Perilous Practices – A Look at Yoga from a Christian Perspective – Booklet

The practices of yoga and Eastern meditation are on the rise. According to one online commentator, more people engage in New Age and Eastern occult practices than attend all the houses of worship of all faiths combined in all denominations! People seek peace and tranquility in the anxiety-driven pressures of modern life, and they think they can find solace in yoga. “Yoga is great exercise!” “It’s only stretching.” “It makes me feel calm and peaceful.” How often have we heard these statements from Christians who see nothing wrong with yoga? They have no idea of the spiritual peril it represents, or its incompatibility with their Christian values. Christian churches and colleges have adopted some yoga techniques to become more in tune with God. They have cloaked the Eastern beliefs in a garb of Christianity and fail to see anything wrong with merging the two.