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This is new to me. It seems has Been a part of the yoga world for while. Nazis were using yoga as part of the supper race thing.
 
The Nazis were interested in all things "Aryan", so the antiquity of Yogic works like the Bhagavad Gita was an inevitable draw for them. Yoga does not, however, actually endorse slaughtering Jews. Rather, when looking into the Rorscharch blot of a mystical tradition, fascists predictably see their own image.

The Dessert race will eventually go the same way as the Supper race, I trust; the world is tired of their shit.
 
I found some old links that said Qanon followers should practice yoga. Having trouble copying and pasting on my phone. Can someone post a link. I think it was on Wire from 2021.
 
It depends what is meant by practicing yoga. In popular culture it is just a form of exorcise that some people attach a kind of mystical experience. Helth benefits are claimed like lowering stress and blood pressure. A form of relaxation. Some people swear by it.

As a tradition it is part of a philosophy that can include the supernatural. There is a noral tadtion with it. I doubt white Christian Neo Nazis would buy into that.

There was a Nazi expedition to Tibet trying ti find imagined roots of a fictitious Aryan race.

The Nazi swastika was co opted from old traditions.

Himmler created a secret SS mystical group.

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1938–1939 German expedition to Tibet - Wikipedia

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Nazi Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler wished to use the reputation of the scientist and explorer Ernst Schäfer for Nazi propaganda after Schäfer's first two trips to China and Tibet in 1930 to 1931 and 1934 to 1936 came to Himmler's attention. Himmler asked about Schäfer's future plans. Schäfer responded that he wanted to lead another expedition to Tibet and requested for his expedition to be under the patronage of the cultural department of the Foreign Affairs Department or of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ("German Research Foundation").[2] Himmler was fascinated by Asian mysticism and therefore wished to send such an expedition under the auspices of the SS Ahnenerbe (SS Ancestral Heritage Society), and he desired for Schäfer to perform research based on Hanns Hörbiger's pseudoscientific theory of "Glacial Cosmogony," promoted by the Ahnenerbe. Schäfer had scientific objectives and therefore refused to include Edmund Kiss, an adept of the theory, in his team and required 12 conditions to ensure scientific freedom. Wolfram Sievers, from the Ahnenerbe, therefore expressed criticism concerning the objectives of the expedition, and Ahnenerbe would not sponsor it. Himmler was agreeable to the expedition going ahead if all members joined the SS, and Schäfer found that he had no alternative but to accept that condition even without sponsorship.[3][1]
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steve_bank said:
There was a Nazi expedition to Tibet trying ti find imagined roots of a fictitious Aryan race.
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IIRC, Himmer sought out ancestrial ties with the Japanese when they gave him a samurai sword.
 
steve_bank said:
It depends what is meant by practicing yoga. In popular culture it is just a form of exorcise that some people attach a kind of mystical experience. Helth benefits are claimed like lowering stress and blood pressure. A form of relaxation. Some people swear by it.
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Yoga is awesome. If nothing else, it helps loosen the body. It is remarkable at just blanking the mind... without any level of spiritualness involved. All one can think of is "ack... this stretch hurts!" :D
 
If doing some stretches at the gym is Yoga, than is sharing a bottle of wine with some friends Christianity?
 
Grasshopper, always remember if one never tightens up one never has to loosen up.
 
Beautiful in theory, democracy is; in practice, a fallacy, is it.
Tired of liberty, men are, the truth is.
In history as the century of fascism be known, the twentieth century will.
From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, believe in perpetual peace I do not.
Humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history it is. Little who wins matters it. A people great to make, necessary to send them to battle even if in the pants kick them, you have to, it is. What I shall do that is.
Inseparable, the function of a citizen and a soldier are.
To man, what to a woman maternity is, war is.

Oh, Yoga and Fascism. Sorry, my bad.
 
Oh, I must have misread the OP. I thought the OP was about yogurt and fascism, my mistake.
 
Politesse said:
The Nazis were interested in all things "Aryan", so the antiquity of Yogic works like the Bhagavad Gita was an inevitable draw for them. Yoga does not, however, actually endorse slaughtering Jews.
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Yoga too does not advocate slaughtering of Jews or any other people. However, neither BhagawadGita nor Yoga are Aryan. They belong to indigenous people of India among which Aryans assimilated and picked up Yoga, meditation and Gita-like thoughts. Vedic religion was concerned only with their deities, flow of water after snow thawed around vernal equinox (their New Year day) and the welfare of their family, group and their livestock.
 
aupmanyav said:
Politesse said:
The Nazis were interested in all things "Aryan", so the antiquity of Yogic works like the Bhagavad Gita was an inevitable draw for them. Yoga does not, however, actually endorse slaughtering Jews.
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Yoga too does not advocate slaughtering of Jews or any other people. However, neither BhagawadGita nor Yoga are Aryan. They belong to indigenous people of India among which Aryans assimilated and picked up Yoga, meditation and Gita-like thoughts. Vedic religion was concerned only with their deities, flow of water after snow thawed around vernal equinox (their New Year day) and the welfare of their family, group and their livestock.
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The Nazis were not known for their stirling command of historical facts.
 
Aryan is a myth.

Hindu practitioners of yoga historically slaughtered others right up through the Muslim conflict when the Brits left India,.

The word yoga has no single meaning. There is Hatha yoga or health toga amalogous to Chinese Ghi Gung. There is Kundalini yoga focused on sexual energy.

The literal meaning of yoga as In understand it is unuin of body and mind.
 
steve_bank said:
Aryan is a myth.

Hindu practitioners of yoga historically slaughtered others right up through the Muslim conflict when the Brits left India,.

The word yoga has no single meaning. There is Hatha yoga or health toga amalogous to Chinese Ghi Gung. There is Kundalini yoga focused on sexual energy.

The literal meaning of yoga as In understand it is unuin of body and mind.
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History is not one of your interest.
Muslims have always been more successful in slaughtering other people than Hindus.
Kundalini, IMHO, is a farce and is not focused on sexual energy. It is about 'universal' woo.
Yeah, yoga is training body and mind. The first two steps being the most difficult: Yama and Niyama (What not to do and what to do).
 
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