Breath of Life - Holy Yoga of Reading

Statements of Practice

We believe that when God spoke the world into existence, His creative essence or "vibration" permeated all of creation. It has been documented that there is a vibrational frequency common to all of creation and that this vibration has the sound of "Aum". That frequency is often vocalized in classical yoga as "OM", or in Christian circles as "Shalom". Holy Yoga chooses not to use the practice of chant or "OM" invocations in classes in order to dissipate fear concerning their usage in relation to worship.

We believe that humans are created in the image of the One true God, and are therefore energetic beings. This energy is in constant movement within our bodies and accumulates is specific regions within the body. The common experience of knots in the stomach, feeling heavy-hearted, or being choked-up are just a few examples. The label used to describe this in classical yoga terminology is "chakras". The theory of chakras attempts to explain the physical manifestation of our emotional and spiritual being. We acknowledge that this is man's attempt to articulate God's truth in creation of the human body. Holy Yoga teaches God's truth, independent of man's labels.

We know that yoga is a spiritual discipline much like fasting, meditation, and prayer that cannot be owned by one specific religion. While yoga predates Hinduism, they were the first to popularize the discipline of yoga by giving it written structure. The language originally given to yoga postures was in sanskrit. Holy Yoga teaches their instructors to teach in their native tongue.