Yoga taught and practiced in a Christian context This paper describes a fitness course where yoga and mat Pilates exercise techniques are combined with opportunities for structured faith development in the students enrolled in the course. The end of semester evaluations for this course, entitled Yoga/Pilates: Spiritual Growth Through Movement, indicate that many students are

Pain is reduced during the Near-Death Experience, and may have meaning within religious frameworks Religion is a tradition-borne and faith-based organized system of beliefs, symbols, rituals, attitudes, standards, and practices. With monotheistic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the belief system is based on an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, all-knowing God, who has varying degrees