It just might be because you are giving cover to child abusers. Just saying........

@@kevinkelly2162 wait, what? That escalated quickly

Pray for him. He too will realize the truth of the Catholic Faith in God's good time.

I cannot say I'm above questioning my Christian friends on their beliefs but it's less antagonistic and more investigative. I wanna know hat makes them tick more than I want to 'dunk on their silly beliefs'

its because of what they think catholics believe not what we ACTUALLY believe.

I do that everyday.

truth

Why you did stop swimming? You can do both, you can pray during exercise, Ora e Labora!

how do you get to seaking god without evolving goldeen god?

Did you start seeing these images in room before or after you find out that yoga poses are, allegedly, "postures of worship?"

Tf 🤣🤣🤣🤣 nonsense man

@nette9836 Before. A long time before. And when I finally found out what Yoga actually was I separated myself from it straight away

This is exactly my view.

Christians had something for that, gymnastics (my mum used to do that) and pilates, it's just that since boomer times yoga has been promoted in the west for obvious reasons, it's still paganism and you cannot truly divorce it from its demonic roots, there are other ways that are much better for staying healthy, exercise, walking, hiking, stretches, gymnastics, pilates, etc. ...but yoga has exploded and it's not organically.

Certainly. And yet, there are still plenty of legalistic and paranoid Christians who condemn yoga for the mere practice of stretching and health as "worshipping Hindu gods." Girl, I am an atheist to the Hindu pantheon, so have no idea what these types of Christians are talking about when presenting such a silly argument. If we were careful not to do anything that could be misconstrued as worshipping other gods or pagan practices, we'd have to sit in an empty room twiddling our thumbs. For instance, clapping is a large component of Shinto worship...does that mean Christians can no longe clap?

I've do the p90x yoga. They don't have chants/mantras in the program.

And I think as they walked from place to place, Catholics would recite the 150 Psalms

Very true 💯

Ever heard of the Greek gymnasium??

@@austina701 I think we’re talking about the average working class person, not the elite.

Exactly. Exercise is not in the Bible BECAUSE THEY WALKED EVERYWHERE! Every day was exercise. Just like the Bible does not instruct us to eat, it is taken as a given.

And don't forget, genuflect (which is basically doing lounges) and then walk up to get Communion, and walk back lol 😂 so true!

😂 funny but true, I have rheumatoid arthritis and by the time we get to Our Father I just do kneeling cause I can’t do the up / down anymore. Jokes aside we are suppose to take care of our body which is the Temple of the Holy Spirit. So many religious communities take walks when they pray and do the rosary. Nowadays we have SoulCore stretching while doing the rosary or Divine Mercy chaplet

@@jamjah955 thanks!

@MilesMariae You cannot separate the spiritual aspects of Yoga which is Hinduism.

​@@shirleycoombs7001 So because some other religion has a few stretches as a part of their religious practices does that mean we as Catholics can't use those stretches anymore? Other religions and philosophies often have ideas that align with Christ's teachings. Should we then consider those ideas forbidden? Nonsense! The fact that another religion or philosophy has discovered part of the Truth does not mean we, as Catholics, should disregard it. Likewise, just because yoga has exercises that are healthy for the body does not mean we as Catholics should disregard those exercises.

​@@youtubeKathy I don't remember if he said it but Fr. Vincent Lampert has talked about how it is a portal to demons. You can find his videos on KZfaq, he is also an exorcist.

What about DDPY (Diamond Dallas Page yoga)?

It’s true that Jesus walked. Also, in the biblical days, people farm and they had to do physically demanding tasks like handwashing clothes and gathering water from the well. I think that with scripture and tradition teacherus that exercise should be a part of your daily life. Can you do yoga? I think that you can incorporate certain elements of yoga which are very similar to drill exercises that kids are taught in school and I think that the breathing exercises also might be helpful. I think that you can practice the exercises without subscribing to the philosophy behind them.

I agree with you both, Mark and Leekshika. I think physical activity is not something that we should easily discard from our lives. Rather it's a very important tool to have in our toolbelts.

If the body is the vessel to the soul, it's only fair to treat it well. The way I understand it, it's that we don't take ourselves for idols but to be better aides/tools for God. To spread the word, to convert, to protect, to give ourselves to God.

Good story

The Devil will give you good results to get you away from Jesus Christ. And then he’ll take your soul(if you don’t repent and turn to our Lord Jesus Christ).

@@shirleycoombs7001 What would be the point of the devil, to give my wife a more happy and productive life then suffering from back issues? Perhaps you'd be more happy living in the 13th century?

@@sitka49 The Devil wants individual’s soul.

@@sitka49 brother best of health to your wife ....that person is silly..ignore her..she is a fool ..praise God from whom all blessings flow..peace

@patriciaglass4882 Yo are deceived by the Enemy. Yoga is demonic. You can say Jesus, God all you want but it dies not change the fact that Yoga is a spiritual practice of Hinduism which anti-biblical.

...what?

Stretching is awesome, but yoga can often put spirituality into it. We aren't supposed to do that, cause a lot of that spirituality is against God. Strectching and different exercises are cool, but yoga as a practice, I've heard, shouldn't be done. There's some good videos on it, and why Catholics shouldn't practice yoga specifically. (P.S. I heard pilates is an awesome alternative)

pilgrimage costs money. then again, that was probably the original idea

@@alaunaenpunto3690 yes, but not all were to the holy land. There were many to other, more local sites as well - the one in the Canturbury Tales was a visit to the cathedral where Thomas Becket was martyred. And people still go on pilgrimage. We also have Stations of the Cross as a mini pilgrimage that you do within the walls of your local church for free. The point of a pilgrimage is to go to a holy site and by being in a specific physical place where great things happened in the name of God, become more holy yourself. You miss the point by making it primarily about spending money. Presumably you could do that at home without the trouble and have more to show for it.

@@junipertree2601 it's not about spending money, but money nonetheless must be spent if going on the pilgrimages to the holy land or various shrines outside of one's native geography, which are what comes to mind when I think of pilgrimage. Not cath, so never heard of stations of the cross.

The kind of yoga I do is for stretching and increased flexibility and it is highly beneficial to me as a senior. Nothing pagan about it at all!

@@annjustin1866 do Pilates instead

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Chad Catholic memes will be a game changer in modern evangelization when we look back at this time

Hatha Yoga, Taiji, Qigong, Gongfu all combine movement, breathing and mental concentration. It is superior to all the boozing and drugging in western culture, not common in the East today. Walk into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and it will hit you in the face that Christianity is essential an Eastern religion.

Well said

Fathers Calloway and Ripperger teach us to not use yoga in anyway because even if you don't think you are worshiping that is not true. I will follow the priests advice.

Iam a Hindu. I'd say listen to your priests and do not do Yoga as it's not just physical but inevitably comes with a spiritual aspect. That spiritual aspect is Demonic according to the Christian worldview. Stay away from it! Let yoga be a practice for Hindus alone

Boxing would be better... the information 'technology' is much higher in that sport than HEMA would be.

@@nuca5104 Shaolin or Wudang Gongfu would be awesome.

@@myleshagar9722 HEMA dispenses with the woo-woo nonsense and can get to practical results a LOT faster.

What's the difference? I've never done Pilates before so I'm genuinely curious.

​@@luisdizon2486 I am on the fence about dating a girl. She's a lapsed Catholic who is heavily involved in the idol worship of yoga. We've had some good conversations on suffering and finding meaning in life. However I feel descending into the dark cave she is in to pull her out into the light of Christ is a dangerous endeavor for me. Not sure what to do.

@@thunderthumbz3293 Is she doing yoga for spiritual reasons or for just exercise? If it's just exercise, then suggest to her pilates or some other form of stretching as an alternative. If it's spiritual, you'll want to explain to her why that's problematic from a Christian worldview. How she reacts to that will let you know whether to continue or not.

Glad to know you're watching!

Agreed. When I started taking the faith more seriously and was reading into this it was very clear Yoga is bad/demonic, so it shouldn't be done at all, whether in small or large doses, stay away, it is linked to their demon gods whether [some] westerners deny it or not, and will give spiritual openings to them. Anyway, that was a very interesting way of describing it and I hadn't heard that comparison before. Thank you, very interesting. Also there are many better alternatives, yes we should exercise, but if you're tempted towards yoga, just do some stretches, gymnastics or pilates. There is a reason yoga is being promoted everywhere, it's exploded (especially among women) we need to know the rules, it's for our own good, or we'll be like lambs to slaughter in this post Christian society.

Your comment is thoughtful and well to consider. If I may respond to your point about the language, and it's not a criticism: the Latin of the Mass is used for the prayers, and the Latin was codified apart from the common Latin spoken at the time (it was still in use) into Ecclésial Latin, meaning it became the language of the Church in such a way that meanings of words were fixed permanently. You know as generations come along language change in both pronunciation and word meaning. A word will carry both meanings for maybe a couple generations, and then one meaning is dropped, either the old or the new. That can cause confusion when later generations read older writings. The Church knew that because it's not a new phenomenon. So she wanted to fix the meaning of the prayers, and this was done in order to continue to pray as the Apostles did, as instructed by Jesus, who Himself set the Divine Liturgy. So what's happened with the change from Latin Mass to the Vernacular? First, the prayers had to be translated into the local language (and let's not even get into regional dialects). If you look at the original Latin prayers and compare them to the vernacular prayers, they're different, many parts of the original having been cut out or even drastically changed. The prayers are supposed to be universal in the Church, but if you've ever learned another language, you might have come across the phenomenon of, "There's no way to say that in this language." It can be very puzzling, because certainly the _meaning_ can be expressed, can't it? That's the translator's dilemma. It takes a team of translators, who may not agree on how to express the meaning, maybe owing to grasp of either the language being translated or the language it's being translated into -- and usually it's going to be a failure to fully grasp Ecclésial Latin, because that's nobody's native language. So inadvertantly the prayers get changed, and then when the vernacular language evolves, the translation has to be redone. We've already had to do the new translations since the one that was introduced in the 1960s, and whether the changes were small or large I can't tell, I just know that since my childhood I've had to learn to say different responses at Mass, some of them twice (I was 7 or 8 when the Vernacular Mass was instituted in my archdiocese). The other Churches didn't do this. I've known Orthodox and Byzantine Christians from different language traditions where the Divine Liturgy was instituted in ancient times, and the ancient language is the only one used in the Liturgy. The people learn it well enough as they need, but since the priest is the one who says the main, most important prayers, he's the only one who has any need to learn it fluently -- and really all he needs to do is intend to pray what the Church established, even if he's not perfectly fluent, such as happens when a great loss of population depletes the reserve of males who are talented in the study of the ancient language. That happened in the Middle Ages in Europe, so that there were priests who had a very poor comprehension of Latin, and mistranslated not only prayers, but also Scripture. Had those priests trusted the Church, there wouldn't have been the beginnings of the Protestant revolt. That's the danger of relying on the Vernacular. But if you go to Russia or Serbia or Bosnia or Greece, you'll hear the same ancient Liturgy of the Apostles, whether in ancient Greek or Slavic. The Faithful will hear Scripture in the Vernacular, but the purpose of praying Scripture at the altar in the ancient language is to give God's Word back to him as an offering. That part of the Sacrifice was removed from the Vernacular Mass when the Readings were given only to the congregation. I'm not so sure that the prayers being said in the Vernacular don't also put the focus on the congregation, as if we're the ones being offered the prayers, even granting that simply by addressing God they're also being offered to Him. It's just muddying the waters by adding that component. And that doesn't even address the drastic alteration of the prayers themselves. I don't know if they were too difficult to translate or if by adding the Second Reading they wanted to cut the rest of the Liturgy shorter. But there were always parts of the Liturgy in the Vernacular, re-reading the Scriptures in the vernacular, and giving the homily or sermon in the vernacular. Those are the parts that are important for that Faithful to comprehend. I think the basic understanding of the prayers is something that can be learned early and refreshed periodically, but aren't necessary to hear in the Vernacular at every Mass. Those are the parts that don't change. Granted, it's sweet when little boys say the prayers in the pew because they've memorized them by listening every week, if not daily. And there may be benefits to that, if it calls them to serve as priests. Otherwise, it is a time in the Liturgy for the Faithful to contemplate God without thinking of themselves or those around them (insofar as possible, especially for parents with small children). I'm not sure that's possible when the prayers are said for the benefit of the congregation being able to hear and understand them. I wonder how many of us find out minds drifting at that point in the Liturgy? And not always drifting to the contemplation of God? That's simple human psychology -- when we hear the same old same ol' over and over, we tune it out. Maybe that happens at Latin Mass, too, but changing to the Vernacular didn't eliminate it, at best, and at worst it made it worse. And finally, if the intent was to please the Faithful in order to keep them coming to Mass, well, it didn't work out that way. We'll never really know if the "Great Bleed" would have occurred had the traditional Latin Mass been retained, but we do know that switching to the Vernacular for all parts of the Mass didn't prevent it. My parents liked the change, but many of their brothers and sisters stopped going to Mass. They might have left the Church anyway, but I'll never forget that first Sunday of the New Mass when a huge argument about it broke out at my grandparents' house, where we always gathered for dinner after Mass. I was only 7 or 8, so I don't know what the arguments were other than liking it or not liking it. I do know that some stopped going to Mass and others converted to different religions. They might have, anyway, or maybe it would have been the other way around, where the ones who liked the changes might have been the ones who left. We'll just never know. Even if the intentions were sincere, the result wasn't very helpful. Editing to add that I understand that your point is about the Eurocentric (original Latin) and the Church's growth in Africa, where using the Vernacular is perhaps drawing the Faithful. But there again, I've heard missionary priests say that they had to be prepared to preach for 3 or 4 hours in Africa, so in that case there was/is no need to shorten the original prayers, and I'd suggest they could even be prayed in Ecclésial Latin after having been translated during the preaching, as a way to both prepare the Faithful to silently join the prayers being offered at the altar, and as a refresher lesson in the foreign language of Ecclésial Latin. But I'm just tossing out that thought -- not presenting a set argument pro or con. As I stated at the beginning, I think your comment is very well thought out.

@@kimfleury Thank you for your well thought out response as well. You are absolutely correct about any languages changing their meanings over time, and I understand the desire of the church fathers to attempt to preserve a language in such a way that its meaning is intended to be unalterable over the course of time. I'm not sure how that would be done since it would still have to be translatable to one modern language or another in order to be described and understood at any point in time, but perhaps there is some way of doing so that I'm not aware of. However, even if we were to assume that there is some way of doing so, the result would not be quite as precise as we might imagine it to be. We would still be left with a specific language, frozen in time in all its references, to a world of at least 1500 years ago, which was long before a multitude of changes occurred requiring re-definition in living languages. Languages as they evolve are also enriched as their cultures in one way or another collide with other cultures speaking a different language, and both populations learn ways of expressing concepts previously foreign to them. Relevant to that is the broader issue: NO specific language conveys any and all concepts well, or even accurately. English is widely spoken in a variety of cultures, but new words and concepts and ways of expressing them are constantly being added--there are over 1 million words in the English language and more are being added all the time, yet there remains a multitude of ideas and concepts that could be best expressed in another language--and of course some such concepts can't be expressed in English at all, but least of all in a frozen language from 1500 years ago. Finally--would church attendance and Catholic observance have been better served by remaining in the pre-Vatican II format? Who can say? I would point out though that Orthodox churches which continue to worship in older languages with fixed liturgies seem not to have done any better than we did in retaing members after the massive cultural shift of the 1960s, generally of the same time frame as the Vatican II changes. The church will always be challenged to get its message across effectively to inspire those of the next generation--and in doing so we will always need to learn the "new" language(s) in which that generation frames its understandings and experiences.

You can get lean by prayer and fasting

We should take care of our bodies and that includes exercise.

@@akiram6609 you can do it without practicing New Age/Eastern Religion.There are other fitness regimens besides Yoga or Martial Arts.Just put on a pair of sneakers 👟 and go 🚶.

@@nathaniellathy6559 I personally don’t do yoga. However, a person is not sinning when merely doing a downward dog pose or lying flat on their back. Yes, lying flat on your back is a yoga pose. I’ve done physical therapy and a lot of exercises they have me do are derived from yoga and it’s been very helpful to me.

@@akiram6609 derived from Yoga and actual Yoga aren't the same thing.It's amazing with left wing Yoga instructors complaining Trump supporters were doing Yoga after 16 Election, any Christians want to do it at all.

PS! Healthy choices include no hormonal contraception and as a consequence developing self-control, wisdom, chastity and respect for the natural design of a woman in God’s plan

Brian composed it.

Glad you enjoy it!

On the contrary, if a Christian knows that Yoga opens the door to spirits that not trustworthy, and thus shouldn't practice it, then he or she has a very strong faith.

@@marklizama5560 I really doubt the "opens the doors to spirits" thing. Sorry. All cultures and religions, different as they may be, share one thing in common - reaching out for the Divine. Hinduism predates Christianity, as do many other religions. Do you think God would be so cold and indifferent as to abandon other cultures to demon worship and unclean spirits? They were working with the experiences and knowledge they had. Unfortunately for them, Jesus showed up in Jerusalem, not Mumbai. Hindus might not have the fullness of the Truth which Christians claim, but I cannot accept that God would abandon them to harmful spirits just because they made their own attempts toward transcendence.

@@AntonAchondoa ok but St. Paul wrote that sacrifices made to the pagan gods are really sacrifices offered to demons 🤷🏼‍♀️

@@kimfleury Did he teach ex cathedra? Not every single word of St. Paul is infallible. Also my question still stands. Do you (and perhaps St. Paul) believe that God would abandon people to devil worship simply because they did not know any better?

@@AntonAchondoa The Bible is an infallible authority, St. Paul's Epistles wouldn't be in the Bible if they weren't considered infallible.

The average adult cannot sit in a squat with their heels down, not can they rise out of a chair without the help of their hands. Stretching inspired by yoga poses can help rebuild their bodies from the ruin they have let them degenerate into.

1 Timothy 4:8: For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but Godliness is profitable to all things having promise of the life that now is, and that which is to come.

Bowing before the Baal just don’t think about it as a religious act

@@tariqskanaal8187 except that it is.

@@nathaniellathy6559 and so is doing Yoga as one seeks to unite themselves with Brahman, however there are many systems with different goals, notheless it is a religious practice

Can you post some of your sources? I'm interested. I have a concern for the legalism that's ensued and brought many under condemnation for using the stretching and strength exercises. Additionally, yoga has so many iterations, like hanging heavy objects from the male organ. To the pure all things are pure? Thank you for pointing to this aspect of history.

@@housejunky777 Mark Singleton: Yoga Body: The Origin of Modern Posture Practice. Probably the best compiling source. It goes into detail how modern yoga came as a hybrid from old ideas and Nordic and British stretching health craze. These ideas of strength were wrapped up in anti-colonial Indian ideas and were present in the minds of Yogi's who visited the West. And one in particular. Ancient Yoga was bad. Modern Yoga is also bad. What I am trying to get back for us normal people is the European stretches that they took. And that is practiced by many gymnasts world wide. Here are more sources. David Gordon White, Yoga in Practice. Barbera Stoller Miller, trans., Patanjali's Yogasutra. Elizabeth De Michelis, A History of Modern Yoga: Patanjali and Western Esotericism. Jeremy Carrette and Richard King, Selling Spirituality: The Silent Takeover of Religion. Richard King, Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and the 'Mystical East' James Mallinson, trans., The Gheranda Samhita. Jason Birch. "The Meaning of hatha in Early Hathayoga." The Journal of the Royal Oriental Society 13/4 (2011) pp. 527-554 Anthony Mary Grace. "It's Not Religious, But It's Spritual': Appropriation in the Universal Spirituality of Yoga" Journal of Communication and Religion 37/4 (2014) pp. 63-81 Andrea R. Jain. "Who says Modern Yoga Practitioners Have It All Wrong? On Hindu Origins and Yogaphobia." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 82/2 (2014) pp. 427-471 Callie Batts Maddox. "Studying at the Source: Ashtanga Yoga Tourism and the Search for Authenticity in Mysore, India" Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 13/4 (2015) pp. 330-343

@@jackdaw6359 Incredibly grateful. Blessings.

@@housejunky777 no problem. I may not even agree with modern yoga, like I said. I'm just after reclaiming basic physical exercise that some people conflate with the wickedness that is yoga. We as Catholics have better meditation techniques. Yet we ought not to judge our gymnasts who merely stretch because of bad history. My mother, who used to be a gymnast, when she saw yoga poses, she told me that she was taught that as normal stretches. So I had to know what came first the poses from western gymnasts or the other way around. And to my surprise I found that Yoga bastardised itself to "catch up with the west". I have no love for yoga or mysticism outside the bounds of our faith. I just hate bad history. I would distance myself from yoga lest I give offence to a brother or sister. I'd even give up the physical exercise if it offends their conscience as St Paul tells us that that is more important. But I would tell them the fun fact that modern yoga is a scam. And that ancient yoga wasn't extremely physical. It was bad meditation technique that said "if you suck at this" try incorporating your body and then it included vile practices like hanging objects onto male genitalia. Etc.

@@jackdaw6359 There's a serious issue with many bringing others under condemnation for stretching. The pharseeism is out of hand on this one. If only they could be well informed and rather warn about the spiritism let's say for example, Kundalini. I suppose when it comes to social media, there interest is likely for likes and the revenue that it brings them. Again, Thank you for posting your sources.

How does doing something as exercise make it okay?

Well done because your god is really insecure and gets upset by really unimportant stuff.

OM is a version of AMEN

Should people also say no wedding rings?

@@housejunky777 Wedding rings can be blessed, and are not a form of pagan worship

@@housejunky777if by yoga you merely mean stretching and not the pagan connections. Then say yes to stretching.

@@tradcathsspx Assuming your understand the root of both Yoga and rings, your statement is incoherent.

@@housejunky777 Assuming you don't, that would explain why you think that

No true Christian does Yoga. It’s of Hinduism.

What risk?

@@sergey6443 It is a form of pagan worship.

@@joshuatomeny3451 it sounds like you misunderstand what yoga is

@@sergey6443 1. Demonic Oppression, infestation or even possession. 2. Sexual abuse. Some of the gurus or other people who teach it delve into the ritualistic side of it which involves in some cases even female murder. 3. Loose the Christian faith by giving into peer pressure. And many other dangers but you get the idea. All that while you could have practice any other form of non ritualistic form of exercises that is not intrinsically spiritual.

@@gregoriano5661 Why practice anything "non-spiritual" when everything is the spirit?

Then he should stop ✋doing Yoga

I didn't say anything to the contrary. I said it IS a good that precipitates from the cardinal virtues, but if you try to pursue it apart from prioritizing those virtues or seeking God's grace, any effort you place towards physical health will be unsustainable.

@@BrianHoldsworth "Precipitate" ? IMPERATIVE... imho. "Your body is the temple of the holy spirit" Plus what we know in this era of health science. "Being precedes Truth, Truth precedes the Good". Knowledge is the first step in Prudence. Then the imperative of action (the second part). "The path of transformation of true knowledge into the "imperative " of Prudence". Josef Piper.

So the leaders wearing fish hats that is to the pagan god Dagon doesn’t count as a deity?

@@charlied8882 Whooooosh! Shtoopid is as shtoooopiddd does ...... Grow up. HC-JAIPUR (27/08/2022) .

So I say this as someone not particularly interested in yoga. I really don't buy that it is a gateway to the demonic. I'm sorry, but that just strikes me a fear mongering about other cultures and manipulating people to only accept Western Christianity. I don't mean you specifically, I just mean those talking points. All cultures and religions, different as they may be, share one thing in common - reaching out for the Divine. Hinduism predates Christianity, as do many other religions. Do you think God would be so cold and indifferent as to abandon other cultures to demon worship? They were working with the experiences and knowledge they had. Unfortunately for them, Jesus showed up in Jerusalem, not Mumbai. Hindus might not have the fullness of the Truth which Christians claim, but I cannot accept that God would abandon them to harmful spirits just because they made their own attempts toward transcendence.

I'm a strong Christian doing yoga regularly but it does not involve praying to deities of pagan religions, or inviting demons into my life. I pray to God, and commit my time of stretching and increasing my flexibility as a senior to Him, for my health and well being. There is no sin in this. I'm neither Catholic, nor a lukewarm Christian. I'm just taking good care of my body and doing that as unto the Lord.

Skimming the comments, this is the most appropriate answer. Yoga is an excellent form of physical conditioning, practicing it is no more different than someone putting on some metal while running on the treadmill. God gave us all the necessary tools to maintain our bodies.

@@Bateluer Thank you!!!

Yes!!!!

That's not what exorcist Fr. Vincent Lampert would say.

I'm curious how you respond to that… This would make me be afraid of doing more traditional music unless I was doing so by instruction from either the pastor or the parish council, so I could say "go complain to them, they told me to"

@@markpugner9716 I find the best approach is saying that since I’m classically trained, traditional music is my area of specialization and I’m not familiar with other styles. Having support of the pastor helps, but he may get a lot of flack if you say you’re being traditional on his instruction. Blaming my ‘lack of experience’ works better since it disarms people and helps them understand where I’m coming from.

@@MyCatholicBookNook Aha nice! That sounds like a very wise way to handle things.

I am sure your daughter will be comforted by that.

I think "Christian" yoga is an oxymoron, it would basically be like doing a voodoo dance just for the cardio. Yoga in its original context was an Indian spiritual practice that was designed to connect you to Hindu gods so it's something a Christian should stay far away from.

That’s because they practice hesychasty. Highly dubious as a Christian practice

@@aloyalcatholic5785 father seraphim was against yoga. It’s hesychasm not hesychasty btw.

@@Ethantk12 a rose by any other name. He also prays the rosary. Might as well be Catholic. Breathing exercises while engaging in prayer is not part of Christian tradition and should be discouraged

@@aloyalcatholic5785 so should we hold our breath while praying 😅 The intention behind the breath is to bring clarity and focus to the prayer- many many have found the Jesus prayer incredibly soothing and healing