“WE PROCLAIM HIM, ADMONISHING AND TEACHING WITH ALL WISDOM SO WE CAN PRESENT EVERYONE PERFECT IN CHRIST.” COLOSSIANS 1:28

MODULE 2 LESSON 2

Pairing Poses with Scripture

The following are yoga poses paired with a possible scripture. 

This can be a helpful reference when creating your classes. 

Use this as a Master List and continue to add to it. 

An excellent tool for this process is by using openbible. Type in a topic like “mountain or heart” and see what scriptures it suggests. 

Remember to select a scripture prayerfully.  

It is important to remember that some scriptures are long. As discussed in the last lesson, you can utilize the scripture’s main idea but shorten the scripture to keep it concise and easy to understand. 

How to pair poses with scripture: 

Pairing poses with scripture is an addition to the scripture you selected for the overall class theme or intention. It is certainly okay to add one or two more scriptures to your class when teaching, but that is the maximum. When pairing a scripture to a pose, you only say them while executing that particular pose. 

You don’t continue to repeat them. 

Going Deeper

For example, let’s say you select the class theme of joy. You decide to use Psalm 118:24, “This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” 

You use this scripture at the beginning, middle, and end of class or wherever else you feel is appropriate. (Remember, No more than 4-8 times total.) 

During the balance section of the class, you teach tree pose. While practicing tree, you use a different scripture than Psalm 118:24. You choose a scripture with the visual imagery of a tree, like Psalm 1:3. As the students practice tree, you say the verse. “He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.”  

This would be the ONLY time you use this particular scripture, during tree pose. 

You would then return for the remainder of the practice to your scripture for joy with Psalm 118:24. 

Pairing Scripture with Poses: 

Enjoy these examples of pairing poses to scripture and continue to add them to your Master List. 

Mountain Pose- Isaiah 52:7 ESV- How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news. 

Extended Mountain- Psalm 121:1 I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?

Child’s Pose- Psalm 99:5- Exalt the Lord our God; worship at his footstool! Holy is he!

Final Relaxation Pose- Psalm 23 in its entirety. 

All Warriors- Luke 1:37- For nothing will be impossible with God.

Humble Warrior- Matthew 23:12- Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

Camel- Psalm 51:10- Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Cobra/Updog- Matthew 5:8- “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Sun-Psalm 74:16 you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.

Tree- Psalm 1:3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

Eagle’s- Isaiah 40:31 But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Balances- Psalm 104:5 He set the earth on its foundations so that it should never be moved.

Kneeling Lunge- Pslam 95:6 “let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.”

Forward Fold (any variation)- Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind.