Moving side to side to side and roll to your right side

and make a pillar with the hands. Stacking the shoulders and

the hips on top of each other. Take a moment of pause. Allow yourself to be in

your body present and alerts.

Perhaps this sounds familiar.

The chances are someone somewhere near you is teaching yoga.

Slowly come up to sitting, please take your time.

Palms upwards from the first

first fingertip touching.

From hot yoga and vigniazza to puppy and even beer yoga

there is something for everyone.

Worth a hundred billion dollars a year globally.

The yoga industry is big business.

But is all this choice distorting and destroying the true meaning of yoga, a practice with deep spiritual roots.

I'm Gita Pensei and in this documentary for the BBC World Service I'm meeting the South Asian yoga teachers

reclaiming how yoga is taught in the West.

Questioning their own part in balancing business with their religious and

cultural heritage, sometimes receiving backlash.

When that first episode came out, we had a lot of racist vitriol come at us, but maybe a hundred times that was positive encouragement and feedback saying,

this is the message I've been waiting to hear.

I'm a Nottingham city right in the heart of England and I'm here because alongside my day job as a journalist I

trained as a yoga teacher here. Growing up in a Hindu family I was always aware

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