and the best yogis were old men who were basically mystics, not athletes. I just glossed over that at the time because I enjoyed the exercise and probably every other aspiring teacher did too. Then it exploded in the US and yoga studios popped up everywhere. I only learned about yoking oneself to a false god recently from a Dolores (something?) video, she was a "Christian Scientist" who made a fortune making angel tarot cards and books but was saved and now renounces the occult. Also note if you go to a studio you never see a Christian cross but instead various mantras, om symbol, and usually a Kali statue. It's a religion, not an exercise.
Supposedly pilates is a similar exercise and the inventor was a French dance teacher but I've never tried it. Calisthenics is basically the same form of exercise and then you can just stretch afterwards.