Yoga: A Gem for Women - Is Yoga Ideal for Women?

 

Yoga: A Gem for Women - Is Yoga Ideal for Women?

 

In Chapter VI, Geeta entitles the chapter as, "Is Yoga Ideal for Women?"
You may wonder how this chapter differs from when she asked in Chapter IV "if women were eligible for yoga? "

 

                   Let's find out...:)

But I'm sure you've already guessed the answer!

'Yoga", Geeta writes, "helps woman to fulfil her tasks as well as to maintain her completion, lustre, and femininity. She no longer needs cosmetics, as proper circulation makes her skin glow.  It is no exaggeration to say that yogic practices are ideally designed to help her in all conditions and circumstances of her daily life."

Geeta describes how yoga is an ideal exercise because it exercises the entire body and brings lightness to the body, ability to work and resistance from disease.
Yoga improves respiratory, circulatory, digestive, nervous, glandular, genito-urinary and eliminatory systems.

Geeta writes about the 5 sheaths or layers, which are Annamaya kosa (outer sheath), Pranamaya kosa (physiological body), Manomaya kosa(psychological body), Vijnanamaya kosa (intellectual sheath) and Anandamaya kosa (spiritual body and innermost sheath).

The sheath, like the 8 petals of yoga are all interdependent and interpenetrating.  Asana and Pranayama brings total attention to all the sheaths from the physical to the spiritual - and vice versa.

Geeta writes much more very interesting and inspiring things about yoga in this chapter. 
I love how she describes it as a special gift. I think sometimes we don't always remember this, but it is a gift that I feel very lucky to have found and incorporated into my life.

I hope you will give yourself the gift of yoga today!
Try a few poses like sirsasana, sarvangasana, halasana or setubandha sarvangasana - Geeta writes these poses supply fresh blood to the brain and keeps it alert, active and at the same time in a restful state.

Namaste.
Pamela Nelson
www.plnyoga.blogspot.com