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What do you think of Christian Yoga? Have you ever heard of it? Does anyone know what it is?

Christian yoga?
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(02-11-2009 09:13 PM)Emjesown Wrote: [ -> ]Christian yoga?
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Check this out, emje :

http://www.christianyoga.us/home.htm

This is pretty serious stuff - and strictly unScriptural ....... more info to follow

shocking !!!

You might wish to take a perusal at a research article I did called:

Perverted Christianity ~ How Do YOU Score?

http://www.seekgod.ca/perverted.htm


Page 1: YOGA > http://www.seekgod.ca/holistic.htm#yoga

From an article:

Quote:Stretching for Jesus

The yoga teacher sits in a lotus position atop a polished wooden platform. Behind her, verdant woods are visible through panoramic windows. Gentle music tinkles from overhead speakers. Two dozen students in spandex outfits, most of them women, settle onto purple and blue mats to begin the class with ujjayi, a breathing exercise. Their instructor, Cindy Senarighi, recommends today's mantra. "'Yahweh' is a great breath prayer," she says. "The Jesus Prayer also works. Now lift your arms in praise to the Lord."

The platform is an altar, the tinkly tune is praise music, and the practice is Christian yoga. Senarighi's class, called Yogadevotion and taught in the main chapel of St. Andrew's Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi, Minn., is part of a fast-growing movement that seeks to retool the 5,000-year-old practice of yoga to fit Christ's teachings. From Phoenix, Ariz., to Pittsburgh, Pa., from Grand Rapids, Mich., to New York City, hundreds of Christian yoga classes are in session. A national association of Christian yoga teachers was started in July, and a slew of books and videos are about to hit the market. But the very phrase stiffens yoga purists and some Christians--including a rather influential Catholic--who insist yoga cannot be separated from its Hindu roots.

Still, the boom, say its backers, is just beginning. Books on Christian yoga were published as early as 1962, but in recent years, as yoga has become as ubiquitous as Starbucks, more Christians have decided to start their own classes. Susan Bordenkircher, a Methodist from Daphne, Ala., is one. She discovered yoga in 2002. "I knew right away I was getting something out of it spiritually and physically, but it felt uncomfortable in that format," she says. So Bordenkircher prepared a vinyasa, or series of postures, with a biblical bent. Meditations focus on Jesus. She calls the sun salutation, a series of poses honoring the Hindu sun god, a "warm-up flow" instead; other Christians call it the "Son" salutation.

John Keller, a pastor at St. Andrew's, tells doubtful parishioners that the Bible describes many postures for prayer and that "yoga is just another way to pray." Also, says Keller, it draws potential converts through the church's doors; about a quarter of Yogadevotion students are not churchgoers.

The full article can be seen here:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articl...-2,00.html

Me thinks that the term
christian yoga
is a contradictusinterminus

EMJE

(02-13-2009 09:41 PM)Emjesown Wrote: [ -> ]Me thinks that the term
christian yoga
is a contradictusinterminus

EMJE

That is a good one!!!!!!!!

How is this any different from what the early church did when it (erroneously) took pagan festivals and brought them into the church?

I know a local Christian church is offering a class for women
called "Praise Moves" or "Praise Stretches". They claim to be
similar to yoga but use Christian contemporary music and
have supposedly left out anything that was eastern religion.

Personally I would not get involved in anything like this.

We did not allow our son to take any martial arts classes
either, because I had heard they were occult.

I don't see why we need "Christian" yoga............a class in
Christian exercise would be ok.

singingsurf