What Christians Got To Do With Yoga ?

[bhakthi]

"Yoga has the same danger many other pagan practices have. They have the capability to open the door to the spirit world. Regardless of your intentions, practicing an art that was designed to make contact with the spirit world is dangerous. Jogging and weight lifting were not designed to contact the spirit world. I personally can not see how a christian could be comfortable practicing a rite of a false religion."

Thank You. This is exactly what I meant by the Opening Post !

[Jefferiah]

The physical exercise aspect of yoga which is what is popular, I think, in America. How can a physical movement be designed to create a door to the spiritual world. Look, if those people believe that, fine. But its ridiculous. You cannot open a door to anything by sitting a certain way, or by breathing slower or faster. I put my arm here, I am not opening a door. I stretch my leg out, I am not opening a door. I am me when I am standing still, and if I am twisted up like a pretzel I am still me. My brain is not anymore succeptible to evil in an other pose. The breath comes in through the nose or the mouth and enters the diaphragm and then it leaves via the mouth and the nose. Whether you breathe while standing on your head, with a finger touching your nose, and taking breaths at five seconds intervals, or whatever----breathing is just breathing. There is no way anyone can design breathing to do anything other than physical things. The fact that there may be people who believe they can, does not bother me a bit.

[Nevin]

Before i became Christian i was a practising Hindu - Yoga is a means of discipling your body - it has various aspects also which include meditation.

In terms of discipling a persons body there are various positions that the instructor would make you perform that would be an exact replica of the positions that are featured on the pictures of these hindu gods or godesses. Performing Yoga was a means to glorify their gods and still is. This is a fact as i use to do Yoga myself.

Now the aspect of Meditiation is one that allows the person meditating to connect with their god in the spirit realm and converse with him. meditation in itself is not sinfull if directed to Jehovah Alshaddai - for example you can read a scripture and meditate on it and let the Holy Spirit lead you.

Be very careful about Yoga as the devil is deceptive and will use all means to unknowingly get you to glorify the demon

[bhakthi]

On another forum a guy said that he chant " Om Christaye" Intead of the original Sanscrit Hindu chanting.It makes no difference because , Om is Hindu trinity.It represents their gods.This is like what the Lord told the Samaritan woman "You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know." John;4:22