Priest explains why yoga and new age are dangerous

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Nelka said:
Yoga is dangerous.
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Really? Is this true? I’ve just taken up yoga a couple of months ago, and it is one of the first exercise regimes I find easy to maintain. Admittedly I don’t participate in all the chants, neither do I engage with it spiritually on any level but should I give it up? Could someone suggest alternatives?:takeoff:

( I realise the smilie I used above has absolutely nothing to do with the post. I just really wanted to use it)
 
lucymeadhbh said:
Really? Is this true? I’ve just taken up yoga a couple of months ago, and it is one of the first exercise regimes I find easy to maintain. Admittedly I don’t participate in all the chants, neither do I engage with it spiritually on any level but should I give it up? Could someone suggest alternatives?:takeoff:

( I realise the smilie I used above has absolutely nothing to do with the post. I just really wanted to use it)
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I don’t see it as dangerous. It is a very good form of exercise. The controversy is probably some of the cultural parts in the religion of Buddhism that are part of yoga.
 
I’ve heard this a few times. The basic reason is that meditation can leave you open to spiritual influence. It’s the same basic premise as playing with the occult. The truth is that you don’t know what the chants mean, you don’t know what you could be inviting in when you open up your mind like that- you leave yourself vulnerable. Which is a shame, I’ve done some yoga and quite like it- though I do it at home using a DVD program, there’s no chanting or meditation involved. I would say as long as you don’t take part in the meditation and chanting part you should be ok- keep your mind on “the now” rather than allowing yourself to get swept up in the mood of the room… although I would imagine it would be easy to get caught up while you’re doing it.

if you like yoga- and can self regulate and work out at home, try PiYo (Chalene Johnson’s new program- it’s really good)
 
Stretching your body is one thing, chanting and meditating in the manner that is coupled with it is dangerous.
 
Joelle_M said:
I’ve heard this a few times. The basic reason is that meditation can leave you open to spiritual influence. It’s the same basic premise as playing with the occult. The truth is that you don’t know what the chants mean, you don’t know what you could be inviting in when you open up your mind like that- you leave yourself vulnerable. Which is a shame, I’ve done some yoga and quite like it- though I do it at home using a DVD program, there’s no chanting or meditation involved. I would say as long as you don’t take part in the meditation and chanting part you should be ok- keep your mind on “the now” rather than allowing yourself to get swept up in the mood of the room… although I would imagine it would be easy to get caught up while you’re doing it.

if you like yoga- and can self regulate and work out at home, try PiYo (Chalene Johnson’s new program- it’s really good)
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Hello Joelle (and everyone, please see the website attached below) it includes:

Here’s a testimony from a woman who thought she could do yoga without being effected and ended up demonically possessed
See this website it has two stories of how two people involved in yoga ended up in demonic possession, because the yoga postures and chants are worship of false spirits, not of God, of the evil spirits.
It is completely spiritual it’s not just exercises, and it’s pagan, the pagan spirits are evil spirits;

ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-16.doc

Over here in ireland all our deliverance people are run off their feet delivering people from demonic possession from yoga.
The Vatican has up on their website that it’s occult and it is a spiritual worship of multi gods (through the postures and chants), it’s like using a ouiji board -no matter what reason it’s an act of devil worship, Fr Gabriel Amorthe exorcist of the Vatican said the devil is in yoga,
and people haven’t a clue.
Hindu and Buddhist meditation are mentioned by exorcists as being extremely dangerous forms of meditation opening ones soul to other spirits

If you are involved in yoga confession is the way out of demonic influence.
 
Yoga is bad because it becomes about the 'me. It opens gateways to other unwanted forces from the wrong direction.

I have heard that praying while relaxing: “Come Holy Spirit” is fine. Or “Maranatha”. This is meditation. But I have heard, from the youtube link above, that to disengage the mind is not good. I think though that meditating with Scripture, holy imagery, is good. Having eyes closed is fine to contemplate but clearing the mind even if praying those holy words might be an issue?! And what is taught in some R.C Churches, may not be spiritually healthy, if we don’t want confusion. If someone else can respond to this email that knows about the Catholic Mantra. I have heard it is okay, from priests. Maybe the priest in the youtube vid means not doing some chant or something rather than repeating Christian words?! I think he could have outlined what he meant to be honest rather than just giving a very vague description then leaving people going: “Erm, what now, of what does a bad-mantra consist?”. Seems to be incomplete info. to me.
 
Rosarydevotion said:
This priest talks to Marcus Grodi about his journey into and out of the new age movement and explains a bit about why we need to stay away.

youtube.com/watch?v=C9xWhmmwUEs
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It looks like it’s just positions and words but it is seriously dangerous.

A guy lives 30 minutes from me who is in the deliverance ministry. He’s found that people are getting demonically possessed from yoga. And the evil spirits give them serious illnesses maybe a few years down the line, can mess up te people’s lives make them lose their jobs, have marriage trouble, leave the church, be unable to pray, have demonic thoughts,

All the deliverance evangelists in ireland are having to do exorcisms and deliverance on people who are involved in yoga over here in Ireland. People like Eddie Stones, Larry Cummins, John Gillespie, Breda Laffey, Sr Briege McKenna (who has been on EwTn talking about her healing ministry). The Vatican has up on their website that yoga is occult, along with reiki, reflexology, hypnotism, Transcedental meditation, divination, astrology, fortune tellers, ouiji board, … The Vatican head exorcist said the same thing. It’s like doing the ouiji board, except people think it just exercise.

You see the postures are taken from Buddhism and Hindu postures that are bows / worship positions to false gods. Do you know the false gods are demons? St. Paul says so in the bible, the false gods are the fallen angels. Do you know what happens if you worship them? You have then broken the first commandment and given them access to your soul. I know of a situation where someone tried Buddhist meditation (similar to yoga, a few years ago and immediately the person felt an evil spirit in the room, pure evil, could not see it, But could sense it’s presence and it tried to possess the person and enter their chest, The person could feel it around them and became paralysed. Do you know what got rid of it? Repeating the Name Jesus. But the bad spirit came back to try and possess them other nights when They were asleep at 3am at night. And They would wake up in the dark and it would be terrifying. It gave the person a SERIOUS wake up call to pray and use holy water and eventually confess and come back to the church.

I was at a talk given by a guy who was caught up in new age for years, and after he experienced a demon trying to possess him, he went back to the church, confessed, but needed deliverance from the evil spirit of divination. Now the guy lives off providence and researches and writes books to prove different new age paths are occult. He’s written a whole book on how yoga and prayer centering are occult.
The whole eastern meditation idea of ‘letting yourself go blank’ is a spiritual tool to empty your soul, and when that happens evil spirits can posses you because you are empty. We’re supposed to be filled with the Holy Spirit and be His temple, not empty. Our Lady of Medjugorje said in an apparition, ‘Let satan find no emptiness in you.’

Please confess yoga and have nothing to do with it. Never go back.

I can send you research on the pope, exorcists, deliverance people, the Vatican’s head exorcist that prove to you why Yoga is occult and send you testimonies of people who got bound up in evil spirits because of it if you want more proof .
 
OurLadysServant said:
Please confess yoga and have nothing to do with it. Never go back.

I can send you research on the pope, exorcists, deliverance people, the Vatican’s head exorcist that prove to you why Yoga is occult and send you testimonies of people who got bound up in evil spirits because of it if you want more proof .
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I don’t do yoga but worried that others things can be linked with it. Satan tries to find any way in he can. :eek: If you had that detail and have extra time after PMing the OP if they make this request then I’d welcome those links too please (?) If not, then not to worry. 🙂
 
SayehMahtabi said:
Please see the following. I don’t think there’s any problem with it so long as it’s a form of exercise and you aren’t following the spiritual beliefs associated with it.

xt3.com/library/view.php?id=11866
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Here on this website is a testimony of a woman who became possessed after thinking she could try yoga for exercise only (and pray her rosary at home)
A person can’t use a ouiji board or black magic for fun and expect to go away unscathed. Same with yoga.
See this website for evidence
ephesians-511.net/docs/TESTIMONY_OF_A_FORMER_YOGI-16.doc
 
friardchips said:
I don’t do yoga but worried that others things can be linked with it. Satan tries to find any way in he can. :eek: If you had that detail and have extra time after PMing the OP if they make this request then I’d welcome those links too please (?) If not, then not to worry. 🙂
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Links included below on pope, Vatican, clergy , theologians, and catholic teaching on how yoga is occult and cannot be used at all, that there is no way to use yoga and get away unscathed, it is breaking of the first commandment not to worship other gods that opens ones soul to spiritual influences,
If you want exercise go for a run or to the gym, or spinning,
You cannot use an occult tool for exercise and get away unscathed there are even examples of a person who thought so and still ended up needing deliverance from a spirit that started speaking through her and saying it didn’t want to leave, (and previous to this was a voice in her head telling her to throw out catholic objects from her house, to quit her job, to put curses on people, filled her with an illness that doctors couldn’t to cure, gave her depression and anxiety, her only place of peace was before the Blessed Sacrament until she was delivered by someone in the deliverance ministry)

ephesians-511.net/results.php?q=Yoga
 
OurLadysServant said:
Links included below on pope, Vatican, clergy , theologians, and catholic teaching on how yoga is occult and cannot be used at all, that there is no way to use yoga and get away unscathed, it is breaking of the first commandment not to worship other gods that opens ones soul to spiritual influences,
If you want exercise go for a run or to the gym, or spinning,
You cannot use an occult tool for exercise and get away unscathed there are even examples of a person who thought so and still ended up needing deliverance from a spirit that started speaking through her and saying it didn’t want to leave, (and previous to this was a voice in her head telling her to throw out catholic objects from her house, to quit her job, to put curses on people, filled her with an illness that doctors couldn’t to cure, gave her depression and anxiety, her only place of peace was before the Blessed Sacrament until she was delivered by someone in the deliverance ministry)

ephesians-511.net/results.php?q=Yoga
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Not to be difficult, but perhaps you can direct us that don’t live in climates or neighborhoods/locales safe and conducive to year-round outdoor exercise such as running, lack the financial or child care resources to join a gym or cannot (for reasons of physical disability, current weight, or injury) perform a full cardio-aerobic workout to some stretching or gentle movement source to get necessary physical activity. Most people are looking for something they can do in their own home, even if it’s in a limited amount of space. Most exercises and activities of daily living could be considered a “yoga pose” if one wants to start looking into it…that’s why I posted the link that I did. I read on a thread here a few years ago that even kneeling in prayer or lying on your back in bed or on the floor is actually a pose used in yoga…surely if we can disassociate those movements from yoga we can do the same with some stretches?
 
OurLadysServant said:
Links included below on pope, Vatican, clergy , theologians, and catholic teaching on how yoga is occult and cannot be used at all, that there is no way to use yoga and get away unscathed, it is breaking of the first commandment not to worship other gods that opens ones soul to spiritual influences,
If you want exercise go for a run or to the gym, or spinning,
You cannot use an occult tool for exercise and get away unscathed there are even examples of a person who thought so and still ended up needing deliverance from a spirit that started speaking through her and saying it didn’t want to leave, (and previous to this was a voice in her head telling her to throw out catholic objects from her house, to quit her job, to put curses on people, filled her with an illness that doctors couldn’t to cure, gave her depression and anxiety, her only place of peace was before the Blessed Sacrament until she was delivered by someone in the deliverance ministry)

ephesians-511.net/results.php?q=Yoga
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Thank you. I read the link earlier on too. I appreciate you posting this. I don’t do yoga but concerned that Catholic mantras might be linked (ONLY in the clearing mind aspect). Will check those links for other reasons too. Yoga is popular in the U.K and I think it is a problem. Thank you again for your response!
 
catholicmamajoy said:
Not to be difficult, but perhaps you can direct us that don’t live in climates or neighborhoods/locales safe and conducive to year-round outdoor exercise such as running, lack the financial or child care resources to join a gym or cannot (for reasons of physical disability, current weight, or injury) perform a full cardio-aerobic workout to some stretching or gentle movement source to get necessary physical activity. Most people are looking for something they can do in their own home, even if it’s in a limited amount of space. Most exercises and activities of daily living could be considered a “yoga pose” if one wants to start looking into it…that’s why I posted the link that I did. I read on a thread here a few years ago that even kneeling in prayer or lying on your back in bed or on the floor is actually a pose used in yoga…surely if we can disassociate those movements from yoga we can do the same with some stretches?
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Hello friend!
A person cannot use ouiji board or black magic and get away unscathed. Same with yoga.
The poses are acts of worship of false spirits. None of them can be disassociated. People cannot use them unscathed. Its satan’s territory. You can’t cross over to his territory and be unscathed. A person cannot use ouiji board or black magic and get away unscathed.
What i meant by sport was God will send you a sport that is not occult will He not?
Pray to God for a new exercise that’s not occult, it’s for your own benefit, for your own soul?
A priest in the UK was praying with a woman who was in yoga, she had no peace from God whatsoever, when she burned all her yoga materials, confessed and he prayed deliverance over her then she experienced the warmth of the Holy Spirit. He said by doing yoga she’d committed spiritual adultery -by going to different gods which is all yoga is about on a subtle level because the postures and chants are borrowed from a false religion worshiping false spirits. Sr Emmanuela is a nun who became involved in new age. She said, ‘If you call someone’s name in an empty room long enough will they not arrive?’ Yoga calls upon false spirits
 
So stretching and gentle floor-mat-type exercises, even while praying the Rosary or the Chaplet of Divine Mercy is wrong and will allow demons to possess us? I totally understand the part of doing the yoga poses with the intent to practice actual yoga, but it’s just beyond me how every little movement I make can attract demons when I exercise…
 
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