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🗓️ 11 August 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Should Christianity mix with yoga? Are yoga poses benign if we do them but don't engage in the spiritual practice behind them? This is the question I'm asking my guest, Jessica Smith, who taught yoga for many years. Jessica has a unique perspective and a solid biblical stance on this modern controversy. Yoga is one of the six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophical traditions, yet many Christians today are practicing yoga with the belief that yoga's deep ties to Hinduism and Buddhism can be avoided. I will confess, I thought the same thing—but not any longer. Jessica challenged me and opened my eyes to the truth about this topic. Listen in. I pray your heart is blessed and encouraged as you strive to know God in a deeper way and bring Him honor in everything you do. SHOW NOTES
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0:16.2 | recorded over 1600 episodes of the show. Today, we're going to talk about Christianity and yoga and |
0:22.2 | do they mix. This is an important topic. Stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged. |
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1:03.3 | neck. Next week, I will be it. Teach them diligently in Waco, Texas. And then I've got a week off. |
1:08.9 | And then I'll be at RVH EA in Ottawa, Canada. So we are excited about what God is doing here at the |
1:16.3 | podcast and just encouraging you to grow in your walk with the Lord. And really, that's the reason |
1:22.5 | why I asked Jessica to come on the podcast. So many of you guys have heard me, you know, over the |
1:27.7 | years kind of joking about yoga on the podcast. I actually never really thought much of it. |
1:33.2 | grew up in a Christian home. And I injured my back when I was young. And I was introduced to the |
1:39.9 | idea of yoga and mostly just the stretches through physical therapy. And I won't lie. And I told |
1:46.0 | this to Jessica, those stretches have been very helpful for me. And so they started out with, you |
1:51.2 | know, just the just basic poses, downward dog and things like that, just to sort of stretch out my |
1:57.2 | body and my my back, which is broken in a couple different places. And so it was important to me to |
2:03.0 | find something that would help me so that my my speaking would not be hindered. Well, I met Jessica |
2:08.2 | when I was speaking in Oregon some months back. And she began to tell me about her journey with |
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