Stopped doing Yoga once I realized the connection to the Hindu faith. Don't do Yoga, pilates is so much better and you can incorporate stretches on the reformer apparatus.
SoulCore is a Catholic based exercise group that puts stretching routines with the Rosary and other Catholic devotionals. They have been doing this for years.
That is the first time i heard pilates been named after pontius pillates. Pillates like yoga is done for fitness reasons a loving god wouldn't condemn someone to hell just for looking after their physical and mental health
I replaced yoga with SoulCore years ago and never looked back. You can try their cardio rosary, stretch rosary or core strengthening exercises combined with rosary.
I was immersed in the world of yoga and considered becoming a teacher at one stage but then by the grace of God the Lord made me aware that Yoga was something I should stay away from. I would wake up pretty much every night after having these terrifying nightmares and when I did wake up I felt a dark presence in my room. Several times I was convinced I saw something in the darkness, a shape, a pair of red eyes. This went on night after night for years and then when I stopped yoga I'm telling you pretty soon the nightmares stopped and the dark presence left my room. And i've heard similar testimonies. When you do yoga you are opening a door to something demonic to enter your life.
@@EpoRose1 the human body, the length of time it has existed measured against the Hindu faith, and the sheer simplicity of the obvious positions that even children naturally find themselves in. Bodies were always doing these things, because the body wants to, and it's beneficial.
In UK primary schools (age 4+) part of 5 minute movement breaks include "Cosmic Yoga". It's not compulsory but it's very common to use this system. We were assured the verbage wasn't being used but it would depend on who was teaching... (our kids are no longer in state faith schools)
Multiple Q&As on Catholic Answers (answered by priests) say it basically like, "As exercise and wellness for the body -- acceptable." "As a spiritual pathway -- unacceptable" ... I think we need to 'exercise' the virtue of discernment, and not guilt ourselves. We are Catholics and not Hindus. Also, we can do something for the sake of wellness, without having to make it 'Catholic yoga' -- St. Irenaeus said the glory of God is man fully alive.... There is gluttonous pizza; and then there is being a Catholic and enjoying my pizza.... It doesn't have to be 'Catholic pizza.' I think "Calling down the names of Hindu gods" is something I have never heard before today, and I've studied this a good deal... In fact, most yoga-lingo I know of is just descriptive of the posture. 'Chataranga' means 'four-limbed', because these moves employ all the arms and legs.. 'Tadassana' means 'mountain pose' because they are sturdy, planted, upright postures. 'Ardha Chandrasana' means 'half moon pose' because you bend 'half way' over with the body.. Everyone's favorite, 'Adho Mukha Shvanasana' literally means 'downward facing dog posture' because, you look just like a stretching dog. 'pranayama' are breathing exercises which literally mean 'energy regulation' -- yes this is 'different' but ancient peoples describing 'breath' as 'energy' isn't evil.... The New Testament uses the Greek 'pneuma' (breath; air; wind) for the word 'soul or spirit' (where we get the word, 'pneumonia' or 'not enough air')... All seven days of the week, and all the planets of the solar system are explicitly named after pagan deities. We don't say we're "calling on pagan gods" when we say these words -- all the friggin' time.
Wrong! We're NOT just body nor just soul, we're both. And that's why yoga is so dangerous. Even people for Hindu culture that turned Christian will tell you this. Don't mislead people, there's even a teaching from Mexican Bishops about New Age movement and yoga is one of the things they pointed as part of that.
@@DanyTV79 brother, you need to relax. I stretch (its massively beneficial by the way) and some of the things I do is very similar to Yoga. does this mean because some other region stretches and names it, I'm not allowed to do it no more... such a strange way of looking at the world.
In yoga, the teacher is talking you through the “stretches” in a yoga way. It’s not just a hamstring stretch, but the group is being directed through the language of yoga to the downward dog yoga position. The teacher is using the yoga mindset and language to get the class to follow her instructions. It’s not just taking out one piece to make it “ok”but each piece lends itself to yoga. An analogy might be, the finger is part of the body, but the body is not just a finger. Also realize that the Father of lies is very cunning. He is taking a “good” like exercise and group events, and weaving spiritual danger into them, ever so quietly. I practiced yoga for 19 years. Biggest regret of my life.
I was thinking the same, however there is a spiritual component to yoga. I don't see why we couldn't tailor the physical aspect to our own spirituality. I think that is what this woman is suggesting.
I do "yoga". It means I don't know most of the names of the poses or the whole philosophy surrounding yoga. And that's what I usually pray while stretching my body.
Do Yoga about 10-15 minutes every morning. Stretches, balance and shoulder stand poses. While doing I pray Our Fathers and Hail Marys . The prayers actually allow better yoga. Yoga means union of mind and body and is useful and healthy for both. It is an ancient practice and certainly not un-Christian when practiced with prayer.
You don’t stretch and accidentally find yourself in these Yoga positions. They are clearly meant to commune and participate through. Just stretch and dynamic warm up. What else do you need
I have always found it ironic how similarities between religions garner such an adversarial views. Every religion is a piece of a puzzle and we are suppose to be assembling that puzzle as one but for some reason we get caught up in being right, money and leadership. Every religion has harsh, and sometimes homicidal teachings and also they all have compassionate, loving, liberating, hopeful, awe inspiring, uniting teachings. All spiritual practices are for our growth. You can call yoga whatever you want but amd rename the stretches but its still a Hindu practice. If i gave a you a stolen TV and your intentions aren't bad and you're a good person. Doesn't make the TV any less stolen. Just means you're a good person watching television on a stlrn TV.
Doreen Virtue has a very good channel she interviews everyone who has come out of the new age , she is an ex new age teacher to recanted and repented of her blasphemy and heresy. Check her out she says that yoga is to literally yolk yourself to a spirit
I'm a former yoga teacher. I stopped teaching in 2015 but I have gone on with my personal practice. Although I don't do any asanas, as I don't consider them to be yoga. I have been studying with a Swami initiated by Swami Rama in the 80's, the famous yogi master from the 60's and 70's who was known for assisting doctors and researchers conduct tests on him as he meditated. He was credited as one of the Swamis who brought meditation to the west. Both these master yogis have a traditional lineage in the Himilayan tradition stemming back 5,000 to Sage Vyasa. My Swami includes God and the Bible in our satsangs. He combines both God's Word and vedanta, antar yoga & tantra in his teachings to his students. He tells us Enlightenment is experiencing the Kingdom of God. He encourages us to use both in our practice and to make sense of Jesus's teachings as we come closer and closer to turiya, and obtain kaivalya.
Yoga is perfectly ok it is nothing to do with religion a complete atheist can do yoga i would be open minded to do yoga all religions are very closed minded to anything different to what is different to what they teach even though i am not christian i watch channel with an open mind
A complete atheist can do Yoga because they are not bound by any rules against it. But Catholicism has rules against it. You may call it close minded but then you would trap yourself because you are close minded about beliefs different from your own
@@miwimarmer232 catholisim is a cult like all religions a lot of cristians do yoga for health reasons and enjoy it does that make them less christian now yoga is not really religious it is used for physical and mental health there is nothing harmful about it christians can be open minded to do it and enjoy it and they are still christian because yoga has nothing much to do with the hindu religion
@@EpoRose1 all religions are cults but i still listen to what a christian as to say is ther something an atheist and christian can on i guess that is why i watch the channel
@@liamodonovan6610Again Catholicism tells us that we can't do Palm readings, tarot card reading, horoscope reading as well as yoga. It does not matter that Yoga has health benefits what matters is that it is a religious practice that does not belong in Christianity. You should be open minded enough to understand that we have to protect our connection with the Lord no matter what. careful there the definition of cult includes that its members can not leave the cult without being persecuted. Last time I checked people can freely leave the Catholic church. All religious people would find it offensive if you call them cultist because they are not.
Stopped doing Yoga once I realized the connection to the Hindu faith. Don't do Yoga, pilates is so much better and you can incorporate stretches on the reformer apparatus.
@@mateopribyl9218 the reformer?
@Mateo Pribyl is pilates connected to Hindu faith too?
SoulCore is a Catholic based exercise group that puts stretching routines with the Rosary and other Catholic devotionals. They have been doing this for years.
Christians shouldn't do Pilates because it's named after Pontius Pilates.
Too good !
Aaahhahahaha.
That is the first time i heard pilates been named after pontius pillates. Pillates like yoga is done for fitness reasons a loving god wouldn't condemn someone to hell just for looking after their physical and mental health
Has the internet reached the point where I need to add the disclaimer this is a joke?
@@antoninoskomnenos1022 No, because people taking the joke seriously is part of the joke.
I use to do it in the 70’s...thank God I stoped on my own! I still stretch, but not the extreme yoga form! Great talk.
There’s a woman at our parish who teaches Pietra Fitness. It combines various stretches with Christian meditations.
I replaced yoga with SoulCore years ago and never looked back. You can try their cardio rosary, stretch rosary or core strengthening exercises combined with rosary.
I was immersed in the world of yoga and considered becoming a teacher at one stage but then by the grace of God the Lord made me aware that Yoga was something I should stay away from. I would wake up pretty much every night after having these terrifying nightmares and when I did wake up I felt a dark presence in my room. Several times I was convinced I saw something in the darkness, a shape, a pair of red eyes. This went on night after night for years and then when I stopped yoga I'm telling you pretty soon the nightmares stopped and the dark presence left my room. And i've heard similar testimonies. When you do yoga you are opening a door to something demonic to enter your life.
Every position and pose in yoga existed long before the Hindu religion. No religious belief gets a monopoly over a bodily pose.
Source of that, please?
@@EpoRose1 the human body, the length of time it has existed measured against the Hindu faith, and the sheer simplicity of the obvious positions that even children naturally find themselves in. Bodies were always doing these things, because the body wants to, and it's beneficial.
@@pickenchews Hindu people converted said different.
In UK primary schools (age 4+) part of 5 minute movement breaks include "Cosmic Yoga". It's not compulsory but it's very common to use this system. We were assured the verbage wasn't being used but it would depend on who was teaching... (our kids are no longer in state faith schools)
My priest says I can do yoga as long as I'm not mixing it with any outside spiritual practices. Which I don't do
Multiple Q&As on Catholic Answers (answered by priests) say it basically like,
"As exercise and wellness for the body -- acceptable."
"As a spiritual pathway -- unacceptable"
... I think we need to 'exercise' the virtue of discernment, and not guilt ourselves. We are Catholics and not Hindus. Also, we can do something for the sake of wellness, without having to make it 'Catholic yoga' -- St. Irenaeus said the glory of God is man fully alive.... There is gluttonous pizza; and then there is being a Catholic and enjoying my pizza.... It doesn't have to be 'Catholic pizza.'
I think "Calling down the names of Hindu gods" is something I have never heard before today, and I've studied this a good deal... In fact, most yoga-lingo I know of is just descriptive of the posture.
'Chataranga' means 'four-limbed', because these moves employ all the arms and legs..
'Tadassana' means 'mountain pose' because they are sturdy, planted, upright postures.
'Ardha Chandrasana' means 'half moon pose' because you bend 'half way' over with the body..
Everyone's favorite, 'Adho Mukha Shvanasana' literally means 'downward facing dog posture' because, you look just like a stretching dog.
'pranayama' are breathing exercises which literally mean 'energy regulation' -- yes this is 'different' but ancient peoples describing 'breath' as 'energy' isn't evil.... The New Testament uses the Greek 'pneuma' (breath; air; wind) for the word 'soul or spirit' (where we get the word, 'pneumonia' or 'not enough air')...
All seven days of the week, and all the planets of the solar system are explicitly named after pagan deities. We don't say we're "calling on pagan gods" when we say these words -- all the friggin' time.
Well said 🎯
Thank you, and well said!
Love this
Wrong! We're NOT just body nor just soul, we're both. And that's why yoga is so dangerous. Even people for Hindu culture that turned Christian will tell you this. Don't mislead people, there's even a teaching from Mexican Bishops about New Age movement and yoga is one of the things they pointed as part of that.
@@DanyTV79 brother, you need to relax. I stretch (its massively beneficial by the way) and some of the things I do is very similar to Yoga. does this mean because some other region stretches and names it, I'm not allowed to do it no more... such a strange way of looking at the world.
Would you place ti chi, judo, karate etc in the same category?
So... just call the stretches something else?
In yoga, the teacher is talking you through the “stretches” in a yoga way. It’s not just a hamstring stretch, but the group is being directed through the language of yoga to the downward dog yoga position. The teacher is using the yoga mindset and language to get the class to follow her instructions. It’s not just taking out one piece to make it “ok”but each piece lends itself to yoga. An analogy might be, the finger is part of the body, but the body is not just a finger. Also realize that the Father of lies is very cunning. He is taking a “good” like exercise and group events, and weaving spiritual danger into them, ever so quietly. I practiced yoga for 19 years. Biggest regret of my life.
Just do pilates!
I was thinking the same, however there is a spiritual component to yoga. I don't see why we couldn't tailor the physical aspect to our own spirituality. I think that is what this woman is suggesting.
Just do Pilates.
@@janetmunday1100 So in theory we can go through the stretches in a non-yoga way.
Class, let's get into the Saint Ignatius pose, followed by a downward-facing Saint Jude...
I do "yoga". It means I don't know most of the names of the poses or the whole philosophy surrounding yoga. And that's what I usually pray while stretching my body.
My church has a ladies' activity called "psalms and stretches"
Do Yoga about 10-15 minutes every morning. Stretches, balance and shoulder stand poses. While doing I pray Our Fathers and Hail Marys . The prayers actually allow better yoga. Yoga means union of mind and body and is useful and healthy for both. It is an ancient practice and certainly not un-Christian when practiced with prayer.
You don’t stretch and accidentally find yourself in these Yoga positions.
They are clearly meant to commune and participate through.
Just stretch and dynamic warm up. What else do you need
Just simple stretches will do good to your body
Thank you.
I do ddpyoga, which has all of the moves renamed and slightly retooled and the spirituality removed.
not to mention the added benefit of being able to hit the diamond cutter from any angle
SoulCore is a catholic program that uses stretches
What about Pontius Pilates? 😬
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@@damianwhite504 😇
Fantastic talk. Inspiring woman! Looking her up, she has a new fan!
I have always found it ironic how similarities between religions garner such an adversarial views. Every religion is a piece of a puzzle and we are suppose to be assembling that puzzle as one but for some reason we get caught up in being right, money and leadership. Every religion has harsh, and sometimes homicidal teachings and also they all have compassionate, loving, liberating, hopeful, awe inspiring, uniting teachings. All spiritual practices are for our growth. You can call yoga whatever you want but amd rename the stretches but its still a Hindu practice. If i gave a you a stolen TV and your intentions aren't bad and you're a good person. Doesn't make the TV any less stolen. Just means you're a good person watching television on a stlrn TV.
The lovely exorcists I’ve listened though say just stretch and not call it anything.
Doreen Virtue has a very good channel she interviews everyone who has come out of the new age , she is an ex new age teacher to recanted and repented of her blasphemy and heresy. Check her out she says that yoga is to literally yolk yourself to a spirit
There is Christian yoga out there- Holy Yoga is one.
Yoga is NOT stretching and it’s not Hindu stretching.
The autobiography titled Death of a Guru by Rabi Maharaj is recommended.
I'm a former yoga teacher. I stopped teaching in 2015 but I have gone on with my personal practice. Although I don't do any asanas, as I don't consider them to be yoga. I have been studying with a Swami initiated by Swami Rama in the 80's, the famous yogi master from the 60's and 70's who was known for assisting doctors and researchers conduct tests on him as he meditated. He was credited as one of the Swamis who brought meditation to the west. Both these master yogis have a traditional lineage in the Himilayan tradition stemming back 5,000 to Sage Vyasa. My Swami includes God and the Bible in our satsangs. He combines both God's Word and vedanta, antar yoga & tantra in his teachings to his students. He tells us Enlightenment is experiencing the Kingdom of God. He encourages us to use both in our practice and to make sense of Jesus's teachings as we come closer and closer to turiya, and obtain kaivalya.
I believe Pope Francis wrote a document on yoga several years ago but I don't recall the nsme
Praise moves is alternative to yoga
Examen yoga is out there too
Why is Calvin Robinson speaking about yoga?
Pietra Fitness!!!
Yes, it's shirk. Alhamdulillah for the guidance of Islam.
Yoga is perfectly ok it is nothing to do with religion a complete atheist can do yoga i would be open minded to do yoga all religions are very closed minded to anything different to what is different to what they teach even though i am not christian i watch channel with an open mind
A complete atheist can do Yoga because they are not bound by any rules against it. But Catholicism has rules against it. You may call it close minded but then you would trap yourself because you are close minded about beliefs different from your own
@@miwimarmer232 catholisim is a cult like all religions a lot of cristians do yoga for health reasons and enjoy it does that make them less christian now yoga is not really religious it is used for physical and mental health there is nothing harmful about it christians can be open minded to do it and enjoy it and they are still christian because yoga has nothing much to do with the hindu religion
I have a hard time believing you watch with an open mind when you say “all religions are very closed minded.”
@@EpoRose1 all religions are cults but i still listen to what a christian as to say is ther something an atheist and christian can on i guess that is why i watch the channel
@@liamodonovan6610Again Catholicism tells us that we can't do Palm readings, tarot card reading, horoscope reading as well as yoga. It does not matter that Yoga has health benefits what matters is that it is a religious practice that does not belong in Christianity. You should be open minded enough to understand that we have to protect our connection with the Lord no matter what.
careful there the definition of cult includes that its members can not leave the cult without being persecuted. Last time I checked people can freely leave the Catholic church. All religious people would find it offensive if you call them cultist because they are not.
@fiatfitnessproject Meredith has rosary workouts