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New York Press<\/em>
\nBy Elizabeth Valerio<\/p>\n

To get to their weekly yoga class, practitioners carry their mats past a New York Sports Club and a Crunch gym. Then they walk into a church, where the minister wears a T-shirt and spandex capri pants and recites the Lord’s Prayer while stretching into the sun salute.<\/p>\n

They’re part of a growing U.S. movement: Christians who say they are getting closer to God in a non-traditional way.<\/p>\n

Christian yoga classes have been the most popular way for adults to enrich their faith in the past seven years, according to the Rev. Thomas Ryan, a Christian yoga instructor who directs the Paulist North American Office for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations in New York City and authored Prayer of Heart and Body: Meditation and Yoga as a Christian Spiritual Practice. Ryan leads two-hour weekly yoga classes at his church, St. Paul the Apostle, on the West Side near Columbus Circle. Every session is packed with 40 people.Click here to read this entire article.<\/a><\/p>\n

Related Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n

CHRISTIAN YOGA: Rooted in Hindu Occultism<\/a><\/p>\n

Southern Baptist ‘Kids’ Bowing To Yoga<\/a><\/p>\n

T. D. Jakes: Quotes Lighthouse Trails; OKs Yoga<\/a><\/p>\n

A Hindu Yogi Speaks: “There is no Christian Yoga”<\/a><\/p>\n

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