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Yoga - 7/7/2008 11:58:15 PM
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prophet
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What exactly is yoga?
Should christians partake in yoga?
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RE: Yoga - 7/8/2008 1:56:11 PM
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Although there is a spiritualistic side to yoga, if you ignore all that and just perform it as exercise there's no problem I see. Those excercises can really kick your glutius and can really help build your physical stamina.
My wife got a few videos for exercises and I groan not from the fact that it is considered by some men as "chick exercise" but in the fact that I can't get through a 20 minute workout without dying! 
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RE: Yoga - 7/8/2008 2:00:43 PM
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There is a thread on this with a pretty lively discussion. Take a peek and see what you think. Personally, I think GroupW there had some very insightful and wise answers on the topic. 
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RE: Yoga - 7/8/2008 3:02:26 PM
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I happen to be a yoga instuctor. Most western versions of yoga are so far removed from anything spiritual that it's really over-reacting to read too much into it. I wouldn't take classes in a yoga studio just because you could get an instructor who's got some weird ideas and tries to get spiritual on you - even then it would be a goofy imitation of anything really to be concerned with. Yoga in a fitness setting is just that - fitness. And it can be a phenomenal addition to any regimen. It's good for anyone at any level!
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RE: Yoga - 7/8/2008 9:00:58 PM
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http://forums.crosswalk.com/searchpro.aspx?phrase=yoga&author=&forumid=ALL&topicreply=both&message=body&timeframe=%3E&timefilter=0&language=single&top=300&criteria=AND&minRank=0&sortMethod=r&submitbutton=+OK+
Thanks for the link! It was an interesting read! I am not a Crosswalk member so I'll comment on it here.
It seems some people are so willing to not claim the good of everything that God can give us. If I was worried about pagan stuff to the point of paranoia I wouldn't put up my Christmas tree which was associated with Saturnalia, the Roman pagan festival, along with holly and ivy but Christians have taken away from the pagan and reclaimed it for Christ! Why can't yoga be any different! Besides what's the difference a spiritualistic yoga adherent or a Christian pastor who's ministry is all about the money. Both are serving mammon IMO.
If I want to perform maintainance on this person's temple of the Holy Spirit using yoga exercises then I don't see the big deal!
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RE: Yoga - 7/9/2008 5:19:47 PM
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First: You can post on any forum that's part of FCN ... just log in under that portal. Or alternatively, change the portal at the beginning of the link to whatever it is you're currently using.
Second: I do yoga nearly every day. The podcast that I use describes yoga as "breath with movement." And it is. It trains you to breathe through the movement and increase your flexibility, tone your muscles, uses your body for resistance training. I love it. My yoga podcast guy is a little on the spiritualistic side, but only at the very end when he says to give your good vibes to the world through your breathing. Whatever.
I just take that time to pray for my day or whatever.
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RE: Yoga - 7/9/2008 8:50:12 PM
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In these modern world, seems that the christians who try to separate from worldly practices equates to paranoia.  Wheres the separation that Paul instructs of? The world culture has indeed enveloped and transformed us.
It appears that there IS a spiritual background to yoga. Even the name means unity with the spirit of whatever. Should we separate our selves?
Be ye holy for I AM HOLY.... holy means separation.
Abstain from all appearance of evil.
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
For the record, Christ-mas is not under my celebration list....did God ask you to reclaim paganistic events?
You are instructed not to partake of these events.
Thus says the LORD: "Do not learn the way of the Gentiles; Do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven, For the Gentiles are dismayed at them. For the customs of the peoples are futile; For one cuts a tree from the forest, The work of the hands of the workman, with the ax. They decorate it with silver and gold; They fasten it with nails and hammers So that it will not topple. They are upright, like a palm tree, [the palm tree was the sacred fertility tree of the Egyptians like the evergreen was to the German’s god Woden] And they cannot speak; They must be carried, Because they cannot go by themselves. Do not be afraid of them, For they cannot do evil, Nor can they do any good."
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RE: Yoga - 7/9/2008 11:27:53 PM
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But who's to say that standing in an upside down V stretching your hamstrings while breathing rhythmically is evil?
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RE: Yoga - 7/10/2008 4:10:58 AM
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If you read my post carefully:
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It appears that there IS a spiritual background to yoga. Even the name means unity with the spirit of whatever.
Its an established fact that Yoga is eastern mysticism connected. So scriptures tells us to ........so scriptures says....
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RE: Yoga - 7/10/2008 5:51:17 AM
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ORIGINAL: prophet
If you read my post carefully:
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It appears that there IS a spiritual background to yoga. Even the name means unity with the spirit of whatever.
Its an established fact that Yoga is eastern mysticism connected. So scriptures tells us to ........so scriptures says....
And Christmas has incorporated imagry and props from the pagan Roman feast of Saturnalia! Television, radio and the internet weren't founded with a Godly purpose so why use those. Most ethnic or traditional cultural music was started in the respective countries' pagan times. We must separate......
I'd rather claim the world for Christ than sound the retreat! Separation from the world is to separate ourselves from what keeps us from God. I don't think excercise alone can do that! In fact I've seen people use religion in that regard as well.
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RE: Yoga - 7/10/2008 10:42:16 AM
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quote:
ORIGINAL: prophet
If you read my post carefully:
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It appears that there IS a spiritual background to yoga. Even the name means unity with the spirit of whatever.
Its an established fact that Yoga is eastern mysticism connected. So scriptures tells us to ........so scriptures says....
I did read your post carefully. In fact, I've done lots of searching on this subject myself. I still stand by the fact that standing in an upside down V or in a lunge with my arms spread out is NOT pagan. In fact, many stretches that people do in gym class or to get ready to go to cardio is based in yoga moves. So all of you who sit with your legs spread out and lean forward to stretch the groin muscles ... watch out. That's a yoga move!
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RE: Yoga - 7/10/2008 4:43:38 PM
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A number of the bodyweight exercises that are beneficial can also be found in other cultures, not just yoga. The dive bomb pushup, Iranian pushup or bear squat come to mind. Gymanstics and wrestling were quite common and central in the pagan Greek and Roman cultures. And I believe the Olympic games were rooted in pagan greek mythology. A few martial arts (kung fu, etc) started in the Shaolin temple (spiritual origin).
Does that mean that pushups, marathons, relays, javelin throws, self-defense tactics, many other bodyweight exercises and breathing techniques are a violation of scripture?
The OP (under the guise of an honest inquiry):
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What exactly is yoga?
Should christians partake in yoga?
Shalom
The response: attack the posters who answer the OP and accuse them of "paranoia". The OP then goes off subject with Christmas trees and the celebration of Christmas.
< Message edited by chemdude77 -- 7/10/2008 6:46:16 PM >
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RE: Yoga - 7/10/2008 9:00:52 PM
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Sorry to have offended with the loaded word! Maybe I should have just politely asked what separation meant to prophet for I am curious!
I was trying to use an example where Christianity used former pagan symbols or imagry for Christian purposes. I wasn't aware that I should stick to examples concerning exercise only although I liked your examples, chemdude77, concerning the Olympics and martial arts.
I hope that puts me BOT!
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RE: Yoga - 7/10/2008 10:07:33 PM
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Hi people, no offence taken here.
Map,
You ahve understand that separation from the world means becoming a monk abd going into exile in some
forlorn environemnt. The word world here means the system of the world eg god of the world which is satan, worldly pleasures, etc. It does not mean separation from the people.
i think i can speak for martial arts. Do you know that martial art is a way of meditation as well as exercise?
It has the same system as yoga of emptying ones mind to attend different levels of sprituality.
In fact, kungfu masters who have attain higher levels sometimes goes into trances in which they are taken
over by 'something'. Does this sound like yoga? i understand yoga has this type of altered state as well?
Shalom
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RE: Yoga - 7/10/2008 10:39:40 PM
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Hi people, no offence taken here.
Map,
You ahve understand that separation from the world means becoming a monk abd going into exile in some
forlorn environemnt. The word world here means the system of the world eg god of the world which is satan, worldly pleasures, etc. It does not mean separation from the people.
i think i can speak for martial arts. Do you know that martial art is a way of meditation as well as exercise?
It has the same system as yoga of emptying ones mind to attend different levels of sprituality.
In fact, kungfu masters who have attain higher levels sometimes goes into trances in which they are taken
over by 'something'. Does this sound like yoga? i understand yoga has this type of altered state as well?
Shalom
I do understand your point that it can have a level of un-Christian spiritualism if we allow ourselves to get involved in that aspect of it. But we can choose to introduce it or not and I think that would be the difference of whether we make it a Christian experience or not or even just plain exercise.
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RE: Yoga - 7/11/2008 7:40:44 PM
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Christians should not perform Yoga, not even just ignoring it's spiritual side can do away with what it was made to accopmlish. Every yoga position represents a woship position for the yogist, so to try and remove the spiritulaistic side of it is equivalent to playing with a Ouija and saying I'm just playing for the fun of it. We open doors ignorantly to the demonic realm when we do things like this. The devil does not care aobut our ignorance, he depends on it.
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RE: Yoga - 7/13/2008 7:27:41 PM
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Christians should not perform Yoga, not even just ignoring it's spiritual side can do away with what it was made to accopmlish. Every yoga position represents a woship position for the yogist, so to try and remove the spiritulaistic side of it is equivalent to playing with a Ouija and saying I'm just playing for the fun of it. We open doors ignorantly to the demonic realm when we do things like this. The devil does not care aobut our ignorance, he depends on it.
Amen!
i was reading about King Solomon the wisest man that ever lived BUT he failed miserably at the end
1 kings 11
And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice, 10 And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded
WHY did such a great man of God failed? It was his ignorance right at the beginning when ....
1 kings 3
And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
it was in IGnorance but it set the scene foe ALL of these.....when you bring the world into your house.
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; 2 Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love. 3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
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RE: Yoga - 7/14/2008 12:54:46 PM
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i was reading about King Solomon the wisest man that ever lived BUT he failed miserably at the end
Moses, who saw God face to face, couldn't enter the Promised Land because of his failings. King David had a man killed to take possession of his wife and from his lineage Our Lord came. Job had to spend three days in the belly of a whale for his failings. Peter denied Jesus three times. Thomas doubted. Paul's history included mass murder of Christian families. Some of the biggest names in the Bible had "failings". I guess if they had failings then maybe we are not as perfect as we think we are.
What does this have to do with someone doing yoga?
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