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amother
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 Mon, Aug 14 2023, 9:43 am
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Yoga has always made my body feel good. I want to get back into working out after pregnancy but I’ve started feeling really uncomfortable with yoga for avoda Zara reasons. I know a lot of people do Pilates as an alternative but Pilates takes movements from yoga and incorporates them. So how is Pilates not an avoda Zara issue? Is it kosher?
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amother
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Mon, Aug 14 2023, 10:26 am
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Odelyah
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Mon, Aug 14 2023, 10:42 am
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Pilates doesn't have any spiritual component. It is just exercise. There are also all kinds of yoga classes, and many don't include the hindu chakra stuff. My daughter's BY has had yoga at times.
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amother
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Mon, Aug 14 2023, 10:43 am
In pilates the movements are done to articulate the spine, stretch, retain flexibility. Technically pilates and yoga don't overlap at all. If you do mat pilates a lot of movements are borrowed but not for any spiritual reason. If you do plates on the machines, there's really no overlap.
Why don't you ask a shaila?
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amother
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Mon, Aug 14 2023, 10:49 am
I tried Pilates- it’s quite challenging for me at least.
Yoga is ok as long as you dont assign to their weird religious terms. It’s breathing and exercise enmeshed to create a full body experience.
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imaima
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Mon, Aug 14 2023, 11:18 am
| amother OP wrote: | | Yoga has always made my body feel good. I want to get back into working out after pregnancy but I’ve started feeling really uncomfortable with yoga for avoda Zara reasons. I know a lot of people do Pilates as an alternative but Pilates takes movements from yoga and incorporates them. So how is Pilates not an avoda Zara issue? Is it kosher? |
Pilates is not yoga and is absolutely not connected to any religion
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essie14
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Mon, Aug 14 2023, 11:51 am
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I have taken yoga and pilates for 20 years. Never had any avoda zara assigned to either. It's breathing and exercise.
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LovesHashem
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Mon, Aug 14 2023, 12:04 pm
My yoga teacher connects different things to yiddishkeit. There's a belief everything stems from yiddishkeit in some way.
My rav doesn't hold yoga is a problem
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chocolate moose
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Mon, Aug 14 2023, 1:11 pm
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you should read /shelly Dembe's b ook Wrestling with Yoga
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