I worship Jesus with my whole heart while I stretch for an hour with some ladies. The meaning in your question was to jab me with a little guilt trip.
You are bound to run smack into the self-righteous intolerance of some in their ignorance and superstition of such things...
In others, they will mean well, but from a same ignorance and superstition.
For the fact of the matter is that just as some martial arts developed within various forms of pagan religions, but eventually ended up no longer a part of said religion in any way, shape, or form, but rather, an independent form of self-defense in their own right, so also is the case with Yoga.
The practice of its exercises no longer means one practices the religion it arose out of.
Why?
For their PHYSICAL aspects.
For those religions were/are VERY taxing on the physical.
VERY taxing on one's PHYSICAL body.
Due to their EXTREME deprivations.
Which is WHY they developed their HIGHLY BENEFICIAL physical exercises.
Might as well accuse you of being "a Soviet Commie" were you to take up their military's form of physical fitness.
Or of being a North Korea sympathizer, just because you train in Tae Kwon Do - the same form of physical fitness and self-defense, their Military is required to train in.
Might as well accuse the Apostle Paul of being a pagan, just because he travelled far and wide to preach the gospel - on roads built by that FULLY PAGAN Roman Empire (roads they built for VERY pagan purposes).
Stay, on course - you well know what the PHYSICAL benefits of Yoga as a PHYSICAL discipline have been for you.
You're probably only as strong in heart attitude as you obviously still are only because of both your CONSISTENTLY DECIDED faith towards the Lord, come what might, BUT ALSO because of your CONSISTENTLY DECIDED physical discipline on those days you have felt NEITHER very faithful but turned to Him anyway, NOR very physically inclined, but worked out anyway.
In memory of Rom. 5:6-8 - in EACH our STEAD.
