MD writes: "I am looking for an alternative to yoga, which I practiced pretty regularly before coming back to my Catholic faith and trying to live my faith more fully. I found something called Lastics® and was wondering if this was safe."
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A legal battle is brewing in California where an attorney representing parents of students in the Encinitas Union School District are calling upon the school to stop teaching yoga or face legal action.
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The controversy over whether or not yoga is "just exercise" came back into the limelight in the UK last week when the diocese of Portsmouth issued a statement calling it a "non-Christian activity" that should not be allowed on Catholic premises.
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TA writes: "
There are few Catholic Church promote Holy Yoga teaching in their workshop/seminar/teaching. From what I know, Holy Yoga is a part of New Age. Please help us understand more about Holy Yoga."
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Welcome to the latest yoga inanity. A woman who has a passion for both skiing and yoga decided the two disciplines had a natural affinity and created a new form of yoga/skiing known as SNOWGA.
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No one can explain yoga better than a Hindu, and in a recent article by the co-founder and managing director of the Hindu American Foundation, Suhag A. Shukla, Esq. confirms what most American Christians just don't want to accept - that practicing yoga will make you a better Hindu.
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JM asks:
After looking up yoga stretches I discovered that many are the same as the ones the doctor gave me to stretch in the am. Do you have some safe (spiritually speaking) back stretches one could use? I'm lost.
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Rome's chief exorcist, Father Gabriele Amorth, has reignited the debate over whether Christians can practice yoga by declaring that both yoga and Harry Potter are tools of the devil.
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A new study, believed to be one of the largest ever conducted, has found that conventional stretching exercises are as effective in relieving lower back pain as yoga, which discounts the popularly held notion that yoga is superior to other forms of exercise.
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The same priest who was involved in a flap over yoga in the UK several years ago and said Jesus was the "greatest yogi" has now introduced mandatory yoga classes at St. Peter's College in India where a giant picture of Jesus sitting in a yoga position sits at the entrance to the school.
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