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Should Catholics Practice Yoga? by Alexander Frank – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Alexander Frank, Catholic Answers, Sept. 30, 2022

Secular society adores yoga, and not a few Catholics are fond of it, too. Here, an ex-practitioner who found the Faith offers a few words of caution.

Secular society adores yoga, and not a few Catholics are fond of it, too. Revenue for the yoga industry runs in the billions of dollars, according to Statista.com, and the number of participants is estimated to be in the tens of millions.

I myself dived into yoga, drawn to the idea of personal enhancement without ethical constraints. After years of studying yoga and its associated systems—mindfulness, Buddhism, magical shamanism—I had completed a teacher training retreat, spent three months in a Zen monastery, and studied under one of the best yoga spiritual directors in the United States. Over the course of my studies, and as my spiritual searching eventually led me to the Catholic Church, I learned that there is much more to yoga than Western pop culture implies. …

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