If your base gutter is 12, the next step might be 18 or 24. You can also employ units with padding as you mentioned. To keep a well organized grid, you can set the type in some kind of container that adheres to the base grid with the type inset by a unit or two or three.
Updated for January 12, 2017 (Toddlers) patch. Pose Player. This is a mod that will add the option to play poses and animations in game. It adds an interaction to your sims called Pose By Name and Pose By Pack. Just click on your sim like you would to do anything else.
You don't have to learn the whole language. In fact, with just a small Sanskrit vocabulary, you can decode most yoga pose names. Almost all yoga pose names end with the word asana, a Sanskrit word that literally means seat, although it's often translated as pose.. Many pose names feature Sanskrit numbers.