"For many practitioners, hatha-yoga has become a style of life; style in which attention is given to fitness and the mental state and often to our own spiritual conditions. Practitioners advanced in practice are often faithful to their teachers and schools to which they attend. Their everyday routine is subdued to yoga, which changed their identity and helps in coping with everyday life often described by the values of the Western world. From this clash of two cultures comes what we call a modern hatha-yoga, very popular form of rest, physical exercises, health practices, and even spiritual practice. Everyone can choose their own from an array of interpretations and for their private usage create their own definition of practice"

(Krzysztof T. Konecki, 2012, Is the Body the Temple of the Soul? Modern Yoga Practice as a Psychosocial Phenomenon, Warsaw: Difin.