Explore our Writers’ Perspectives
Eight Limbs of Yoga From a Christian Perspective
The Eight Limbs of Yoga were written somewhere around the time of Christ, give or take 200 years (scholars differ about when Patañjali lived). Overall, the Sutras describe a system for "calming the fluctuations of the mind". Dayna explores how these relate to a Christian theology.
Soften and Deepen
Have you ever thought about the tension between "letting go and letting God" and "fighting the good fight"? When do we act? When do we let God act on our behalf? What is His role? What is our role?
Is Yoga Part of YOUR New Year?
If you're making yoga part of your new year's resolutions, check out our Home Practice page to help inspire your practice!
Yoga for Advent
This season, two online sources offer yoga inspiration for Advent.
A Report from the Third National Hindu-Catholic Dialogue
Fr. Tom Ryan reports in from the November 11 third national Hindu-Catholic dialogue meeting.
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?
Our Perspective
We have been gifted with these bodies because this is where God dwells. We are grateful for the gift of yoga for guiding us to live the theology of the body.
A Brief History of the Intersection of Christianity and Yoga
Over the past five hundred years, our world has grown increasingly smaller as our abilities to travel and communicate have grown faster. Yoga traversed the globe from India to the United States in two major waves, described here.
Vidyavanam Ashram – An Appreciation
Vidyavanam is a part of the Christian ashram movement in India, a movement concerned to discover the exchange of gifts that is possible between spiritual and cultural traditions.
An Introduction to Lectio Divina (Sacred Reading)
Rev. Deborah Hart discusses how to practice Sacred Reading, or Lectio Divina, as Christian meditation practice.
It May Be Christian, But Is It Yoga?
What makes a practice a yoga practice? What is it? What is the "it" that makes it yoga?
Interview with Dave Driver, Author of The Bottom Turtle
The Bottom Turtle: A Christian's Journey into Yoga is a great resource for evangelicals wondering how yoga can fit with their faith. CPY interviews author Dave Driver.
Lent & Yoga: Exploring Connections
Prayer, fasting, almsgiving…three disciplines that my yoga practice also leads me to.