Posted on 01/30/2007 10:42:21 PM PST by Coleus
You don't approve of yoga.
And many wonder why education costs keep skyrocketing.
They could be doing worse in public schools. I love yoga. It's good for the body and it's great relaxation. David Hunt needs to lighten up. Years of Catholic church bashing makes one crotchety though. He needs the lotus pose I think.
Yes. I think so too.
I like bikram yoga. No woo woo preaching. I already wear birkenstocks and eat granola anyway :D
I thought it pointed to Kashmir and the Himalayas.
I can see it now: "Now I learn my Ooohms..."
They can be read as an esoteric or an exoteric teaching with little or no fault either way. How they come across is entirely a matter of how you approach them. That's beautiful!
I think there's some speculation that Jesus might have visited India. It would explain a few things.
OK, I do yoga too. And Zen meditation, which is a somewhat different but similar mental discipline. My teachers were all Christians. One of them was the toughest Korean martial artist I've ever met.
That's the Kashmir/Himalaya angle, I guess.
"bunny slippers and time in"
Teachers say it helps calm students with attention-deficit disorder and may reduce childhood obesity.
So, to improve standardized testing, my kids are supposed to indulge in "bunny slippers" and "time in?" Pulleaze. Funny how the teachers say it may help with ADD and being fat, but nothing about improving test scores. Yet, in Tara's *ideal world*, everybody would have to meditate before tests, because doing so helps the fat kids and the ADD kids. A fine example of mission creep for sure.
Admittedly, most of my study focused on origins of Christianity. Buddhism was said in old Chinese monks' writings to have originally come from a man who walked from India to China by himself. I've only seen a little evidence pointing to a possibility that original Hindus might have come from the far north. And please forgive my ignorance of Hindu history (can't even remember most of my university study of Ramayana and little more).
Currently, most of my study is guided by Judaism. I'm not Jewish but am a follower of the same.
Yoga is designed to open up specific subtle pathways in the body. It should not be performed as a one size fits all form of fitness. While it can be adapted to an individual's particular religious orientation, it should not be done without the guidance of a trained master.
These hippies are playing with fire, literally. Some of these kids could get very screwed up physically. Yoga is a form of medicine on the subtle, energetic level.
"Portrayed as a New Age nut out to brainwash young minds'
Yeah, pretty much.
I am just interested in philosophy. And I believe every word ever written, or spoken of, were all the works of man.
I don't think boxing would yield positive results in elementary school.
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