IS YOGA OK? If yoga is only meant to help people relax, why in the world would I warn so much against it, as well as other practices like meditation, breathing exercises, and prophetic prayer? It’s because the origins of those behaviors are in the eastern religions and occultism; methods used to get people into an "altered state of consciousness."; Whether a person means to or not, when practicing those spiritual-communication techniques with his or her mind and body, spirits (that are not from God) tend to pop on the scene. These Hindu and Buddhist occult exercises are even being promoted in the Christian Church today. But no matter how the methods and verbiage are repackaged, unfortunately these types of occult techniques often have the same result, which is connecting with what the Bible calls “familiar spirits.” You and I know them as DEMONS.