Gradually as I've continued hanging out in the yoga community in Seattle over the past eight months, it's slowly become apparent to me that this is a faith community, of sorts. It's not the kind of society where people sit around discussing theology very much.
Not that there aren't people who spend time talking about yoga or writing about it -- there are, and some of them do a great job of it too.
But for the most part yoga is a theology of action, and something that needs to be done rather than just believed. The idea is that the mind will follow certain actions the way a cartwheel follows the ox pulling it.
This is my kind of faith community, that's for sure. I always did find theological debate really tedious and boring.
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