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Let me tell you what Jesus has taught me along my journey into yoga
Everything in heaven and on earth was created by God and has been reconciled unto Christ and through Christ!All things… certainly my body.. and yes, even movement through postures we commonly refer to as yoga.
A Professor's Point of View: Yoga and Meditation as a College Course
Students today are hungry for meaningful spiritual practices and have huge questions on their minds about the relation between religious belief and practice and living life. I teach “Yoga and Meditation” so that those important questions might arise, find expression, and can be address within the disciplined study of yoga and comparative theology.
Saying Yes to the Invitation That Changed My Life
“Isn’t God wonderful, God wants us to be totally well in our bodies.” At that moment I understood that God’s will for me was that I be fully alive in my body.
Transformation
To be honest I have never considered what it means to be transformed or changed as much I have since I truly watched the transformation of caterpillars to butterflies. This metamorphosis was a metaphor for God’s creative nature.
Yoga and Jesus' Body and Bread
With stories so laden with images of bread, I let my mind and heart consider bread as a way of learning more about Christ’s teachings of the body. It came to me that Jesus’s early memories of bread were probably those of Mary, baking.
Lessons from Lent
As promised I am writing to share what I learned from my Lenten Vows, which were basically to give up something I love that I know probably isn’t the best for me, and to start something new that I would love that I know will be very good for me.
How We Started Our Christian Yoga Business
From experience I can tell you three things. First and foremost, let the Holy Spirit move you in the classes you teach. If this were just about yoga, there are plenty of other places people can go.
Teaching a class that honors both parts of who I am.
After years of teaching yoga, I was invited, or should I say challenged, to initiate a yoga class that would encourage Christians to come and practice yoga. “You could teach this wonderful science,” I was told, “with full devotion and commitment to your faith, and without the need to hold back.”
Yoga has deepened my relationship with God
To me, there are so many connections between Christianity and the spiritual “lights” I discover in yoga. It is my desire and ambition to better connect the two and then to share that with those Catholics and Christians who are afraid of yoga.
Why I Teach Yoga from a Christian Perspective
I wanted my yoga classes to build up the body of Christ on every level – body, soul, and spirit, especially the level of the spirit since Christians are told to “live by the Spirit.”
Confessions of a Beginning Meditator
I don’t know how to sit.
I'm at a yoga retreat, and we finish every class with twenty minutes of meditation. Each sitting position I try results in searing back pain at about nine minutes. That’s eleven minutes of meditation on pain.
Yoga as Sabbath
Sabbath teaches that each week has a rhythm of work and rest. Taking a day a week is a little bit like savasana, restoration pose, at the end of a yoga class.
Yoga the Broomtree
This desert has precious little shade. If you’re caught out in the desert in the afternoon, shade can mean your survival.
Experiencing the Promise of Sabbath: Balancing Mind, Body & Spirit
While searching for the meaning of Sabbath I found the spiritual practice of yoga. It has been a perfect marriage. While still foreign to many American Christians,
Finding Christ Through Yoga
I teach Christ-centered yoga because I want to share the transformative power of moving prayers with my communities of faith.