Yoga in America is a multi-billion dollar industry boasting a plethora of wildly popular franchise chains and a massive community of teachers and practitioners. It has been enthusiastically embraced by Americans and is now a staple feature of mainstream culture. Americans turn to yoga for stress-relief, physical toning, spiritual solace and to help them function more calmly and efficiently at the workplace. Yoga’s rapid growth has also given rise to a raging culture war between traditionalists and reactionary materialists engaged in a bitter online struggle to claim it as their own. As an American of Indian origin and a practitioner...