Bamboo on a Soapbox

Our office is doing Yoga on Tuesdays which is a lovely way to take a deep breath in the middle of the day and stretch! (Which is great because it's sandwiched in-between Monday and Wednesday Circuit Training where the interns are determined to whip us into shape, holy moly).

As I looked around the room I decided that the most comfortable clothes are yoga clothes. The soft flowing shirts and pants that you could easily curl up on your mat and take a nap in clothes.

Then I stumbled upon this site which makes all of their clothes out of Bamboo which you can see how here. I picked out a few of my favorites...aren't they lovely?

Pair that with my eco-friendly mat (which is WAY more padded and comfortable that others), my eco-friendly water bottle, slap "Organic" on my bum and let's do some YOGA!

And just to clarify, when I practice YOGA! it is not devil worship. My co-workers and I were chatting about the wrath this word (YOGA!) can rain down on your head among some Christians/Christian communities. I thought this was an interesting blog post about Catholicism and Yoga. Though it's a hot topic among Catholics and Protestants alike I agree with the blog's author's point:

Many practices have been shifted from or shared with pagan religions and made holy: the Rosary (using strings of beads to count prayers was Hindu and Buddhist long before the 13th century when Mary taught us to use it), fasting, meditation, ritual sacrifice (for Old Testament Jews), holidays and traditions like a Christmas tree and countless others that we’ve commandeered and made holy. Just because a pagan does it does not automatically make a practice or movement intrinsically evil; why can’t a Christian simply focus on God while doing yoga?

I think starts with fearing what is not understood. And I also think we generalize our struggles into everyone's struggles. If Christian A struggles with yoga and forsaking God does it mean Christian B, C and D do too? What if Christian B struggles with alcoholism and Christian A can easily have a glass of wine with dinner without batting an eye. Does that mean wine is intrinsically evil? Of the devil? No. It means Christian A should probably steer clear of yoga and Christian B should stay away from alcohol...

Can we all agree that breathing and stretching isn't sinful?

I digress...I had more to say on that than I originally thought! I suppose our conversation today struck a nerve. I was also thinking about it because of this beautiful blog's latest post which has to do with living in the land of Towers of SHOULD and SHOULD NOTS (i.e. SHOULD NOT do YOGA!) when we should actually be moving (yoga moves or otherwise) in the land of Grace. So...from bamboo to soapbox, Happy Tuesday!