A yoga teacher at Facebook says she was fired after she objected to a company employee using her cell phone in class.

How are you supposed to do this while checking your cell phone?

Yoga is about relaxation. It's about forgetting the corporate world and focusing on the corporeal world.

It's not about peering down at your cell phone and, say, updating your status or replying to an email.

Yet word reaches me of disturbing circumstances that appear to have occurred during a yoga class at Facebook.

You didn't think Facebook employees had time for yoga? Oh, come. They don't work that hard there. They're open, spiritual beings, don't forget. Well, mostly.

As the San Francisco Chronicle tells it, Alice Van Ness is a yoga instructor contracted to lead classes at Facebook's Fitness Center in Menlo Park. Or rather, was.

She has a principle in her teachings, one that is embraced by theaters, churches and libraries the world over: please turn off your cell phone.

It seems, though, that one Facebook employee couldn't quite stretch to this stricture. Indeed, she allegedly took her phone out at the beginning of the class and then again half way through.

Van Ness claims in a blog post that she offered a stern look of disapproval. No words, not even a hiss.

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Facebook yoga teacher objects to cell phone, gets fired