Amanda Ramcharitar Yoga

Hello Friends in Yoga,

For over 30 years of my life i have contemplated wellness.  it started when i really starting noticing dysfunction in my Canadian society in the form of injustice, mental health issues, abuse; whether children or female, environmental chaos, corruption, the list can go on and on. I set to task to try to unravel where these problems began, i did not realize I would still be unpicking the knot 30 years later.   But I knew the answers did not lie in modern society as our modern society wasn’t coming up with solutions, it just seemed to be bandaging what was happening.  Canada is one of the G7 nations and working in societal, and justice systems, i saw no hard answers, just ways to reduce the impact. I intuitively knew there were answers, and what better societies to look at then the rest of the older traditional world?

I began the search with the notion that Yoga must answer questions, I mean it was thousands of years old, anyone who is somewhat wise does Yoga, everything seemed to start there, mediation, miracles, Yogi’s only wearing a little bit of clothes but seemed happier than everyone else around them.   So I began the study and Yoga did not fail in its depth of understanding to our modern day problems. In fact, it seemed our problems are not as modern as we think… because Yoga revealed what we humans deal with is a disconnect that leads to many problems…  One of the deepest truth offered in Yoga is union, it is union with the awareness of now.  The practice shows us how to be here in our life now. In our fast, distracted society, most of our problems stem from disconnection, not just from our bodies, but from the earth, from each other and most importantly, from our source of life, life force.  This is the medicine of Yoga, to find our way back to our source of life, to our self, our bodies, our emotions, our family, our cultures, our ways of living -well… Like all practices, Yoga can be capitalised on, become a product, but at the heart of Yoga, it is a true medicine for humanity, if we choose to heal, to be here  in our life, Yoga is a beautiful tool to truly live life well, it is one of best medicines our society needs… Thanks for reading and see you on the Yoga journey!