Another reason for giving this example is to illustrate that people participate in discourse systems in a variety of ways, some more
centrally and some more peripherally. Although Rodney likes doing yoga and has been practicing it for many years, his Discourse systems can also mix with other discourse systems. In the United States, for example, the Yoga discourse system has
mixed with what might be called the discourse of fitness, so people attend yoga classes in gyms where people also do things like
aerobics and weightlifting, and many of the more spiritual aspects of the practice may be practically absent from the consciousness of
the practitioners.