I had the "authoritative projection" quote made into a t-shirt and it has now become one of my favorites. Sure, not everyone likes PraiseMoves or trusts our motives. I don't blame them. There are a lot of kooky things out there.
When we went online as PraiseMoves Fitness Ministry in 2002, we received a lot of hate mail and even phone calls from ashrams in India calling us to "cease and desist."
It's been a long time since that happened, so I was surprised to find someone basing her Ph.D. thesis on our "enslaving Scripture" in PraiseMoves. What?! And she's a graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary.
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by L.G. Marshall, Christian (former yogi, TM student, and follower of “The Maharishi,” now a devoted follower of the Lord Jesus Christ)
The differences between PraiseMoves and yoga are evident. PraiseMoves is so much more peaceful, positive, and uplifting than yoga. The Word of God used in PraiseMoves always builds people up.
Yoga focuses on the Self, which separates us from others. While purporting to make connections, it actually does the exact opposite. The “good feelings” that come from yoga are a mirage. The closer you look, the more the image disappears into nothingness.
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THE TRUE MEANING OF HATHA YOGA
– IT’S NOT WHAT YOU THINK
Hatha yoga is the style you will find in most workout videos and presented at most fitness centers, health clubs, and sadly, even churches – you know, the kind many think is "just exercise”?
The following explanation was given by Yogacharya Vishwas Mandlik, Vice Chancellor of Yoga at Vidya Gurukul (Yoga University).
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People ask me, "Christian yoga is okay, right?”
Well, let's look at the root to evaluate the fruit.
Would it surprise you to learn that the "Father of Christian Yoga" was a Hindu?
A.K. (Akhoy Kumar) Mozumdar, considered the “Father of Christian Yoga” lived from 1864-1953. He founded the Christian Yoga Society, the Christian Yoga Monthly Magazine, and is the author of “The Life and the Way: The Christian Yoga Metaphysics.”
Here’s an interesting quote from Mozumdar who obviously denies that Jesus came to earth in the flesh, as a man (a basic tenet of Christianity):
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HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED, “CAN YOGA AND CHRISTIANITY MIX?”
“Yoga is Hinduism,” said Professor Tiwari of the Hindu University of America in a TIME Magazine article “Stretching for Jesus” from Sept. 5, 2005.
From the same article in TIME Magazine:
“'Christian yoga is an oxymoron,'“ agrees Dr. Laurette Willis of Tahlequah, Okla. She says yoga led her to dabble in a rootless New Age lifestyle until she became a Christian. Willis now speaks to Christian groups against yoga, offering instead a series of poses [postures] called PraiseMoves.”
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