In Queens, Clearing a Path Between Yoga and Islam

• [li]Ajit[/li]
  [li]Sunnyvale, CA[/li]
  

Yoga is as Hindu as singing Christmas carols is Christian. At one level, both are relaxing exercises. But both are strongly rooted in spirituality. Yoga is not a series of exercises -- it's a step to spiritual discipline. It's fine that religious supremacist reject it, but to gloss over the Hindu roots of yoga is rank intellectual dishonesty.

Yoga does nothing for a person's religious belief .

It is a romantic western love affair that has made it into a Fad !

Like any other Fashion , it changes with the Season...

Like the Jewish tingy that Madonna and others practice .

Forgot its name !

i hate when muslims act so fucking stupid and then broadcast it for the world to know.

I do a Yoga class after my spin class on thursday nights and its fantastic.

We do not chant 'Ohm' or meditate or even say "Namaste"  - even if i say Namaste...i dont know how that denounces me as a Muslim since I greet my mamoo with "Namaste" all the time.

some of these muslim ppl need a good effing slap up the head.

• [li]Kate[/li]
  [li]West[/li]
  

Not usually thinking "GOD" when I join in on Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer.

It's just fun...kind of like yoga

[quote author=ketchim link=topic=65214.msg409258#msg409258 date=1333991667]
Yoga does nothing for a person's religious belief .

It is a romantic western love affair that has made it into a Fad !

Like any other Fashion , it changes with the Season...

Like the Jewish tingy that Madonna and others practice .

Forgot its name !
[/quote] Kaballah

[quote author=ketchim link=topic=65214.msg409258#msg409258 date=1333991667]
Yoga does nothing for a person's religious belief .

It is a romantic western love affair that has made it into a Fad !

Like any other Fashion , it changes with the Season...

Like the Jewish tingy that Madonna and others practice .

Forgot its name !
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its not a fashion. Yoga is practiced as a regular mainstream exercise and even mixed with Pilates. it will never fade away.

what does namaste mean?

[quote author=~Nargis~ link=topic=65214.msg409264#msg409264 date=1333992020]

its not a fashion.  it will never fade away.
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Kaballa ....has already caused it to Fade :

Jewish Mysticism is tekking ovah !

ask Madonna and those Stars ...

Like i said , western folks make eastern folks tingies into a Fad ... ::

• [li]Joe Brown[/li]
  [li]New York[/li]
  

Yoga can be totally isolated from any form of religion. I studied and practiced a form of yoga called Assanas - postures. Each posture was designed to exercise and improve health. There was no chanting. I look at a lot of much of yoga today as something cultural, related to lifestyles, etc. That is why it is being criticilzed. And correctly; yoga(Assanas) is about health of the body first and foremost.