Plymouth Yoga Room set to celebrate 5th anniversar...: Students participate in yoga class at Plymouth Yoga Room in Plymouth as they plan to celebrate the fifth anniversary after expansion. Ryan Garza/Detroit Free Press Yoga instructor Brent Rieli goes into a new pose while being instructed by his wife, Sheri Rieli, at the Plymouth Yoga Room in downtown Plymouth. / Ryan Garza/Detroit Free Press Examples of various yoga variations

Ashtanga: Faster-pased power yoga for those were raised on video games or have no patience. Bikram: Hot yoga for those who like to sweat it out in overheated rooms. Hatha: Gentle yoga for those who are older or have injuries. Prenatal: For pregant women. Yogalates: For those who want some Pilates thrown into a hybrid class.

American yoga was born in 1898, when Pierre Bernard began teaching it to wealthy San Franciscans, according to Love. By the 1920s, hed built the first American ashram in Nyack, N.Y., and from that time until the 1950s, when a 1924 federal law limited immigration from India, this strain began to take hold. By the mid-century, Hollywood stars, like Marilyn Monroe, began doing it. The governments Asian exclusion policy was changed in 1965; the Beatles met the Maharishi in 1967. In the 1980s, when research showed exercise combats heart disease, Baby Boomers took notice of yoga. DVDs helped and by the 1990s, it was everywhere.

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