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For those who see no problem with practicing yoga, PLEASE check out the links below, and similar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFVXwIEySA8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKwEkXcmEUQ
You can stretch, exercise, and take care of yourself physically, and not participate in something highly questionable. Please do at least a little homework on the subject.
Let me share a relevant story... when I was a teenager, I played Dungeons and Dragons. When I started hanging around Christians, I heard that D&D was dangerous. I rejected that idea, because my experience had been neutral. I wasn't playing anymore, but I couldn't see what was so wrong. Then one day after I became a Christian, I heard a preacher addressing D&D, and again I reacted. Then I paused and asked myself WHY was I reacting so strongly? I realized that there was indeed something wrong with D&D, not because my experience of it had been negative, but because something in me rose up and resisted the suggestion that it was wrong. I went forward at my church to address this with a prayer team, and have been free of it since, with no inclination to participate, or defend it, again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFVXwIEySA8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKwEkXcmEUQ
You can stretch, exercise, and take care of yourself physically, and not participate in something highly questionable. Please do at least a little homework on the subject.
Let me share a relevant story... when I was a teenager, I played Dungeons and Dragons. When I started hanging around Christians, I heard that D&D was dangerous. I rejected that idea, because my experience had been neutral. I wasn't playing anymore, but I couldn't see what was so wrong. Then one day after I became a Christian, I heard a preacher addressing D&D, and again I reacted. Then I paused and asked myself WHY was I reacting so strongly? I realized that there was indeed something wrong with D&D, not because my experience of it had been negative, but because something in me rose up and resisted the suggestion that it was wrong. I went forward at my church to address this with a prayer team, and have been free of it since, with no inclination to participate, or defend it, again.
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Thanks for sharing that because this is the same kind of way I was trying to communicate how "I" could not participate in the YOGA offered in my area.... It was succinctly being led/taught thru the language and vocabulary of religion contrary to Christian teaching.... I couldn't do it... HS would not allow me to "compromise" intellectually in this manner. Regarding THAT, I have absolutely NO problem with the stretching and know that the moves are good for fitness.... the religion is not good for my spiritual fitness and contrary to. I understand that Christians have taken the "yoga" moves and converted them to "fitness"... which is probably okay... but not offered by anyone in my area. In the same manner, it would be like saying ALL roll-play games are BAD.... but that is not tru either... but DD is rooted in darkness.
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History of Yoga, as interpreted by PeacefulWarrior:
1. All I know about Yoga is that it involves breathing exercises and physical exercises (poses). During breathing exercises, some yoga groups practice meditation -- if you're a Christian I suppose you'll pray or recall scripture, if you're a Hindu I have no idea what you'll meditate on!
--So yoga, to me, is a peaceful exercise.
2. My aunt teaches a yoga class. My aunt is a Christian woman.
--People I trust, do 'yoga' (exercises).
Perhaps we Westerners could coin a new term for Western Yoga -- any ideas?
1. All I know about Yoga is that it involves breathing exercises and physical exercises (poses). During breathing exercises, some yoga groups practice meditation -- if you're a Christian I suppose you'll pray or recall scripture, if you're a Hindu I have no idea what you'll meditate on!
--So yoga, to me, is a peaceful exercise.
2. My aunt teaches a yoga class. My aunt is a Christian woman.
--People I trust, do 'yoga' (exercises).
Perhaps we Westerners could coin a new term for Western Yoga -- any ideas?
P
perhaps some shouldnt just automatically think that when a christian says that they are doing "yoga" that they are calling on some demonic spirit and that they are just stretching.
think what yall want, show all the videos as well, i have been studying it today as well, as for me its what you do with your heart and mind, because we all do some sort of stretching. i am mean seriously, its the common name, its taken on a new meaning. just like gay. or phillips screwdriver. its actually a cross tip screwdriver, phillips is a brand, kleenex is a brand its actually a facial tissue. so on so on. whats got me so riled up is the judgementalness of it. some punch without asking questions first
I suggest you do more research then. Don't think there's a way to rebrand it. That has all ready been tried when it was popularized in the West. It's just New Ager spin to get people into Old Age paganism. Just like how snake oil became pharmaceuticals. Sounds all new and more acceptable being a fancy word and all, but it is even still the same.
Plus ca change, plus ce la meme chose.
Plus ca change, plus ce la meme chose.