Yoga (proper-case) or yoga (lowercase)?

It's not a religion in and of itself. Elements of yoga are found in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. Given that, I would say lowercase.


In Autobiography of a Yogi (Paramhansa Yogananda's chronicles on Yogis, yoga, and related topics), the word yoga is used with a lower case y. But where it clearly is part of a noun, such as in Kriya Yoga, the uppercase is used.