What are some specific Yoga poses?

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Have you heard what exorcists have to say about it?
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Yes, we’ve all read this stuff about 1000 times. I really wish people would stop posting this sort of thing here like it is news to the group.

If you are using yoga with the intention of its being a spiritual path, then yes it is wrong.

If you are simply doing muscular stretches, in many cases not even as part of a yoga class, it is exercise or warming up your muscles or toning up or whatever you want to call it.

I spent 2 years in modern dance classes where we did a lot of stretches and positions, dozens each class. It’s highly likely that with the dozens of positions and stretches we did, something in there was similar to a yoga pose at some point. I did not feel the least bit threatened by anything in the class. It was a class on how your body works and how to move your body. It had nothing to do with spirituality of any sort. Stop worrying about merely stretching your body.
 
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I practiced yoga for a few years before I converted to the RCC. The basic poses are easily found on the internet.

The stretches my dr. has me doing are very similar but not exactly the same.

If you’re looking for markers, so to speak, of yoga people slipping Hindu teaching into the gym class, it will be in what they say while leading the class. For example. Yoga’s intention is to yoke mind, body and breath, so any instruction in that direction would be a clue. Someone saying, “keep breathing” is normal stuff. Someone instructing to breath with an intention to yoke mind, body and breath together as one, is teaching yoga.

Really if you’re that concerned, ask the instructor their background and if they teach or have taught yoga. I’ve never met a yoga instructor,who wouldn’t incorporate yoga into everything,
 
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Look, you “know” that yoga leads to demonic possession, so clearly you know more than the rest of us. :roll_eyes: we can’t help, sorry.
 
I’ve been doing yoga for nearly 40 years, in a variety of venues, and not once have done (or would do) anything even vaguely “spiritual” or “religious”. It is strictly a form of stretching in my neck of the woods at least. I also do Pilates, and a number of the stretches are the same, just because what the body can do and what is good for each muscle isn’t infinite.
I think anyone who regards stretching the body as “evil” is scrupulous to a fault.
 
Then watch a yoga video on YouTube.

I studied the writings of Iyenger, no yoga poses are meant to join one with the universe. That is a new age thing. Definitely their are new age yoga instructors.
 
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Someone instructing to breath with an intention to yoke mind, body and breath together as one, is teaching yoga.
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How is consciousness of breath contrary to Catholic teaching? But hey, I guess I am a marginal Catholic since I look for the good and truth in all things. If a few stretches help me relax and focus in prayer then I guess yoga can be spiritual. I think we all are in far more danger when it comes to ego and pride than with any stretch or pose.
 
Sorry but it sure sounded like that to me, “intention to yoke mind, body and breath together as one”.
 
But if one took yoga philosophy seriously it would involve chastity and abstinence , not lust.
 
For the op from a practitioner of hatha yoga: May you be filled with loving kindness. May you be well. May you be peaceful and at ease. May you be happy.
 
To be fair, focusing on breathing during any exercises, especially stretching, is normal. Ask a powerlifter who squats 600lbs if he did it without paying attention to his breathing rhythm. Or read Pavel Tsatsouline’s “Relax into Stretch” where he describes how important the breath is when stretching.

Linking the breath and body and mind is what separates people like me from professional athletes. You train for hundreds of thousands of hours to establish that connection and break through the barriers that stop you. No coach or trainer is going to say “Don’t worry about it” if a client asks them how they should be breathing.
 
Is there a source for that? Demonolgy used to be a bit of a hobby, but I don’t recall seeing Asmodeus linked to yoga specifically.
 
Yeah that reminds me of a basic “grounding” exercise I learned from a priest who also had some training in psychology. (Not related to the result you get if you google, which is some nonsense about earth and electricity.) It was a simple awareness of one’s breathing and the current physical sensations one was experiencing. Nothing really spiritual at all, but it was a good way to focus.
 
Here is my favorite pose:


(It’s good for strengthening the lower back and abdominal muscles among other things. Builds discipline. Both secondary objectives, of course.)
 
So all people who do yoga are “under the spell of Asmodeus” and sinners.
 
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Your post is self-defeating. Both the Eucharist and baptism require very deliberate intent. Simply having water poured over one is not baptism. Simply placing bread and wine on a table is not the Eucharist. Likewise, simply stretching is not ritualistic yoga.
 
You’re entering the realm of a very unhealthy superstious fear that is contrary to the Catholic faith. Please talk to a priest in “real life”.
Intention is the key here. The idea that Satan “owns” certain physical poses that Christians may accidentally stumble into is the very definition of superstition…
 
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