Are Yoga, Tai Chi Or Reiki Unsavoury?

[sandyRoe]

This parish priest thinks so, but I beg to differ.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28225837

[sandyRoe]

It's sometimes hard to see where simple, though misguided, faith ends and cupidity begins.

[Tilly2]

When I do my yoga Salute to the Sun, it does feel a bit...er...pagan.

[sandyRoe]

This is something, hard to define exactly, about a good stretch in the morning.

[mccfluff]

lol, in my mums village they do tai chi on the church green in the mornings....

[Old_Geezer]

Unsavoury... ? Never tasted them.

Some religious types tend to knock anything that hasn't started from their religion. Must spend all their lives seeing demons around every corner.

[anneasquith]

fluff are you well ?..............excuse me sandy .

[sandyRoe]

If anybody saw me in the morning they might think I was doing Tai Chi. I'm not, it's just me taking a while to get moving.

[naomi24]

^^ :o)

[sandyRoe]

You're right, Old Geezer. Last year in the run up to Halloween there was a Protestant minister on the radio talking of the dangers it presented to children. In his eyes bobbing for apples or going trick-or-treating and they've taken the first steps on the slippery slope to devil worship.

[mccfluff]

yes i'm great, thanks anne :-)

[Peter Pedant]

I think the poor old boy has got mixed up with tantric yoga of which wiki says: "Following these first Tantric presentations, popular authors (such as Joseph Campbell) brought Tantra to the attention of Westerners. It was seen as a "cult of ecstasy", combining sexuality and spirituality to correct Western repressive attitudes towards sex"