Is Yoga Compatible with Christianity?
Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NLT) Like many people, I took Yoga classes and used Yoga videos. But one day when I was putting in my Yoga tape, I heard the still, small voice say, “Stop.” Now I had just learned to recognize this voice, but I was still uncertain. Did I really just hear that? Or was it my imagination? A few weeks before, that same small voice had told me to put my purse away – and I didn’t – and it was stolen. I had been praying that I would begin to hear the Holy Spirit nudge me again, like when I was a child, and then, when He did, I had ignored Him. I didn’t want to ignore Him again, but I also didn’t understand why He would say, “Stop.” Stop what? Stop stretching? Stop exercising? Do something else? I put the tape aw