In reply to Yanis Nayu:
I saw the piece but didn´t bother reading it, as was said above, first world problems....
However, I can appreciate that someone doing yoga as a spiritual exercise, and who may even have grown up with this, may despair at the westernized, gymnastics version. Some of those derivatives are even more ridiculous. At UCSC and at UBC Vancouver you could book classes in "combat yoga", whatever that may be, perhaps an attempt at a world record in missing the point.
Similar differences can be found in the martial arts, where some people look for zen-related philosophy and perform rather yoga-like meditative exercises, while others (like me) are in it for the olympic sport of pyjama wrestling.
Back to yoga, in summer I can see our institute yoga class (run by some Indian postdocs) putting their mats on the grass in front of my office window, and have to admit they are quite a distraction.
CB