Yoga Snobs
I poke around some yoga forums once in a while, and I can’t help but notice a few yoga snobs online. You know, the kind of yog teachers that YogaDawg loves to make fun of. These are people who MUST write out “adho mukha shvanasana” instead of “downward facing dog” in a casual discussion of yoga. These are the folks who admonish people about how sacred a practice yoga is. To them, “sweaty yoga” is a big no-no. They will also get a bit riled up if you ever suggest that yoga is something that can be done at home without the help of the vaunted yoga teacher.
They are well-meaning, but in such a way that you just want to run screaming to the nearest Best Buy to purchase a cheesy Denise Austin yoga DVD and do a whole series of DOWNDOGS (not “adho mukha shvanasanas”) out of spite.
Now, now, I realize that as a spiritual person, I should smile and accept these overenthusiastic people with grace and humility, but then that wouldn’t make for a good blog post. 
It’s all the more fun when they start fighting with with each other over who is doing the “One True Yoga”…:)
In fact, it is much better to learn the asanas that are good for you and then to practice them at home, and do them everyday. Yoga should not be an activity like tennis that you do once or twice a week or month. The whole idea of a yoga class and a yoga teacher is a relatively recent invention (made up in the West). For thousands of years people practiced yoga without going to a “class.”