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YogaDevotion: The Book!
CPY’s Cindy Senarighi shares her book of 52 weekly devotions that blend faith and yoga practices with photos of real people doing yoga in the world.
Is Belief in Reincarnation Consistent with the Christian Faith?
Learn more about reincarnation.
How Do You Hear From God?
I sat in my chair but with my legs crossed. I set the timer on my phone for 8 minutes; I didn't want to bite off 20 minutes right away. I planned to increase the time each time I meditated. I focused on my breathing and the rising and falling of my chest. I opened my mind and heart to God.
Video Series: Fr. Tom discusses the role of the body in Christian Life
Videos of a teaching from Fr. Thomas Ryan: "You are literally a walking tabernacle of God's divine presence."
Video Overview of Fr. Déchanet's teaching
Fr. Déchanet’s teaching have been out of print for 50 years. We bring you some of our favorites here.
Letting It Go Deep
Like the Psalmists, we have to go deep to find the flow. Wells can only become springing fountains if you dig deep.
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.
Time to BE Ordinary
I don’t know about you but I like the “mountain top” experiences that come with Holy Spirit activity. I shun those experience of being in the “valley” even though I have felt God’s presence most intently when I have been there. Most of life however is lived in the ordinary, “in between” time and I am grateful for that. The “in between” time gives us time to catch our breath, explore our faith through our yoga practice at a slower pace.
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.
Is Pranayama Compatible with Christianity?
The natural association of breath with our life force can remind us of God’s life-giving spirit/breath as well as symbolize for us the indwelling divine Holy Spirit.
Books for Teachers
This past spring, two new books were published for Christians who practice yoga. Specifically, both books are aimed at Christian teachers of yoga, but there are ways in which yoga students can use them as well.
Shift Happens
When life changes around us, shift happens. When our health changes, shift happens. ... Fortunately, your YOGA mat can support all your life's shifts.
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.