Yoga - Not a Choice for Christians (page 2)

5thGeneration

H4O,

May I ask, your time schedule aside, did you prefer Tai Chi or Yoga?

I think I saw the cosmos before my eyes at a Thursday night meeting when I was about 12. It came after about an hour and a half of mind numbing boredom, during which the entire kingdom hall had been emptied of any conscious thought.

VoidEater

Maybe Yogic practice brings one into the presence of the Divine; maybe holding your breath until you faint is just hypoxia, which also causes a variety of "hallucinogenic" effects...

Don't forget playing with a Pinata also invites pagan practices and influences into your life - oops, I see that one is now changed on the score card!

Geez, WTS paranoid much?

Dagney

Geez, WTS paranoid much?

Yeah, and it turns out it is was a common paranoia of other puritanical fundie religions. Nothing new with them really.

dogisgod

If you are really a good jw you can be pulled away by: music, making you yard too attractive(creating competition in your neighborhood), fashion, reading for pleasure or knowlege that is not from the society, bad association within the cong, being more than moderate in anything, making too much money, running, soccer, football, tennis, observing others who excell at anything, fishing, hunting, sleeping, walking or exercising when you should be studying, in service, preparing for the meetings, praying, attending meetings, TV, Radio, Movies, DVDs, showing too much skin, wearing minimizer bras, and men always wear that strap to make sure nothing "stands out", a gym membership, Plays, Musicals, thinking for yourself...oh and yoga. Anything else?

carla

Are those pics really from the wt? if so, how the heck did those jw's get on a soccer team? lady on the treadmill? hope that is in her home and not at the Y!

avishai

When I was a kid, Lilas, Yoga and you used to come on right after Mr. Rogers. I'd RUN, not walk to change the channel as the show was demonized.

V

yoga does not stop with physical exercises. The book Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies relates the experiences

This is where the Awake! Goes amiss. Yoga is not Hindu. You can apply Hindi customs and religious beliefs to yoga, but yoga welcomes that from any belief system.

So this quote becomes a classic red herring argument. Do not drag the reader into believing that strange Hindi customs such as holding breath until hallucination is yoga.

Anyone who practices yoga would scoff at the quote anyway because breath control and flow (deep breathing techniques) are essential to the practice.

brinjen

This is where the Awake! Goes amiss. Yoga is not Hindu. You can apply Hindi customs and religious beliefs to yoga, but yoga welcomes that from any belief system.
So this quote becomes a classic red herring argument. Do not drag the reader into believing that strange Hindi customs such as holding breath until hallucination is yoga.
Anyone who practices yoga would scoff at the quote anyway because breath control and flow (deep breathing techniques) are essential to the practice.

That's right. In all my years of practicing yoga, I have never come across a pose that involves holding your breath. It's the complete opposite. You never stop breathing. The basic idea (for lack of a better word) in yoga is the increase the oxygen flow in your system to your vital organs, enabling you to think more clearly.

Of course, that makes it so much easier to spot the BS in their magazines...

poppers

That's the most bizarre rendering of yoga as I've ever come across. What utter and complete bullshit. Whoever wrote that is a moron.

Yoga - Not a Choice for Christians