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I have asked several different times, but have not received a satisfactory answer. Is there an official Church position on yoga? Just tonight, I saw an article in the paper about our local Catholic hospital offering pregnancy yoga classes… :rolleyes:
 
Yoga is an activity that has to do with connecting oneself to demons. However, I am sure many people practice it merely as a physical exercise.
 
Seems to me that I read a few years back that as long as you are only doing the exercises and not their “take on religion”, so to speak, that it’s o.k. I would have to do some research and find that article again. Did you ask one of the Apologist on this site or one of the Priest? If you just posted it on one of these threads instead of that site where they answer questions from the experts then you are just getting a bunch of opinions from people like me. (now some of us actually do know a lot, but none of us knows it all.) Try the Priest or Apologist in the Ask an Apologist threads.(Although they probably can’t even get to all of the questions that they are asked daily).
Patience is a virtue, seek and ye shall find. (Sorry I couldnt be more helpful.) If I run across whereever I read that before, I will post it on here. Maybe someone else knows for sure and can link you to it.(I’m not very good at that yet either.)
 
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challenger:
Yoga is an activity that has to do with connecting oneself to demons. However, I am sure many people practice it merely as a physical exercise.
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yoga has nothing to do with demons. That is not why people practice it, even in a religious context. It can/does have a spiritual dimension to those who practice it as a spiritual discipline, but this has nothing to do with demons.

cheddar
 
This article might help:
crossveil.org/page7.html
It can/does have a spiritual dimension to those who practice it as a spiritual discipline, but this has nothing to do with demons.
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What kind of “spirits” do you think those who practice it are inviting into them?
 
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Madia:
This article might help:
crossveil.org/page7.html
It can/does have a spiritual dimension to those who practice it as a spiritual discipline, but this has nothing to do with demons.
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What kind of “spirits” do you think those who practice it are inviting into them?
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:amen:

People need to start realizing, when something is not from God it is from someplace else.

If it has a “spiritual dimension” to it and it is not from God then there is only one other place it can be from.

This is what the climate of spiritual relativism has done today. It has confused many people.
 
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jenreg:
I have asked several different times, but have not received a satisfactory answer. Is there an official Church position on yoga? Just tonight, I saw an article in the paper about our local Catholic hospital offering pregnancy yoga classes… :rolleyes:
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Did you do a search here for “yoga”? I did, and about 10 threads came up, including this one from the Ask an Apologist Forum:

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=14225&highlight=yoga

Hope that helps!🙂
 
There you go jenrag, StephanieC found it for you, thats what I read! 👍
 
The problem with standard Yoga (if this exists) is that it doesn’t involve the intellect, which accompanies the will, during meditation on God.

There is some information on this website about “centering prayer” which may be helpful.

God bless
Aaron
 
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Madia:
This article might help:
crossveil.org/page7.html

What kind of “spirits” do you think those who practice it are inviting into them?
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People who practice yoga are not inviting anything to them, there is no invitation involved. It involves emptying the mind of thought, not inviting anything.

Even the article you linked does not say they are inviting anything.

I am not telling you that you should practice yoga, but I see no point in posting untruths about it.

cheddar
 
People need to start realizing, when something is not from God it is from someplace else.

If it has a “spiritual dimension” to it and it is not from God then there is only one other place it can be from.

This is what the climate of spiritual relativism has done today. It has confused many people.
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Actually David, some things just are. Prayer beads can be used spiritually, to pray to God, or to something else, or worn around the neck as jewelry. You can dedicate your work day to God or something else. Or it can just be a work day. Not everything is demon haunted.

Yoga can have a spiritual dimension, or it can be a way to emtpy the mind and open the soul, or it can be a way to stretch and maintain flexibility.

cheddar
 
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cheddarsox:
Actually David, some things just are. Prayer beads can be used spiritually, to pray to God, or to something else, or worn around the neck as jewelry. You can dedicate your work day to God or something else. Or it can just be a work day. Not everything is demon haunted.
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That is true, but when one is not knowledgeable in these things they can open themselves to things that are best left alone.

When in doubt stay away.

Why mess with yoga when there are things that do not have any spiritual dimensions to them.
Yoga can have a spiritual dimension, or it can be a way to emtpy the mind and open the soul, or it can be a way to stretch and maintain flexibility.
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Open the soul to what?
 
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cheddarsox:
People who practice yoga are not inviting anything to them, there is no invitation involved. It involves emptying the mind of thought, not inviting anything.

Even the article you linked does not say they are inviting anything.

I am not telling you that you should practice yoga, but I see no point in posting untruths about it.

cheddar
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It comes from a word meaning “to yolk,” referring to yolking with spirits (i.e., what we know to be demons.) Perhaps yoga as you do it only involves emptying the mind of thought, but it does have religious uses.
 
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challenger:
Perhaps yoga as you do it only involves emptying the mind of thought, but it does have religious uses.
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I don’t do yoga, I am not here to defend it, only to defend truth.
Yoga does have religious uses, so does language, water, candles, fabric. Yet we can use these things without fear.

I do not care if you choose to participate in yoga or not, that is up to you, but when people here imply or say that yoga is used to invite spirits or demons, and it is not, then I will point out that an untruth is being posted.

cheddar
 
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cheddarsox:
I don’t do yoga, I am not here to defend it, only to defend truth.
Yoga does have religious uses, so does language, water, candles, fabric. Yet we can use these things without fear.
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There is a difference here. You are comparing apples to oranges.

Language, water, candles, fabric all have uses other than religion for which they were created (or in the case of water were originally used for). Yoga started as a practice of a religion, of an applicatoin of a religious spirituality.

Now some have attempted to remove yoga from that spiritual basis, some have just masked it.

This is where my concern comes from.

I would stay away from yoga and try pilaties.
 
And the “emptying of the mind” has never been a Christian value…that I know of.

God bless,
Aaron
 
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Madia:
This article might help:
crossveil.org/page7.html

What kind of “spirits” do you think those who practice it are inviting into them?
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And why do you think that people who practice yoga are necessarily inviting any spirits into them?

I’m not disputing that yoga can be highly dangerous, and that it can take a lot of different forms. But the original philosophical roots of yoga lie in a highly theistic form of Hinduism, and the ultimate goal is union with God. Lumen Gentium 16 speaks approvingly of this search: “Nor is God far distant from those who in shadows and images seek the unknown God, for it is He who gives to all men life and breath and all things.” Our approval of what is good on other religions must not be uncritical–there is much that is false and evil there as well. But you can’t automatically assume that because yoga has religious roots therefore it is evil. That contradicts the teaching of the Catholic Church.

Edwin
 
You guys take these things way too seriously!

Yoga is an excellent form of excercise, and it is extremely beneficial for women during pregnancy when the instructor leads with poses that are appropriate.

Yoga, at least as it’s practiced here in the US, is not satanic! You don’t have to change your beliefs to participate. And if an instructor tries to push a different spirituality on you while you’re doing it, then just ignore it and pray silently like you always do.

I participated with my wife in a “couples” prenatal yoga class, and found that it was an excellent time to get in touch with God through Christian prayer.

Pete
 
In the past, I had taken some Yoga classes, and never once was any kind of spirituality injected into it – it was always strictly about physical exercise.

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