The Orthodox Church of Greece has announced yoga as “absolutely incompatible” with Christianity and not a “kind of exercise” since “yoga is a fundamental part of the religion of Hinduism.” The Synodal Committee under Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens and all Greece, announced on June 3 that “yoga techniques,” which had “a variety of schools, disciplines, applications and trends” within Hinduism, “has no place in the lives of Christians.” The statement was defended on a Greek TV network on Thursday, where Father Michael Konstantinidis said that the church’s opposition is based on the “experience of those who practised yoga,” explaining…
