Yogawoman

I just watched Yogawoman - this wonderful documentary by Kate McIntyre.   For some reason, in all my research and reading on Yoga over the last 20 years, I have somehow just now become aware that there are all these great documentaries on Yoga out there!   I watched "Enlighten Up" a couple of years ago with the excitement of a kid on Christmas, so thrilled that an entire movie was filmed about Yoga!  I loved all the interviews with the teachers the most.

This was one of the reasons I loved Yogawoman - the one on ones with well known and respected teachers like Sharon Gannon, Angela Farmer, Seane Corn, Patricia Walden, Sianna Sherman, Nischala Joy Devi, and my favorite, of course, Shiva Rea.   Oh, how I wish I could just have the time and money to go study with ALL of them!

The documentary did a great job of illustrating the power of yoga in a woman's life and how it carries her through all of the stages - puberty, motherhood, menopause, etc.  I loved how they showed women in their 80s and 90s doing yoga, women who were cancer survivors, etc.  One of the most inspiring scenes to me was the teaching in the women's prison.  The way the one woman described how much yoga gave her and how when anyone got upset or angry, they'd do their OMs and feel so much better.  It really moved me, how they could find that power within themselves through Yoga.

Yoga just isn't a tool, it's a whole toolbox - a 5,000 year old, layered, dog-eared, myriad, tapestry of goodies to choose from.  The toolbox never empties, is always replenishing, always full of new ways to understand, be and learn.  There are so many ways to be a Yogi!