Explore our Writers’ Perspectives
The Labyrinth and Yoga
For Joanne, a slow, chilly journey through a labyrinth brings together top-down (cognitive) and bottom-up (body-based) approaches to her inner spiritual life.
Exploring Holy Tension: A Meditation
I’m always amazed at how much I try to hold poses with my face. A clenched jaw, furrowed brow, tight neck muscles that raise my shoulders. I do not need to hold a lunge with my jaw! I am learning that even in a pose of tension, I can relax.
Thanksgiving for My Teacher: A Christian’s Guru Purnima
Rev. Kevin Flynn shares his first experiences with yoga — a little book long out of print — written by Fr. Jean-Marie Déchanet.
How Yoga Helps Me Be a Better Mom
What if my practice of being a parent was part of my yoga? What if I simply had to be a parent? To not wish to be anywhere else than right here, in this space? Isn’t that yoga?
I Threw the Baby Jesus Out with the Bathwater
My direct experience pushed me away from Christianity and pulled me towards the yogic path. And my direct experience – re-reading the scriptures, the capacity to listen and the inclusion of the body in prayer - pushed me back to Christ.
“Christian” came to have new meaning during my years of seminary study.
Fr. Tom shares his early experiences getting to know brothers and sisters from other traditions of Christian faith, and his experiences with other world religions, eventually leading to the practice of yoga.
Desperation and Chronic Pain Drove me to Yoga
We welcome Joanne Spence as she share her story of yoga’s power to alleviate her chronic pain and enrich her spiritual journey.
How I found Jesus on a Yoga Mat
Studio owner and teacher trainer Kelly McLellan continues our testimony series by sharing her story. “I was not raised in the church. As a seeker, I found beauty and Truth in almost every tradition, but I found the story of the Biblical God to be the highest good.”
The Jungle Physician: How (and WHY) I needed Christ in my practice
Molly Metzger continues our testimony series by sharing her story. “It’s easy to tell people I practice yoga. It’s much harder to say why I am still a Christian. Here’s why.”
How Yoga Saved My Faith
CPY Executive Editor and President Renee Prymus kicks off our testimony series by sharing her story. “I am still a Christian today because of my yoga practice, which gave me space for grace.”
Here and Now
In the present, we just have to “be.” The present is where God is. Well, how scary, daunting, fun, exciting, nerve racking, did I mention scary is that!
Encountering God in Yoga Class
I have often found it easier to be faithful to yoga than to my religious tradition. I have often found that yoga opens my heart and mind to God in a gentle, renewing way
Can Yoga Be a Bridge Inside Us?
My practice of hatha yoga enabled a self-knowledge that is honest, real and authentic. The options became focused and clear: either you project an image or you accept the real.
Breathing in the Neshamah of Christian Living and Practice
Yoga connects us with the fundamental breath of life, neshamah in the Hebrew, breathed into us at our first breath and continuing on from this life to the next.
The Sacred Breath
As a Christian yoga teacher, I always have tried to teach a compassionate yoga class, to focus on breath and movement as a prayer... But now, faced with the death of one of my students, I wondered, could I surrender to what had happened--could I accept the loss of not only a student, but a dear friend?