{"id":15572,"date":"2017-06-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/06\/14\/sydney-church-to-ban-yoga-to-prevent-spiritual-confusion\/"},"modified":"2017-06-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T12:00:00","slug":"sydney-church-to-ban-yoga-to-prevent-spiritual-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/06\/14\/sydney-church-to-ban-yoga-to-prevent-spiritual-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Church to Ban Yoga to Prevent &#8220;Spiritual Confusion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/au.news.yahoo.com\/nsw\/a\/35945740\/church-officials-push-to-outlaw-yoga-in-sydney\/#page1\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, June 13, 2017 (7 News Yahoo): Church officials believe some of the poses done in yoga may lead to spiritual confusion amid a push to remove the exercise from Sydney churches. For many it&#8217;s a weekly routine, a good way to relax the mind and stretch out. But could it be sacrilegious? From the end of June, the Erskineville Anglican Church will ban yoga classes, citing a 2015 report that found it could breach the first commandment of Christianity (&#8220;Thou shalt have no other gods before me&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It really comes down to the meditation and the mantras that people might chant in the course of the yoga class,&#8221; South Sydney Anglican Bishop Michael Stead said. &#8220;They might be chanting things which actually have a religious connotation without realising what they are.&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s a particular class, which is a particular form of Hindu spirituality, which is problematic for us,&#8221; Bishop Stead said.<\/p>\n<p>Short video at &#8220;source&#8221; above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, June 13, 2017 (7 News Yahoo): Church officials believe some of the poses done in yoga may,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}