Exercising near a cemetery.

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Our new house backs onto a cemetery. We have a gate from our garden going directly into a wooded area, and then there's a further 20m of meadow / grassland before you get to graves - this area of the cemetery is where the really old graves are (not that this matters from a respect point of view, but just that there are no families that visit these graves).

Do you think it would be OK to do yoga and stretching under the trees right by our back wall? Or would that be disrespectful?

We're having work done in our garden and home at the moment, hence why the garden is not a great option just now.

I think cemeteries should be part of green spaces and used by people. It's an awful lot of land being used when other traditional green spaces are being chewed up. I've noticed most of the bigger cemeteries are now calling themselves 'memorial gardens' and have less of a cemetery feel and more of a botantical gardens feel. Lots of the headstones are now mounted flat in the ground so you don't see a lot of tall headstones, and it keeps the area looking a bit more garden like.

The cemetery near my house is also somewhat of a tourist attraction for those visiting, and a resource for historical scholars. Local residents wander through it as there is a beach on the other side. I've often seen tourists wandering around the gravesites respectfully and reading the tombstones, and some local residents will actually go and have a picnic near their family plots. There is a particular event every year which goes past the cemetery and everyone stops and puts flowers on their relatives graves. I think it's lovely that it's still being used and part of the local community.

Sorry, I read that as someone else doing the yoga. No problem at all. Do it.

because I am a graceless oaf

This is the reason I am trying to find somewhere discrete to do my Yoga.

Thanks everyone, yes definitely no knew burials in this section of the graveyard - and it's not near the "cemetery house" where the burial services take place - if I did see people on the far side, or cars parked, I would definitely delay until another time.

It's a lovely cemetery. And it's super peaceful - I actually had some reservations, but I actually love living here so far.

We have a cemetery at the back of our house, I take my daughter's there to ride their bikes as it is the safest place to do it. (We have idiots on off road bikes all over our street so they can't go there and it's impossible for me to get my 6 and 4yo to the park with their bikes as I also have a 2yo that either needs her pram or runs riot and am also heavily pregnant 😬)

I'm glad this question came up. I nearly walked my dog through a cemetery earlier but thought better of it. I always pick up, so I think I will tomorrow now I've read this.

go to a park instead !

No - go to a park instead

When growing up our local park was next to a cemetery and all the kids played there. My grandmother wanted to be buried there as she loved the idea of still having children around her when she had died. I'm sure she would have felt the same about you doing yoga near her

When I'm a permanent resident I'd be happy for you do do yoga and for children to play. Dogs crapping...hmm not so much, even if it is 'cleaned up'. It seems disrespectful somehow.