{"id":18566,"date":"2012-07-17T02:08:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T05:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=18566"},"modified":"2012-07-17T02:09:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T05:09:41","slug":"chaplains-offer-christian-yoga-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/17\/chaplains-offer-christian-yoga-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplains Offer Christian Yoga Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"

The chaplaincy program at Fort Meade is offering local Soldiers an alternative<\/a> to the ever-popular yoga for those who feel yoga is inconsistent with their Christian faith.\u00a0 “Wholyfit<\/a>” combines mechanics similar to yoga and tai chi with Christian devotion:<\/p>\n

Combining physical fitness, Scripture memorization, worship and prayer, Wholyfit offers a Christian alternative to traditional yoga…\u00a0 <\/p>\n

“I like to use Scriptures [so] that when they do this posture they aren’t only focusing on challenging their body and building their body, but they’re also focusing on God’s word,” Snow said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yoga classes have been advocated for and to<\/a>, and offered for some time by, the US military — notably, without complaint from anyone that they were promoting some form of eastern spirituality when they did so.\u00a0 Yoga is part of Soldier 360\u00b0<\/a>, for example, which includes exhortations for Soldiers to “evangelize” their troops with the benefits of yoga.<\/p>\n

Of course, since this is a Christian <\/em>alternative to that officially-sponsored Army program, some military atheists\u00a0are already all over it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The chaplaincy program at Fort Meade is offering local Soldiers an alternative to the ever-popular yoga for those who feel yoga is inconsistent with their Christian faith.\u00a0 “Wholyfit” combines mechanics similar to yoga and tai chi with Christian devotion: Combining physical fitness, Scripture memorization, worship and prayer, Wholyfit offers a Christian alternative to traditional yoga…\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[20,5284,96,1533,2,10,171,1561,3407,3406,708],"class_list":["post-18566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-atheism","tag-chaplain","tag-christian","tag-fort-meade","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-soldier-360","tag-tai-chi","tag-wholyfit","tag-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}