Dancing Yoga

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I found an advertisement for the school a while back over at Cupertino Public Library. From the card:

Dancing Yoga provides a high-energy workout with therapeutic effects to align and purify the body. It si inspired by Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, but enhanced with graceful dance movements to form a dynamic series of flowing postures. Dancing Yoga synchronizes movements with breathing to build inner energy to cleanse and strengthen the body.

Cultural exchange between China and India isn't new, even if there is some antagonism between the two countries.

A comment about yoga

At this time I am skeptical about the reasons put forth by those who say that yoga should not be practiced by Christians--there may be some concern about the names of poses, meditations, and so on, but the poses/physical exercises themselves? Those who are scrupulous can do pilates, I suppose. Johnette Benkovic apparently has spoken against yoga and has had guests on her show to explain why -- Yoga: Health or Stealth. (This article does not, as far as I can tell, talk about yoga poses.)

The physical theory behind qi gung and taijiquan is incorrect (and thus the goals are wrong), but can these be practiced by Christians? Taijiquan is less problematic than qi gung. as it has the self-defense aspect, while the purpose of qi gung is the cultivation of Qi.

Links:
Yogic Logic
Yoga Wiz
more on postures: here and here

Two Summers ago I picked up the 5 year anniversary issue of Yogi Times at Whole Foods Cupertino. The magazine caters to yoga practitioners in San Francisco and Los Angeles. (The coastal regions of California still have ties to the 60s.) As I was going through my things, I found it and looked through it again. Acouple of pages are spent on crow and side crow, bakasana and parsva bakasana. But the articles make it clear that yoga does have an associated spirituality and view of reality. Pilates appears to lack the philosophical and spiritual components of yoga, and so it should be less problematic. I was interested in pilates while I was in Boston, but I never did anything about it. Is pilates counter to the "natural posture" as exemplified, for example, in the Gokhale method? It is claimed that pilates helps strengthens the core, which I need to do.