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Yoga
All this hype about Yoga. Yoga pants, yoga DVD's, yoga classes, incorporating yoga into your exercise routine.... So, one day I decided to google, ''Does Yoga really work?'' While I was typing that in, the auto list displayed, ''Is Yoga really a religion?'' It struck my curiosity so I decided to google that instead. That lead me to the link, ''Can Christians Do Yoga?''
Laurette Willis, speaks out about the dangers of yoga. ''The goal of all yoga, Laurette explains, is to obtain oneness with the universe. That's also known as the process of enlightenment, or union with Brahman (Hinduism's highest god). The word ''yoga'' means ''union'' or ''to yoke.''
''Yoga wants to get students to the point of complete numbness in their minds. God, on the other hand, wants you to be transformed by the renewing of your mind through his Word.''
''There are commonly used words and poses antithetical to God's Word. For example, the word ''namaste,'' often said at the close of yoga classes, means, ''I bow to the god within you.'' The sound ''om,'' chanted in many yoga classes, is meant to bring students into a trance so they can join with the universal mind. And the ''salute to the sun'' posture, used at the beginning of most classes, pays homage to the Hindu sun god.''
Needless to say, I did NOT try Yoga and am so thankful the Lord led me to research Yoga before attempting to try it.
Commandment #1 of the 10 commandments says, ''Thou shall have no other God's before me.'' Exodus 23:24 says, ''You must not worship the gods of these nations or serve them in any way or imitate their evil practices.''
Here is the link so you can read the full article:
http://www.todayschristianwoman.com/articles/2005/march/truth-about-yoga.html?start=1 | | jesussaves |
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Classical Education
The year is 1947, the place is Oxford, and the woman is a Miss Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1967), a scholar and expert on the middle ages and a member of a literary group which included C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien. The essay is The Lost Tools of Learning. The premise: modern education is failing in its most crucial object, teaching children how to learn. The classical concept of education is reborn.
Cross the Atlantic and fast forward sixty years; all over the our country today are private schools, Christian schools, home schools, and even public charter schools all waving the banner of Classical. But what does it mean, why is it so popular and how does it differ from modern public-school education?
The classical model of education seeks not to fill a child’s mind with information, not to propagandize, but to kindle a love of learning, a curiosity of the world, and to provide tools to create a life-long learner. The classical educator recognizes that children’s minds go through stages where they excel through different kinds of teaching. Classical educators identify three main stages, referred to as the trivium, and labeled in order: the grammar, dialectic and rhetoric stages. | | lesliejtay |
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Easy Grammar
We tried many grammar curriculums and struggled with most of them. When we found Easy Grammar, life changed. The approach is different - learning prepositions first, crossing out prepositional phrases, THEN looking for your subject & verb made things so much easier! The lessons are short & to the point. With the reproducible teacher's manual, my daughter copies her own work page, does the work, & even grades it herself. Best of all, she now understands what she is doing & remembers it. | | katesmom |
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