I’m doing a chair yoga class at a local church. It’s an Episcopal church and not evangelical, so I don’t think people would freak out if I played a little Snatam Kaur at the class, but I thought it would be nice if I had some soothing Christian music to play. The thing is, I [...]
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In an article on the Huffington Post, a Hindu scholar tries to shoo Christians away from yoga: While yoga is not a “religion” in the sense that the Abrahamic religions are, it is a well-established spiritual path. Its physical postures are only the tip of an iceberg, beneath which is a distinct metaphysics with profound [...]
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I was a late-night gong event at Golden Bridge Yoga once and a mom had her 3-year-old there with her. The event was three hours, from 7-10 pm, and involved some intense Kundalini Yoga and chanting followed by a long gong relaxation. The kid was actually quieter than the noisy woman behind her, so the [...]
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I really don’t get this freaky deaky fear that some Christians have over yoga. Is it really so horrible to expose yourself to other religious thought? Or are certain fundamentalist Christian leaders worried that if people got a taste of something else, they might like it better? People doing yoga may not fill their donation [...]
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One of the trendiest forms of yoga that you may not yet have heard of is Christian Yoga. You may not have heard of it, because it’s heartland-based and not something you’ll easily find in an urban center such as Los Angeles or New York City. I am not a Christian, but I am fascinated [...]
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It’s not surprising that a shallow, exploitative yoga series would emerge that relies on hot babes instead of good yoga as its theme. That this came out of Canada is what surprises me. Namaste Yoga is the regular yoga series seen on cable’s FitTV. They show a few episodes a day, and from what I [...]
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