Yoga: A cautionary tale

[Michie]

Really interesting article. Not your typical scary yoga article. Includes pontifical documents, etc.

"This is meant to inform and spark conversation and deeper thought, not to start a brawl. If you had asked me a few years ago what my opinions on yoga were, I would have been confused. Was it necessary to have an opinion? (The priest I spoke with while I was preparing this piece told me yoga hadn't even been on his radar until he was called by his bishop to begin working in healing and deliverance ministry five years ago. He got interested pretty quickly after seeing firsthand some of the effects.")

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[Tomm]

Really interesting article. Not your typical scary yoga article. Includes pontifical documents, etc.

"This is meant to inform and spark conversation and deeper thought, not to start a brawl. If you had asked me a few years ago what my opinions on yoga were, I would have been confused. Was it necessary to have an opinion? (The priest I spoke with while I was preparing this piece told me yoga hadn't even been on his radar until he was called by his bishop to begin working in healing and deliverance ministry five years ago. He got interested pretty quickly after seeing firsthand some of the effects.")

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Br Max Scully said yoga can be a dangerous exercise, spiritually. He wrote a book on this topic. Some people who practiced it intensively developed homosexual tendency, according to his book.

 

[parousia70]

No more spiritually dangerous than Spin class IMO.

 

[seashale76]

No more spiritually dangerous than Spin class IMO.

Disagree. If you've ever been to a yoga class where someone does the chanting, it is a completely different experience. A former Hindu coworker of mine taught yoga. Believe me, it is religious.

 

[parousia70]

I've been to both Yoga and Spin Class.
Both are meditative, tantric, & physically exerting.

Whether its the Yoga Chants or the Pulsing beat of the music in Spin class, they have the same meditative, transic effect when coupled with physical challenge.

 

[Cosmic Charlie]

I love articles that go for 24 paragraphs basically apologizing for having an opinion and then go for 5 paragraphs explaining an event.

Maybe she has this issue because of the "big issue" she didn't want to discuss in her life. This woman seems to have suffered some psychological harm before she ever went to a yoga class. Her story should be taken with a pound of salt.

As far as chanting is concerned. Praying a rosary is essentially chanting. The fact that she suddenly started praying a Holy Mary in her head during chanting might just be her unconscious brain trying to fit something familiar into the situation. Her interpretation of the event by her conscious brain could be paranoia caused by whatever happened to her that she doesn't what to talk about.

Whatever.

All I know is that yoga helps my arthritis.

 

[Cosmic Charlie]

Br Max Scully said yoga can be a dangerous exercise, spiritually. He wrote a book on this topic. Some people who practiced it intensively developed homosexual tendency, according to his book.

And power lifting can led to 'roid rage.

Especially if you're using steroids.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

Yoga is awesome. Too bad I'm fat and have degenerative disc disease in my lumbar spine.

 

[AvilaSurfer]

Wait. Yoga makes you gay?

 

[Sword of the Lord]

Wait. Yoga makes you gay?

So does marijuana. Not even once.

 

[Michie]

As the article stated, it is weird it has a strong reaction in people when someone has not had a good experience with it. I mean, it's yoga... or the devil's stretches.

 

[eastcoast_bsc]

No more spiritually dangerous than Spin class IMO.

So you feel your opinion matters more than the truth?

 

[eastcoast_bsc]

I remember doing ouiji as a kid. It left me with a bad feeling. There was something not right about it.

Catholics need to understand just as Christ is real so isn't the evil one.

The word says:

Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

 

[Michie]

Historically yoga is considered to be a Hindu spiritual disipline and an expression of various dieties. Some of whom are worshipped and represented through the various yoga positions.

The big question is can it be adopted in a way that leaves the spiritual aspects and leaves behind only the physical exercises?

 

[eastcoast_bsc]

Historically yoga is considered to be a Hindu spiritual disipline and an expression of various dieties. Some of whom are worshipped and represented through the various yoga positions.

The big question is can it be adopted in a way that leaves the spiritual aspects and leaves behind only the physical exercises?

Lke Father said that would be like a non-believer attending mass and just going through the motions. This does not mean that Christ is not present.

So it is with yoga.

 

[Michie]

From the article loosely quoted:

Fr. Michael said there are always spiritual dangers present. There is always risk of becoming afflicted through some sort if opening. The enemy or roaming about like a lion seeking whom he may devour. Are we always in a state of Grace? If not, could the enemy gain a foothold?

I remember doing ouiji as a kid. It left me with a bad feeling. There was something not right about it.

Catholics need to understand just as Christ is real so isn't the evil one.

The word says:

 

[eastcoast_bsc]

From the article loosely quoted:

Fr. Michael said there are always spiritual dangers present. There is always risk of becoming afflicted through some sort if opening. The enemy or owing about like a lion seeking whom he may devour. Are we always in a state of Grace? If not, could the enemy gain a foothold?

The answer is yes. Those who mock the writer and the Priest do so out of ignorance.

Every exorcist that I have read about always mentions yoga as a gateway.

 

[eastcoast_bsc]

Father Gary Thomas a well lnown exorcist said this:

Fr. Thomas: When someone doing yoga acknowledges and calls upon spirits or energies attached to certain exercises, this creates serious problems. I know this for fact because I have had people who are fervent yoga users come to me with problems when they have given homage to the gods attached to the movements of the yoga.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

For a religion that adopted their structure and holidays from the Roman Empire, The yoga thing makes me lol

 

[eastcoast_bsc]

Exorcist Father Ripperger says this about yoga.