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For those insisting yoga is necessary for their bodily health, my question is also “Why can’t you simply do stretching exercises? Why must it be yoga?” I can’t help feeling that there is an attachment to the allure of eastern mysticism behind the defensive posturing.
@@fancimcguffin2227 Please do stretching exercises as you suggest and don't call it Yôga. Don't also copy the exercises in the Yôga practices, because such practices require a mind set devoid of vices (control of excessive sexual desires, anger, jealousy, pride, in short, the six vices) as a prerequisite. Don't dabble in any eastern practices that you call mysticism. I am a Hindu, a demonic Hindu as per Christian (all denominations) standards. Pranâms.
Thank you SO MUCH for bringing attention to this! So many Christians are deceived and think Yoga is harmless! When I was in college I took both a world religions class and a yoga class at the same time. I saw that Yoga was connected with Hinduism. I experienced so much spiritual warfare! When I mentioned the similarities to my yoga instructor, she said, "of course! You can't teach yoga without the spiritual part".
I read that one cannot have yoga without Hinduism; nor can one have Hinduism without yoga. However I know SO many Christian women who are so defensive of yoga saying they’re just “doing the poses.”
@@lt7378 I've had that tough conversation, too. I was left wondering what the spirit was that let these Christian ladies fully understand me, but continue doing it.
I practiced yoga on and off for 13 years, and many of the ladies from church were there as well. But as I learned what God loves, I realized that I had to stop yoga because I'm a Christian, not a Hindu. From prayer beads to chanting, God snatched me out! I'm a Christian, not a Hindu! Yaaaay! 🎉🎉🎉
I started doing it in college for my cross-country training. It never seemed overtly ‘spiritual’ to me. However years later I attended a class that was very spiritual and I went straight to a friend’s house afterwards and had him pray over me against whatever that was 😂 But I did go back to occasional yoga dvds that were ‘not spiritual’ until my little daughter began doing some of the exercises with me. Seeing her in these praying poses did not sit right with me, and soon after that I had some friends bring it up and confirm it’s part of the occult. Thank you for clarifying this for so many Christians!
Yoga is Hinduism. You cannot separate the two. Why did you stray from your own Christian path??. Stay in touch your Christian path. Christians are the ones who are hating and murdering others. Do you know the meaning of "God is Love"?. I doubt it
It is a hidden inner religion of the third eye for people from India. It is not for Christians. It is the opposite. Evil. (spiritually evil) and I would be praying over my body too.
yoga teaches you to seek harmony all the time which is acutally to deaden your discernment and deaden youre emotions that are signals to set limits or disagree with someone. you are training yourself to be open to anything that sneeks behind your radar as long as it doesnt feel negative. since truth and absolutes are hard to hear you make it the enemy.
Thank you for this comment. It has clarified something in a huge way for me. I am a deeply committed Catholic married to a self professed agnostic who practises yoga for health reasons. He says he's not interested in the spiritual aspect... but in relation to your comment, he sits on the fence in nearly every argument, believes me to be too passionate about absolute truth regarding key issues and believes seeking harmony and love, (such vague terms!), will save the human race. I've blessed his yoga mats with exorcised oil and keep praying for Jesus to show him that true peace can only be found in Him. It's a battle for sure. I would appreciate prayers from this community. Thank you.
Just mediate on the word of God, and everything that's is sneaking behind your radar will be comsume by fire. God is a consuming fire. The word is spirit, so the word of God is the best to mediate on, since life is spiritual.
I tried one beginning Yoga class for exercise & improving coordination. I thought, like many Christians, that as long as I was doing it only health reasons & not as a religious practice, it would be OK. About three quarters way through the class, I became extremely nauseated & had to stop. I couldn’t figure out why. As I learned more about Yoga, I realized that it was probably the Holy Spirit trying to get my attention. I haven’t tried it since.
Call it exercise, not yoga. Hinduism forces you to be responsible rather that handing over things to some God. Yes it can be very uncomfortable to face yourself, look yourself in the mirror, face your karma. It is not for the lazy. What sone do, is not yoga!!!! For yoga, you get up at 4am, do pancha kryia cleansing process, recite a mantra and do your asanas. ALL THIS IS DONE BY TRUE HINDUS 90 MINUTES BEFORE SUNRISE. DID YOU EAT SATVIK FOOD ONLY? NO!!!
@Back Kile in the name of Jesus, I commend you to stop ✋🏽 that spirit of confusion. In fact, with the authority of God, let that spirit of confusion goes back to where it came from. Whatever you're trying to do is defeated in Jesus name. Just stop it!
I already commented but finished the whole interview now and had to say, thank you for this discussion, Becket! I've watched other videos talking about the dangers of yoga but Rae had so much to offer both with her historical and religious knowledge surrounding yoga, but also her personal testimony made things click into place and stand out to me with my SIL's deep involvement in it. (She is no longer my SIL but I am grateful for the reminder to *keep* *praying* ) Rae is so kind, so gentle, so bright and compelling...what a wonderful woman of God! 🥰
It's interesting as an exercise instructor I used to teach a lot of Stretch classes. This was in the eighties and nineties. A British lady came to a college and was teaching yoga in the library. I took several of these classes enjoying the stretching. Around here 2000 I started taking the yoga you speak of. During the one and a 1/2 to 2 hour class I found myself just praying I constantly would say the Lord's prayer silently. I was grieving the loss of my marriage and had nowhere else to go. I prayed a lot knowing that what I was hearing was not right nor real nor Christian. Thank you for this video episode and your research.
Thank you so much for this show! I have tried to share with Christian friends that there is no such thing as “Christian yoga“. I’ve encouraged them to read the history of yoga, and to listen to testimonies from those who share the truth about yoga. People get really defensive about this subject, but Rae shared in such a way that is non-confrontational. So appreciative to have something to refer to that speaks so clearly on this subject. God bless you both. 🙏🏻❤️
I literally have family members and fellow Christian’s who are angry with me and some who won’t speak to me because of my stand on yoga. I came out of the new age movement and have been shocked at Christians who are so steeped in these practices. Thank you for this interview!
What shocks me is how many people proclaim to be Christian and they are into everything the Bible warns against. I believe they are referred to as Luke warm christians. Very sad
I also came out of the new age so I completely get it! Many Christian do not understand the dangers because they never experienced getting deep into yoga. I taught for three years and it was in the end very empty and allowed demonic things to get far too close to me and it’s so crazy how it’s disguised so well as healing and wellness. But don’t get discouraged, most people don’t understand this and all we can do is share our experiences and pray God takes care of the rest.
I grew up Christian and I got into hot yoga as an adult and practiced it for 10 years. I used every excuse to justify doing yoga as a Christian and finally, my heart was convicted when the Holy Spirit revealed the dangers of it. It took almost 3 years for me to quit, I was experiencing a lot of spiritual warfare. Through prayer, I was able to completely detach myself from that world. Thank you for shining a light on this. I know many Christians do yoga and think it’s benign but at it’s core, it is a Hindu practice. Every yoga pose represents worship to a Hindu god. Our God is sovereign. We are to have no other gods before Him.
If a pose gives you a good stretch and you’re doing it for this purpose and not to worship another God I can see it’s a benefit. In fact you can do the same pose and use it to worship the Christian God. At the end of the day it’s your body doing some thing that’s not vulgar or sinful and it’s providing you with some benefit. I think that’s very Christian inherently. Self-care, self preservation, good health. Just put your mind in the right place when you do it. Hasn’t anybody else here experienced physical benefits from yoga quite a part from any Hindu roots?
I practised Ashtanga yoga for 35 years and taught for 25 years. Right before I was born again, I experienced the greatest amount of anxiety resulting in panic attacks than ever before! With all the practice and meditation I could never find peace. As soon as I was born again and gave my life over to my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, I experience peace and joy constantly every single day. Praise be to God for taking me out of the new age!
Namasthê. Please tell the entire word that you wasted 35 years, because of Yôga. You will do a lot of help to us Hindus, demonic Hindus, who want to rid the western world of Yôga. Pity the students who learnt under you for 25 years. If you are a true born again, you would make a sincere effort to trace all the students of the 25 years you played the role of Yôga teacher and tell that Yôga is demonic as you have discovered. We Hindus defended Yôga, but found the quality of teachers like you to be fake to begin with. after doing Pûrva Paksha, our group decided to support people like you who will do the work for us, Hindus, by you all demonising Yôga. We spend no money in defending Yôga. Pranâms.
@BabySaverServant I understand that it’s very hard to stop doing the practice but I’ve come to believe and feel (ad many other converts) that you just cannot separate the spiritual practice of yoga from the physical…,it’s impossible when each posture is meant to invoke the spirit of the Devi/god/goddess (demon), the animal or even the action (as the Sun Sals are saluting a creation and the warrior series replicate a murder scene….. Honestly, at first I thought you could separate the two, but I now know you can’t….it was a hard pill to swallow since my practice was not only a huge part of my life but yoga and the practice/lifestyle became my identity….I can only testify to the utter peace and feeling of freedom I have found since stopping the practice and giving my life to Jesus Christ……no anxiety, no anger, no worry, no more need to compete or to “gain”, and daily joy…..and my osteopath says my nervous system is no longer on “high alert” any more, my fascia is moving in places it was locked, ligaments and tendons are releasing…you would think doing ankle grabbing backbends and double legs behind the head would equal more open but, shockingly, the opposite is true!
@BabySaverServant Namasthê. Please don't demean Jesus by using the name Yôga. Name it something else, because if you use the word Yôga, is is appropriation of demonic Hindu thoughts and practices. Yes, I am a demonic Hindu and can live with that appellation given us by Christians (all denominations). Please ask the clergy, to coin a word. Pranâms.
@BabySaverServant I totally get what you’re saying….and I also thought I could separate the spiritual from the physical but, as I have experienced, you just can’t when you’re doing those postures….I’ve felt the difference….from an oppressive, competitive, “yoked” drive to do the practice and to move deeper/further into each of the Ashtanga series (I was in the middle of the 3rd series) to the freedom that, I believe, comes with not practicing paganism and idolatry through those postures. It’s definitely been a transition….I was a gymnast before yoga and have tried to use those stretches and strength exercises instead while I’ve added some other great workouts (cardio mostly). Also, the yoga led me down the wide path of occultism (as it does for most people) and I studied astrology/numerology, became Reiki attuned, started reading Oracle cards for people, practiced Mediumship, studied and became a certified Holistic Healer (did past life regressions/spiritual plane communication/meditation, etc), studied crystal healing, explored ayahuasca and psilocybin growing and ceremony (got some interesting testimonies from those experiences too) and all the while couldn’t find true peace. I guess we all find our way in our own time, but I do like to share my testimony to anybody that wants to hear it as now I know where true strength and true peace comes from. I pray for you my friend and thank you for responding and connecting! Peace and love to you! 😊
I used to really want to be a yoga teacher. I had worked low paying jobs rife with abuse for years, have always been interested in wellness & fitness & thought getting certified as a yoga teacher was a logical way out of the dead end job cycle. I pursued this goal for over a decade but l could never raise the $5000 for the course or secure a 9-5 job necessary to be available for the Friday night/all day Saturday and Sunday classes. (Which demonstrates how elitist the certification process is, but that's another matter.) Now l see that l dodged a bullet because, among other problems teaching yoga would have raised, l would have encouraged the worship of the self both in myself & my students. God knew what he was doing when he kept me from succeeding in this goal. (Wonderful guest by the way! What an intelligent, knowledgeable & articulate young lady. Where do you find all these amazing people, Becket!?)
Yeah I wanted to become a Yoga teacher too. I had the money and space to accomplish this but for some reason I never went ahead with it. It wasn't long after that I became a Christian and now I can see God was keeping me well away from that whole scene. And it wasnt long after that I stopped practicing yoga entirely, at which point my eyes were fully opened to the true nature of this thing that has fooled the entire world.
I always wanted to get into yoga in order to be more limber, but felt so bored. I even fell asleep in a class, once. I'm so glad to not always have it nagging at me that I should learn the poses.
Great message. I did Transcendental Meditation for 45 years, and although it brought me some rest, it robbed me of the peace that only comes from Christ.
Wow. I took a TM COURSE, saw the benefits but felt unsettled using the special word they gave me. There is definitely something going on, and the Lord steered me away.
Congratulations on getting free of TM! There are so many parts diametrically opposed to Christianity. When one gets into the Sidhis it becomes obvious to anyone who knows a few scriptures. Then the Maharishi announced that the serpent, the dragon had fully encircled the earth successfully. That was the last straw. How was that a good thing? We can see what the dragon is doing today.
This was intense for me. I can relate to almost everything said! I am from Southern California and practiced yoga and was also into the dance arts. Not to say that the dance arts is bad but that I used yoga to help supplement the stretching and exercising. I also struggled with anxiety and was driven away from Christianity in my young adulthood and pursued this idea of spirituality and God being energy and love and growing to attain this non-ego oneness enlightenment. I even started this very cultish Korean energy yoga called Dahnhak and was a huge practitioner visiting their retreat in Sedona many times. Unfortunately, down the road this way of thinking/ being left me open to spiritual warfare. I will stop there because it is almost indescribable but the important thing is that it exposed the truth that demons do exist and lead me to Jesus whom I had written off as another prophet. I repented with all my heart and handed myself over to him completely. He healed me then and told me to follow him. Of course, forever. But, it was still a long road of healing. I loved what she said about being so hungry for knowledge but how it pushed the bad out. The first person I spoke with on my worst horrific day was a Monsignor and he told me the difference with spirituality and Christianity is that "spiritual" people try to empty themselves while Christians want to completely fill themselves with the Holy Spirit. All of this happened a year ago and I should institutionalized after what I went through and the nervous breakdown I had afterwards and being filled with fear. I had no foundation and crumbled completely like a house of cards. Jesus has become my complete foundation. Even today I realized that he is constantly holding me up because he is my foundation and without him I would be back to where I was last year. But, he got me baptized in the Catholic Church, got me the best job I have ever had that pays way more than I ever have before, I'm living in this beautiful house 3 minutes from my church when last year I was a vagabond traveler, and I am discerning becoming a nun. There is nothing I want more than to be so close to Jesus now. He took me in like that and has been healing me ever since. I am even off my anti-depressants already. If anyone wants to encounter Jesus in the most intense way, go to Adoration at a Catholic Church and just sit with the Eucharist for one hour. You will see. The powerful and tangible spirituality the Catholic Church has is mind blowing. Because I have a spiritual sensitivity, my experiences are much more than most that have been Catholics all their lives. Plus, my hunger to learn everything about it brings me amazing gifts. Also, during the part where she says how she goes to the church and everything suddenly clicked, I had to yell out a "Hallelujah" in my living room with tears in my eyes while holding my hand in the air towards the San Damiano Cross over my fireplace. My dogs thought I was nuts. I had the same experience on my worst day but after talking to the Monsignor I immediately put the radio in my vehicle on a Christian station and everything being preached and sung suddenly made absolute sense! I only listen to Christian radio stations and really don't listen to mainstream music anymore. It sounds so soulless now. Also, I have gotten a little too chubby living here in Texas now and want to get back into the gym. I was the same way about yoga. After all of the horror, I didn't want to touch it and saw it all as a slippery slope back to evil. But, my gym had a very non-spiritual yoga class I thought I'd do just for exercise, lengthening, and breathing. But, what she said in the video even about the poses meaning something made so much sense! So, now it is a big huge no for me. I'll follow Jesus's health plan instead: Walking, fasting, and praying.
I taught yoga for 3 years before coming to Christ. I taught the philosophy: the 8 limbs of yoga, read from the Bhagavad Gita, etc in with the asanas (physical yoga). I thank the Holy Spirit for bringing me out of that gate to hell that unfortunately most Americans still see as a healing positive thing.🙏
I need to ask: what in your experience qualified as "hellish" while you were a yoga practitioner? And did such dark experiences occur prior to, or after "coming to Christ"?
Bikram chodhury was the yoga instructor that got in trouble. I was only about 15 minutes in when I commented, I didn't realize they had came up with the name
Sorry I didn't mean to respond to you specifically, I must have tapped your comment and didn't realize it. There's a couple really good books that touches on how they've introduced all these type things into our society that really opened my eyes. Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future by Seraphim Rose and Orthodoxy and the Kingdom of Satan. They had a yoga class at my niece's elementary school and I live what's considered the Bible belt and it's crazy that nobody sees what's happening
Wowww! Amazing testimony! At age 18, as a Christian, I went to massage therapy school straight from high school. There I learned yoga and meditation. By the end of the school year I was having suicidal thoughts. I realized later the truth about yoga and meditation practices and I'm so grateful God has revealed this to me. Jesus Christ is the one true God. He is the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Jesus Christ.
I also went to massage therapy school, have done yoga and meditation and didn't have any suicidal thoughts at all. Most of us haven't. How do you explain that?
@@ribbrascal That's great. I agree that we all have a different experience. The reason I don't practice yoga is that I don't worship Hindu gods. If I weren't a Christian, I wouldn't care that yoga is a Hindu practice and would probably do it. But, I believe that Jesus Christ is God and I won't worship false gods.
@@snuggisthecute You're not worshipping Hindu gods if you do yoga, though. If you think putting your body into different stretches and poses that aren't any different from Western stretches and exercises is *making* you worship Hindu gods, I'm sorry but that is just DUMB. Over the last decade, I've become focused on the derangements and anti-intellectualism of the woke left, but after reading the comments section under a couple of Becket's videos, I had forgotten how these same qualities apply to many evangelical Christians. Do your thing, good for you, but you should know that you're not being rational, at all. Just like the woke left.
@@ribbrascal sorry your comment is way too long. Didn't read it. Just do research and decide for yourself. You can't control what other random people commenting on youtube videos do with their own lives. Sorry!
Thank you! Was blessed by this conversation and by Rae’s testimony. What she said about her decision -to turn her back on yoga was not because of legalism (do’s and don’ts) but borne out her relationship with Jesus -struck me the most!
@@whatsinaname2706 Ha! You wish! Here is a fun song you may enjoy! It is by Keith Green SINCE NO ONE BELIEVES IN ME ANYMORE (satan’s boast) it is a fun song You can find it on RUclips… enjoy!
@@whatsinaname2706 pffft! I've seen them . They would come in my home and try to pull me out of my bed! You'll fine out soon enough. They hate the name of Jesus Christ and the word of God!
I was saved out of yoga and meditation while living in LA. I had a similar experience that the deeper I got into it the worse I felt. I felt like my soul was being stolen and my personality was getting worse and worse.
Why did u do yoga in the first place? Yoga us Hinduism!!! Now you are "liberated" from responsibility. Go live a life full of hate, hypocrisy and murder like most "Christians".
Thank you Rae and Becket. I practiced yoga for about 8 years, became a teacher, studied Ayurveda and Vedic Astrology, endless cleanses and detox... One day I was practicing Bikram and I looked in the mirror and I wasn't there.. I looked again and wow I didn't see me. That was the beginning of the end of Yoga for me... the final end of yoga was when I attended a yoga class and a 23 year old was preaching her philosophy of enlightenment through yoga. That was the wake-up call and returned to Christ. Bless you both!
I'm not a big yoga person. I went to kundalini yoga not knowing what it was. We were meditating...and I got stuck...couldn't move or open my eyes and I felt myself..my spirit..me leaving through the top of my head. Felt like my head burst open at top with energy escaping...my spirit was going somewhere and I didn't know where. Scared the crap out of me...I had to reel it back in...and was yelling at myself in my head...you have to open your eyes! Move!
Yoga was the last door I shut. To be honest I fought it. I tried to justify it until I couldn't do it anymore. I claimed to be a Christian while doing other New Age practices. Night terrors for close to 50 yrs of my life. Delivered a year ago. Praise God! No more crystals, no more altered states of consciousness, no more energy healing, no more yoga, no more drumming. Jesus said, " I am either enough or I am not." Riding the fence was over. Thank you for covering this. Becket, I love your story, reading your book, and love your podcast.
Yoga is an over 5000 year old practise and doesn't in and of itself have anything to do with New Age. It is if so, rather the "New Age Movement" that has adopted it as part of their practises, not the other way around. And all this paranoid nonsense is quite literally spiritually ridiculous, at best! 🤷♀️🤦♀️
@B~8 Yoga and Hinduism are linked. Hinduism is panthestic, and Christianity is monotheistic. As a Christian, you should avoid activities that are a part of another religion. God wants you to worship Him. Don't be deceived by this person's post. As a Christian you should have no part of this.
@@gasoven3759 Namasthê. You say Hinduism is panthestic. Did you think of saying Pathetic? Or perhaps you wanted to say pantheistic. While we Hindus can laugh at your understanding, we Hindus will use such ridiculous understanding to our advantage. Please tell more Christians that Hinduism is pantheistic and the superior Christianity is monotheistic. Go on please and propagate this understanding. We love people like you who can rid Hinduism in the western world. I am a Hindu, a demonic Hindu by Christ/Mary related religious standards. Hinduism has existed for thousands of years before Jesus came on earth and we can live with how the west understands that Hinduism is pantheistic. Pranâms.
"Do not be conformed to the world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you might prove what the Will of God is that which is Good, acceptable and perfect" THAT IS EXCACTLY WHAT YOGA IS IT IS YOKING YOU, CONFORMING YOU by emptying your mind cutting you off from the will and knowledge of God.
Oh I loved this interview. God bless Rae. Love the way you put it together. Not to scare anyone, but just the realness of your testimony. Thank you Becket.. May God continue to use you for these praise worthy to Jesus testimonies. Just love them. God bless you and thank you for the work you do for our Lord Jesus Christ. 🙏🔥
I took a yoga class with a friend through a local community college. The instructor was really pushing the religious aspect of yoga hard. She spent a full class time just promoting vegetarianism. She made statements like "It's up to your own conscience, but eating meat IS murder." And "Yogis who reach high levels find that they can't eat meat anymore." And "If you had to kill and pluck a chicken yourself, you wouldn't be able to eat it." I grew up on a farm, with Christian parents who are WWII survivors. I actually have very fond memories of plucking and cleaning out chickens with my family.
I was a vegetarian until i had a baby, at which point I could pluck a chicken, or shoot a deer, for that matter. This is one reason why New Agism is anti-family. To feed our kids we will do what we have to do.
@@kathleenking47 because "animals are pure beings and we are malicious because we have a conscience and know what we are doing," according to the animal Rescue Angels. They have a double standard for dogs, though, which they simultaneously promote as all-knowing and worthy of worship and also as a "pure being."
Plucking chickens was fun to me as a kid. Some people do better health wise as vegans but it’s not for everybody. Whatever works best for your health. I’m really disgusted with how people worship dogs nowadays.
@@carolinecherry530 I personally believe our societies have rejected the blessings of children and replaced that "need" to nurture with 4 legged pets people dote on.
I practiced yoga as a Christian for a few years. I loved the physical part of it and how limber it made me from the stretches. At one point yoga got me into meditation and that got me into a scary hole that the Lord got me out of quickly. So that encouraged me to do my own research on yoga. After doing a thorough amount the Lord convicted me and I could no longer continue in that practice. It’s crazy how this spiritual practice is disguised as just physical wellness when it can open so many doors Christians should keep closed. Thank you Becket for bringing your guest on. This message is important.
Well, the Lord loves you. It’s kind of obvious that it has some strange religious related origin but too many Christians don’t pay attention or think those who oppose those things are old fashioned or square. Keep giving your testimony and help other believers. God bless you.
I've tried to share this info about yoga with a new age person without success. The person became so agitated & alarmingly angry when I shares the info. I keep praying for the person to have eyes opened to this info.
Thank You Both so so much!!!! I am 62 years old and have been off and on with this for the last 15 years. Going to classes, that say, oh we don't say the words, but do the poses. My Mother in law warned me, but I kept rationalizing. Thank You. God Bless!!!! No more compromise. Thank You! Beckett praying shoulder gets better🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
YOG = Bind & Control Who are you binding with ? ~ demonic entities Who is controlling who ? ~ the demonic entities are controlling you Best wishes & blessings to all of you who are working towards emancipation from those evil forces. 💞
Revealing the real truth, (the evilness) regarding yoga is so very important! Thank you both so very much! As Christians yoga should have no part in our lives! As Christians we cannot serve two masters! (No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other... (Matthew 6:24))
I have been teaching yoga since 2015 and practicing since I was a kid. Really struggling to put this behind me and stop teaching and working at a yoga studio. Almost all of my friends do yoga and I am so scared of losing my community. Have been trying to quit for a few years, but it has been such a huge part of my identity. Please pray for me. Thank you for sharing this!
You are in my THOUGHTS & PRAYERS BUT all you NEED is GOD'S voice!! Talk to him, cuz he's already aware of it, he wants you to be totally SINCERE THT'S all! HE will GIVE you the WISDOM & GUIDANCE 🙏tht you need! Pls....Just TRUST him! Remember >>>> GREATER is HE tht's in YOU than HE tht's in the WORLD! 🌎 WE ARE HUMAN & God already knows our "STRUGGLES"... but he WILL help us IF we are HONEST with him! 🙏💜🙏💜🙏💜 (HEARING & also READING these comments speaks VOLUMES!) THINK about it & let it SINK in💕 PRAYERS tht God gives you the STRENGTH & WISDOM to REMOVE any / & ALL HINDRANCES tht's standing in your way...of total PEACE! 😇 My FIRST thoughts about doing YOGA were about the "POSES" & I noticed they WERE all PROVOCATIVE...tht says ALOT to me! Pls Don't worry cuz >>> I heard another lady speak about YOGA the same as YOU are, & God delivered her to give it up after yrs of doing it, she said she knew it WASN'T right...I was impressed w/ her strength & determination to do wht's RIGHT! & YOU WILL get THRU it too! 🙏👍🥰 🙏 GOD'S in this walk along w/ you! Take his hand, TALK to him EVERYDAY about this, & I will also PRAY [for you] tht any unhealthy DESIRE or HINDRANCE is totally REMOVED! [& by FAITH I BELIEVE God will REMOVE it for you!!💕] IN JESUS NAME! I ask! [& I give GOD ALL the PRAISE & ALL the GLORY in advance! 🙏♥️🙏] GOD can do the IMPOSSIBLE! So NEVER underestimate God's POWER...you just need the FAITH of a "mustard seed"!!!!! 🙏💟 (GOD BLESS YOU always!) 🙏💙🙏
I’m sorry for the torment you’re going through Iris. First thing I advice is trust in the Lord. If your community leaves you, then it was never really a community. God is all you need but I have no doubt he will surround you with other believers that will love you for who you are not what you identify as. People will always let us down but God won’t. Those who truly love you, will remain your friend. Those who don’t, never really loved you. They loved what you did.
God will restore a double portion. LET IT GO!!!! Bless you and praying for your resolve and for the strength the Holy Spirit to come upon you. Jesus is your peace!
Jesus Christ said, if you want to be my disciple, you must deny yourself and follow me. Leaving your friends because of truth Jesus Christ, might be painful but it's worthy. You will feel alone at time but you won't feel lonely because you have Christ in you.
Im not an expert in YOGA at all , never have done it , but i do practice meditation ,whenever i can to quiet my mind , because life is usually busy and training your mind you just become quieter whenever you want it can be extremely useful for concentration and for easing your tensions and extremely powerful ,for recharge your energies. Just something as simple and to sit on normal chair for 5 minutes and have deep breathing exercises can make a major difference and recharge your body.. Is not recommended to do it before going to sleep , because you will not longer sleep , if fully restored in energies. I also christian too.. And even though , never done Yoga , i can assure you , there is nothing to fear at all , about doing any mistakes.. if it was at all...there is a major missundestanding by Christians ,by Hindus , by All other organized religions you can name ,and also by Non religious movements too , and by New Age spiritual movements too.. missunderstandings about What Jesus really teach and promoted.. versus what Christians religions actually teach. In other words ,Jesus is much better than the organized religions created on his name . Say in other way , ,Jesus teachings and christianity as people know it , is not necessarily the same thing. So will give you an example.. about what's the problem. Imagine @IRIS.. that you were a Major Dancer , who dance for a living. And you want to teach people how to dance , the you travel the world and create studios ,with your name , and while you are alive ,you teach people how to dance and is very successful.. But when no longer you are in this world , those that you put in charge of those studios ,instead of following your practices , of what you teach.. those managers ,that were supposed to teach people how to dance , what you wanted ,decide instead , to use the studios to worship you , to do tribute every week about your person. And additionally , the people in charge of your founded studios , hire Dancers ,that dance totally different and how you wanted people to do it. So this is the problems with organized Christian religions today.. and also others religions too. Organized religions is more about control of population , using FEAR as a weapon of control you , don't do this or that because you will burn in fire for eternity.. Jesus never said anything like that. Jesus spoke ALL THE TIME.. about an un-conditional loving father, about forgiving those who try to chase you and harm you . IF you focus ONLY in Jesus direct teachings ,in the bible ,the 4 gospels of Jesus.. you will see a pattern , of how Jesus repeated AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIn to NOT FEAR , to have no Doubts , To have unconditional love and TRUST in GOD , no matter how difficult things looks to be. That by your Faith you will be saved. [Luke 7:50] .. Christianity as told by Jesus ,was all about developing an Unconditional love and Trust for GOD that doesn't wave. This unconditional trust ,Jesus called it Faith that move mountains. you could do anything. Jesus also told a LOT , something that is ignored frequently.. Jesus told.. TO NOT JUDGE.. That is to not put labels , on people or things.. like good /evil , Judgements create separation , between you and that other person or thing. Jesus was more for Unifying humanity , not about dividing . Reason why Jesus teach a lot forgiveness too. I advice you ,to check the book of Conversations with GOd..book1 , on youtube it will explain you what Jesus real message was, but that mosst people don't pay attention. and so Organized institutions , most of what they do is Worship the figure of jesus and the bible , but do not actually explain you ,that Salvation comes by your Faith , by your unconditional trust , unconditional love for GOD ,that Jesus was representing. And when you really Trust in someone , you know that person will not abandon you , and leave you alone ,when you more need it.. even if you mistakes . Good parents /or good friends are those that will support you no matter what mistakes you do , But if people can do that that are imperfect , and stand with you in good times and bad times ,imagine how much more God and Jesus could do? So you should never fear about GOD response for anything you did ,specially if you did not knew what it was. Life is a school and we are not born with a clear manual of what to do all the time. So if i was you , ill seek for alternative opinions about Yoga from Christians , so you get more points of view .However i really advice you ,to read a book with title [Conversations with GOD , book 1 ,by neal donald walsch..] , is online posted in youtube for free, it will explain you all this and a lot more. Specially how to easy learn to differentiate what Messages that comes from God or not. and how to know when you know.. And understand what works for you or not. and perhaps you can ask Directly God to explain you if Yoga is good for you or not. IF you believe God can respond to your direct questions , then it will happen to the same degree that you believe. IF you ask for prayers , is because you have doubts , about GOD.. Instead just learn to develop a relationaship with GOD... the best prayers are those of thanks giving for life ,and to be thankful everyday for all the things you appreciate in your life.
I'm an ex-yoga teacher, but still barely practicing yogini. I have been studying with Swami Jnaneshwara Bharati of the Himalayan tradition for the past 2 years. I have been called back to Jesus recently and am wrestling with the idea of leaving yoga behind completely and staying with my faith. Finding this video has been so helpful to me. I know God is leading me in the right direction. I have been praying for wisdom about what to do. I am in Australia and would welcome any advice, support, direction. Etc..
@@victorabustamante7207 Didn't you listen to it? It clearly recounts that Yoga is a compelling deception that gains a grip on people. You can see how clearly this person needs to cut the ties but it isn't clear or easy until you fully discern God's purpose on it. Humility is part of compassion.
You cannot serve to masters. You will hate one and love the other, hence your confliction Your first point of call would be to cut ties with Swami Jhaneshwara Bharati. What is your reason or need to study with him, instead of just studying the WORD, especially as you purport to be of the faith (2 CORINTHIAN 6:14 KJV). The choice is simple tbh, either you turn away from what you are doing and return to the LORD or you don't. It is a choice.
Thank you for exposing Yoga for what it is truly. Every time I wanted to try Yoga, I have stories where God blocked me, or He would send someone to me as a warning, etc. Keep up the good work Mr. Beckett and Ms. Darabont .
This is 100 percent not true, and based in fear😢😮 Hard to believe anyone in this day and age doesn't realize it The same people who believe this believe the Bible is literally, and do SO MUCH DAMAGE ❤😢
WOW, Christian “yogini” here. I didn’t realize the extent of what I was into (during Covid got away from classes) and I am moved by this interview. I would love to hear more from Rae about her inspiring walk with Christ.
Hinduism forces you to be responsible rather that handing over things to some God. Yes it can be very uncomfortable to face yourself, look yourself in the mirror, face your karma. It is not for the lazy. What sone do, is not yoga!!!! For yoga, you get up at 4am, do pancha kryia cleansing process, recite a mantra and do your asanas. ALL THIS IS DONE BY TRUE HINDUS 90 MINUTES BEFORE SUNRISE. DID YOU EAT SATVIK FOOD ONLY? NO!!!
Yoga means "yoked with demons," and "we cannot drink of the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too." When I was 16 way back in 1971, I went through a severe trial with a mother who had become demon possessed from working the Ouija board (which I had turned away from, and refused to work with her). I suffered a great deal at her hands, but it caused me to search for God. I had been an atheist, but my eyes were opened that if there's an evil force, there has to be a good force. I first read the Upanishads and Bhagavad-Gita, but came up empty. There was nothing there, so then I went to a YMCA yoga class. We sat there in the lotus position with our fingers making the triple 6 illuminati hand gesture, chanting "Ohm," and the most overwhelming feeling of horror came over me. I knew it was wrong, and I got up and left. When I was 17 someone told me to read the book of John, and I then read all 4 Gospels in a row, and became a believer in Jesus Christ. I'm 68 now, there have been many struggles with the forces of darkness, but greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world!!!
Namasthê. Thank you for your testimony. Please help us Hindus by sharing your story with Christian groups and denounce Upanishads and Bhagavad-Gita as empty. We Love such great testimonials. Only trouble is that several universities in the west have copies of Bhagavad-Gîta the empty book (as you describe it, having no substance) and the next step is to tell these western universities to burn their copies. We Hindus will be perfectly happy to see this done. We Hindus never expect non-Hindus to follow Hinduism. Hinduism never proselytize like Christ Mary related religions. You see, the western world appropriates Hindu thought and later decries it. Silly is it not? Hindus Pranâms.
I was a child and teen I was exposed too several forms of new age and occult practices such as yoga 🧘♀️ and meditation, aroma therapy, healing crystals, healing message and roach, nudist colony , free masonsary in the form of jobs daughters cause my father and grandfather were free masons. Had many physic readings and even had my astrological chart done and was into astrology. I have repented all of these practices. More is still being relieved too me from the holy spirt . Praise Jesus Christ
@@Austin11ification Hello Austin: Pardon me for butting in. You will do us, Hindus a great favour telling others of Recovering Baptist's story. While Recoverin Baptist's understanding that Yoga means "yoked with demons," is rubbish, we Hindus can live with a westerner's ludicrous understanding. When the western world appropriates Bhârathian (Indian as the west calls it) culture, the west thinks of power and when the western Christian ego is boosted by wrong understanding, there is negative experience. We Hindus can laugh at this state of affairs. That is why we Hindu need people like you to do the spade work for us, in that denounce Yôga. Thanks in advance. Amen.
If I could find some thing that helped my back issues like yoga, I would do it, I haven’t found any kind of stretching that works nearly as well as up dog, and down dog and other yoga stretches like the flamingo. If they’re out there, I haven’t seen them. It’s really too bad. I will continue to do yoga until I find some thing that I can supplement it with so that I can function in day-to-day life without excruciating pain. I do not take medication. I believe with the medication prescribed for back pain is evil.
I knew that yoga was a spiritual practice and should be avoided as a Christian. I have a neighbor who is Indian and she describes "white people's yoga" and then contrasts this to the way white people have co-opted their religious practice. I live in California and yoga comes up often. I always explain that its a religious practice that does not align with my Christian faith.
Yes! It is a religion. I saw in one comment section a person vehemently disagreeing with this. But I've seen way too many testimonies of the spiritual attacks people experienced from their spirit guides when they decided to follow Jesus. It is a religion and it is not of God!
@@Shortytash You don't save people by warning or preaching. Your God does. If they don't get saved, it's your God's choice not to do so. I am not impressed by the millions he chooses not to save. So I am not impressed by him. I am a better person then he is and I am more worthy of worship.
This is so true, after being a born again Christian for 2 decades, I visited a yoga studio for the first time with a friend. I immediately knew, this was not the place for me. My power, protection and guidance comes from Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior, NOT from myself (as we were being told in yoga class). I was laying on the yoga mat saying the Lords Prayer while they were chanting. I couldn’t get out of there fast enough. I’m still good friends with the lady who invited me to yoga (she’s a Christian), but that was my first and last yoga class. When I got home, I did my research and discovered, it was all rooted in Hinduism. Thank you Lord for discernment and opening my eyes!! Thanks for the interview Becket and Rae.
Hinduism makes you face the demons within, and that is very uncomfortable! Hinduism forces you to be responsible rather than handing over things to some God. Yes it can be very uncomfortable to face yourself, look yourself in the mirror, face your karma. It is not for the lazy. What sone do, is not yoga!!!! For yoga, you get up at 4am, do pancha kryia cleansing process, recite a mantra and do your asanas. ALL THIS IS DONE BY TRUE HINDUS 90 MINUTES BEFORE SUNRISE. DID YOU EAT SATVIK FOOD ONLY? NO!!!
Isnt it interesting when you dig down in the inner layers of all of them, you find Satan there deceiving all. Whether yoga, new age, occult, postmodernism, drugs, etc.
honestly could have kept listening! We need a part 2 or 3... Rae didn't get a chance to get into how we can still remain healthy and active and stretch, and how to keep that all separate from yoga. Would love to hear more on how she transitioned a lifestyle of yoga into a healthy lifestyle of exercise. Amazing testimony and such good information!
@@ACityShining Pilates is stretching. ETA: my ballet teacher was a Christian who taught us to avoid yoga like the plague. Pilates, on the other hand, was an effective stretching program.
I was at conference and they were offering a Yoga class, so I prayed before going in with being a Christian and after about being in there for about 5-10 minutes I had to leave due feeling very sick in my stomach. I got in my car and as soon I was down the road a couple of miles, I started throwing up. That confirmed to me as Christian I should not mess with certain things.
I have a similar experience when i attended a seminar that practiced new age hypnotism. I asked the holy spirit for discernment and left mid session. Felt nauseous after that. Took it as confirmation its not of God and its demonic.
Basically 🧘♂️ came from aruvedic medicine. As far as joint & muscle pain, it's helped me more than any doctors. If physical therapy can do it, so can yoga.
I am a yoga teacher and I’m a Christian. I teach the asanas and pranayama as a relaxation technique and a way to connect to your inner self, and that brings you closer to God if you believe in one. I don’t work-ship any Hindu Gods or Goddesses. I don’t chant I believe when we learn and accept ourselves as well as others we become better human beings and become more tolerant in a world where we need more peace. I have students from all religions and I respect them. Yoga has helped me be more relaxed, help me anxiety and even a little depression. If you love Jesus nothing will take you away from him. It’s just like other practices like Karate, tai chi or other modalities that are rooted on different religions.
Guys, I listen to the video I think that they don't know anything about it. Also, the lady is just talking about her understanding. I am Christian. I feel sad about myself because I just discover the passing of Yoga 2 years ago. Yoga and all the Hindu mythology of God have helped me in my personal life and be more Christian. Also to do better in my Job as a TCM practitioner . Now looking forward to visiting India.
Gonna share this on social media. Living in L.A. is certainly challenging as a Christian, it's isolating. Grateful to remain full of the Holy Spirit with Jesus as my bestie 🙏
Yes we do! We are here for you. It is hard. Where I live in Northern California it can be difficult too in some places. You can quite literally feel the difference in town depending on believers and non believers. But we are out there and we remain steadfast.
Ok keep your holy spirit! What u did was not yoga!!!! For yoga, you get up at 4am, do pancha kryia cleansing process, recite a mantra and do your asanas. ALL THIS IS DONE BY TRUE HINDUS 90 MINUTES BEFORE SUNRISE. DID YOU EAT SATVIK FOOD ONLY? NO!!!
@@YouStillNeedToSleep your comment really made me laugh Kile, seriously, as if, you, describing yoking with demons, would be impressive or something, when I am clear it's demonic 👿
Wow wow wow! As a Christian I’ve always felt weird going to yoga classes even tho for me it was “stretch/exercise”. At the end when they say Namaste, I always said, Praise the Lord …quietly. BUT…this was SOOO enlightening. I’ve been sending this episode to Christian friends who do yoga for “health”. Thank you Thank you!! Hugs n blessings. ❤
@@himabindumandapati8489 God's Holy Spirit is the only divinity in me..anything else is Satan.. Wake up because you are inviting demons inside you with your false beliefs!
@@Ang4God777 hahahaah.... Has Satan created everything else in this cosmos... I believe in Omnipotent Brahman... Your belief is yours and my belief is my belief. What is Yoga to do with religion? The problem arises when you want to change others belief systems in terms of faith and religion. God bless you
I was gifted a yoga course just before I became a Christian. I was terrible at it and tore a ligament in my knee but I felt that there was something very creepy about the chanting and breathing; it’s so obviously worship and so obviously the worship of the self and the demonic. Here in the UK it’s not unusual to have yoga classes in church buildings, as the one I attended was. Now that I’m a follower of Christ and can see how antithetical yoga practice is to Christianity, I’m dismayed that a Christian church has yoga classes in its building.
I started practicing after a devastating neurological diagnosis about ten years ago. I’m in remission and don’t need Botox or other drugs and live pain free. Yoga has been nothing more than a physical practice for me, close to physical therapy. I never did it to seek enlightenment or spiritual awakening. I do stick with the same teacher so there are no “surprises” that I’m wouldn’t be comfortable with. I’m in the Word daily and have been sober for decades. I also do Pilates. There are downward dogs, planks and child’s poses in that practice as well. I’ve watched some of the “alternatives” on RUclips and they look pretty much the same as what I do. Very similar movements. So..to each his own. If it’s a sin to you, don’t do it. As for me, until an alternative appears that works as well, I’m going to continue on. It beats being confined to my bed , unable to drive and fighting with the insurance company about paying for Botox injections.
@@vladimirjokanovic6462 Judaism and Hinduism are both old. Jesus was among the Jews as the anointed one (Christ) and therefore Christianity began after Jesus but we don't get rid of the old testatment.
@@kathleen7849 well, cannot dispute any of that except "therefore". Joshua ben Joseph was dubbed Christ by the Greek so he would hardly be aware of that neither would he authorize use of his appearance, image, acts and quotations so anyone believing in Christ and Christianity as such is a spiritual equivalent of the low-budget snobs wearing fake Prada handbags and dresses. 🙄
My doctor suggested that I do yoga for relaxation. However, my spirit just wouldn’t let me do it. I tried a couple of classes and my spirit was so uncomfortable that I just walked away. Now I know why. Thank you Jesus🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Yoga is so addictive. I had to pray and pray to get out of it, because I wouldn't believe anything negative about it. God's answer after weeks of praying for an answer was scaring me out of it with the most frightening sleep paralysis experience after I'd done loads of 'Christian yoga' that day. My story won't convince anybody else - it could have been coincidence and the sleep paralysis just physical, but the moment I called out to Jesus in my mind, it disappeared, and I immediately knew the connection with the yoga I'd been doing. Only after that I discovered the testimony of Mike Shreve, a former yoga teacher. There's a back-bend routine on RUclips I still sometimes crave, but I'm never going back again. It was way too scary.
Curious statement. Why is it addictive? Simply curious. I have never heard anyone say that before.( I have never practiced it before.) I am sorry you experienced the Sleep paralysis thing. So, you think messing with the Yoga called those things to come in? Sometimes people see things, and other times they just experience the powerlessness of lack of movement against their will. Sometimes it happens repeatedly. I really feel for the victims of it. Very wise of you to call on Jesus in your mind. Smart girl. Some people do not know that his name has power because of his authority and suffer unwittingly. His name is so powerful! Glad u got free. Mike Shreve huh? I will have to look that up. My old Church's child worship was offering yoga for the kids to practice per the independent adult leadership looking after my child along with her daughter. My daughter told me this when I came to get her, and I asked the lady what was up with that. She defended it. ( This was in the house of Yahweh/Jesus on a Sunday, mind you, and without my permission. But I have trained my daughter since birth basically to reject and never practice meditation or yoga anywhere, and with anyone, and have had to fight off school and have her sit outside in the hall when they did it in elementary. It is everywhere.) Needless to say, I got the pastor involved, and I was so shocked when this Assemblies of GOD pastor agreed it was ok, no worries, "it is only exercise, and you are wrong and making a big deal out of nothing". I couldn't believe a pastor of the Christian faith could be so ignorant of basic Hinduism/Idolatry/Paganism! Well, then it got superheated. I was PISSED! We left after several years of worship there until that one Sunday, which was her first day transitioning into the bigger kids program from the little people program in the nursery too! He preached the sermon to us about not letting the world influence the house of God + our lives!
Mike Shreve is a dear friend of mine! His testimony is so AWESEOME (as is Becket’s)! As for backbends, just do a gymnastics class instead of that; they stole gymnastics moves and twisted them into their religion, but it did not originate there.
I used to go to the ymca or to a local Christian “ holy” yoga class, but one snowy winter Saturday morning they were both closed so I decided to do “holy” yoga at home. I got dressed and got everything set up and went to cast one of the “holy” yoga instructor videos off of you tube. The instructor was supposed to have a lot of videos, I knew her personal name and business name. I searched and searched for 10 or 15 minutes and I became so frustrated that I couldn’t find her videos. I then cried out to God, why, why can’t I find her videos. I then heard the holy spirit say, clearly, yoga is not holy and it is not of me. I thank the Lord and praise his holy name for bringing me out of yoga. And like Rae, my deliverance process was not pretty. I urge anyone who has done yoga to please seek out a deliverance minister or go through self deliverance. Shalom!!!
I have never practiced yoga where someone preached any religion. Breath, stretching & strengthening. One could pray to Jesus during a yoga practice. Should a seeker dig into the background, they could go down some weird rabbit hole, but anyone clear in their faith would never pursue that silliness. The actual poses can gently strengthen a healthy body and the breathing settles a busy mind when settling into a Christian prayer and meditation.
Wonderful show Becket and Rae! I had been practicing yoga on and off at a local studio in my town for years and had always been unnerved at the large Buddha that would greet you at the entry as well as the alter and deities on the walls. One day a friend asked me too go with a gentle “restorative” yoga class with her and while doing the chavasina at the end of class I looked over and my eyes fixated on the Hindu wall art and I felt the Lord speak to my heart in no uncertain terms “shalt have NO other gods before me- this is worship!” I knew from that day forward I could never go again. I am so grateful for the Holy Spirit’s conviction. I do not miss it at all. I would much rather obey.
I came across this by chance. I’m so glad I clicked on it. As a Muslim I always felt uneasy about yoga. I’ve only given it a go a handful of times but something always felt off. It’s great to have definite answers about how it is incompatible with my faith. The biggest sin in Islam is worshipping anything other than the Creator. Thank you for this interesting conversation. I’ve learnt a lot.
@@normanshadow1 God is like nothing and nothing is like him We love Jesus peace be upon him, however he’s definitely a regular human being and was sent to humanity as a prophet. God doesn’t have a son nor does he have a girlfriend. God is unique, if he had a son, what would make him superior 😊
@@DAVID-kd3qyJesus said, “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.” There is no other way to God that though the sacrifice and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus only.
I had a lot of trouble understanding why christians were saying yoga was spiritually dangerous, and this was the first time that it was explained in such a helpful way. Thank you.
Totally agree I used to feel a bit peeved with the Christians who just blurted out yoga is satanic. I would roll my eyes. This explanation really helped me.
And to most people who say that I ask “did you pray about it and ask God to show you whether it’s OK or not?” Why are we as Christian’s on different pages on so many issues IF we are all being led by the Holy Spirit? Answer is we haven’t taken the time to pray about it or listen to the answer afterwards.
I am a Christian and I studied yoga to become a certified instructor. Every door was blocked for me to finish. I did all kinds of yoga..even Kundalini. I felt very convicted about the practice of yoga and started researching if it was evil. I found an Indian lady on RUclips sharing how she became possessed be a demon and she was following yoga gurus. She was Hindu at the time. She said in India they laugh about ‘Christian Yoga’. I threw away all of my yoga dvds and stopped practicing. I have found Essentrics/Classical Stretch! It is lengthening, calming and very, very good for you! Praise the Lord!
in india they dont really do the yoga.... they laugh at white people doing yoga and acting spiritual. except ashtanga yogis because you cant f with ashtanga yogis... theylaugh at trustafarians when they say namaste because its like saying hello to them. they are mostly occupied with basic survival. the gurus are mostly scammers of yuppies and rich kids from the west. my gf was from india and confirmed my observations. i am a decade of hot vinyasaand ashtanga in san diego and certified yoga teacher. yoga means to yolk. referimg to bringing together the body with God. i encountered frequent individuals presentimg situations that i natually just blocked out and focused inward. i even thank God for the experience. as yoga got me off heroin for the last 12 years i experienced it as the flame that warms not the fire that destroys ones house.
What u did was not yoga!!!! Foe yoga, you get up at 4am, do pancha kryia cleansing process, recite a mantra and do your asanas. ALL THIS IS DO E BY TRUE HINDUS 90 KMINUTES BEFORE SUNRISE. DID YOU EAT SATVIK FOOD ONLY? NO!!!
@@johntitor4404 Namasthê. Great words. You say - yoga means to yolk. referring to bringing together the body with God. While this is utterly rubbishy understanding, we Hindus can use your understanding to denounce Yôga in the west. There is nothing called Hot Yôga and that is a money making invention by unscrupulous teachers. Yôga âsanâs are about conserving energy, not sweating it out in a hot environment. Pranâms.
I tried yoga awhile back, and felt like it was so creepy, even though the teacher was a lovely person. When I lived in El Lay, a yogi named Satchitdananda was all the rage. I got dragged by a friend to hear him speak, and it was so oppressive, so dark, even though he was very ‘peaceful’ and seemingly kind. His message of “many paths to one truth” directly contradicted the message of Jesus. There was always an aura of hidden agendas that never rang true with him and any other proponent of yoga. It is works-based.
yoga boiled down, focus on your body, empty your mind, give up your boundaries to the group, give up your truth to the guru, you are God "the lie of Satan", now as God ,you can define sin as everything is ok except to believe that there is sin and death (reincarnation). "YOU CAN BE A GOD" "YOU WILL NOT SURELY DIE" the lies of Satan in the garden of Eden
There's always something seemingly good wanting to trap us. We just need to keep on learning. Thanks for this, I'll share it with my niece who says it's ok.
As always, a thoughtful and intelligent discussion that illuminates the subject and makes some important points. Great to hear a Christian engaging with the subject rather than just saying it’s wrong, full stop. We need knowledge and reason to win people over as well as conviction and enthusiasm. Love Becket’s ability to let his guest do the talking - the perfect interview style!
Sometimes you just feel something is wrong and messed up because the Holy Spirit is telling you no and you'll only realize the reason why later. Either way, listen to the Holy Spirit.
those are great ways to bring ppl over to catholicism but the way the pope had so many Christians in the beginning of catholicism is by ordering death to men, woman and children, killing any priest/tess, teacher , anyone who knew the old language, taught the old ways of religion, basically had any and everything not catholic wiped out. ruled with fear and continues to rule with fear. that's why archeologists and ppl are finding all these old scriptures, stories and tablets bc they were deliberately buried bc ppl's lives and their families lives were at stake if they didn't choose to practice catholicism. that's not what free will, love and free choice is about. what kind of religion hides and protects child rapist, pedophiles, pedophilia, rape, murder, lies, enslavement of civilizations and all while saying they are the one true religion? I'm not making any of this up, its all in the Bible eventhough the Bible is a man made made up book. not saying that there isn't something out here that's a higher power that embellishes love, life, happiness, peace and tranquility bc I do believe there is, I just have done alot of research and now know why even as a child I had alot of questions about this religion and actually reading and not being bias I know now that catholicism isn't it.
I never practiced yoga as a practice connected to Hinduism. I practiced It with entusiasmo. It brought elasticity and strength to my body, taught me natural ways to clean my body and led me to eat good good as well as it's preparation. Yoga is simply WONDERFUL!!
Hi Rae, if you're reading this, i (and i think many of us) would love to hear you speak more on this topic. I feel like an hour is not enough for all the knowledge you have to share! You are very well spoken& truly shedding a light in a way i havent seen anyone else do on here ( or on other social media ) ❤
I would love for Rae to develop a program for stretching and flexibility that is Christian in format and an alternative to yoga. Great show once again Becket!!
The power of praying friends! God bless you Beckett for your encouragement and truth. I was in the separatist, feminist lesbian scene. And the Holy Spirit just chased me down. I walked into a church with a friend of my mothers, and I went forward. The Spirit just flooded my entire being. I couldn't read the Word and I still have trouble concentrating. I've had fibromyalgia for most of my life, so I've had mental fog since I was in my teens. BUT! I know Who saved me and I know that I can minister to the broken, because I've been in counselling for complex trauma for a while now and I have the privilege to hear and understand what people need, when I sit and listen to them, and the Spirit tells me what they need . We all come from something. All of us
Thanks Rae. You have such a calming spirit. I did yoga weekly with a friend for 2 years and never really liked it. I went with her as a support. I did not enjoy the chanting and the verbal participation. It never felt comfortable or relaxing. It hurt my joints and it was painful all 2 yrs. Now learning about the dangers of it, I see why my spirit never connected to it.
Every single time I have gotten around someone who is really into yoga and I take them up on going to a class, I feel so weird. I knew that there were spiritual things going on in those classes. I could just feel it. People try to convince me that it is just exercise but it just always felt very strange. I can’t tell you how many times I tried and quit. This is the best coverage of how it is 100% a Hindu pantheism practice!! Even the time when we saw “Christian yoga” popping up, it just never felt right.
As a Christian I practiced for years and didn’t think anything of it until I started to notice things in my heart that didn’t sit right. I also never got any actual benefit from it physically. In fact, as I practiced as a personal trainer I noticed a lot of Yoga teachers and participants were coming to me with shoulder and back issues from Yoga. I’m so thankful to the Holy Spirit for telling me to no longer practice! Thank you Jesus.
Hinduism makes you face the demons within, and that is very uncomfortable! Hinduism forces you to be responsible rather than handing over things to some God. Yes it can be very uncomfortable to face yourself, look yourself in the mirror, face your karma. It is not for the lazy. What sone do, is not yoga!!!! For yoga, you get up at 4am, do pancha kryia cleansing process, recite a mantra and do your asanas. ALL THIS IS DONE BY TRUE HINDUS 90 MINUTES BEFORE SUNRISE. DID YOU EAT SATVIK FOOD ONLY? NO!!!
@@YouStillNeedToSleep I am not sure, we as christians don't just hang things over to God, we have a relationship just like a Father and a child, it is our responsability to take action over those things under our control, and turn over to Him those things that are beyond our control. Yaweh is our ultimate reality, we would not dare to think of us as being gods, we were CREATED to his image, and SAVED by Jesus, his only begotten son.
I gave my heart and soul to Jesus 37 year ago, and I've always felt very uncomfortable with Yoga. Recently, though, my Nurse Practitioner suggested that I take it up to help bring down my blood pressure, but I just couldn't bring myself to start. All that time, though, I've been bothered that I may be over reacting. After all, it's just exercise, right? Well, our wonderful LORD has come through again, and after listening to this great interview, now I know why I hesitated... Thank you for helping me fight this battle, dear ones, and I look forward to thanking you in person at our Forever Family Reunion, someday soon!
This is so fundamental to understand. As someone who was a new ager, yoga was part of my lifestyle. When I came to Christ in my 20's i repented to the lord because I understood how deceptive and not of God . I also burnt all my new age books and things. It was an incredible step of faith and liberating as well as a full step of commitment to my new life in Christ. There is much confusion today and it is in the church, sadly. Thank you for sharing such an important subject Becket.
Thank you for this. Yoga was a stumbling block for me. I started because of the exercise...but then as I got deeper into it, I was introduced to literal idol worship. I wasn't ok with it, but a teacher said it was like Catholics pray to saints, not a big deal. Also Buddhist ideas were mixed in. Before I knew it, I was chanting to false God's and letting my Bible grow dusty. Perhaps I could do the physical exercise again in the future, but not among others and certainly with reading the Bible.
Sweetie, you can do stretches while listening to praise and worship. Get up and move…that is the most important part of what we need to do. Cardio by moving. We can’t just sit on our rump every day and expect to be healthy. And to think we need to follow a “leader” doing poses is a trap from the enemy. God bless you. Just move. Dance around, extend your arms to Jesus. Dance with The Lord. Paul Wilbur has a song that says, “dance with me, O, Lover of my soul, to the song of all songs.” When I play that song, it’s easy to dance around and imagine Jesus dancing with me around as I extend my arms to heaven and my heart in alignment. Let me know what you think. 🙏🏻❤️
Back in the 90s, I took a lot of yoga classes and considered being a teacher. At the time, I was a catholic and the yoga instructor would chant at the end of the class while we were in "corpse" pose. I felt very uncomfortable with the chanting and would quietly take my mat and leave until one night she whispered for me to stay. I did and as people were walking out, she asked me why I always left and I told her my religious background. She smirked and waved me away, I never returned to her or any other yoga class again. I found their messaging a bit insidious; how each pose corresponded with organs, etc. Then the Bikram scandal happened and I was so glad that God protected me and I was out of that environment.
SAME. It all began with me not being comfortable with chanting in a language I don’t understand. “Oh, it’s just the divine in me recognizes the divine in you,” a yogi friend told me dismissively. But she doesn’t know Sanskrit either, so I ain’t chanting. Now, I don’t know what to do because I’m a fitness instructor and my need of earning sometimes requires me to sub for friends’ yoga classes. I never name the poses. I try to stick to physiological things-tightness in joints, oxygenation of blood. I dunno. I’m ready to retire from it all and just get my exercise dealing with my farm.
And, as for the language-I speak four-plus some Latin, so the monks’ chanting in Latin is easily discernible and the purpose is more clear and aligns with an emptying of self and service to the divine God.
Hinduism forces your to be responsible rather that handing over things to some God. Yes that ir can be very uncomfortable to face yourself, look yourself in the mirror, face your karma. It is not for the lazy. What sone do, is not yoga!!!! For yoga, you get up at 4am, do pancha kryia cleansing process, recite a mantra and do your asanas. ALL THIS IS DONE BY TRUE HINDUS 90 MINUTES BEFORE SUNRISE. DID YOU EAT SATVIK FOOD ONLY? NO!!!
wow idk why this was recommended to me but I feel sorry for y'all, and everyone in the comments. I'm not the least bit religious or spiritual in any way. but I do yoga because it physically helps me. I'm pushing 40 and work a very physically demanding job and if I didn't do yoga every day after work my back, shoulders, arms and hips would become so stiff it would be unbearable. to completely write off something that can be so physically beneficial based on religious/spiritual beliefs is just lunacy to me. it doesn't have to be as deep as y'all make it out to be. it can just boil down to stretching and deep breathing, which is never a bad thing.
Thank You both for sharing the dangers of yoga. I lost a casual Christian friend when I sent her a video on what yoga was really all about, she’s a yoga instructor and she told me one time yoga saved her after she got sober, that hit me so wrong that’s why I sent her the video! Yoga doesn’t save anyone! Jesus said Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. I want to be yoked to Jesus only!! 🥰
Pamela, yes, I’ve heard so many lost in the new age echo that sentiment, “yoga saved me”. It’s yet another counterfeit salvation, praying your friend realizes and turns 💕
@@hills9129 That’s so nice, I will, I was frustrated one day and the Holy Spirit put the thought in my mind “Pray for her” so I thought of course that should have been my first reaction so Thank You for the reminder! God Bless💕
When I practiced yoga years ago, I liked the physical benefits but my teacher, who was into it body and soul, liked to read aloud at the end of every class, from a book written by a famous yogi. God wasn’t on my radar at that point in my life. I wasn’t seeking to know Him. And yet, the passages she read every week rubbed me the wrong way. They sounded hedonistic because they seemed devoid of caring about the suffering of others. The message was to be at peace regardless of the horrible injustices or cruelty in the world, and to accept immorality, criminality and the suffering of others as their “karma” and not feel compelled to help one’s fellow man. I’m paraphrasing but that was the gist. It bothered me and I told her. She didn’t understand, which itself was disconcerting. She also revealed she was polyamorous, which confirmed how lost and misguided she was, by a religion that was immoral. Fast forward a few years. Many people I knew were raving about the benefits of meditation to relieve stress and improve productivity. I went to a weekend seminar with a well known TM (transcendental meditation) teacher. The people struck me as pretentious and sad. I got the sense that if someone had said, “Jesus is my savior,” they would have chuckled or rolled their eyes. I never went back.
Please pray for me and my kids. I live in Washington and the public school is having the kids do yoga during PE. Last year I had a talk about it to my daughter’s principal, she was so confused about why. I feel alone in this fight. I can’t even protect my kids from evil when they are in school.
Stand your ground. If your child was Muslim and the school made them eat pork, it would be the same thing. They don't have to understand. God will stand you. Hang in there, mom.
I had that happen in our local school. I cited separation of church and state and that I didn’t want my grandson practicing another religion, which Yoga does and is a worship to deities
Here’s the thing. If you don’t want your child doing that activity, you have the say-so. They aren’t the parent. I don’t want my children partaking in Halloween stuff so every year I have a friendly talk at parent teacher conferences to let the teacher know my child will need another activity and to please not single them out about it. I’ve never had push back. I’m not trying to change the school or change their beliefs and I’m friendly about it. I also send an email to sum up the convo. Send a note and a phone call stating your child will need accommodations for a different activity than yoga and that’s all. 😊
No doubt the school has deliberately introduced yoga into this wickedly growing school system. Can you write a note saying your child is not allowed to participate in it or will they just say your child will flunk P.E.?
From decades of experience: The physical side of yoga is very helpful. Guidance like breathe, be in the moment etc. is helpful. That's largely what Americans encounter in a yoga class, taught by other westerners, who are not Hindus. I think that philosophies that tell you to live above your desires and feelings ARE harmful. Some Indian Gurus and a particular prominent yoga teacher, now deposed, are not good people. In my personal experience, most of the yoga teachers where I live were not sane. But the physical side of yoga is awesome. So let's figure out how to separate the wheat from the chaff.
I am so excited that Rae is talking about Thoreau and Emerson!! I teach them in my American Lit. class every single fall and have my students study how they rejected biblical truth and embraced pantheism (panetheism...), new thought, etc. We compare their writings to Progressive Christian claims and texts. It's such an eye-opener for my students year after year. Emerson's Divinity School Address is particularly relevant in today's cultural climate. Anyway, this made me so happy! I'm gonna include clips from this conversation in my class next fall. Thank you!
What college do you teach at, that you don't get run out of town on a rail? I'm thinking it's a Christian university, but that's no guarantee, these days.
I have been practicing pranayama yoga for much of my adult life. I came to Christ a year ago, and have diligently been studying the Bible. I know there is a lot of criticism on this, but I see so many parallels between the ethics of yoga and Christs's teaching. For instance, love thy neighbor like thyself. Trrating ourselves with forgiveness and kindness so we could share that with others. When God created Adam he breathed life into him, that's the spirit and energy utilized in the practice. And when you say namaste, I know it talks about divinity in oneself, but Jesus says when we care for our fellow man we are caring for him. He says when you give alms to others you are feeding and clothing him, so my inrerpretation is that we all have divinity within us - not that we are divine, but that God dwells in all of us. I am really considering going into a Christ centered yoga instruction course. And I am so very much trying to understand people's viewpoints on this. I see the parallels, this guest sees the deception.
Exactly, there are many similarities in yogic philosophy and Christianity. It teaches you to get in touch with the divine and does not name it, and teaches you to be a clean and pure person.
Rae is so darling. She has a sweet spirit and exudes the Holy Spirit. I'm so glad y'all talked about how they try to redeem this stuff.... it's like saying Christian Wicca... which is so so wrong. Thanks for posting Becket!
Blah blah blah. Keep your jesus. Hinduism makes you face the demons within, and that is very uncomfortable! Hinduism forces you to be responsible rather than handing over things to some God. Yes it can be very uncomfortable to face yourself, look yourself in the mirror, face your karma. It is not for the lazy. What sone do, is not yoga!!!! For yoga, you get up at 4am, do pancha kryia cleansing process, recite a mantra and do your asanas. ALL THIS IS DONE BY TRUE HINDUS 90 MINUTES BEFORE SUNRISE. DID YOU EAT SATVIK FOOD ONLY? NO!!!
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For those insisting yoga is necessary for their bodily health, my question is also “Why can’t you simply do stretching exercises? Why must it be yoga?” I can’t help feeling that there is an attachment to the allure of eastern mysticism behind the defensive posturing.
You don't give me anything. Very hollywood of you.
@@fancimcguffin2227 Please do stretching exercises as you suggest and don't call it Yôga. Don't also copy the exercises in the Yôga practices, because such practices require a mind set devoid of vices (control of excessive sexual desires, anger, jealousy, pride, in short, the six vices) as a prerequisite. Don't dabble in any eastern practices that you call mysticism. I am a Hindu, a demonic Hindu as per Christian (all denominations) standards.
Pranâms.
@@himachalarana3454 your sarcasm is duly noted.
@@joshuamorton4620 Thanks Sire.
Thank you SO MUCH for bringing attention to this! So many Christians are deceived and think Yoga is harmless! When I was in college I took both a world religions class and a yoga class at the same time. I saw that Yoga was connected with Hinduism. I experienced so much spiritual warfare! When I mentioned the similarities to my yoga instructor, she said, "of course! You can't teach yoga without the spiritual part".
That is what I tell all my Christian friends who do Yoga. I’m from India. And no Christian in India would practice Yoga.
I read that one cannot have yoga without Hinduism; nor can one have Hinduism without yoga. However I know SO many Christian women who are so defensive of yoga saying they’re just “doing the poses.”
the churches here don't teach discernment. they water down the message to grow their churches larger
@@lt7378 I know! I am always shocked and saddened when that happens. Why would you want to practice a spiritual practice from another religion!?!
People think I’m crazy when I try to tell them this stuff
@@lt7378 I've had that tough conversation, too. I was left wondering what the spirit was that let these Christian ladies fully understand me, but continue doing it.
I practiced yoga on and off for 13 years, and many of the ladies from church were there as well. But as I learned what God loves, I realized that I had to stop yoga because I'm a Christian, not a Hindu. From prayer beads to chanting, God snatched me out!
I'm a Christian, not a Hindu! Yaaaay! 🎉🎉🎉
I started doing it in college for my cross-country training. It never seemed overtly ‘spiritual’ to me. However years later I attended a class that was very spiritual and I went straight to a friend’s house afterwards and had him pray over me against whatever that was 😂
But I did go back to occasional yoga dvds that were ‘not spiritual’ until my little daughter began doing some of the exercises with me. Seeing her in these praying poses did not sit right with me, and soon after that I had some friends bring it up and confirm it’s part of the occult. Thank you for clarifying this for so many Christians!
Yoga is Hinduism. You cannot separate the two. Why did you stray from your own Christian path??. Stay in touch your Christian path. Christians are the ones who are hating and murdering others. Do you know the meaning of "God is Love"?. I doubt it
It is a hidden inner religion of the third eye for people from India. It is not for Christians. It is the opposite. Evil.
(spiritually evil) and I would be praying over my body too.
Hope you prayed it off your daughter
I am glad that you brought up being encouraged to do yoga as a runner. The Lord has recently convicted me to find faith based stretches
@@nildameers3772If he believes this for real, you should be praying for his daughter for lots and lots of other reasons.
yoga teaches you to seek harmony all the time which is acutally to deaden your discernment and deaden youre emotions that are signals to set limits or disagree with someone. you are training yourself to be open to anything that sneeks behind your radar as long as it doesnt feel negative. since truth and absolutes are hard to hear you make it the enemy.
YES! That’s common in a lot of other new age practices too. I used to teach meditation 🤢… which also does exactly what you describe.
Very true!!
Thank you for this comment. It has clarified something in a huge way for me. I am a deeply committed Catholic married to a self professed agnostic who practises yoga for health reasons. He says he's not interested in the spiritual aspect... but in relation to your comment, he sits on the fence in nearly every argument, believes me to be too passionate about absolute truth regarding key issues and believes seeking harmony and love, (such vague terms!), will save the human race. I've blessed his yoga mats with exorcised oil and keep praying for Jesus to show him that true peace can only be found in Him. It's a battle for sure. I would appreciate prayers from this community. Thank you.
Boy does that sum up modern day: it must be okay if it doesn’t feel negative.
Just mediate on the word of God, and everything that's is sneaking behind your radar will be comsume by fire. God is a consuming fire. The word is spirit, so the word of God is the best to mediate on, since life is spiritual.
I tried one beginning Yoga class for exercise & improving coordination. I thought, like many Christians, that as long as I was doing it only health reasons & not as a religious practice, it would be OK. About three quarters way through the class, I became extremely nauseated & had to stop. I couldn’t figure out why. As I learned more about Yoga, I realized that it was probably the Holy Spirit trying to get my attention. I haven’t tried it since.
@@jacobus57 You too.
Yoga is not a true religion...
Call it exercise, not yoga. Hinduism forces you to be responsible rather that handing over things to some God. Yes it can be very uncomfortable to face yourself, look yourself in the mirror, face your karma. It is not for the lazy. What sone do, is not yoga!!!! For yoga, you get up at 4am, do pancha kryia cleansing process, recite a mantra and do your asanas. ALL THIS IS DONE BY TRUE HINDUS 90 MINUTES BEFORE SUNRISE. DID YOU EAT SATVIK FOOD ONLY? NO!!!
@Back Kile in the name of Jesus, I commend you to stop ✋🏽 that spirit of confusion. In fact, with the authority of God, let that spirit of confusion goes back to where it came from. Whatever you're trying to do is defeated in Jesus name. Just stop it!
It’s literally just stretching and breathing to prepare for meditation/prayer. As with anything, you get back what you put in.
I already commented but finished the whole interview now and had to say, thank you for this discussion, Becket! I've watched other videos talking about the dangers of yoga but Rae had so much to offer both with her historical and religious knowledge surrounding yoga, but also her personal testimony made things click into place and stand out to me with my SIL's deep involvement in it. (She is no longer my SIL but I am grateful for the reminder to *keep* *praying* ) Rae is so kind, so gentle, so bright and compelling...what a wonderful woman of God! 🥰
That's what namaste means?!!!!!?!! 😮 Thank you Becket for having her on your show, creepy how much I and many people didn't know.............
It's interesting as an exercise instructor I used to teach a lot of Stretch classes. This was in the eighties and nineties. A British lady came to a college and was teaching yoga in the library. I took several of these classes enjoying the stretching. Around here 2000 I started taking the yoga you speak of. During the one and a 1/2 to 2 hour class I found myself just praying I constantly would say the Lord's prayer silently. I was grieving the loss of my marriage and had nowhere else to go. I prayed a lot knowing that what I was hearing was not right nor real nor Christian. Thank you for this video episode and your research.
Question, I’m not much of a gym person. And I did like the physical benefits of yoga, would Pilates be okay do you think?
Even if all of this is true, there's nothing wrong with stretching and doing breath exercises. Where are the bible verses to back up your theories?
Thank you so much for this show! I have tried to share with Christian friends that there is no such thing as “Christian yoga“. I’ve encouraged them to read the history of yoga, and to listen to testimonies from those who share the truth about yoga. People get really defensive about this subject, but Rae shared in such a way that is non-confrontational. So appreciative to have something to refer to that speaks so clearly on this subject. God bless you both. 🙏🏻❤️
And those are not your friends they are people used by the devik to keep you in bondage
I literally have family members and fellow Christian’s who are angry with me and some who won’t speak to me because of my stand on yoga.
I came out of the new age movement and have been shocked at Christians who are so steeped in these practices.
Thank you for this interview!
@Darren please pray for me if possible thank you
Hinduism and new age are the same demons..
Also, sadly many Christians want to be "in step" with the world. Their fads we often take in. We are called to be separate and different though.
What shocks me is how many people proclaim to be Christian and they are into everything the Bible warns against. I believe they are referred to as Luke warm christians. Very sad
I also came out of the new age so I completely get it! Many Christian do not understand the dangers because they never experienced getting deep into yoga. I taught for three years and it was in the end very empty and allowed demonic things to get far too close to me and it’s so crazy how it’s disguised so well as healing and wellness. But don’t get discouraged, most people don’t understand this and all we can do is share our experiences and pray God takes care of the rest.
I grew up Christian and I got into hot yoga as an adult and practiced it for 10 years. I used every excuse to justify doing yoga as a Christian and finally, my heart was convicted when the Holy Spirit revealed the dangers of it. It took almost 3 years for me to quit, I was experiencing a lot of spiritual warfare. Through prayer, I was able to completely detach myself from that world. Thank you for shining a light on this. I know many Christians do yoga and think it’s benign but at it’s core, it is a Hindu practice. Every yoga pose represents worship to a Hindu god. Our God is sovereign. We are to have no other gods before Him.
Almost exactly like my story!
Glad you did follow god's guidance and came out. Jesus is enough.
If a pose gives you a good stretch and you’re doing it for this purpose and not to worship another God I can see it’s a benefit. In fact you can do the same pose and use it to worship the Christian God. At the end of the day it’s your body doing some thing that’s not vulgar or sinful and it’s providing you with some benefit. I think that’s very Christian inherently. Self-care, self preservation, good health. Just put your mind in the right place when you do it. Hasn’t anybody else here experienced physical benefits from yoga quite a part from any Hindu roots?
@@wdean4527 justifications made by satan to make this more palatable. But in truth, very harmful.
This shows how truly enslaving this can be, to not be able to quit when you want to.
I practised Ashtanga yoga for 35 years and taught for 25 years. Right before I was born again, I experienced the greatest amount of anxiety resulting in panic attacks than ever before! With all the practice and meditation I could never find peace. As soon as I was born again and gave my life over to my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, I experience peace and joy constantly every single day. Praise be to God for taking me out of the new age!
Namasthê. Please tell the entire word that you wasted 35 years, because of Yôga. You will do a lot of help to us Hindus, demonic Hindus, who want to rid the western world of Yôga. Pity the students who learnt under you for 25 years. If you are a true born again, you would make a sincere effort to trace all the students of the 25 years you played the role of Yôga teacher and tell that Yôga is demonic as you have discovered.
We Hindus defended Yôga, but found the quality of teachers like you to be fake to begin with. after doing Pûrva Paksha, our group decided to support people like you who will do the work for us, Hindus, by you all demonising Yôga. We spend no money in defending Yôga.
Pranâms.
Amen! Thank you for sharing
@BabySaverServant I understand that it’s very hard to stop doing the practice but I’ve come to believe and feel (ad many other converts) that you just cannot separate the spiritual practice of yoga from the physical…,it’s impossible when each posture is meant to invoke the spirit of the Devi/god/goddess (demon), the animal or even the action (as the Sun Sals are saluting a creation and the warrior series replicate a murder scene…..
Honestly, at first I thought you could separate the two, but I now know you can’t….it was a hard pill to swallow since my practice was not only a huge part of my life but yoga and the practice/lifestyle became my identity….I can only testify to the utter peace and feeling of freedom I have found since stopping the practice and giving my life to Jesus Christ……no anxiety, no anger, no worry, no more need to compete or to “gain”, and daily joy…..and my osteopath says my nervous system is no longer on “high alert” any more, my fascia is moving in places it was locked, ligaments and tendons are releasing…you would think doing ankle grabbing backbends and double legs behind the head would equal more open but, shockingly, the opposite is true!
@BabySaverServant Namasthê. Please don't demean Jesus by using the name Yôga. Name it something else, because if you use the word Yôga, is is appropriation of demonic Hindu thoughts and practices. Yes, I am a demonic Hindu and can live with that appellation given us by Christians (all denominations).
Please ask the clergy, to coin a word.
Pranâms.
@BabySaverServant I totally get what you’re saying….and I also thought I could separate the spiritual from the physical but, as I have experienced, you just can’t when you’re doing those postures….I’ve felt the difference….from an oppressive, competitive, “yoked” drive to do the practice and to move deeper/further into each of the Ashtanga series (I was in the middle of the 3rd series) to the freedom that, I believe, comes with not practicing paganism and idolatry through those postures.
It’s definitely been a transition….I was a gymnast before yoga and have tried to use those stretches and strength exercises instead while I’ve added some other great workouts (cardio mostly).
Also, the yoga led me down the wide path of occultism (as it does for most people) and I studied astrology/numerology, became Reiki attuned, started reading Oracle cards for people, practiced Mediumship, studied and became a certified Holistic Healer (did past life regressions/spiritual plane communication/meditation, etc), studied crystal healing, explored ayahuasca and psilocybin growing and ceremony (got some interesting testimonies from those experiences too) and all the while couldn’t find true peace.
I guess we all find our way in our own time, but I do like to share my testimony to anybody that wants to hear it as now I know where true strength and true peace comes from.
I pray for you my friend and thank you for responding and connecting! Peace and love to you! 😊
I used to really want to be a yoga teacher. I had worked low paying jobs rife with abuse for years, have always been interested in wellness & fitness & thought getting certified as a yoga teacher was a logical way out of the dead end job cycle. I pursued this goal for over a decade but l could never raise the $5000 for the course or secure a 9-5 job necessary to be available for the Friday night/all day Saturday and Sunday classes. (Which demonstrates how elitist the certification process is, but that's another matter.) Now l see that l dodged a bullet because, among other problems teaching yoga would have raised, l would have encouraged the worship of the self both in myself & my students. God knew what he was doing when he kept me from succeeding in this goal. (Wonderful guest by the way! What an intelligent, knowledgeable & articulate young lady. Where do you find all these amazing people, Becket!?)
Yeah I wanted to become a Yoga teacher too. I had the money and space to accomplish this but for some reason I never went ahead with it. It wasn't long after that I became a Christian and now I can see God was keeping me well away from that whole scene. And it wasnt long after that I stopped practicing yoga entirely, at which point my eyes were fully opened to the true nature of this thing that has fooled the entire world.
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I pray god guides you to a land of milk and honey instead of the jobs you had to do...
I always wanted to get into yoga in order to be more limber, but felt so bored. I even fell asleep in a class, once. I'm so glad to not always have it nagging at me that I should learn the poses.
Great message. I did Transcendental Meditation for 45 years, and although it brought me some rest, it robbed me of the peace that only comes from Christ.
Wow. I took a TM COURSE, saw the benefits but felt unsettled using the special word they gave me. There is definitely something going on, and the Lord steered me away.
Why did you do it for so long? Were you Christian all along?
@@ydonnay3145 what is the special word, they make such a fuss about it that seems driven by a financial imperative
Congratulations on getting free of TM! There are so many parts diametrically opposed to Christianity. When one gets into the Sidhis it becomes obvious to anyone who knows a few scriptures. Then the Maharishi announced that the serpent, the dragon had fully encircled the earth successfully. That was the last straw. How was that a good thing? We can see what the dragon is doing today.
AMEN
This was intense for me. I can relate to almost everything said! I am from Southern California and practiced yoga and was also into the dance arts. Not to say that the dance arts is bad but that I used yoga to help supplement the stretching and exercising. I also struggled with anxiety and was driven away from Christianity in my young adulthood and pursued this idea of spirituality and God being energy and love and growing to attain this non-ego oneness enlightenment. I even started this very cultish Korean energy yoga called Dahnhak and was a huge practitioner visiting their retreat in Sedona many times. Unfortunately, down the road this way of thinking/ being left me open to spiritual warfare. I will stop there because it is almost indescribable but the important thing is that it exposed the truth that demons do exist and lead me to Jesus whom I had written off as another prophet. I repented with all my heart and handed myself over to him completely. He healed me then and told me to follow him. Of course, forever. But, it was still a long road of healing. I loved what she said about being so hungry for knowledge but how it pushed the bad out. The first person I spoke with on my worst horrific day was a Monsignor and he told me the difference with spirituality and Christianity is that "spiritual" people try to empty themselves while Christians want to completely fill themselves with the Holy Spirit. All of this happened a year ago and I should institutionalized after what I went through and the nervous breakdown I had afterwards and being filled with fear. I had no foundation and crumbled completely like a house of cards. Jesus has become my complete foundation. Even today I realized that he is constantly holding me up because he is my foundation and without him I would be back to where I was last year. But, he got me baptized in the Catholic Church, got me the best job I have ever had that pays way more than I ever have before, I'm living in this beautiful house 3 minutes from my church when last year I was a vagabond traveler, and I am discerning becoming a nun. There is nothing I want more than to be so close to Jesus now. He took me in like that and has been healing me ever since. I am even off my anti-depressants already. If anyone wants to encounter Jesus in the most intense way, go to Adoration at a Catholic Church and just sit with the Eucharist for one hour. You will see. The powerful and tangible spirituality the Catholic Church has is mind blowing. Because I have a spiritual sensitivity, my experiences are much more than most that have been Catholics all their lives. Plus, my hunger to learn everything about it brings me amazing gifts.
Also, during the part where she says how she goes to the church and everything suddenly clicked, I had to yell out a "Hallelujah" in my living room with tears in my eyes while holding my hand in the air towards the San Damiano Cross over my fireplace. My dogs thought I was nuts. I had the same experience on my worst day but after talking to the Monsignor I immediately put the radio in my vehicle on a Christian station and everything being preached and sung suddenly made absolute sense! I only listen to Christian radio stations and really don't listen to mainstream music anymore. It sounds so soulless now. Also, I have gotten a little too chubby living here in Texas now and want to get back into the gym. I was the same way about yoga. After all of the horror, I didn't want to touch it and saw it all as a slippery slope back to evil. But, my gym had a very non-spiritual yoga class I thought I'd do just for exercise, lengthening, and breathing. But, what she said in the video even about the poses meaning something made so much sense! So, now it is a big huge no for me. I'll follow Jesus's health plan instead: Walking, fasting, and praying.
You are an amazing blessing to the Catholic Church.
Become a reformed catholic. Edward g Mccarthy the Book if Rome it's traditions and rituals compared to the Word of God.
I taught yoga for 3 years before coming to Christ. I taught the philosophy: the 8 limbs of yoga, read from the Bhagavad Gita, etc in with the asanas (physical yoga). I thank the Holy Spirit for bringing me out of that gate to hell that unfortunately most Americans still see as a healing positive thing.🙏
I need to ask: what in your experience qualified as "hellish" while you were a yoga practitioner? And did such dark experiences occur prior to, or after "coming to Christ"?
This could be my story...
Bikram chodhury was the yoga instructor that got in trouble.
I was only about 15 minutes in when I commented, I didn't realize they had came up with the name
@@torynichols2413 yep. I taught at a Bikram yoga studio. I did Bikram. I taught Deep Stretch and Vinyasa in a hot room.
Sorry I didn't mean to respond to you specifically, I must have tapped your comment and didn't realize it. There's a couple really good books that touches on how they've introduced all these type things into our society that really opened my eyes. Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future by Seraphim Rose and Orthodoxy and the Kingdom of Satan. They had a yoga class at my niece's elementary school and I live what's considered the Bible belt and it's crazy that nobody sees what's happening
Wowww! Amazing testimony! At age 18, as a Christian, I went to massage therapy school straight from high school. There I learned yoga and meditation. By the end of the school year I was having suicidal thoughts. I realized later the truth about yoga and meditation practices and I'm so grateful God has revealed this to me. Jesus Christ is the one true God. He is the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Jesus Christ.
Amen
I also went to massage therapy school, have done yoga and meditation and didn't have any suicidal thoughts at all. Most of us haven't. How do you explain that?
@@ribbrascal That's great. I agree that we all have a different experience. The reason I don't practice yoga is that I don't worship Hindu gods. If I weren't a Christian, I wouldn't care that yoga is a Hindu practice and would probably do it. But, I believe that Jesus Christ is God and I won't worship false gods.
@@snuggisthecute You're not worshipping Hindu gods if you do yoga, though.
If you think putting your body into different stretches and poses that aren't any different from Western stretches and exercises is *making* you worship Hindu gods, I'm sorry but that is just DUMB.
Over the last decade, I've become focused on the derangements and anti-intellectualism of the woke left, but after reading the comments section under a couple of Becket's videos, I had forgotten how these same qualities apply to many evangelical Christians.
Do your thing, good for you, but you should know that you're not being rational, at all.
Just like the woke left.
@@ribbrascal sorry your comment is way too long. Didn't read it. Just do research and decide for yourself. You can't control what other random people commenting on youtube videos do with their own lives. Sorry!
Thank you! Was blessed by this conversation and by Rae’s testimony. What she said about her decision -to turn her back on yoga was not because of legalism (do’s and don’ts) but borne out her relationship with Jesus -struck me the most!
I know a lot of Indian Christians and not one of them would ever practice yoga.
When I was in India a few years ago, our host was a Christian Pastor that had left the Hindu religion . He had a firm conviction that Yoga is demonic.
He didn't have a firm conviction. He KNEW!
There no such thing as the Devil or Demonic!
@@whatsinaname2706
Ha! You wish!
Here is a fun song you may enjoy!
It is by Keith Green
SINCE NO ONE BELIEVES IN ME ANYMORE (satan’s boast) it is a fun song
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@@whatsinaname2706 we heard you...Next please!
@@whatsinaname2706 pffft! I've seen them . They would come in my home and try to pull me out of my bed! You'll fine out soon enough. They hate the name of Jesus Christ and the word of God!
I was saved out of yoga and meditation while living in LA. I had a similar experience that the deeper I got into it the worse I felt. I felt like my soul was being stolen and my personality was getting worse and worse.
Beckett, you are a great interviewer! Thank you for letting your guests talk!!
I am getting baptized tomorrow Becket , thank you for the great content !!! your a inspiration
YOGA MEANS YOKE , "Do not be unequally yoked to unbelievers" "little children keep yourselves from idols"
the liberation i felt leaving yoga after 11 years was like nothing i ever felt before
praise the Lord
LMAO
@@shanesavant8654 you are an immature child
What do you do instead?
Why did u do yoga in the first place? Yoga us Hinduism!!! Now you are "liberated" from responsibility. Go live a life full of hate, hypocrisy and murder like most "Christians".
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Thank you Rae and Becket. I practiced yoga for about 8 years, became a teacher, studied Ayurveda and Vedic Astrology, endless cleanses and detox... One day I was practicing Bikram and I looked in the mirror and I wasn't there.. I looked again and wow I didn't see me. That was the beginning of the end of Yoga for me... the final end of yoga was when I attended a yoga class and a 23 year old was preaching her philosophy of enlightenment through yoga. That was the wake-up call and returned to Christ. Bless you both!
Wow. Not seeing one's own reflection in the mirror WOULD tend to wake them up! Welcome back.
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Didn't Jesus do yoga? Where did he go from age 15 - 33? Hang with the yogis in the east and learn about hand mudras?? Let me know.
I'm not a big yoga person. I went to kundalini yoga not knowing what it was. We were meditating...and I got stuck...couldn't move or open my eyes and I felt myself..my spirit..me leaving through the top of my head. Felt like my head burst open at top with energy escaping...my spirit was going somewhere and I didn't know where. Scared the crap out of me...I had to reel it back in...and was yelling at myself in my head...you have to open your eyes! Move!
Do you mean you didn't see yourself in a literal sense? As in there was no reflection?
Yoga was the last door I shut. To be honest I fought it. I tried to justify it until I couldn't do it anymore. I claimed to be a Christian while doing other New Age practices. Night terrors for close to 50 yrs of my life. Delivered a year ago. Praise God! No more crystals, no more altered states of consciousness, no more energy healing, no more yoga, no more drumming. Jesus said, " I am either enough or I am not." Riding the fence was over. Thank you for covering this. Becket, I love your story, reading your book, and love your podcast.
What's this about drumming?
Yoga is an over 5000 year old practise and doesn't in and of itself have anything to do with New Age. It is if so, rather the "New Age Movement" that has adopted it as part of their practises, not the other way around. And all this paranoid nonsense is quite literally spiritually ridiculous, at best! 🤷♀️🤦♀️
@B~8 Yoga and Hinduism are linked. Hinduism is panthestic, and Christianity is monotheistic. As a Christian, you should avoid activities that are a part of another religion. God wants you to worship Him. Don't be deceived by this person's post. As a Christian you should have no part of this.
You just have bad karma . That's all
@@gasoven3759 Namasthê.
You say Hinduism is panthestic.
Did you think of saying Pathetic?
Or perhaps you wanted to say pantheistic.
While we Hindus can laugh at your understanding, we Hindus will use such ridiculous understanding to our advantage. Please tell more Christians that Hinduism is pantheistic and the superior Christianity is monotheistic. Go on please and propagate this understanding. We love people like you who can rid Hinduism in the western world.
I am a Hindu, a demonic Hindu by Christ/Mary related religious standards. Hinduism has existed for thousands of years before Jesus came on earth and we can live with how the west understands that Hinduism is pantheistic.
Pranâms.
"Do not be conformed to the world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you might prove what the Will of God is that which is Good, acceptable and perfect" THAT IS EXCACTLY WHAT YOGA IS IT IS YOKING YOU, CONFORMING YOU by emptying your mind cutting you off from the will and knowledge of God.
Oh I loved this interview.
God bless Rae. Love the way you put it together. Not to scare anyone, but just the realness of your testimony.
Thank you Becket..
May God continue to use you for these praise worthy to Jesus testimonies. Just love them. God bless you and thank you for the work you do for our Lord Jesus Christ. 🙏🔥
I took a yoga class with a friend through a local community college. The instructor was really pushing the religious aspect of yoga hard. She spent a full class time just promoting vegetarianism. She made statements like "It's up to your own conscience, but eating meat IS murder." And "Yogis who reach high levels find that they can't eat meat anymore." And "If you had to kill and pluck a chicken yourself, you wouldn't be able to eat it." I grew up on a farm, with Christian parents who are WWII survivors. I actually have very fond memories of plucking and cleaning out chickens with my family.
How is meat being murder, when carnivore animals, eat animals
I was a vegetarian until i had a baby, at which point I could pluck a chicken, or shoot a deer, for that matter. This is one reason why New Agism is anti-family. To feed our kids we will do what we have to do.
@@kathleenking47 because "animals are pure beings and we are malicious because we have a conscience and know what we are doing," according to the animal Rescue Angels. They have a double standard for dogs, though, which they simultaneously promote as all-knowing and worthy of worship and also as a "pure being."
Plucking chickens was fun to me as a kid. Some people do better health wise as vegans but it’s not for everybody. Whatever works best for your health. I’m really disgusted with how people worship dogs nowadays.
@@carolinecherry530 I personally believe our societies have rejected the blessings of children and replaced that "need" to nurture with 4 legged pets people dote on.
I practiced yoga as a Christian for a few years. I loved the physical part of it and how limber it made me from the stretches. At one point yoga got me into meditation and that got me into a scary hole that the Lord got me out of quickly. So that encouraged me to do my own research on yoga. After doing a thorough amount the Lord convicted me and I could no longer continue in that practice. It’s crazy how this spiritual practice is disguised as just physical wellness when it can open so many doors Christians should keep closed. Thank you Becket for bringing your guest on. This message is important.
WTH
@@matemahe 😄😄😄
Well, the Lord loves you. It’s kind of obvious that it has some strange religious related origin but too many Christians don’t pay attention or think those who oppose those things are old fashioned or square. Keep giving your testimony and help other believers. God bless you.
I've tried to share this info about yoga with a new age person without success. The person became so agitated & alarmingly angry when I shares the info. I keep praying for the person to have eyes opened to this info.
Fgugvvv avj ut cj
Thank You Both so so much!!!! I am 62 years old and have been off and on with this for the last 15 years. Going to classes, that say, oh we don't say the words, but do the poses. My Mother in law warned me, but I kept rationalizing. Thank You. God Bless!!!! No more compromise. Thank You! Beckett praying shoulder gets better🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
God bless you on your journey
YOG = Bind & Control
Who are you binding with ? ~ demonic entities
Who is controlling who ? ~ the demonic entities are controlling you
Best wishes & blessings to all of you who are working towards emancipation from those evil forces. 💞
@@aryafaaz9345 Thank You. God Bless.
@@adailydaughter6196 Thank You. God Bless You.
Revealing the real truth, (the evilness) regarding yoga is so very important! Thank you both so very much! As Christians yoga should have no part in our lives! As Christians we cannot serve two masters! (No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other... (Matthew 6:24))
We aren't supposed to hate anyone. Not even our enemies.
I have been teaching yoga since 2015 and practicing since I was a kid. Really struggling to put this behind me and stop teaching and working at a yoga studio. Almost all of my friends do yoga and I am so scared of losing my community. Have been trying to quit for a few years, but it has been such a huge part of my identity. Please pray for me. Thank you for sharing this!
You are in my THOUGHTS & PRAYERS BUT all you NEED is GOD'S voice!! Talk to him, cuz he's already aware of it, he wants you to be totally SINCERE THT'S all!
HE will GIVE you the WISDOM & GUIDANCE 🙏tht you need!
Pls....Just TRUST him!
Remember >>>>
GREATER is HE tht's in YOU than HE tht's in the WORLD! 🌎
WE ARE HUMAN & God already
knows our "STRUGGLES"... but
he WILL help us IF we are HONEST with him!
🙏💜🙏💜🙏💜
(HEARING & also READING these comments speaks VOLUMES!)
THINK about it & let it SINK in💕
PRAYERS tht God gives you the STRENGTH & WISDOM to REMOVE any / & ALL HINDRANCES tht's standing in your way...of total PEACE! 😇
My FIRST thoughts about doing YOGA were about the "POSES" & I noticed they WERE all PROVOCATIVE...tht says ALOT to me!
Pls Don't worry cuz >>> I heard another lady speak about YOGA the same as YOU are, & God delivered her to give it up after yrs of doing it, she said she knew it WASN'T right...I was impressed w/ her strength & determination to do wht's RIGHT! & YOU WILL get THRU it too! 🙏👍🥰 🙏
GOD'S in this walk along w/ you! Take his hand, TALK to him EVERYDAY about this, & I will also PRAY [for you] tht any unhealthy DESIRE or HINDRANCE is totally REMOVED!
[& by FAITH I BELIEVE God will REMOVE it for you!!💕] IN JESUS NAME! I ask!
[& I give GOD ALL the PRAISE & ALL the GLORY in advance!
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GOD can do the IMPOSSIBLE!
So NEVER underestimate God's POWER...you just need the FAITH of a "mustard seed"!!!!! 🙏💟
(GOD BLESS YOU always!)
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I’m sorry for the torment you’re going through Iris. First thing I advice is trust in the Lord. If your community leaves you, then it was never really a community. God is all you need but I have no doubt he will surround you with other believers that will love you for who you are not what you identify as. People will always let us down but God won’t. Those who truly love you, will remain your friend. Those who don’t, never really loved you. They loved what you did.
God will restore a double portion. LET IT GO!!!! Bless you and praying for your resolve and for the strength the Holy Spirit to come upon you. Jesus is your peace!
Jesus Christ said, if you want to be my disciple, you must deny yourself and follow me. Leaving your friends because of truth Jesus Christ, might be painful but it's worthy. You will feel alone at time but you won't feel lonely because you have Christ in you.
Im not an expert in YOGA at all , never have done it , but i do practice meditation ,whenever i can to quiet my mind , because life is usually busy and training your mind you just become quieter whenever you want it can be extremely useful for concentration and for easing your tensions and extremely powerful ,for recharge your energies. Just something as simple and to sit on normal chair for 5 minutes and have deep breathing exercises can make a major difference and recharge your body.. Is not recommended to do it before going to sleep , because you will not longer sleep , if fully restored in energies. I also christian too.. And even though , never done Yoga , i can assure you ,
there is nothing to fear at all , about doing any mistakes.. if it was at all...there is a major missundestanding by Christians ,by Hindus , by All other organized religions you can name ,and also by Non religious movements too , and by New Age spiritual movements too.. missunderstandings about What Jesus really teach and promoted.. versus what Christians religions actually teach. In other words ,Jesus is much better than the organized religions created on his name . Say in other way , ,Jesus teachings and christianity as people know it , is not necessarily the same thing.
So will give you an example.. about what's the problem. Imagine @IRIS.. that you were a Major Dancer , who dance for a living. And you want to teach people how to dance , the you travel the world and create studios ,with your name , and while you are alive ,you teach people how to dance and is very successful.. But when no longer you are in this world , those that you put in charge of those studios ,instead of following your practices ,
of what you teach.. those managers ,that were supposed to teach people how to dance , what you wanted ,decide instead , to use the studios to worship you , to do tribute every week about your person. And additionally , the people in charge of your founded studios , hire Dancers ,that dance totally different and how you wanted people to do it. So this is the problems with organized Christian religions today.. and also others religions too.
Organized religions is more about control of population , using FEAR as a weapon of control you , don't do this or that because you will burn in fire for eternity.. Jesus never said anything like that. Jesus spoke ALL THE TIME.. about an un-conditional loving father, about forgiving those who try to chase you and harm you . IF you focus ONLY
in Jesus direct teachings ,in the bible ,the 4 gospels of Jesus.. you will see a pattern , of how Jesus repeated AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIn to NOT FEAR , to have no Doubts ,
To have unconditional love and TRUST in GOD , no matter how difficult things looks to be.
That by your Faith you will be saved. [Luke 7:50] .. Christianity as told by Jesus ,was all about developing an Unconditional love and Trust for GOD that doesn't wave. This unconditional trust ,Jesus called it Faith that move mountains. you could do anything. Jesus also told a LOT ,
something that is ignored frequently.. Jesus told.. TO NOT JUDGE.. That is to not put labels ,
on people or things.. like good /evil , Judgements create separation , between you and that other person or thing. Jesus was more for Unifying humanity , not about dividing . Reason why Jesus teach a lot forgiveness too. I advice you ,to check the book of Conversations with GOd..book1 , on youtube it will explain you what Jesus real message was, but that mosst people don't pay attention. and so Organized institutions , most of what they do is Worship the figure of jesus and the bible , but do not actually explain you ,that Salvation comes by your Faith , by your unconditional trust , unconditional love for GOD ,that Jesus was representing. And when you really Trust in someone , you know that person will not abandon you , and leave you alone ,when you more need it.. even if you mistakes . Good parents /or good friends are those that will support you no matter what mistakes you do , But if people can do that that are imperfect , and stand with you in good times and bad times ,imagine how much more God and Jesus could do? So you should never fear about GOD response for anything you did ,specially if you did not knew what it was. Life is a school and we are not born with a clear manual of what to do all the time. So if i was you , ill seek for alternative opinions about Yoga from Christians , so you get more points of view .However i really advice you ,to read a book with title [Conversations with GOD , book 1 ,by neal donald walsch..] , is online posted in youtube for free, it will explain you all this and a lot more. Specially how to easy learn to differentiate what Messages that comes from God or not. and how to know when you know.. And understand what works for you or not. and perhaps you can ask Directly God to explain you if Yoga is good for you or not. IF you believe God can respond to your direct questions , then it will happen to the same degree that you believe. IF you ask for prayers , is because you have doubts , about GOD.. Instead just learn to develop a relationaship with GOD... the best prayers are those of thanks giving for life ,and to be thankful everyday for all the things you appreciate in your life.
I'm an ex-yoga teacher, but still barely practicing yogini. I have been studying with Swami Jnaneshwara Bharati of the Himalayan tradition for the past 2 years. I have been called back to Jesus recently and am wrestling with the idea of leaving yoga behind completely and staying with my faith. Finding this video has been so helpful to me. I know God is leading me in the right direction. I have been praying for wisdom about what to do. I am in Australia and would welcome any advice, support, direction. Etc..
I'm sorry with all due respect but didn't you listen to this video
I had a similar experience. Just quit, cold turkey, walk away. There are dozens of other ways to get exercise.
Follow Jesus!
@@victorabustamante7207 Didn't you listen to it? It clearly recounts that Yoga is a compelling deception that gains a grip on people. You can see how clearly this person needs to cut the ties but it isn't clear or easy until you fully discern God's purpose on it. Humility is part of compassion.
You cannot serve to masters. You will hate one and love the other, hence your confliction Your first point of call would be to cut ties with Swami Jhaneshwara Bharati. What is your reason or need to study with him, instead of just studying the WORD, especially as you purport to be of the faith (2 CORINTHIAN 6:14 KJV). The choice is simple tbh, either you turn away from what you are doing and return to the LORD or you don't. It is a choice.
Thank you for exposing Yoga for what it is truly. Every time I wanted to try Yoga, I have stories where God blocked me, or He would send someone to me as a warning, etc. Keep up the good work Mr. Beckett and Ms. Darabont .
This is 100 percent not true, and based in fear😢😮 Hard to believe anyone in this day and age doesn't realize it The same people who believe this believe the Bible is literally, and do SO MUCH DAMAGE ❤😢
that stoned feeling is a "TRANCE STATE". or an altered state or a "suggestible state" its like self hypnosis
WOW, Christian “yogini” here. I didn’t realize the extent of what I was into (during Covid got away from classes) and I am moved by this interview. I would love to hear more from Rae about her inspiring walk with Christ.
Hinduism forces you to be responsible rather that handing over things to some God. Yes it can be very uncomfortable to face yourself, look yourself in the mirror, face your karma. It is not for the lazy. What sone do, is not yoga!!!! For yoga, you get up at 4am, do pancha kryia cleansing process, recite a mantra and do your asanas. ALL THIS IS DONE BY TRUE HINDUS 90 MINUTES BEFORE SUNRISE. DID YOU EAT SATVIK FOOD ONLY? NO!!!
@@YouStillNeedToSleep For crying out loud - how many times are you going to post this comment?
Yoga means "yoked with demons," and "we cannot drink of the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too." When I was 16 way back in 1971, I went through a severe trial with a mother who had become demon possessed from working the Ouija board (which I had turned away from, and refused to work with her).
I suffered a great deal at her hands, but it caused me to search for God. I had been an atheist, but my eyes were opened that if there's an evil force, there has to be a good force. I first read the Upanishads and Bhagavad-Gita, but came up empty. There was nothing there, so then I went to a YMCA yoga class. We sat there in the lotus position with our fingers making the triple 6 illuminati hand gesture, chanting "Ohm," and the most overwhelming feeling of horror came over me. I knew it was wrong, and I got up and left. When I was 17 someone told me to read the book of John, and I then read all 4 Gospels in a row, and became a believer in Jesus Christ. I'm 68 now, there have been many struggles with the forces of darkness, but greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world!!!
Beautiful testimony. Thank you for sharing and giving glory to our Savior. He is so good to help us. Peace Maranatha
Namasthê. Thank you for your testimony. Please help us Hindus by sharing your story with Christian groups and denounce Upanishads and Bhagavad-Gita as empty.
We Love such great testimonials. Only trouble is that several universities in the west have copies of Bhagavad-Gîta the empty book (as you describe it, having no substance) and the next step is to tell these western universities to burn their copies. We Hindus will be perfectly happy to see this done.
We Hindus never expect non-Hindus to follow Hinduism. Hinduism never proselytize like Christ Mary related religions.
You see, the western world appropriates Hindu thought and later decries it. Silly is it not?
Hindus
Pranâms.
Amazing story! Thank you praise our heavenly Father in Jesus Christ's name. May i share your story if you don't mind?
I was a child and teen I was exposed too several forms of new age and occult practices such as yoga 🧘♀️ and meditation, aroma therapy, healing crystals, healing message and roach, nudist colony , free masonsary in the form of jobs daughters cause my father and grandfather were free masons. Had many physic readings and even had my astrological chart done and was into astrology. I have repented all of these practices. More is still being relieved too me from the holy spirt . Praise Jesus Christ
@@Austin11ification Hello Austin: Pardon me for butting in. You will do us, Hindus a great favour telling others of Recovering Baptist's story. While Recoverin Baptist's understanding that Yoga means "yoked with demons," is rubbish, we Hindus can live with a westerner's ludicrous understanding. When the western world appropriates Bhârathian (Indian as the west calls it) culture, the west thinks of power and when the western Christian ego is boosted by wrong understanding, there is negative experience. We Hindus can laugh at this state of affairs. That is why we Hindu need people like you to do the spade work for us, in that denounce Yôga.
Thanks in advance.
Amen.
If I could find some thing that helped my back issues like yoga, I would do it, I haven’t found any kind of stretching that works nearly as well as up dog, and down dog and other yoga stretches like the flamingo. If they’re out there, I haven’t seen them. It’s really too bad. I will continue to do yoga until I find some thing that I can supplement it with so that I can function in day-to-day life without excruciating pain. I do not take medication. I believe with the medication prescribed for back pain is evil.
I knew that yoga was a spiritual practice and should be avoided as a Christian. I have a neighbor who is Indian and she describes "white people's yoga" and then contrasts this to the way white people have co-opted their religious practice. I live in California and yoga comes up often. I always explain that its a religious practice that does not align with my Christian faith.
BECKET!!! I’m so glad that you covered this! I’ve been warning Christians about this for a while. They don’t listen. Yoga IS a religion.
It is and it has to be the Holy Spirit convicting. One person stated it took her 3 years
Many don’t listen. They don’t seem to really get it. All we can do is warn and pray for them. God will have to show them.
I've tried to warn people too. They definitely DON'T listen.
Yes! It is a religion. I saw in one comment section a person vehemently disagreeing with this. But I've seen way too many testimonies of the spiritual attacks people experienced from their spirit guides when they decided to follow Jesus. It is a religion and it is not of God!
@@Shortytash You don't save people by warning or preaching. Your God does. If they don't get saved, it's your God's choice not to do so. I am not impressed by the millions he chooses not to save. So I am not impressed by him. I am a better person then he is and I am more worthy of worship.
This is so true, after being a born again Christian for 2 decades, I visited a yoga studio for the first time with a friend. I immediately knew, this was not the place for me. My power, protection and guidance comes from Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior, NOT from myself (as we were being told in yoga class). I was laying on the yoga mat saying the Lords Prayer while they were chanting. I couldn’t get out of there fast enough. I’m still good friends with the lady who invited me to yoga (she’s a Christian), but that was my first and last yoga class. When I got home, I did my research and discovered, it was all rooted in Hinduism. Thank you Lord for discernment and opening my eyes!!
Thanks for the interview Becket and Rae.
Hinduism makes you face the demons within, and that is very uncomfortable! Hinduism forces you to be responsible rather than handing over things to some God. Yes it can be very uncomfortable to face yourself, look yourself in the mirror, face your karma. It is not for the lazy. What sone do, is not yoga!!!! For yoga, you get up at 4am, do pancha kryia cleansing process, recite a mantra and do your asanas. ALL THIS IS DONE BY TRUE HINDUS 90 MINUTES BEFORE SUNRISE. DID YOU EAT SATVIK FOOD ONLY? NO!!!
A guru said you can have Hinduism without yoga......but you can't have yoga without Hinduism.....
Satan indeed has a million ways to deceive people and drive them away from the living God!
Isnt it interesting when you dig down in the inner layers of all of them, you find Satan there deceiving all. Whether yoga, new age, occult, postmodernism, drugs, etc.
honestly could have kept listening! We need a part 2 or 3... Rae didn't get a chance to get into how we can still remain healthy and active and stretch, and how to keep that all separate from yoga. Would love to hear more on how she transitioned a lifestyle of yoga into a healthy lifestyle of exercise. Amazing testimony and such good information!
Yes, I would find that helpful as well and hope there is a follow up interview.
Why not Pilates? Or Barre?
Yes…I want that information too! Part 2 please. 😉👍🏼
@@ACityShining Pilates is stretching. ETA: my ballet teacher was a Christian who taught us to avoid yoga like the plague. Pilates, on the other hand, was an effective stretching program.
Yes! Part 2 and/or 3! How can we move through prayer as Christians?
I was at conference and they were offering a Yoga class, so I prayed before going in with being a Christian and after about being in there for about 5-10 minutes I had to leave due feeling very sick in my stomach. I got in my car and as soon I was down the road a couple of miles, I started throwing up. That confirmed to me as Christian I should not mess with certain things.
I have a similar experience when i attended a seminar that practiced new age hypnotism. I asked the holy spirit for discernment and left mid session. Felt nauseous after that. Took it as confirmation its not of God and its demonic.
Basically 🧘♂️ came from aruvedic medicine. As far as joint & muscle pain, it's helped me more than any doctors. If physical therapy can do it, so can yoga.
Me too! I pray, and thank God for it every day!
Also, medical physical therapy along with many different medication’s never helped me.
Yoga = good exercise. Yoga is not a religion. Stop fear mongering. Good health can bring you closer to God.
I am a yoga teacher and I’m a Christian. I teach the asanas and pranayama as a relaxation technique and a way to connect to your inner self, and that brings you closer to God if you believe in one. I don’t work-ship any Hindu Gods or Goddesses. I don’t chant I believe when we learn and accept ourselves as well as others we become better human beings and become more tolerant in a world where we need more peace. I have students from all religions and I respect them.
Yoga has helped me be more relaxed, help me anxiety and even a little depression. If you love Jesus nothing will take you away from him. It’s just like other practices like Karate, tai chi or other modalities that are rooted on different religions.
Guys, I listen to the video I think that they don't know anything about it. Also, the lady is just talking about her understanding. I am Christian. I feel sad about myself because I just discover the passing of Yoga 2 years ago. Yoga and all the Hindu mythology of God have helped me in my personal life and be more Christian. Also to do better in my Job as a TCM practitioner . Now looking forward to visiting India.
Gonna share this on social media. Living in L.A. is certainly challenging as a Christian, it's isolating. Grateful to remain full of the Holy Spirit with Jesus as my bestie 🙏
AMEN
AMEN your remnant brothers and sisters in Christ support you☝️❤️🔥🙏
Yes we do! We are here for you. It is hard. Where I live in Northern California it can be difficult too in some places. You can quite literally feel the difference in town depending on believers and non believers. But we are out there and we remain steadfast.
Ok keep your holy spirit! What u did was not yoga!!!! For yoga, you get up at 4am, do pancha kryia cleansing process, recite a mantra and do your asanas. ALL THIS IS DONE BY TRUE HINDUS 90 MINUTES BEFORE SUNRISE. DID YOU EAT SATVIK FOOD ONLY? NO!!!
@@YouStillNeedToSleep your comment really made me laugh Kile, seriously, as if, you, describing yoking with demons, would be impressive or something, when I am clear it's demonic 👿
Wow wow wow! As a Christian I’ve always felt weird going to yoga classes even tho for me it was “stretch/exercise”. At the end when they say Namaste, I always said, Praise the Lord …quietly.
BUT…this was SOOO enlightening. I’ve been sending this episode to Christian friends who do yoga for “health”.
Thank you Thank you!! Hugs n blessings. ❤
Dear Melanie, Namaste is a symbol of respecting the divinity in you.
@@himabindumandapati8489 God's Holy Spirit is the only divinity in me..anything else is Satan..
Wake up because you are inviting demons inside you with your false beliefs!
@@Ang4God777 hahahaah.... Has Satan created everything else in this cosmos... I believe in Omnipotent Brahman... Your belief is yours and my belief is my belief. What is Yoga to do with religion? The problem arises when you want to change others belief systems in terms of faith and religion.
God bless you
I was gifted a yoga course just before I became a Christian. I was terrible at it and tore a ligament in my knee but I felt that there was something very creepy about the chanting and breathing; it’s so obviously worship and so obviously the worship of the self and the demonic. Here in the UK it’s not unusual to have yoga classes in church buildings, as the one I attended was. Now that I’m a follower of Christ and can see how antithetical yoga practice is to Christianity, I’m dismayed that a Christian church has yoga classes in its building.
That is a very good point! Funny how so many things are infiltrating the church in plain sight! My church (Episcopilian) has the same set up as well.
I started practicing after a devastating neurological diagnosis about ten years ago. I’m in remission and don’t need Botox or other drugs and live pain free. Yoga has been nothing more than a physical practice for me, close to physical therapy. I never did it to seek enlightenment or spiritual awakening. I do stick with the same teacher so there are no “surprises” that I’m wouldn’t be comfortable with. I’m in the Word daily and have been sober for decades.
I also do Pilates. There are downward dogs, planks and child’s poses in that practice as well. I’ve watched some of the “alternatives” on RUclips and they look pretty much the same as what I do. Very similar movements.
So..to each his own. If it’s a sin to you, don’t do it. As for me, until an alternative appears that works as well, I’m going to continue on. It beats being confined to my bed , unable to drive and fighting with the insurance company about paying for Botox injections.
There should be no other gods before God. Please pray about and ask God. If God asks you to stop, would you?
He hasn’t asked me to. I’m careful about instructors. I know what to stay away from. It’s exercise and physical therapy for me. Nothing more.
@@jehannedufresne3998 and how to explain the fact that Hinduism was around several thousand years before the Christianity? 🤔
@@vladimirjokanovic6462 Judaism and Hinduism are both old. Jesus was among the Jews as the anointed one (Christ) and therefore Christianity began after Jesus but we don't get rid of the old testatment.
@@kathleen7849 well, cannot dispute any of that except "therefore". Joshua ben Joseph was dubbed Christ by the Greek so he would hardly be aware of that neither would he authorize use of his appearance, image, acts and quotations so anyone believing in Christ and Christianity as such is a spiritual equivalent of the low-budget snobs wearing fake Prada handbags and dresses. 🙄
My doctor suggested that I do yoga for relaxation. However, my spirit just wouldn’t let me do it. I tried a couple of classes and my spirit was so uncomfortable that I just walked away. Now I know why. Thank you Jesus🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
That's ridiculous..grow up
Do pilates
Same here. My friend believe in yoga ,I'll continue with cardio
Same experience! Thank you Lord for the true divine intervention!
God is good
Yoga is so addictive. I had to pray and pray to get out of it, because I wouldn't believe anything negative about it. God's answer after weeks of praying for an answer was scaring me out of it with the most frightening sleep paralysis experience after I'd done loads of 'Christian yoga' that day. My story won't convince anybody else - it could have been coincidence and the sleep paralysis just physical, but the moment I called out to Jesus in my mind, it disappeared, and I immediately knew the connection with the yoga I'd been doing. Only after that I discovered the testimony of Mike Shreve, a former yoga teacher. There's a back-bend routine on RUclips I still sometimes crave, but I'm never going back again. It was way too scary.
@@Sunny-hv7pt Try Pilates. There are lots of videos on RUclips that will teach you and it's just as beneficial, sans the demons.
Curious statement.
Why is it addictive?
Simply curious.
I have never heard anyone say that before.( I have never practiced it before.)
I am sorry you experienced the Sleep paralysis thing.
So, you think messing with the Yoga called those things to come in?
Sometimes people see things, and other times they just experience the powerlessness of lack of movement against their will. Sometimes it happens repeatedly. I really feel for the victims of it.
Very wise of you to call on Jesus in your mind. Smart girl. Some people do not know that his name has power because of his authority and suffer unwittingly. His name is so powerful!
Glad u got free.
Mike Shreve huh?
I will have to look that up.
My old Church's child worship was offering yoga for the kids to practice per the independent adult leadership looking after my child along with her daughter. My daughter told me this when I came to get her, and I asked the lady what was up with that. She defended it. ( This was in the house of Yahweh/Jesus on a Sunday, mind you, and without my permission. But I have trained my daughter since birth basically to reject and never practice meditation or yoga anywhere, and with anyone, and have had to fight off school and have her sit outside in the hall when they did it in elementary. It is everywhere.)
Needless to say, I got the pastor involved, and I was so shocked when this Assemblies of GOD pastor agreed it was ok, no worries, "it is only exercise, and you are wrong and making a big deal out of nothing". I couldn't believe a pastor of the Christian faith could be so ignorant of basic Hinduism/Idolatry/Paganism!
Well, then it got superheated. I was PISSED! We left after several years of worship there until that one Sunday, which was her first day transitioning into the bigger kids program from the little people program in the nursery too! He preached the sermon to us about not letting the world influence the house of God + our lives!
Mike Shreve is a dear friend of mine! His testimony is so AWESEOME (as is Becket’s)! As for backbends, just do a gymnastics class instead of that; they stole gymnastics moves and twisted them into their religion, but it did not originate there.
I mean cant you just regular exercise?
I used to go to the ymca or to a local Christian “ holy” yoga class, but one snowy winter Saturday morning they were both closed so I decided to do “holy” yoga at home. I got dressed and got everything set up and went to cast one of the “holy” yoga instructor videos off of you tube. The instructor was supposed to have a lot of videos, I knew her personal name and business name. I searched and searched for 10 or 15 minutes and I became so frustrated that I couldn’t find her videos. I then cried out to God, why, why can’t I find her videos. I then heard the holy spirit say, clearly, yoga is not holy and it is not of me. I thank the Lord and praise his holy name for bringing me out of yoga. And like Rae, my deliverance process was not pretty. I urge anyone who has done yoga to please seek out a deliverance minister or go through self deliverance. Shalom!!!
I have never practiced yoga where someone preached any religion.
Breath, stretching & strengthening.
One could pray to Jesus during a yoga practice.
Should a seeker dig into the background, they could go down some weird rabbit hole, but anyone clear in their faith would never pursue that silliness.
The actual poses can gently strengthen a healthy body and the breathing settles a busy mind when settling into a Christian prayer and meditation.
Wonderful show Becket and Rae! I had been practicing yoga on and off at a local studio in my town for years and had always been unnerved at the large Buddha that would greet you at the entry as well as the alter and deities on the walls. One day a friend asked me too go with a gentle “restorative” yoga class with her and while doing the chavasina at the end of class I looked over and my eyes fixated on the Hindu wall art and I felt the Lord speak to my heart in no uncertain terms “shalt have NO other gods before me- this is worship!” I knew from that day forward I could never go again. I am so grateful for the Holy Spirit’s conviction. I do not miss it at all. I would much rather obey.
I came across this by chance. I’m so glad I clicked on it. As a Muslim I always felt uneasy about yoga. I’ve only given it a go a handful of times but something always felt off. It’s great to have definite answers about how it is incompatible with my faith. The biggest sin in Islam is worshipping anything other than the Creator. Thank you for this interesting conversation. I’ve learnt a lot.
Interesting. A Christian will say you won't go to heaven because the only way is through Jesus who is the son of God.
@arifkh3142 Jesus is the son of God. He was born of a virgin through the Holy Spirit
@@normanshadow1 the Bible doesn't say that. However it does say....only way to the father is through the Son. Blessings!
@@normanshadow1 God is like nothing and nothing is like him
We love Jesus peace be upon him, however he’s definitely a regular human being and was sent to humanity as a prophet.
God doesn’t have a son nor does he have a girlfriend.
God is unique, if he had a son, what would make him superior 😊
Lie.
Once again you nailed it!! The culture’s modern day “golden calf”. Humans insist on believing the original lie…”you will be like God”
Excellent comment!
Wow...Stated so well !
There's nothing wrong with meditation and relaxation and inner peace.
And worshipping a false God. Yoga is at the core of Hinduism. You can commit unknowing sins
Evangelicals find fault with everything that is beyond their very limited experience and imagination.
@@DAVID-kd3qyJesus said, “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.” There is no other way to God that though the sacrifice and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus only.
@@cynthiafisher9907 What kind of creature would want to have anything to do with a GENOCIDAL MONSTER like JEHOVAH? Keep your nonsense to yourself!
I had a lot of trouble understanding why christians were saying yoga was spiritually dangerous, and this was the first time that it was explained in such a helpful way. Thank you.
Totally agree I used to feel a bit peeved with the Christians who just blurted out yoga is satanic. I would roll my eyes. This explanation really helped me.
yeah, JASMINE...this is important. What you said is true. NO ONE, really ever told me WHY....why is Yoga dangerouis.
Yoga and Cremation adopted by gullible Christians.. no questions asked.
And to most people who say that I ask “did you pray about it and ask God to show you whether it’s OK or not?” Why are we as Christian’s on different pages on so many issues IF we are all being led by the Holy Spirit? Answer is we haven’t taken the time to pray about it or listen to the answer afterwards.
Good for u
I am a Christian and I studied yoga to become a certified instructor. Every door was blocked for me to finish. I did all kinds of yoga..even Kundalini. I felt very convicted about the practice of yoga and started researching if it was evil. I found an Indian lady on RUclips sharing how she became possessed be a demon and she was following yoga gurus. She was Hindu at the time. She said in India they laugh about ‘Christian Yoga’. I threw away all of my yoga dvds and stopped practicing. I have found Essentrics/Classical Stretch! It is lengthening, calming and very, very good for you! Praise the Lord!
in india they dont really do the yoga.... they laugh at white people doing yoga and acting spiritual. except ashtanga yogis because you cant f with ashtanga yogis... theylaugh at trustafarians when they say namaste because its like saying hello to them. they are mostly occupied with basic survival. the gurus are mostly scammers of yuppies and rich kids from the west. my gf was from india and confirmed my observations. i am a decade of hot vinyasaand ashtanga in san diego and certified yoga teacher. yoga means to yolk. referimg to bringing together the body with God. i encountered frequent individuals presentimg situations that i natually just blocked out and focused inward. i even thank God for the experience. as yoga got me off heroin for the last 12 years i experienced it as the flame that warms not the fire that destroys ones house.
Thanks for the tip I will look for classical stretch
@@fayolasaunders6342 ditto!
What u did was not yoga!!!! Foe yoga, you get up at 4am, do pancha kryia cleansing process, recite a mantra and do your asanas. ALL THIS IS DO E BY TRUE HINDUS 90 KMINUTES BEFORE SUNRISE. DID YOU EAT SATVIK FOOD ONLY? NO!!!
@@johntitor4404 Namasthê.
Great words. You say - yoga means to yolk. referring to bringing together the body with God.
While this is utterly rubbishy understanding, we Hindus can use your understanding to denounce Yôga in the west. There is nothing called Hot Yôga and that is a money making invention by unscrupulous teachers. Yôga âsanâs are about conserving energy, not sweating it out in a hot environment.
Pranâms.
I tried yoga awhile back, and felt like it was so creepy, even though the teacher was a lovely person. When I lived in El Lay, a yogi named Satchitdananda was all the rage. I got dragged by a friend to hear him speak, and it was so oppressive, so dark, even though he was very ‘peaceful’ and seemingly kind. His message of “many paths to one truth” directly contradicted the message of Jesus. There was always an aura of hidden agendas that never rang true with him and any other proponent of yoga. It is works-based.
Yoga made me feel odd from the start. I stopped after one class. There are other ways to get in shape and relax.
Jesus is Lord and Saviour.
This is the best presentation of the yoga topic that I’ve heard in years. So thankful to have found your video! I have shared it with MANY!
This is the worst explanation of yoga I have ever heard! I have practiced since 1988 ...
yoga boiled down, focus on your body, empty your mind, give up your boundaries to the group, give up your truth to the guru, you are God "the lie of Satan", now as God ,you can define sin as everything is ok except to believe that there is sin and death (reincarnation). "YOU CAN BE A GOD" "YOU WILL NOT SURELY DIE" the lies of Satan in the garden of Eden
WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD. WE ARE NOT GOD, LIKE SATAN TOLD EVE YOU CAN BE LIKE GOD! Glad you doing this talk on Yoga, people need to know.
There's always something seemingly good wanting to trap us. We just need to keep on learning. Thanks for this, I'll share it with my niece who says it's ok.
We need to pray for ongoing DISCERNMENT !
As always, a thoughtful and intelligent discussion that illuminates the subject and makes some important points. Great to hear a Christian engaging with the subject rather than just saying it’s wrong, full stop. We need knowledge and reason to win people over as well as conviction and enthusiasm. Love Becket’s ability to let his guest do the talking - the perfect interview style!
Amen..Amen..
Sometimes you just feel something is wrong and messed up because the Holy Spirit is telling you no and you'll only realize the reason why later. Either way, listen to the Holy Spirit.
those are great ways to bring ppl over to catholicism but the way the pope had so many Christians in the beginning of catholicism is by ordering death to men, woman and children, killing any priest/tess, teacher , anyone who knew the old language, taught the old ways of religion, basically had any and everything not catholic wiped out. ruled with fear and continues to rule with fear. that's why archeologists and ppl are finding all these old scriptures, stories and tablets bc they were deliberately buried bc ppl's lives and their families lives were at stake if they didn't choose to practice catholicism. that's not what free will, love and free choice is about. what kind of religion hides and protects child rapist, pedophiles, pedophilia, rape, murder, lies, enslavement of civilizations and all while saying they are the one true religion? I'm not making any of this up, its all in the Bible eventhough the Bible is a man made made up book. not saying that there isn't something out here that's a higher power that embellishes love, life, happiness, peace and tranquility bc I do believe there is, I just have done alot of research and now know why even as a child I had alot of questions about this religion and actually reading and not being bias I know now that catholicism isn't it.
It seems to me that if a person is having a difficult time giving up yoga, there's your sign that IT'S controlling YOU.
Well said
I never practiced yoga as a practice connected to Hinduism. I practiced It with entusiasmo. It brought elasticity and strength to my body, taught me natural ways to clean my body and led me to eat good good as well as it's preparation. Yoga is simply WONDERFUL!!
Very true
Exactly!!
Hi Rae, if you're reading this, i (and i think many of us) would love to hear you speak more on this topic. I feel like an hour is not enough for all the knowledge you have to share! You are very well spoken& truly shedding a light in a way i havent seen anyone else do on here ( or on other social media ) ❤
I would love for Rae to develop a program for stretching and flexibility that is Christian in format and an alternative to yoga. Great show once again Becket!!
That would be awesome!! I second this motion!
It exists already, it is called 'Tikva'! :D
@@vicinalucinda link it! I can't find it!
Search "non yoga" stretch exercises on RUclips, there are some.
The power of praying friends! God bless you Beckett for your encouragement and truth. I was in the separatist, feminist lesbian scene. And the Holy Spirit just chased me down. I walked into a church with a friend of my mothers, and I went forward. The Spirit just flooded my entire being.
I couldn't read the Word and I still have trouble concentrating. I've had fibromyalgia for most of my life, so I've had mental fog since I was in my teens. BUT! I know Who saved me and I know that I can minister to the broken, because I've been in counselling for complex trauma for a while now and I have the privilege to hear and understand what people need, when I sit and listen to them, and the Spirit tells me what they need . We all come from something. All of us
Thanks Rae. You have such a calming spirit. I did yoga weekly with a friend for 2 years and never really liked it. I went with her as a support. I did not enjoy the chanting and the verbal participation. It never felt comfortable or relaxing. It hurt my joints and it was painful all 2 yrs. Now learning about the dangers of it, I see why my spirit never connected to it.
Yall in the comments are hilarious. Hide yo kids, hide yo wife, yoga is coming for you! Lol 😂
Every single time I have gotten around someone who is really into yoga and I take them up on going to a class, I feel so weird. I knew that there were spiritual things going on in those classes. I could just feel it. People try to convince me that it is just exercise but it just always felt very strange. I can’t tell you how many times I tried and quit. This is the best coverage of how it is 100% a Hindu pantheism practice!! Even the time when we saw “Christian yoga” popping up, it just never felt right.
Praising the LORD for what HE IS doing in you and through you, Becket Cook! May the LORD continue to use you for His glory in mighty and awesome ways.
Amen, yea! Agreed!
I’m Catholic and yoga is something we are to avoid. Same with reiki.
The Lord gave me discernment about yoga, and completely took my desire away. Praise the Lord
As a Christian I practiced for years and didn’t think anything of it until I started to notice things in my heart that didn’t sit right. I also never got any actual benefit from it physically. In fact, as I practiced as a personal trainer I noticed a lot of Yoga teachers and participants were coming to me with shoulder and back issues from Yoga.
I’m so thankful to the Holy Spirit for telling me to no longer practice! Thank you Jesus.
Hinduism makes you face the demons within, and that is very uncomfortable! Hinduism forces you to be responsible rather than handing over things to some God. Yes it can be very uncomfortable to face yourself, look yourself in the mirror, face your karma. It is not for the lazy. What sone do, is not yoga!!!! For yoga, you get up at 4am, do pancha kryia cleansing process, recite a mantra and do your asanas. ALL THIS IS DONE BY TRUE HINDUS 90 MINUTES BEFORE SUNRISE. DID YOU EAT SATVIK FOOD ONLY? NO!!!
What did you notice ??
@@brendaharding8010 Yoga is just stretching.
If you do it for stretching youre fine.
@@YouStillNeedToSleep I am not sure, we as christians don't just hang things over to God, we have a relationship just like a Father and a child, it is our responsability to take action over those things under our control, and turn over to Him those things that are beyond our control. Yaweh is our ultimate reality, we would not dare to think of us as being gods, we were CREATED to his image, and SAVED by Jesus, his only begotten son.
I gave my heart and soul to Jesus 37 year ago, and I've always felt very uncomfortable with Yoga. Recently, though, my Nurse Practitioner suggested that I take it up to help bring down my blood pressure, but I just couldn't bring myself to start. All that time, though, I've been bothered that I may be over reacting. After all, it's just exercise, right? Well, our wonderful LORD has come through again, and after listening to this great interview, now I know why I hesitated... Thank you for helping me fight this battle, dear ones, and I look forward to thanking you in person at our Forever Family Reunion, someday soon!
Check out Dr. Joel Fuhrman on blood pressure. Yoga is not the answer to hypertension, anyway
This is so fundamental to understand. As someone who was a new ager, yoga was part of my lifestyle. When I came to Christ in my 20's i repented to the lord because I understood how deceptive and not of God . I also burnt all my new age books and things. It was an incredible step of faith and liberating as well as a full step of commitment to my new life in Christ. There is much confusion today and it is in the church, sadly. Thank you for sharing such an important subject Becket.
That's awesome!
Great testimony! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for this. Yoga was a stumbling block for me. I started because of the exercise...but then as I got deeper into it, I was introduced to literal idol worship. I wasn't ok with it, but a teacher said it was like Catholics pray to saints, not a big deal. Also Buddhist ideas were mixed in. Before I knew it, I was chanting to false God's and letting my Bible grow dusty. Perhaps I could do the physical exercise again in the future, but not among others and certainly with reading the Bible.
beware of 'mantras' ...
Thank GOD for saving you & never go back ..physical exercise you can do them without having to do with the occult...
Sweetie, you can do stretches while listening to praise and worship. Get up and move…that is the most important part of what we need to do. Cardio by moving. We can’t just sit on our rump every day and expect to be healthy. And to think we need to follow a “leader” doing poses is a trap from the enemy. God bless you. Just move. Dance around, extend your arms to Jesus. Dance with The Lord. Paul Wilbur has a song that says, “dance with me, O, Lover of my soul, to the song of all songs.” When I play that song, it’s easy to dance around and imagine Jesus dancing with me around as I extend my arms to heaven and my heart in alignment. Let me know what you think. 🙏🏻❤️
Back in the 90s, I took a lot of yoga classes and considered being a teacher. At the time, I was a catholic and the yoga instructor would chant at the end of the class while we were in "corpse" pose. I felt very uncomfortable with the chanting and would quietly take my mat and leave until one night she whispered for me to stay. I did and as people were walking out, she asked me why I always left and I told her my religious background. She smirked and waved me away, I never returned to her or any other yoga class again. I found their messaging a bit insidious; how each pose corresponded with organs, etc. Then the Bikram scandal happened and I was so glad that God protected me and I was out of that environment.
When you mentioned the chanting I immediately thought of the Monks who today do chanting.
@@suestephan3255 This was Sanskrit chanting.
SAME. It all began with me not being comfortable with chanting in a language I don’t understand. “Oh, it’s just the divine in me recognizes the divine in you,” a yogi friend told me dismissively. But she doesn’t know Sanskrit either, so I ain’t chanting. Now, I don’t know what to do because I’m a fitness instructor and my need of earning sometimes requires me to sub for friends’ yoga classes. I never name the poses. I try to stick to physiological things-tightness in joints, oxygenation of blood. I dunno. I’m ready to retire from it all and just get my exercise dealing with my farm.
And, as for the language-I speak four-plus some Latin, so the monks’ chanting in Latin is easily discernible and the purpose is more clear and aligns with an emptying of self and service to the divine God.
@@badmother7615
Thank you Bad Mother. I thought that and you said for me.
OMG 😲 I'm a Muslim and believe in onenes of God. Thank you for explaining, I was just about to sign for Yoga classes 😬
Hinduism forces your to be responsible rather that handing over things to some God. Yes that ir can be very uncomfortable to face yourself, look yourself in the mirror, face your karma. It is not for the lazy. What sone do, is not yoga!!!! For yoga, you get up at 4am, do pancha kryia cleansing process, recite a mantra and do your asanas. ALL THIS IS DONE BY TRUE HINDUS 90 MINUTES BEFORE SUNRISE. DID YOU EAT SATVIK FOOD ONLY? NO!!!
You are on the right track Fifi.
It's philosophy is founded on a multi deity belief.
@@yayahbarakwan6849 except Islam is a heresy.
That's not stating that Muslims are heretics... They're not.
wow idk why this was recommended to me but I feel sorry for y'all, and everyone in the comments. I'm not the least bit religious or spiritual in any way. but I do yoga because it physically helps me. I'm pushing 40 and work a very physically demanding job and if I didn't do yoga every day after work my back, shoulders, arms and hips would become so stiff it would be unbearable. to completely write off something that can be so physically beneficial based on religious/spiritual beliefs is just lunacy to me. it doesn't have to be as deep as y'all make it out to be. it can just boil down to stretching and deep breathing, which is never a bad thing.
Thank You both for sharing the dangers of yoga. I lost a casual Christian friend when I sent her a video on what yoga was really all about, she’s a yoga instructor and she told me one time yoga saved her after she got sober, that hit me so wrong that’s why I sent her the video! Yoga doesn’t save anyone! Jesus said Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. I want to be yoked to Jesus only!! 🥰
AMEN! Well said!
Pamela, yes, I’ve heard so many lost in the new age echo that sentiment, “yoga saved me”. It’s yet another counterfeit salvation, praying your friend realizes and turns 💕
@@julietleblanc9197 Amen!
Keep praying for your friend, please don't give up!
@@hills9129 That’s so nice, I will, I was frustrated one day and the Holy Spirit put the thought in my mind “Pray for her” so I thought of course that should have been my first reaction so Thank You for the reminder! God Bless💕
When I practiced yoga years ago, I liked the physical benefits but my teacher, who was into it body and soul, liked to read aloud at the end of every class, from a book written by a famous yogi. God wasn’t on my radar at that point in my life. I wasn’t seeking to know Him. And yet, the passages she read every week rubbed me the wrong way. They sounded hedonistic because they seemed devoid of caring about the suffering of others. The message was to be at peace regardless of the horrible injustices or cruelty in the world, and to accept immorality, criminality and the suffering of others as their “karma” and not feel compelled to help one’s fellow man. I’m paraphrasing but that was the gist. It bothered me and I told her. She didn’t understand, which itself was disconcerting.
She also revealed she was polyamorous, which confirmed how lost and misguided she was, by a religion that was immoral.
Fast forward a few years. Many people I knew were raving about the benefits of meditation to relieve stress and improve productivity. I went to a weekend seminar with a well known TM (transcendental meditation) teacher. The people struck me as pretentious and sad. I got the sense that if someone had said, “Jesus is my savior,” they would have chuckled or rolled their eyes. I never went back.
I hear you very true many do roll their eyes, but Thank God we can stand in our truth Jesus is our Saviour Amen 🙏🙏
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Amen!
Please pray for me and my kids. I live in Washington and the public school is having the kids do yoga during PE. Last year I had a talk about it to my daughter’s principal, she was so confused about why. I feel alone in this fight. I can’t even protect my kids from evil when they are in school.
Stand your ground. If your child was Muslim and the school made them eat pork, it would be the same thing. They don't have to understand. God will stand you. Hang in there, mom.
I had that happen in our local school. I cited separation of church and state and that I didn’t want my grandson practicing another religion, which Yoga does and is a worship to deities
Here’s the thing. If you don’t want your child doing that activity, you have the say-so. They aren’t the parent. I don’t want my children partaking in Halloween stuff so every year I have a friendly talk at parent teacher conferences to let the teacher know my child will need another activity and to please not single them out about it. I’ve never had push back. I’m not trying to change the school or change their beliefs and I’m friendly about it. I also send an email to sum up the convo. Send a note and a phone call stating your child will need accommodations for a different activity than yoga and that’s all. 😊
No doubt the school has deliberately introduced yoga into this wickedly growing school system. Can you write a note saying your child is not allowed to participate in it or will they just say your child will flunk P.E.?
Is it possible to homeschool?
From decades of experience: The physical side of yoga is very helpful. Guidance like breathe, be in the moment etc. is helpful. That's largely what Americans encounter in a yoga class, taught by other westerners, who are not Hindus. I think that philosophies that tell you to live above your desires and feelings ARE harmful. Some Indian Gurus and a particular prominent yoga teacher, now deposed, are not good people. In my personal experience, most of the yoga teachers where I live were not sane. But the physical side of yoga is awesome. So let's figure out how to separate the wheat from the chaff.
You can't separate it. Yoga was made for Hindu gods and will always be tied to them. It's an unconscious sinful practice.
I am so excited that Rae is talking about Thoreau and Emerson!! I teach them in my American Lit. class every single fall and have my students study how they rejected biblical truth and embraced pantheism (panetheism...), new thought, etc. We compare their writings to Progressive Christian claims and texts. It's such an eye-opener for my students year after year. Emerson's Divinity School Address is particularly relevant in today's cultural climate. Anyway, this made me so happy! I'm gonna include clips from this conversation in my class next fall. Thank you!
What college do you teach at, that you don't get run out of town on a rail? I'm thinking it's a Christian university, but that's no guarantee, these days.
@@annfraley-mylife It's an 11th grade English class at a Christian private school.
@@jacobus57 You've been prayed for. Have a happy Thanksgiving, unless you don't celebrate the holiday. In that case, have a nice Thursday.
I grew up in HIndu majority country where I rarely see people doing yoga. Christians here in the west are out of mind.
I have been practicing pranayama yoga for much of my adult life. I came to Christ a year ago, and have diligently been studying the Bible. I know there is a lot of criticism on this, but I see so many parallels between the ethics of yoga and Christs's teaching. For instance, love thy neighbor like thyself. Trrating ourselves with forgiveness and kindness so we could share that with others. When God created Adam he breathed life into him, that's the spirit and energy utilized in the practice. And when you say namaste, I know it talks about divinity in oneself, but Jesus says when we care for our fellow man we are caring for him. He says when you give alms to others you are feeding and clothing him, so my inrerpretation is that we all have divinity within us - not that we are divine, but that God dwells in all of us. I am really considering going into a Christ centered yoga instruction course. And I am so very much trying to understand people's viewpoints on this. I see the parallels, this guest sees the deception.
Exactly, there are many similarities in yogic philosophy and Christianity. It teaches you to get in touch with the divine and does not name it, and teaches you to be a clean and pure person.
Rae is so darling. She has a sweet spirit and exudes the Holy Spirit. I'm so glad y'all talked about how they try to redeem this stuff.... it's like saying Christian Wicca... which is so so wrong. Thanks for posting Becket!
Or Christian's celebrating Halloween
Blah blah blah. Keep your jesus. Hinduism makes you face the demons within, and that is very uncomfortable! Hinduism forces you to be responsible rather than handing over things to some God. Yes it can be very uncomfortable to face yourself, look yourself in the mirror, face your karma. It is not for the lazy. What sone do, is not yoga!!!! For yoga, you get up at 4am, do pancha kryia cleansing process, recite a mantra and do your asanas. ALL THIS IS DONE BY TRUE HINDUS 90 MINUTES BEFORE SUNRISE. DID YOU EAT SATVIK FOOD ONLY? NO!!!