Is modern yoga the product of 19th century Scandinavian gymnastics? Modern yoga might not entirely be that “timeless Indian discipline” practitioners believe it to be, according a BBC documentary. “What’s becoming clear is that the yoga I practice every week is very different to what was regarded as yoga a thousand, or even one hundred, years ago,” The BBC’s Mukti Jain Campion discovered. The documentary notes that “a new generation of yoga innovators … transformed an obsolete and frowned-upon practice of Indian holy men” as “early 20th Century European ideas of health, fitness and the cult of the Body Beautiful became intertwined with Indian nationalism and the revival of Indian interest in its own traditions of physical culture.” (Runtime 29:45)