This chapter explores the challenge of understanding Yoga in light of colonialism, cultural appropriation and secularism. In a world dominated by Western colonialism, what is institutionalized is Secularism2: accordingly the secular is the same as the Western (a colonizing tradition with roots in ancient Greek thought, to be distinguished from the mere geography of the west), and religion and spirituality is whatever comes from outside of this tradition, which is Black, Indigenous or People of Color (BIPOC) traditions. In contrast, precolonial South Asia was Secularism1: it was an environment of free thinking. In this environment Yoga was developed as a basic decolonial, moral philosophical practice, the essence of which was devotion to sovereignty (Īśvara) and the practice of its essential traits of unconservatism (tapas) and self-governance (svādhyāya). The outcome of this practice is autonomy (kaivalya). This contrasts with Western Appropriated Culture (WAC), which appropriates South Asian resources, like the word “yoga” and uses these resources to recreate Western political institutions based on the ideas of Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics. What people in the modern world conventionally think of as Yoga is actually WACky. We can return to a secular and non-appropriated understanding of Yoga by learning from the South Asian tradition.