Two Summers ago I picked up the 5 year anniversary issue of Yogi Times at Whole Foods Cupertino. The magazine caters to yoga practitioners in San Francisco and Los Angeles. (The coastal regions of California still have ties to the 60s.) As I was going through my things, I found it and looked through it again. Acouple of pages are spent on crow and side crow, bakasana and parsva bakasana. But the articles make it clear that yoga does have an associated spirituality and view of reality. Pilates appears to lack the philosophical and spiritual components of yoga, and so it should be less problematic. I was interested in pilates while I was in Boston, but I never did anything about it. Is pilates counter to the "natural posture" as exemplified, for example, in the Gokhale method? It is claimed that pilates helps strengthens the core, which I need to do.