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It absolutely started as a religious practice. There are various forms of yoga that are used as mediation practices in Hinduism.
That said, Westerners almost never practice yoga that way. They'll sprinkle in a generous helping of, "namaste" but they're basically doing it as a form of light exercise.
It's like if a bunch of Indians saw a Catholic ceremony and said, "That's a pretty good workout. Stand up, sit down, kneel, sit, kneel, stand. It's not a religious thing, I just go to mass for leg day."