(26 May 2025)
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Eagle Mountain, Utah – 24 April 2025
1. Philip McLemore turning on a candle in his yoga shrine
2. McLemore’s yoga shrine
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Philip McLemore, former Latter-day Saints U.S. Air Force and hospice chaplain:
"Yoga Meditation is really primarily a transcendental form of meditation. So relax the body, still the body, calm the mind."
4. Various spiritual objects in McLemore’s office
5. McLemore demonstrating his meditation practice
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Philip McLemore, former Latter-day Saints U.S. Air Force and hospice chaplain:
“I find the teachings of Jesus more consistent with the yoga tradition than any other Eastern tradition, period. To me they just fit very harmoniously.”
7. McLemore demonstrating his meditation practice
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Salt Lake City – 25 April 2025
8. Sign outside of an LDS church
9. The Salt Lake Temple, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in temple square
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Spanish Fork, Utah – 23 April 2025
10. Yoga class at the Shri Shri Radha Krishna Temple
11. Exterior of the Shri Shri Radha Krishna Temple
12. Members of the Mormon church doing yoga at the Shri Shri Radha Krishna Temple
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Wendy Cullum, Latter-day Saint and Dental Hygienist:
“I close my eyes in Shavasana and what I do is I picture God in my presence and all of the world just kind of melting away and so I can just zero in, focus on my spirituality and what he has to say to me.”
14. Cullum practicing yoga at the Shri Shri Radha Krishna Temple
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Lehi, Utah – 24 April 2025
15. SOUNDBITE (English) LeAnne Tolley, Latter-day Saint and a yoga teacher:
“The majority of people, at least here in Utah County, are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I wanted to share what I was learning with them.”
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Spanish Fork, Utah – 23 April 2025
16. Various of a yoga class at the Shri Shri Radha Krishna Temple
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Lehi, Utah – 24 April 2025
17. SOUNDBITE (English) LeAnne Tolley, Latter-day Saint and a yoga teacher:
“Sometimes we focus so much on spirit good and body bad and our job is to overcome the body and get to a place where we are these spiritually enlightened beings that the body doesn’t even matter anymore. That is actually just the opposite. Yoga teaches us mind, body, spirit connected. That really is, in my perception, what God is.”
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Spanish Fork, Utah – 23 April 2025
18. Various of a yoga class at the Shri Shri Radha Krishna Temple
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Lehi, Utah – 24 April 2025
19. SOUNDBITE (English) LeAnne Tolley, Latter-day Saint and a yoga teacher:
“It hurts my heart when people feel like, oh, you can’t do yoga, and you can do the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It hurts my heart, the feeling of it’s one or the other. I feel like that what I’ve learned from yoga only fortifies, enhances and deepens my personal faith.”
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Spanish Fork, Utah – 23 April 2025
20. Various of a yoga class at the Shri Shri Radha Krishna Temple
STORYLINE:
Many members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints embrace yoga not only the physical benefits, but also the spiritual. And finding a greater connection between their faith and the ancient practice of Yoga.
"Yoga Meditation is really primarily a transcendental form of meditation. So relax the body. Still the body, calm the mind," says Philip McLemore, a former Latter-day Saints U.S. Air Force and hospice chaplain.
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