Holy Yoga of Atlanta

Holy Yoga is an experiential worship created to deepen people's connection to Christ. Our sole purpose is to facilitate a Christ honoring experience that offers an opportunity to believers and non-believers alike to authentically connect to God through His Word, worship, and wellness.

Holy Yoga is the intentional practice of connecting our entire being; body, mind and spirit with God; the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  With complete reliance on God's Word and prayer, Holy Yoga invites us to surrender and introduces us to Grace.   When we breathe and move and have our being in Christ, we find ourselves in the flow of His magnificence.  There is often a misunderstanding that yoga is a religion, it is not.  Yoga is a spiritual discipline, much like prayer, fasting and meditation.  Yoga has the capacity to enhance our personal beliefs and faith.  

We practice with our minds set on whatever is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent or praiseworthy (Phil 4:8); not with our minds emptied. We meditate on the wisdom of God's Word (Psalm 119:9-16, 26-27); not on man's wisdom. We seek the transcendence and glory of God; not our own.

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.