Yoga is Spiritually Incompatible with Christianity

Although some Christians practice yoga, they do so not realising that yoga and Christianity are spiritually incompatible.

According to Drugs and Society by Hanson et al, "the word yoga is derived from the Sanskrit word for union, or yoking, meaning the process of discipline by which a person attains union with the absolute".

Yoga is a Hindu spiritual practice which would then imply that if there is any yoking achieved by the practitioner, it would be to Hindu gods.

The bible, however, instructs us not to be yoked in such a manner (2 Corinthians 6:14-18; NIV; emphasis mine):

¹⁴ Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? ¹⁵ What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? ¹⁶ What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:

“I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God,  and they will be my people.”

¹⁷ Therefore,

“Come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”

¹⁸ And,

“I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

Indeed, Christians who practice yoga open themselves up to Kundalini spirits.

Pohshon Choy, who was a yoga instructor and who opened her own yoga centre in Singapore in the 80s, wrote in her book 'Confessions of an Ex-Yoga Teacher: . . . And What They Don't Reveal to You in Yoga Classes': "In my yoga classes, I would introduce the ‘Kundalini’ spirit’ to my students, because the Kundalini (snake) spirit is central to yoga and you can never sever the ties that bind the spirit and the yoga poses. Every yoga pose is meant to stimulate or awaken the Kundalini.”



She adds: “Many of the non-Hindu yoga teachers these days do not or have not even heard of the Kundalini spirit! So just because now they (the teachers) do not mention about the Spirit of the Snake, the students are led to believe they are merely doing ‘physical’ exercises, and have nothing to do with meditation or the spiritual aspect of yoga. Be informed that the moment you start on the yoga poses, you have opened your spiritual doorway to the Spirit of the Snake.”

In 1992, during a Christian evangelistic and healing outreach, Choy witnessed a Kundalini spirit being expelled from a lady, who had also been a yoga practitioner. After being prayed for, this lady started writhing uncontrollably on the floor like a snake. The incident so affected Choy that she severed all ties with yoga, including throwing away all of her yoga books, which had cost hundreds of dollars.

Given the risk of opening their souls to the entry of a demonic spirit, Christians should refrain from yoga.