Yoga: Mind Science or Altered States Religion?

YOGA UNCOILED: From East to West A look into the practice of Yoga in the Church by Caryl Matrisciana

Many believe they can practice yoga postures, breathing, and focusing techniques devoid of yoga's spirituality, not realizing that yoga is an inherent part of Hindu philosophy which teaches man and nature are one with divinity.

Today, yoga is experiencing a worldwide renaissance and in America has more than 70,000 yoga teachers working in 20,000 locations. Although viewed primarily as fitness instructors, these trainers are in reality the leading missionaries of eastern religion in the west. The twenty-seven billion dollar a year yoga industry is marketed to students, athletes, businessmen, pregnant women and senior citizens promising solutions for stress reduction, concentration problems, and issues of self confidence.

Once viewed by Christians as a pagan import from the East, yoga has now become mainstream in the church through "Christ-centered yoga classes" designed to help improve spirituality and experience "the presence of God". But is yoga's mysticism compatible with historic Christianity?
Video-journalist Caryl Matrisciana, who was born and raised in India, returns to her native land to search for truth among India's leading experts and examines what Christian Yoga practitioners in the West are saying about their Yoga participation.

With critical discernment, this hard-hitting and informative DVD explores the ramifications of dismissing yoga's core spirituality, and blending Biblical terminology and precepts with eastern meditative techniques and practices.

Watch the DVD trailer for YOGA UNCOILED here and learn how The Beatles' and the upheaval of the '60's planted the seeds of eastern mysticism in Western culture.

Click here for the October 6 interview at Olive Tree Ministries with Caryl Matrisciana and Jan Markell. Listen how Christians are "spiritually hoodwinked" today. Eastern practices have come to the West and been "sanitized" but many, including people in the church, are hearing a "different gospel" about "a different Jesus." And they do not know it.

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