Mate yoga is the original spiritual practice from India. It was created as a tool to explore and deepen spirituality. Reducing it to "just some stretches" is a western invention. Which is fine! But chakras and all that "hippie woo" is much closer to "true yoga" than the sanitised version you're talking about.

Sorry, I mean no offense. Where I live I have met many yoga practitioners who have peculiar ideas about physiology. They do not represent yoga as a whole, or its traditional practice.

I’m very familiar with this yogababble. It’s a real shame, because it drives away the people who could benefit most from the practice. I would really enjoy a more mechanical yoga practice without it.