I love Christmas trees. Weren’t they originally some sort of pagan thing? But I don’t use them that way and neither do other Christians.
I do understand that attempting to “empty your mind” in meditation is a non-Judeo Christian risk bc God is the Creator. If you try to achieve a mental vacuum, you take out anything and every thing that is of God. So there is nothing Good left and plenty of empty space for the complete absence of good to come in and get settled.
So, why couldn’t I use the stretches and breathing, if I employ Christian prayer while I do it? If I offer this time and activity to God, why should there still be a risk? (Note: I don’t actually do yoga moves or meditation currently. I do my own stretches and Christian prayers, such as the Lord’s Prayer).
What health minded Christian doesn’t stretch? Yoga is much more than stretching. It is a key tenet of Hinduism. Would you call getting on your hands and knees to stretch “shahada”?