Asanas for Everyone

user submitted pictureFrom this month’s Yoga Journal: A Buddhist, a Jew, a Christian and a Muslim discuss how they relate their yoga practice to their religious beliefs. Gone are the days when yoga meant twisting oneself into a pretzel and chanting mantras in India; a mind-body practice can complement Jewish life without comprimising our basic values. Says Andrea Cohen-Keiner, a rabbi in the Jewish Renewal movement:
“The mythic stories of the Hindu tradition probably do look like idol worship to traditional Jewish eyes, but here’s how I understand it: I believe that God is oneness. So that ultimately all the filters we look at that ultimate reality through are nothing more than creations of our mind. Those creations don’t limit the Creator.”

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