Amanda Ramcharitar Yoga

I have been on a very long seeking journey of this so called spirituality. From traveling the world, to reading old scripts in ashrams, trying to the get to the underpinning of what this burning need for answers is.

Yoga has been a very connected answer to many of my questions.  How does the human fit into this big picture on earth? What does religion mean in terms of Yoga? What does Hinduism mean in Yoga? And does it relate to other religions?  And is Yoga a religion? If so does it come from the masculine or feminine psyche or both? Why does it make sense and why doesn’t it make sense?

From my humble understanding of the pieces i’ve put together up to this point, today i had a breakthrough when researching female spirituality.  Yoga means union, the union of mind, body & soul.  Female spirituality is the respect of the capabilities of the woman’s truest nature which is intuitive, nurturing & cyclical.  All this is encompassed in Yoga, but is not limited to woman, although in recent research there has been an estimated 3:1 ratio female to male ratio practicing Yoga.  It seems closely related to the lost feminine representative in our modern religions and direct loss to the feminine aspect of spirituality.

If this is so, it makes a lot of sense why woman are turning to their bodies to guide the way, as the body is the main tool in intuition, whether it be pilates, calisthenics, aerobics, or Yoga the female seems to be rediscovering her integral self through the body.

I do feel that the philosophy of Yoga is a universal aspect of an evolution of the human psyche, be it male or female.  I do feel there is dogma that surrounds all aspects of life, and it easy to get trapped in the body, rituals, psychology, imagination and questioning.  However today i celebrate the understanding that woman are becoming more and more connected to their earthly miraculous nature, the one that delivered us all here on earth.  The power of the female body, and the amazing capabilities it has.