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To: AnAmericanMother

There is no such things as a yoga class with “no spiritual component whatsoever”. Spiritual content is in the DNA of yoga.

This is not merely a Roman Catholic perspective:
http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/yoga.htm

Yoga is dangerous to anyone’s spiritual (i.e.: actual) well being.


21 posted on 05/21/2007 9:16:43 AM PDT by Manfred the Wonder Dawg (Test ALL things, hold to that which is True.)
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To: Manfred the Wonder Dawg
Never attended a "yoga" class at the YMCA, I take it.

Perhaps where we could find common ground here is that there are classes that are called "yoga" that aren't -- they are purely physical exercise. I've attended some of them.

Religions, by the way, don't have DNA. . . . they are taught. And whether yoga is harmful or not depends entirely on what is taught.

25 posted on 05/21/2007 9:21:08 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: Manfred the Wonder Dawg; AnAmericanMother

Thank you for posting that link. Oftentimes what begins as an innocuous exercise can, over the course of time, draw the unsuspecting individual into something much deeper.


31 posted on 05/21/2007 10:05:35 AM PDT by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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To: Manfred the Wonder Dawg
See my post #37.

You are quite right in that there IS no such thing as a yoga class with no spiritual component whatsoever IF you take it from one of the standard yoga houses, that is, Shivananda, Iyengar, Bikram, Sachidananda (Integral Yoga), etc.

Today, there seem to me more NONspiritual yogas than not. Fitness studios, gyms, fancy-schmany clubs, schools (colleges, universities) and one-man shows usually do offer the generic yoga. They probably wouldn't last in the yoga business if they did anything else.

My 2 cents.

40 posted on 05/21/2007 10:30:56 AM PDT by starfish923 (Socrates: It's never right to do wrong.)
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