Look up the history of yoga (as popularised in the west). Much of it came from European gymnastic exercises with some orientalist flavour sprinkled on them, though there’s a lot of overlap with the esoteric end of fascism, weird racial theories and such. (At least until the mid-1940s, after which it quiets down a bit.)
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Very interesting, ty!
As far as crazy Nazi beliefs go that one isn't that crazy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%80ry%C4%81varta