“American yoga DID start in the 20th century.”
You need to learn to cope with FACTS. -——
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Two facts to start from:
There is no “American yoga”, there is just the Hindu-religion yoga.
Second, yoga - the Hindu religious practice was first taught in America in the early 1880s, most notably at the World Parliament of Religions (which wasn’t quite exactly a meeting of aerobics fanatics, by the way).
Her book traces the modern Western practice of yoga to a Russian woman named Indra Devi, who was born in 1899 with the birth name Eugenia Peterson.
You’re wrong.