Should Christians practise yoga? For some it's a non-question: yoga is just a nice way of keeping fit and flexible, with no spiritual implications at all. They're perfectly happy to see their church hall hired out to a yoga group. For others, yoga is a practice imported straight from Hinduism. At best it's compromising Christian witness and at worst it's a gateway to demonic powers. So how do Christians navigate the conversation? And how does the controversy over yoga fit into the wider issue about how Christians respond to the alternative spiritualities that seem to be on the rise as institutional religion is declining? Ross Clifford and Philip Johnson, authors of Taboo or To Do? said that broadly speaking, ‘there are ways of talking to people who practise them in a way that builds bridges.’