Yes. The point of kundalini yoga is to release the "snake" that is thought to dwell in the base of your spine. The positions and contortions are to do just that.
I always wanted to do yoga for the "exercise" and stretching but I refrained because I never forgot this.
 This is a hard argument to make to people that have experienced physical benefits from yoga.

Problem: Yoga is a development of a diabolical spirituality.
Solution: Let's call it stretching to enhance flexibility and move on to something that matters.

You're welcome.

Yoga and martial arts are very similar in many ways. The primary similarity is the emptying of the mind. This is done by using oriental methods from pagan religions, mostly Hindu. This is always diabolical.

Key point for men! Martial arts too!

Especially in the more serious combat arts, you will find people who seek power, not just physical power, but also demonic power. Many practitioners overtly summon the assistance of demons (though they sometimes deny the forces are demons). The "empty the mind" techniques, usually encountered at higher levels, are an invitation for demons to occupy that "empty" space, the same danger as with "harmless" meditation techniques. An "empty" (receptive) state in proximity to demons attached to others, your training partners and/or teachers, is a recipe for disaster.

This is not a theoretical concern, but a real danger. I think it is essential for all men to learn how to fight, both armed and unarmed. How does one learn effective combat arts without succuмbing to the demonic dangers?

Quote from: Mithrandylan

Here's a chart of yoga poses:



Anyone who contends that it's a sin for the body to be in any of the positions on that chart needs to get a Baltimore Catechism and look up "sin".  

I can't tell you how many times each day I inadvertently look like one of those pictures.  And I'm about as flexible as a four-hundred year old tree.

How can you "inadvertently" get in a child, or sunbird, or cow, or the popular sukhasana?

Only a couple of those poses, like the plank, standing forward bend, seated angle pose, high lunge, low warrior, and perhaps the inclined plane, are "normal" in the sense that you would perhaps do them for stretching purposes without knowing anything about Yoga; I agree that Yoga can't claim ownership over any of these natural positions.

But all the rest look indecent and positions which I don't think anyone would get in if it weren't for Yoga's influence.

What's more, i don't think it's at all decent or proper to get in those positions in public in front of a mixed class.

Six of those, half a dozen of the other.

What I've been saying from the very beginning is that if you take yoga poses and remove all of the eastern style meditation and philosophy, you're left with nothing more than a body whose muscles are contorted or flexed to produce a particular position.

You have removed the formal element of sin, which is the intellect's apprehension of something against God, and the will acting toward it.  You're not sinning anymore than a person who inadvertently falls from a tall height commits the sin of ѕυιcιdє.

I agree that some of those poses wouldn't be particularly decent in a public and mixed setting.  I was under the impression from your OP that the people you met were doing it in the privacy of their own home.  If they're going to actual yoga classes, then it seems difficult to justify on a variety of grounds.  Besides the public indecency, they're exposing themselves needlessly to the very part of yoga that makes yoga problematic: the philosophical/quasi-religious aspect.

 

You're not sinning anymore than a person who inadvertently falls from a tall height commits the sin of ѕυιcιdє.

No but if you put yourself in a dangerous situation of going too close to a high precipice, your enemy is beside you with the thought of pushing you, then the physical consequence will be the same whether you fall or jump.

Why put your soul at risk, when there are sound ways of exercising your body?

Hear it straight from a witch's mouth posted today on Spirit Daily.  Yoga is bad.


http://spiritdaily.org/blog/uncategorized/occult-watch-an-ex-witch-exposes-yoga

All yoga is preparation for meditation. Yoga is practiced in all forms of Hinduism. The most advanced forms of yoga involve siddhis, which give the practitioner God-like powers. Siddhis include tumo (the power to generate heat within the body), chulen (the power to live without eating food), the power to run long distances without stopping for rest, the power to become large/small or invisible, the power to read minds... the list is actually quite long.

The most advanced yoga involves lucid dreams and tulpa or thought form creation. The creation of other living beings (egregores, djinns, etc.) in real life may be included in these dream yoga efforts. Tulkus are individuals who are born through an immaculate conception (the Dalai Lama, the Panchen Lama, etc.). Tulkus are "willed" into existence by a mass population, when the time is ripe for them to come back to this world. Tulkus are essential tulpas that are born into a woman. Tulpas are born into manifest reality without relying on the body of a woman; it is far more direct. Tulpas may include any material object, and not just living beings. The ancient Bon religion (9,000+ years) and the Australian aborigine Dreamtime religion (60,000+ years) believe the same things.

Dream yoga involves the awakening of the third eye. Once awakened, this allows the practitioner to remain "awake" or mentally aware no matter what activity is going on... sleep, work, and even death. This is supposedly the same "eternal life" that Christ talked about. The mind remains alert and aware without the body.

Having experienced this state with the help of hallucinogens, I can tell you that the dull-colored smoke of Hell is right around the corner during these experiences. One must fight not to enter Hell.

These experiences ultimately led me to traditional Catholicism. I am no longer a pagan. I am a follower of Christ. I am here to provide warning.