is your yoga just a workout

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Because I think that in the west uh yoga has really become closely associated with physical fitness and that happened in India too like with go yoga there was like some crossover there but it's different in the west where it's very much about you know skinny bodies and a certain way of like working with your body.

Yeah the yoga definitely it will bring out that particular thing. Yeah. And yeah, it's a good thing also because from that they will come to the spirituality actually hopefully but not always. That's the thing. You see sometimes if if there's no hint if the teacher isn't rooted if the teachers never studied yoga in the way that we're trying to talk about it today where it comes from like a deeper place that's rooted in the tradition and the texts.

Uh but they learned it at like some 200 hour training at a gym and they're teaching it as like a fitness thing. uh then I don't know maybe somebody has a good experience and decides to look into it more but a lot of times people just it's just stays as a workout it doesn't become more you