Yoga-A Religious Practice (oh... and Health Class)

I mentioned a couple posts ago about my health class at school and my prof's major promotion of yoga and other eastern religious philosophies and techniques. Well, today I had another hour and a half health class, and all I heard was yoga yoga yoga meditation breathing visualization eastern philosophy, etc. With 45 minutes left, I started counting the number of times yoga was mentioned....8 times.....and it was mentioned a lot more than that but that was how many times in the last 45 minutes it was mentioned.

Oh, and guess what. Next class my prof will lead the class through a yoga meditation exercise. oh yay. I will not be participating. no sir-eee. I will be praying against the spiritual battle that is taking place in my classroom, and if they all have their eyes closed, mine will be open.

Henri Nouwen started practicing eastern meditation and came to the conclusion Jesus is not the only way to God.

Sue Monk Kidd started practicing the same thing and she is now Writer in Residence at The Sophia Institute, which is "honored to sponsor Ecumenical Evenings, a monthly series with varying religious leaders... challenging us to live vibrantly and creating a culture of understanding and tolerance with a greater sense of the divine in us all" and
"On the first Wednesday in April, a group from the Hindu Temple in Ladson will perform kirtan, a live music and chanting program. Members of the group will describe how chanting is an ancient form of worship (my note--WHO are they worshiping? Certainly not the God of the Bible). They will perform various types of kirtan. Later in the program, the audience will be invited to chant." Not to mention, the Institute's promotion of Marianne Williamson, who is teaching the New Age and anti-biblical Course in Miracles on Oprah's radio program. On page 237 of its Workbook it states "To know yourself is the salvation of the world" which is completely against what the Bible says in Acts 4:

10 let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. 11 This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’^[a] 12 Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:10-12

If self-professing "Christians" like Sue Monk Kidd and Henri Nouwen began practicing eastern religious meditation and techniques and it led them down the path to denying the essential truths of the Bible
-namely, that Jesus is the only way and salvation is through Him alone-
and, instead, they accepted New Age religious ideas, then these seemingly "harmless" practices are actually very harmful and are lies directly from Satan, which he is using to deceive the world by appearing as an angel of light.


Yoga is a Hindu practice. Do not be fooled-Yoga is a RELIGIOUS practice. Read a simple explanation here.

Yoga is not simply "exercise" or "stretching". The definition of yoga explains that its goal is a spiritual experience, and it originated in Hinduism.

Christians need to avoid these practices and speak out against them and warn people so that they will not be deceived as Kidd and Nouwen were.