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thank you!
The yoga guru is right on the money about American yoga classes being the equivalent of genuflecting to disco music.
This would be why, unlike what seems like every other woman in America, I don't do yoga. Even without the idiocy that is "partner yoga," what's taught as "yoga" in America generally isn't yoga. It's a cannibalization and misrepresentation of Hindu WORSHIP, and although I am not a Hindu, I think that the religious traditions of others should be respected.
If you want to do the postures/breathing excersizes to improve strength, flexibility, relaxtion...fine. But it's NOT YOGA, and don't call it what it is not.
(BTW, very little of Tantric Yoga has to do with spicing up your sex life, either.)