The spiritual deception of Yoga
(Important note at the end of this document!)
Any Greek or Hebrew translations are quoted from
New Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible
James Strong, LL.D., S.T.D.
Thomas Nelson Publishers 1990 edition
Because Yoga is referred to (by those who teach and support the practice) as only an exercise many people are blindly participating in it. The spiritual darkness behind the false practice of Yoga has been veiled by the word ‘exercise’. Regular calisthenics (the exercise used most often in Western society) was not designed with a spiritual purpose in mind. Unlike Yoga! People who practice Yoga do not understand, or even consider the negative spiritual affect it is having on them. They may reap some physical benefits but they are also reaping spiritual darkness, which cannot be separated from this practice. In Yoga the spine is the spiritual point of emphasis and each physical pose has been designed for one purpose – spiritual awakening. When a person participates in the physical aspect of Yoga they are also participating in its false spiritual aspect. The two cannot be separated. Unless you can physically function without using your spine – which is an impossible feat! The spine has what they refer to in Yoga as ‘chakras’, and each chakra is connected to, and has, false spiritual meaning.
The following information taken from Time Magazine (April 23, 2001 edition; page 61) shows the Eastern view of yoga and its true spiritual meaning:
“THE MYSTICAL”
“Enlightenment and good health require the free flow of the life force (prana) and the proper balance between the seven major energy hubs (chakras). (An eighth chakra, or aura, surrounds the body and encompasses the other seven.) The three lower chakras serve the body’s physical needs, while the five upper chakras are associated with the spiritual realm”.
1. In Yoga the first chakra is referred to as the “root chakra; earth, the lower limbs”.
2. The second chakra is the “sacral chakra; water, sexual energy”.
3. The third chakra is the “navel chakra; fire, personal power, storage of the life force”.
4. The fourth chakra is the “heart chakra; air, compassion, love of others”.
5. The fifth chakra is the “throat chakra; the ether, self expression, energy, endurance”.
6. The sixth chakra is the “brow chakra; senses, intuition, telepathy, meditation”.
7. The seventh chakra is the “crown chakra; intuition, spirituality”.
As you can see the Eastern ‘origin’ of the physical movements in yoga is spiritual – and according to the second chakra, also sexual. It does not matter what a person’s thinks yoga is, because it’s meaning and purpose is centered on the false religion of Hinduism. Each physical posture and stretch was designed specifically for the spiritual awakening of what is referred to in yoga as spinal chakras. Whether, or not, you believe this false practice is spiritual does not change the fact that it is. Yoga has different levels and one in particular, Tantric Yoga, coincides with the second chakra. The second chakra is the one which stores “sexual energy” that lies dormant until awakened through yoga or controlled breathing. When the physical postures in yoga (any form) are practiced the second chakra becomes a virtual nesting place for the evil incubus and succubus sexual spirits. The evil sexual influence becomes more intense when yoga is continually practiced. The public school system is introducing our children the basics of yoga, which is mostly being done without parental knowledge or consent. Once they are taught the basics they can easily be drawn into more advanced methods of yoga (such as tantric yoga) later in life. Satan was just waiting for the introduction! Tantric yoga, Tantric Hinduism, refers to the spinal chakras as having both male and female bodies (sources of energy). Kundalini [the female energy or coiled snake] rises up the spine to awaken what is referred to as Shiva [the masculine]. This male and female energy is actually the incubus and succubus evil sexual spirits. This is why it is so dangerous for our children to participate in any form of yoga; or any other false religious practice! Our children do not need to have sexual energy awakened through Yoga or by any other means. Yet, the false Hindu religion of yoga continues to infiltrate our schools through physical education class, and health and wellness class – when religion of any kind is not even supposed to be allowed or taught in school. Wellness is a New-age (false religious) term.
Yoga with itsphysical movements, breathing technique, and meditation, center around what is referred to in yoga as “life force (or prana); and the proper balance between the seven major energy hubs (or spinal chakras)”. Quotation taken from Time Magazine (April 23, 2001 edition; page 61). What many parents do not know is that in the false religious practice of yoga the purpose of one of these so-called energy hubs or chakras is to stimulate (or awaken) sexual energy – which is something that our children do not need help with! Do not be deceived by the word exercise when it comes to any type of yoga! The school system is teaching our children beginner’s yoga and is setting the stage for them to practice other forms of yoga later in life. All forms of yoga are spiritually dangerous and misleading. However, one form in particular is both spiritually and sexually dangerous. Though intended for adults Tantric Yoga is a sexually stimulating form of yoga that suggests a person has within their body both feminine and masculine energy which needs to be awakened. And we wonder why there is so much homosexuality and bisexuality today! Do not be deceived by any type of yoga. All yoga is extremely dangerous, and it is not only Tantric Yoga that sexually stimulates a person. In yoga the second chakra awakens a person’s sexual energy – and all forms of yoga touch the second chakra. Through the practice of yoga people are being spiritually introduced to the incubus and succubus evil sexual spirits! These sexual spirits can oppress, and eventually possess a person through many different avenues, even convincing the person they were born the wrong gender – which is a lie. More on this subject in my document on ‘gender confusion and cross dressing’
In school, wellness is a class that is taught in addition to physical education class. Wellness is a mandatory class that has been added to the school curriculum. Through this class the school system is slowly introducing our children to new-age methods and techniques that are rooted in false religion. Wellness class is teaching the Hindu method of controlled breathing and meditation which is designed to bring one’s body under subjection. God designed our body to work in a certain way, and with normalcalisthenics (i.e. pushups, sit-ups, running, and jumping jacks) our breathing rate automatically adjusts itself to keep our body functioning naturally. However, through this false eastern technique people (including children) are being taught to control their breathing in an effort to make their body respond. This is very dangerous, not just physically, but spiritually, because our breath is very important. Genesis 2:7: And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Teaching someone controlled breathing techniques will cause them to experience a false sense of peace and tranquility, even creating a feeling of lightheadedness. The more they do it the more dangerous it becomes because they will begin to experience the sensation of being absent from their body (astral projection). An extremely dangerous practice! These false religious techniques involve visualization, clearing of the mind, or concentration on certain sounds; including even the sound of one’s own breathing. With some the more they practice it the more they desire to continue. In their attempt to rise above their own fleshly body it causes them to go deeper and deeper into a false spiritual realm. People, including Christians, are becoming more and more dependent on breathing and meditation techniques that derive from false Eastern religion. People, especially Christians, should not depend on anything, or anyone, other than Jesus Christ. They must meditate on God’s Word for help to rise above their circumstances, and to help them find peace. Using meditation and breathing techniques will not give them true peace that will last. Only Jesus Christ can bring true peace when we give our life and our circumstances completely over to Him. John 14:27: Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Though scripture tells us to depend on Jesus Christ many Christians are depending on false religious, and worldly, methods and techniques in an effort to try to gain peace. Jesus tells us that in this world we will have tribulation, but He also tells us not to fear, because he has overcome the world, along with its problems – and through Him we can overcome too. John 16:33: These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
The school system (public, private, and Christian) may believe they are helping children by using eastern transcendental meditation and breathing techniques but they are doing more harm than good. Parents, we had better beware of the techniques that are being taught to our children – disguised as health and exercise. What parents do not realize is that in transcendental meditation the journey their children are going on is referred to as “out of body” or “astral projection” – and it is extremely dangerous mentally, physically, and spiritually!
People in the world (including Christians) just accept any false spiritual practice (and teach it to children) without even knowing the truth about the evil spiritual realm that is behind the practice(s). What affect do these false spiritual practices have on children, especially on their mind? More important – what about their eternal soul/spirit? Matthew 16:25-26: For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? The physical movements in Yoga are a part of Hindu religion. The series of movements in Yoga called “Salutations to the Sun” are designed as greetings to nature; “sun worship”. Deuteronomy 4:19: And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them…Deuteronomy 17:2-3: If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant. And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded. Sun or nature worship is forbidden by God! They may call Yoga ‘exercise’, but the movements themselves still pay respect to the sun god! The word Yoga means to ‘yoke’ with – and this word cannot be separated from its true Sanskrit meaning, even if the western world tries to call it only an exercise. Look up its Sanskrit meaning. In Shamanism they believe uniting (yoking) with the souls of God’s creations (animals/creatures/nature) is a way to interact with the spirit realm. Romans 1:25: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. The Greek word for ‘creature’ in Romans 1:25 is “ktisis, ktis’-is; …creation, creature”. Our children are being taught to believe the lies of false religion, and are being asked to participate in them. These lies are being taught in our schools as exercise.
What parents may not know is some physical education classes in our public schools are teaching children to assume the characteristics of an animal through the false religious practice of ‘Yoga’. Most children will naturally pretend to be an animal; but having a teacher instruct a child how to pretend to be an animal through religious methods is another thing entirely! Some of the physical postures in Yoga are animal positions: the cobra, the eagle, the upward facing dog, the downward facing dog, etc. The Sanskrit word ‘Yoga’ means ‘to yoke’. Yoga is a practice of Hindu religion. Hindu religion is nature worship, and they are not supposed to be teaching or practicing any type of religion in our public schools, and certainly not Yoga. Educators claim to have taken the spiritual part out; however, this is an impossible feat because the physical postures, called asanas, in Yoga are themselves a form of nature worship! The series of physical postures in Yoga called ‘salutations to the sun’ are being taught to our children by the school system in physical education class, P.E. Participating in these yoga postures is spiritually yoking our children with Hindu nature worship. The schools are using yoga and Pilates videos, and their use is growing in popularity. Originally called Contrology, Pilates uses controlled breathing and is usually combined with yoga; it is hard to find a Pilates video that does not contain some yoga postures. They are teaching our children Eastern transcendental meditation and breathing techniques in Health and Wellness classes (Wellness being a New-age term). Because some schools are teaching meditation and breathing techniques separately, in separate classrooms, from the Yoga (postures or asanas) they think this makes teaching Yoga acceptable, but it does not! Each technique is spiritually dangerous just by itself. Teaching yoga, without its breathing and meditation, is still teaching false religious postures that were developed by Hindu religion. And we have already discussed the dangers of the breathing and meditation techniques! Though these methods are being taught in separate classes they are still teaching our children the entire practice of the Eastern Hindu religion called Yoga, and the end result is spiritual separation from God.
In false Eastern and New-Age religion people are taught to believe that they themselves are little gods (or little christ’s). This is a counterfeit concept to the true Christian belief that Jesus Christ is living in the heart and life of those who accept Him as their Savior. False religious doctrines and practices are especially deceiving when they use Christian words and phrases. One example is the word meditation. Many Christians cannot tell the difference between Biblical meditation and false eastern meditation. Because the word meditation is in the Bible they think it is harmless to practice any form of meditation – even the Eastern method of meditation – but they are deceived. The Bible tells us to meditate on the word of God, not to clear our minds. Christians do not know the difference because they do not know what the scriptures say. They have not adhered to the following scriptures. Psalm 119:15: I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways; 23…but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes; 48 My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statues; 78…but I will meditate in thy precepts; 97: O how love I thy law! It is my meditation all the day; 148…that I may meditate in thy word. Psalm 1:2: But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. Clearing the mind, or even imagining being in another place with the help of tranquility (relaxation) music or sounds, is not the meditation that the Bible refers to.
Some people teach that to pray you clear your mind and wait for the spirit to speak to you – this is wrong! This is nothing more than a form of eastern transcendental meditation that will take you on a spiritual journey of deception. This method will give you false visions and thoughts that do not come from God, and the origin is evil. The practice of transcendental meditation is very popular in the Hindu religion of Yoga, and Christians should NOT take part in these Hindu practices. The Bible speaks of meditation, but says nothing about clearing our mind. Joshua 1:8: This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous and then thou shalt have good success. Psalm 1:2: But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. Psalm 119:148: Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word. We are to hide God’s Word, the Bible, in our heart and meditate on it – not clear our mind. Psalm 119:11: Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. What I am saying is, if you follow the Eastern religious practice of meditation (the Hindu way to salvation) you will not know which spirit is speaking to you – it certainly will not be the Spirit of the One True and Living God!
If you participate in any form of yoga you are in essence yoking your body (your Christian temple) with what this false Hindu religion represents, including its nature worship. The physical postures/asanas in yoga are salutations to the sun god. As Christians, we are Spiritually yoked to Jesus Christ so why would we want to participate in, or associate ourselves with anything that is yoked to a false religion. Matthew 11:29-30: Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Galatians 5:1: STAND fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. And what communion hath light with darkness? Galatians 4:8-9: Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? II Corinthians 6:14: Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? The Greek word for ‘yoke’ in Matthew 11:29-30 and Galatians 5:1 is “zugos, dzoo-gos’; a coupling, servitude through a law or obligation”. The Greek word for ‘yoked’ in II Corinthians 6:14 is “heterozugeo, het-er-od-zoog-eh’-o; to yoke up differently, to associate discordantly – unequally yoke together with”.
People may think the false Eastern technique of controlled breathing is just a simple or healthy breathing exercise; however, focusing (or concentrating) on the sound or timing of one’s breath will cause their body to respond unnaturally – it will confuse their mind and emotions, which are a part of the soul. Some school systems, and even the medical community, are trying this (and other false religious methods) in an effort to try and alleviate increasingemotional problems among the young and old. They are teaching people to use false religious methods to try and solve their problems. They think if they can teach people to just blank out their mind or to visualize a happy place in their mind that their life will be better. The problem with this theory is that people cannot just ignore, meditate, or even medicate their problems in an effort to try and overcome them. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8: To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. Problems are going to affect us all at one time or another and only Jesus Christ can help us completely overcome these problems. John 16:33: These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have over come the world. We must teach our children (using God’s Word) to face the problems in this world; not to jump into the yoga position and meditate every time they run into some difficulty. Teaching a generation of children false religious techniques will take them on a false spiritual journey that will end in disaster. This is not a game! With practice and training these false techniques will induce an out of body experience, and/or will show our children false visions that come from an evil spiritual realm. Note: It is not just the public school system teaching these false religious methods, but even Christian schools are teaching them. And these methods have also made there way into – and are being taught inside the church! Anyone who would choose to turn to the false religious methods of yoga, meditation, or controlled breathing is making a very dangerous and spiritually eternal mistake – however when the school systems make it a mandatory part of their curriculum they are leading themselves and our nation right into God’s judgment. The government allows false religious methods to be taught to our kids, requiring them to participate; yet they will not allow the Bible to be taught, or Jesus Christ to even be mentioned in school. Mark 10:14: But when Jesus saw it; he was much displeased, and said unto them, suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. Luke 18:16: But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. Matthew 18:6: But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. Luke 17:2: It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
Important note: Another serious and dangerous side effect is that yoga could be linked to spontaneous human combustion. Yoga can increase a person’s core temperature due to the rise of what they refer to in yoga as kundalini [a coiled energy they call serpent fire]. This could be one explanation of why some people have fallen victim to spontaneous human combustion. Just a theory, or is it! Considering that the physical postures in yoga pay reverence to the sun god this would only make sense that fire would be associated with this false practice. Yoga places emphasis on the core of a man. In scripture the core is referred to as our ‘inner-man’. We are supposed to be strengthening our inner-man with God’s Word and His Spirit – not with methods that derive from false religion. Ephesians 3:16-17: That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love. One of the chakras in Yoga is called the ‘root’ chakra. The root of yoga is Hinduism and we, as God’s people, should not root our self in anything other than God’s Son Jesus Christ – or we will be in spiritual danger. Though physically some may appear to benefit from practicing yoga – the physical aspects of yoga do not out weigh its spiritual danger! No matter what anyone tells you the physical and spiritual in yoga cannot be separated.
(If you have participated in yoga please see my document on ‘unholy cords' and pray the prayer at the end, putting yoga in the blank. Yoga is a cord, or tie, to the false religion of Hinduism!)
