Can Christians practice yoga and not lose their religion.
Several years ago, one of my students brought a woman friend to class. She thought her friend, a Protestant minister, could benefit from yoga.
The woman was very polite during class, but gave my friend a stern little talk in the car on the way home. She couldn’t come to classes, she said, because it would be in conflict with her religion. She explained (and I’m paraphrasing in the third person here) that the small statues of Hindu figures and the print of the Buddhist bodhisattva Kwan Yin in the studio conflicted with her religion’s directive not to “worship false idolsâ€. She was also concerned for my student, and expressed that. (She’s still coming to classes.)