What are some specific Yoga poses?

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I am well aware of the dangers of Yoga and have never practiced it but since I do other forms of fitness, I started wondering whether Yoga may have infiltrated there as well. Considering the Yoga poses are in themselves a danger would anyone be able to point out specific Yoga poses?

I know some of the stretches are just regular stretches so I’m not worried about that, what I’d like to find out is what are the poses that should be avoided, that are specific to Yoga and that lead to “union” with the universe/Supreme being.
 
If you seriously believe that merely placing your body in a certain position is a spiritual danger, I hope you’re very careful about how you sleep. There is one that consists of lying flat on your back, arms at your sides.
 
Intention is everything. If you’re just stretching, then you’re just stretching.
 
I think you all misread my question, I did NOT ask if Yoga is dangerous, I know it is.
Have you heard what exorcists have to say about it? I personally know an exorcist who is constantly dealing with cases of demonic infestation related to Yoga. So again, as a Catholic, my question is not whether it is dangerous,

And no, intention is not everything. The “asanas” (poses) are a danger in themselves as they open us up to the preteral world. I know for sure any pose with the joined fingers is dangerous but I would like to know what other “asanas” exist? (Poses that are strictly Yoga).
Everyone else who answered, please do yourselves a favor and read up on Yoga either on Women of Grace or other trusted Catholic sources.
 
Anything HathaYoga or KriyaYoga is to be avoided. Don’t let anyone fool you into believing they are just stretches. They aren’t.
 
I think the problem is that people can’t answer your question since it is based on a faulty premise.
 
I believe you have misunderstood the answers. Here is a good example of an answer you seemed to have missed.
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It is my understanding that the specific yoga positions are neutral. However, there are other aspects of yoga that are problematic. One should not use it as a spiritual path.

Here is an article from Catholic Answers that explains it further:

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/the-trouble-with-yoga2
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From that article.
Hatha yoga is not practiced merely by assuming a bodily pose used by practitioners of Hatha yoga, contrary to the claims of some Catholic critics. Susan Brinkmann, a staff writer for the Catholic apostolate Women of Grace, writes, “Even in [yoga] classes where Christians change the names of the postures to more biblical concepts doesn’t negate the source of the [preternatural] power within the postures” (“Yoga,” Women of Grace Study Series, pp. 19–20).>
This assertion shades into superstition, **ascribing magical effects to a physical action based solely **
upon its external performance (cf. CCC 2111). But let’s be clear: The body postures of yoga are in themselves neutral. Moving the body into a certain position does not necessarily engage the person in any particular spiritual activity.
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You should also read which is a official document
Nostra aetate

and YES intention is everything. You will not find one official Church document that says otherwise.
 
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LumineDiei said:
We need to realize that once we start moving in the womb, it can be a yoga pose, since any position or movement the human does is used in yoga. Let that sink in and then quit worrying about all this nonsense regarding body positions and exercise. Once and for all. The stories you’re hearing from these exorcists are about people who started praying to Hindu deities and channeling new age entities…not Billy Joe Jim Bob that did some yoga stretches down at the YMCA on exercise night.
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Too much common sense for this topic, LumineDiei. 🙂
 
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I know for sure any pose with the joined fingers is dangerous but I would like to know what other “asanas” exist? (Poses that are strictly Yoga).
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Pretty sure that’s how a lot of us learned to do Christian prayer as well.
 
There is Downward Dog. A very common pose as it helps elongate the spine and open the back and legs.

Careful not to do it longer than 5 minutes, otherwise you may evoke evil spirits! :roll_eyes:

Seriously, enough of this nonsense. At some point we need to use some common sense discernment in our lives, otherwise we are doomed as a human race.
 
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I’ve recently studied Yoga more in depth, with some who have actually being heavily steeped in it. All agree that the poses are not neutral . The “asanas” in and of themselves are an attempt to “unite” with the Supreme being and harness the universe’ energy.

Which is why I asked about specific yoga poses. A lot of yoga is just stretching but the mantras and the asanas aren’t. You get the whole lot once you start taking Yoga, although in America a lot of studios are just really new-agey, pop yoga.

It’s too bad that people are so flippant about something that causes so much spiritual (and not only) harm.
Most people I know who gave up Yoga learned things the hard way.
 
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Except that’s not what any of us are saying. We’re saying that merely assuming a bodily position that happens to be used in yoga as well has no effect. There are plenty of yoga positions that overlap with natural positions as well.

If someone developed a religious ritual that involved lying on your side and sleeping, it would not thereby become a risk for possession to sleep so.

God is not so weak that his children are at constant risk of possession merely by someone slipping in something unknowing to them. Remember Paul on food sacrificed to idols!
 
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Did you read my question??
I asked what are SPECIFIC Yoga poses. I stated clearly that some of it is just regular stretching but I am looking to find out the specific poses that may creep in or influence other exercises as well. I.e at some gym, fitness classes can be taught by people who practice Yoga and who teach certain yoga poses even if it’s not a yoga class,

I am not afraid of stretching, moving or working out. I just want to be able to distinguish Yoga poses from regular stretches
 
I did.

A physical pose is a physical pose, no matter what it’s been used for.

Read Paul’s writings on food sacrificed to idols. Do you imagine such food could cause demonic possession if someone ate it?
 
By this reasoning we need to be careful of other physical activities. For instance, in baseball.

Perhaps the most devastating pitch is the split-finger fastball. I “heard” that it can evoke evil powers as the grip mimics that of the two finger gesture by Christ commonly found in iconic paintings. However, the grip on the baseball is a perversion of this, with the fingers bent forwards resembling the horns of the Devil!

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