Daily Inspiration Quote by Christy Turlington

Turlington’s line does a neat piece of cultural crowd control: it reassures the spiritually curious without picking a fight with anyone’s church. Framed as a response to “a lot of people,” it casts doubt as a shared, reasonable concern, then offers a simple release valve. The pivot - “actually” - positions her as someone correcting a misconception, not selling a conversion. Coming from a model turned wellness advocate, the authority isn’t theological; it’s lifestyle credibility, the kind built in magazines, studios, and the early-2000s boom where yoga became both self-care and self-brand.

“Yoga actually pre-dates religion” is doing more than a history claim (and scholars would argue about what counts as “religion” versus “organized religion” or specific traditions). It’s a strategic unlabeling. If yoga is older than religion, it can be framed as human technology rather than sectarian practice: breath, attention, discipline. That makes it portable, exportable, and market-friendly - a practice you can add to your life without renegotiating your identity.

The subtext is a quiet rebuttal to the “Is yoga Hindu?” anxiety that flares whenever Western yoga is criticized as appropriation or spiritual infiltration. By treating yoga as primordial, Turlington sidesteps ownership and softens controversy: nobody needs to feel like a traitor to their faith, and nobody needs to feel accused of borrowing someone else’s. It’s an argument built for a pluralist consumer culture, where the highest compliment is compatibility.