Afterwards, she found out that certain types of yoga can awaken (ungodly) “sexual energies” in a person. It was this sex demon that was distracting her. In both cases, both women were loving and tenderly set free from yoga demons in the name of Jesus.
Breaking off the ungodly yoke to Hinduism
1. Repent for idol worship
Our Heavenly Father is a God of purity and loyalty. He is a one-people, one-God Supreme Power. His love for us is compassionate, constant and unwavering. At the same time, God does not tolerate it when we commit “spiritual adultery”.
Jeremiah 3:8 ESV I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery.
If we have ever done yoga, even just once, we need to repent for idolatry and bowing down to Hindu gods and Hindu philosophy. Many people have said, “yoga is just exercise”, “I pray to God while I do sun salutations” or “yoga is good for my body”. We need to repent of such statements too. We are to only worship and adore God alone.
Exodus 20:5 ESV You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
Psalm 95:6 ESV Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!
Anyone who has tried yoga has yoked themselves to demonic spirits on their own volition. (The word, yoga, means to “connect or yoke with”.) Our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, and we grieve God’s Spirit in us when we do yoga.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
2. Cut ties with related persons and places
People can unwittingly form ungodly associations with people and places that are sacrilegious and offensive to God. We need to ask God to forgive us and cleanse us from any incompatible yoking with unbelievers and cut spiritual ties with them. In addition, we should also cut off any connections with the spirits that they worship and the places where we have practiced yoga.
Ezekiel 37:23 NASB “They will no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God.
2 Corinthians 6:14-15 ESV Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?
3. Break off covenant with Hindu spirits and cast them out
It only takes one session of yoga for our enemy to gain a foothold into our lives. Even if we have not experienced negative physical consequences from yoga yet, we can be sure that Satan will use whatever slip-up we make as an opportunity to oppress us.
People who have done yoga for years will often have difficulty sitting still and want to keep doing yoga. Apart from yoga, they may have shortness of breath, feel a tingling or “crawling” on their limbs, have strong mood swings, suffer from poor sleeping patterns and experience pain etc.
To be free, we need to break all covenants we have made with Hindu spirits, such as kundalini, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva or Devi and command them to leave us in Jesus’ name. Every one of the 84 classical yoga poses seek to honour some Hindu spirit, so it is helpful to name them. Here are some examples:
Cobra … in Hindu tradition, the cobra and other snakes, are worshipped and celebrated as symbols of wealth, fertility or healing, and immortality. It is traditionally thought to awaken kundalini (the primal, sexual energy thought to be coiled like a sleeping serpent in the root chakra)