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This yoga position, called "Reintegration," is recommended by a new sort of yogi. Not only a Westerner but a Benedictine monk, Father J.M. Dechanet found in yoga a valuable approach to Christian prayer and practice. Last week his book, Christian Yoga (Harper; $3.75), was on U.S. bookstands, complete with nihil obstat and imprimatur. Father Dechanet, 54, now prior of the Monastery of Saint-Benoit at Kansenia in the new Congo republic, has already found a following for his ideas in France among Christians who admire the physical and psychological disciplines of the East without accepting its negative and impersonal theology...
...Tripartite Man. Benedictine Yogi Dechanet has no use for such Western Orientalists as Jean Herbert, who has written: "Nothing is simpler than to supply Western Christian names in place of Hindu in the treatises on yoga technique." Dechanet is also on guard against the danger that the practice of yoga turns him toward "the Self, the It, the Absolute, the Wholly-One, the vague 'Ungraspable' of Hindu mystics" instead of toward "the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the living God, my Creator and Father." What Dechanet set out to do when he first began to practice yoga...
...Father Dechanet chose one of the most basic forms of yoga: hatha-yoga, the discipline of the body and breathing. The hatha-yogis of India use 84 different asanas, or postures. For Christian yogis, Dechanet recommends 14, and illustrates them with simple diagrams (see cuts...
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