By Alexander Frank, Catholic Answers - In analyzing whether it is prudent for Catholics to practice yoga, the place to start is in determining what yoga is. It’s not just a bodily pose, or even a series of bodily poses. Rather, it’s more than that: the term yoga means “to yoke” in Sanskrit. This “yoking” connotes a spiritual unity, rooted in a kind of servitude. Now, Christ calls us to bear his yoke (Matt. 11:30), but what kind of yoke does yoga put on practitioners? Or in other words, what kind of servitude does yoga bind its practitioners to?