10/09/2025
Yoga is not “just stretching.” It’s an entry point for many in to Hinduism, paganism, New Age, and idolatry.
Many guys initially try yoga for health, stress relief, muscle toning, or flexibility. Yet within months, testimonies show they remain in yoga classes not for the stretches but for the spirituality.
Research from Dr. Candy Gunther Brown and my own surveys of ex-new agers confirms that yoga is a spiritual worship practice that entices women into Hinduism and idolatry.
"I had never heard of Ganesh, Lakshmi, or any of the other Hindu deities until I started taking yoga classes. Within a few months, I had statues and artwork of these deities in my house, and I was regrettably praying to them for favors before I was saved. Now I realize they were demons disguised as helpful deities. "Said one ex yoga devotee
Consider the warrior poses, part of the Sun Salutation series of every yoga class. These are bodily contortions created to glorify the Hindu warrior deity Virabhadra, making your body into a graven image of a false god.
If yoga is “just stretching,” why do teachers constantly walk around correcting postures? No one does that in a simple stretch class. These movements are unnatural because they’re designed for ritual worship of mimicking deities with your body.
And then there’s the chanting in yoga classes: “Namaste” means “The god within me bows to the god within you.” “Om” invokes the Hindu creation theology of universal consciousness. These are blasphemous prayers to pagan gods.
Many public schools are coaching children to say these Hindu Sanskrit
