GSM writes: “I was recently introduced to this site for wellness and inspiration, but it has hints of meditation and new age. Do you know anything about this? It's called Mindvalley Academy."
MR asks: “Are Tommie Copper bands New Age, and do they really work?”
The country’s best known doctor and New Age guru, Dr. Mehmet Oz, may be in a battle for his professional life as a group of doctors pressure Columbia University Hospital to remove him from his prestigious position because of his endorsement of “quack treatments and cures in the interest of financial gain.”
LR writes: “Our 10 yr old grand daughter attends Catholic school and apparently the series Spirit Animal has been available for the students to peruse. She has purchased and is reading one of these books. Personally I feel she could be reading much more edifying literature and have expressed this to her parent. Can these books and games be dangerous and is there more I can or should do?”
MR writes: “I am careful to avoid yoga but these balance classes have been incorporated recently into our CURVES circuit. Originally, the gym manager said they were yoga. When I said I objected to yoga, she quickly changed her tune and called them "balance" classes. They seem to incorporate "tree poses" and other yoga like positions. I am wondering if you have heard about this, have some thoughts about this. All positions are standing but I am not comfortable if it is truly yoga. Any thoughts?"
Andrea R. JainPro-yoga folks around the world have taken a page out of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals and are now resorting to labels and slurs to marginalize yoga opponents and shut down debate.
Alfred Vogel with purple coneflowers, source of EchinaceaAL asks: "Could you advise me if A.Vogel Bioforce products for flu and many other healings are ok for Catholics?”
LL writes: "My Aunt Kathy sent me a magnet of St. Gertrude of Nivelles, the patron saint of cats. I had never heard of her before. Is she a Catholic saint?"
A California parish in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is hosting a rendition of the Stations of the Cross which is led by a yoga instructor and features original paintings of the stations with Jesus in yoga-poses.
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