Abstract
As our mantra says...this yoga is for mothers, brothers, sisters and grandmothers, poets, bakers, painters and artists. This is Yoga to the People! So let all of your doubts or questions be set aside... come and explore the world of yoga', are the words one can read when entering Yoga to the People's website. Is Yoga really practiced by everyone? i.e. regardless of someone's social class? If the practice of Yoga in Occidental societies is becoming more and more popular, one has to know that yoga has been part of the Occidental culture for a long time. Indeed, during the Antiquity, Alexandre le Grand, in his conquests beyond Persia, had brought back to Greece a yogi so that he could show his talents to the public. At the beginning of the 20th century, accounts of travellers such as Alexandra David-Néel or Romain Roland caused the curiosity of some Westerners, attracted by the concept of body experiment of the religion and by the philosophical corpus of the Hindu texts. Occidental societies seemed then prepared to receive the Hindu culture and the first centers of yoga were created.
