whoaaa

[xthe10thdoctor]

We saw the funniest thing at the DVD store a little while ago.

It was called "Praise Moves." There was a woman in a yoga-type pose on the cover. I stepped closer and saw that the subtitle was "A Christian Alternative to Yoga."

I poked Jess and said, "Look, yoga without all of those nasty eastern influences."

I hadn't read the back of the box...which marketed Praise Moves as "Yoga without the Eastern influences."

Of course, it stopped being funny when I thought about it for a while and got home and read their website.

Comments

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they really are. Maybe not the queer part. But the website was all like "You KNOW that that eastern business is, like, MISSIONARY stuff, right? You don't think of it that way, but you're being exposed to OTHER RELIGIONS. WHILE YOU DO YOUR YOGAS!!"

So, we'll just take the stretchy, inner peace stuff and leave the philosophy. We reject your eastern reality and substitute our own, kthxbai.

[incarnated-joy.livejournal.com]

Haaah! I've seen that but I couldn't get near enough to see it. Ah this makes me so happy and amused XD

[incarnated-joy.livejournal.com]

*to see it properly, I should clarify.

[rockwell-666.livejournal.com]

Yes, for me it also stopped being funny when I read their website.

Then it became absolutely hilarious!

[coeli.livejournal.com]

I've seen some Christians who confuse xenophobia and devotion warn of the dangers of "Eastern religion" in yoga, Asian martial arts, and meditation before. This is the first time I've seen an alternative offered.