Yoga Classes at Christian Churches

[Starise]

44 minutes ago, Your closest friendnt said:

The stretching exercises in yoga are the best.

How so?

[Your closest friendnt]

1 hour ago, Starise said:

How so?

I am not doing yoga, I hoped I did for the benefit of the exercises. 

Yoga is well thought out and offers stretching exercises for almost every muscle in the body.

[Starise]

22 hours ago, Your closest friendnt said:

I am not doing yoga, I hoped I did for the benefit of the exercises. 

Yoga is well thought out and offers stretching exercises for almost every muscle in the body.

I know littel about how a yoga class progresses. Back when I took karate we had these 'katas' we did. So far as I know these were all simply fight simulations where a person would imagine different enemies coming at them and use the kata as a way to train to fight in any possible situation. We were graded by the teacher on these katas in order to get our belt colors. It actually looks a little silly because the person doing the kata is fighting imaginary people. We fought real partners too but the kata was one way they trained.

Karate never had any religious elements in it- though it was heavily loaded with Asian culture and thinking.

Yoga on the other hand has pagan religious elements that the trainer can either bring out or choose to ignore.

My personal opinion of Yoga is if we could separate only the physical training aspects of it from the pagan religious significance it could be useful and only if we rename it something else because everyone one associates yoga with......yoga.

If you move everything on your body as far as you can until it hurts, then hold it there for 5 minutes, that should do it.

 

[Your closest friendnt]

4 hours ago, Starise said:

I know littel about how a yoga class progresses. Back when I took karate we had these 'katas' we did. So far as I know these were all simply fight simulations where a person would imagine different enemies coming at them and use the kata as a way to train to fight in any possible situation. We were graded by the teacher on these katas in order to get our belt colors. It actually looks a little silly because the person doing the kata is fighting imaginary people. We fought real partners too but the kata was one way they trained.

Karate never had any religious elements in it- though it was heavily loaded with Asian culture and thinking.

Yoga on the other hand has pagan religious elements that the trainer can either bring out or choose to ignore.

My personal opinion of Yoga is if we could separate only the physical training aspects of it from the pagan religious significance it could be useful and only if we rename it something else because everyone one associates yoga with......yoga.

If you move everything on your body as far as you can until it hurts, then hold it there for 5 minutes, that should do it.

 

Yoga is associated with Hinduism. 

I had a Christian friend who came from a Hindu family.

And this is what he told me.

His family was involved to start a new "Hindu Temple" and they had ready all the wooded statues and then they made a ceremony and invited the Spirits to make the statutes their home, (in the absence of the proper words).

They same way is for the Hindu devotee.

He is going to do the part of Yoga where he will make him self available (empty his mind) wanting the Hindu Spirits to make their abode in him and guide him in life.

Like the wooded statues ones they were empty and then they have a ceremony inviting the Hindu Spirits to take possession. 

We need to be careful just the exercises, the lotus position in it self is not demonic.

We have prayer our selves for spiritual matters.