yoga demons
no thank you
Stretch and exercise your body!
Breathe deeply!
Come up with new creative poses to praise God!
But don’t do YOGA and expect you won’t come in contact with demons.
Why?
Because yoga is an ancient spiritual ritual that comes from Hinduism and it has the goal of “yoking” or uniting you with spiritual entities that are not of God.
Hinduism is a religion that worships Brahman which is described on Wikipedia as the “highest universal principle,” “the supreme self,” or “a concept that cannot exactly be defined.” With this Brahman comes between sixty (just 6-0) and 330 million demi-gods and demi-goddesses. One of the most popular looks like this…
If you know God, the Creator of the Universe…
If you know the one true triune God: The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit…
Then to do yoga, which I repeat is a spiritual practice from another faith, is idolatry.
Hence why yoga is a sin, at the very least.
God says… “You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God.”
I’ve been to many yoga classes and it’s pretty typical for there to be a statue of a Hindu or Buddhist deity right at the front and at the end of the class, I’ve even joined in chanting “Ommmm” which signifies and is suppose to unite yogis with the essence of Brahman.
But if you missed that and your yoga class somehow seemed more purely physically, yoga’s demonic nature is built into the name, the goal, and the poses.
Yoke literally comes from the Sanskrit word meaning to “yoke” and the goal is to yoke the mind to the Hindu notion of the source of divinity, to Brahman-Atman.
The “Atman” part refers to divinity merging with self. This Hindu concept is probably behind the trend of yogis and new agers believing they themselves are god.
If yoga seeks to align your mind, body, and soul with a spiritual reality that IS NOT OF GOD… yes, you’re going to come into contact (if not contract!) with demons - which are spirits NOT OF GOD.
It’s simple logic.
It’s not to say… you do yoga, you’re a bad person, you’re doing something awful, you deserve to die.
Quite the opposite really.
This is to say… hey, you’re a creation and child of God, you’re doing something you may not know has natural consequences, you deserve to live free in the light of the Lord!
I mean seriously, I was twisting myself into bizarre poses with strange names that I didn’t even know the meaning of and now that I look into it, I’m actually shocked how strikingly satanic the spiritual stories are behind the most basic of poses.
It’s really sad to think people are doing this and they don’t even know the design and intentions of yoga from the perspective of its origin stories.
Take the “warrior” poses, for example (read this carefully)…
Once upon a time, in the celestial realms, Lord Shiva and a young woman named Sati fell madly in love and wed. Sati’s father, King Daksha, didn’t approve of his daughter marrying a wild yogi like Lord Shiva.
To show his disapproval, King Daksha through a lavish party, but didn’t invite Shiva and Sati.
When Sati heard about this, she begged Shiva to go to the party with her anyway. When Shiva refused she went alone.
When she arrived her father jokingly announced that she must have come to her senses and left her husband. Sati was not amused and she defended Shiva. Once she realized her father would never understand, she announced:
“Since you have given me this body I no longer wish to be associated with it!”
Determined, she took her seat on the floor in the middle of the party and closed her eyes. She visualized Shiva and then through pranayama and other yogic exercises she cultivated her Agni (internal fire). Moments later she burst into flames, leaving the body her father had given her.
When Shiva heard about Sati’s death, he became enraged. He tore out a tuft of his hair and from it, created the fiercest warrior, which he named Virabhadra. Shiva instructed Virabhadra to go to the party and seek revenge for Sati’s death.
When Shiva came to the party to see what Virabhadra had accomplished, he was heartbroken. His rage turned to sadness followed by compassion. He searched for Daksha, finding only his body.
Filled with remorse Shiva found a goat’s head and placed it on Daksha body, bringing his father-in-law back to life. After Daksha awakened, he recognized Shiva’s kindness and bowed.
Source: Yogapedia
Summary: Girl chooses a bad boy her father disapproves of. In spite of her father, girl summons her fiery passion for boy and uses yogic practices to burst her body into flames. She dies. Boy summons demon to avenge for her death. Demon kills her father. Boy feels bad when he find girl’s father decapitated, so he gives him the head of a goat.
Oh really, a goat?! SUS.
And the person practicing yoga, which character of the story are they meant to embody…? The fierce warrior/summoned demon Virabhadra.
Here are what the specific poses symbolize:
Warrior 1: Virabhadra entering the party by breaking through the ground and rising up from within the earth, holding a sword in each hand.
Warrior 2: Virabhadra spotting Daksha and getting ready to strike.
Warrior 3: Virabhadra moving swiftly and precisely to decapitate Daksha with his sword.
Yeah, no thank you.
I totally thought yoga was doing something good for me. And yes, stretching, exercising, and breathing deeply are something good for us. However, Satan is often called the angel of light. He disguises himself in pretty packages that promise well-being, enlightenment, and even that we could be God!
It’s so tempting but if you know God’s word, you know it’s a trap. To disobey our Heavenly Father is what leads to our fall. But along with the temptation, come so many lies like “it’s harmless,” “how could stretching be demonic?”
Ask God for His wisdom.
When I met Jesus, he took away my desire to do yoga. When I came into close relationship with Jesus and received His Holy Spirit, he delivered me from the demonic spirits that had attached to me through yoga.
I share this with you from a place of love, not judgement or condemnation. I did yoga for years and suffered the consequences, some of which may have been sleep paralysis, violent and intrusive thoughts, striving for perfection, and initiations into void and disorder. The biggest consequence of all was thinking yoga was the light because it kept me from knowing the true light of the Lord for so long.
I’m now free. Praise God!