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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.”
Why We Need More Bubbles
On parenting and blowing bubbles as a meditation on joy...
Yoga and Easter
As I’ve been editing and posting Father Clooney’s reflections on Lent and the Yoga Sutras for the past few weeks, I’ve been struck--again--by how much the practice of yoga prepares the body for prayer and meditation, for being still before God.
Introduction to Sacred Chanting with Cynthia Bourgeault.
In these videos, Cynthia Bourgeault discusses sacred chanting.
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.
Lent: What It Means to Me
I wonder sometimes just how strong and dedicated I really am in my faith and as a person. This year Lent will help me answer my own question.
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.”
News Years Resolutions: Experiencing Beauty and Joy in 2016
This year... I'm asking God to give me new eyes, eyes filled with grace to see beauty in my life...even in the painful and difficult aspects of my life.
Holy Waiting: Advent
Renee offers two meditations on waiting this advent season.
Chanting Resources
Resources to help you get started chanting.
Interview with Yahweh Yoga: Christian-Style Yoga
It can be confusing to both Christians and the secular yoga industry to call it Christian Yoga as some people have said, "If yoga is not a religion, why call it Christian Yoga?"
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.
Jesuit Yoga IV
The final question I wish to address has to do with the end of the two texts: if a person practices yoga as understood by Patañjali, or meditation as taught by Ignatius, and if she or he reaches a fairly advanced state (by effort, by grace) — then what kind of person is this, and how does she or he live? Do Ignatius and Patañjali produce very different kinds of persons?