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The prayer should be for peace. Perhaps you could ask your son to support your decision so that you would have peace between you and your son. After that nothing else matters.

I will be praying that your son will have peace and comfort in your decision.

Thank you Natalie for being a good mom.

Some of the ladies in our town do a yoga thing and several years ago, my wife was invited to a session. I gently warned her not to go, but she didn't want to be rude. When she came home, she said, "never again, that's just pure evil".

My parents made us kids "suffer" in similar ways. Yep, it was painful at the time, but it did not kill us, and now we fully understand their convictions. What seemed unfair at the time was that they would just say "No, you aren't doing that". No reason, their word was law. A better approach...if I were you...and your kid is 13...plenty old enough to understand what it's all about, I'd have a heart to heart about why this is not a good thing for him so at least he understands your position.

Thank you Jesus for wise, Godly parents.

And thank you Barb and Bora. Yes, peace and understanding

Is it possible to separate the two?

I don't know the answer to that for sure.

Could something spiritual be going on even if we label it exercise?

From what I have read, those in the Hindu religion say you cannot separate the physical and spiritual when doing yoga even though Western culture says otherwise. But I do not feel comfortable with yoga because of the fact that it is how they worship their gods and try to connect with them. I have read many stories of people having all kinds of issues from practicing yoga, and I believe many could possibly be demonic in nature. (Although maybe it is connected more with what comes along with yoga, the visualization, meditation, what not)

I know this lady has good intentions, but I don't know how much of the spiritual stuff will come through. I also don't know how deeply she is in it. (My daughter's PE teacher wanted to do visualization and yoga)

I also don't want to see children exposed to it now, go on to later practice it more seriously and get involved in things they didn't bargain for. But in this situation I have no control over that.

I know that Acts 15:20 is in the context of food sacrificed to idols, but to me this is an offering to idols. And 1 John 5:21 keep yourselves from idols.

I did a lot of reading on yoga, mindfulness, etc a couple years ago. There is a spiritual battle going on and Satan is working as hard as he can. and I believe that the younger deception gets its hold the harder it is to break.

Sorry for making this so long. It's not always an easy answer.

I did talk to my son. They had been learning about other religions at church, so it was easy to begin by starting there. I decided that I will send the coach a short text, probably tomorrow, instead of just waiting until Monday to talk to the mom or coach. I've also come up with a list of exercises for him to do instead, so I am prepared there, also.