Is practicing yoga permissible or forbidden?

Yoga is a pagan ritual through which Hindus worship the sun. Its original name means "prostrating to the sun with eight parts of the body." It includes exercises and incantations specific to sun worship, such as prostration and phrases meaning "I bow my head to you, O..." It is not permissible for a Muslim to practice it under any circumstances. If these exercises are stripped of their pagan connotations and do not involve facing the sun, then they become permissible sports exercises, provided that one alters the original sequence of yoga postures and avoids the times when Hindus practice it, especially at sunrise. This is due to the Prophet's (peace be upon him) prohibition of prayer at this time, in order to avoid resembling the disbelievers who prostrate to Satan at sunrise. As for the purported psychological comfort brought by yoga, it is not exclusive to it; rather, it results from demonic possession and fills the mind with fantasies and illusions. True inner peace is found in adhering to the Sunnah and remembering Allah in the manner He has prescribed.