I recently had to discuss in an online class my opinion of yoga and whether it is ok or not for Christians to do it. Just about every other post said that it is not wrong for Christians to do yoga, but I disagree. I had gotten some good feedback about the post, so why not throw it up on my blog right?? Enjoy!
Yoga is in itself evil, ungodly, satanic, and against the gospel of Christ. Christians forget that you cannot separate the physical aspect of yoga from the spiritual, because in yoga the purpose of the physical is to open up the spiritual. The physical motions and techniques are learned and mastered because they are trying to dig deeper into the spiritual. The spiritual aspect of yoga is for the person to look inside one’s self for inner beauty and worth. The practice has many ties to the new age movement, which finds its foundation in eastern Hinduism.
The Christian who says, “I like yoga, I just think it’s bad to go into the spiritual stuff” is making a self contradicting claim. It’s like saying, “I love chocolate doughnuts, without the doughnuts. But the chocolate is really good.” Obviously this person does not like chocolate doughnuts, because one of the key aspects of the thing itself is not liked. In the same way, yoga without the spiritual is not yoga; it is glorified stretching. Stretching is not evil, it is good. Christians ought to be good stewards of their bodies. But when we say we like yoga for the stretching aspect, we ought to say we like to stretch… because that is what we are doing.
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