In the yoga industry there are differing opinions on what is considered yoga and what is not. People who can make really impressive shapes with their bodies and demonstrate an extreme amount of flexibility in their photos on Instagram, say they are doing yoga. Many people who troll the internet feel the need to correct them by telling them that they aren’t practising yoga, they are just contortionists or acrobats. It leads me to the question – what is the meaning of yoga? And why does that meaning for one person get disputed by another?

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