“Older people need to keep their muscles moving the same as anyone else or they will lose their strength. Yoga is an excellent way to accomplish this. Older people also need to move around for a feeling of well-being.”
For the list of easy moves and the full article see HERE
“Sun salutations may be the answer when getting older makes you sweat and forget. A new Indian study involving 120 women found that those who practiced yoga (along with breathing exercises and meditation) for an hour five days a week had 50 percent fewer hot flashes and night sweats than those who simply did stretching exercises. The yoga group also reported improved memory. By helping you unwind, yoga is thought to free up your mind to control body functioning.”
December 21st marks the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the shortest day of the year. It is the beginning of the Winter season and tomorrow begins the Astrological sign of Capricorn. On this image, from Wikipedia in an article about Christmas and the Solstice we see that Santa is included with the goat.
“Christmas is the celebration of the birth of the God Incarnate or Messiah, Yeshua of Nazareth, later known as Jesus Christ. The birth is observed on December 25, which was the winter solstice upon establishment of the Julian Calendar. Banned by the Catholic Church in its infancy as a pagan practice stemming out of the Sol Invictus celebrations, Christian churches eventually recognized the sustained practices as a Christian festival in various cultures within the past several hundred years, allowing much of the folklore and traditions of local pagan festivals to be preserved.”
It’s YogaBabe Capricorn time.
Capricorn the goat is associated with determination and discipline. Capricorn is an earth sign born from December 22nd to January 20th. Your ruling planet is Saturn, the god who ruled sowing of corn. Your colors are green and brown. Your gem is garnet. The body parts ruled by Capricorn are the bones, joints and knees. Your best quality is steadiness. Among other things you are Capable, Civil, Constant, and Career minded, ruled by Sober Saturn.
Lynn Hayes, my favorite astrologer, has an article about Pluto in Capricorn which will be in that sign until the year 2023. Her article can be found HERE.
The following is an excerpt from the article about Ashtange Yoga, The Quiet Strength of a Woman’s Body by Kino MacGregor.
After years of practice and mastery over seemingly impossible postures, there is now no doubt that women have an equal type of strength, too. Marianne Williamson says that a true woman’s power is magnetic, attractive and visionary. A woman’s body receives, nurtures, gives, produces, holds, bears, bends, grows, shrinks and sometimes even breaks, only to rebuild. Rather than an exposed sexual organ, in the heart of every female form rests a womb that is a great, silent and dark potential for life. This darkness that draws its archetype from the lunar cycle pulls energy, tides, change, life force and fertility to it. Where a man’s body has muscles to push, thrust and engage, a woman’s body beckons, seduces and contains. It is in this crucial difference where women must find their strength in the yoga practice and in life: Not in emulating the deep belly thrust of a man’s world, but in tapping into a uniquely feminine way to engage the world will women touch the mystery of true female power.
This Ashtanga Yoga Demo in India Video had close to 900,000 views when I saw it on You Tube. I am posting it here because I was fascinated by the beauty of the environment as well as the beauty of the yoga. Note that in the very beginning of the video you will see a monkey in the distance tree.
A short explanation from Wikipedia on Ashtanga Yoga:
This style of yoga is characterized by a focus onvi?y?sa, or a dynamic connecting posture, that creates a flow between the more static traditional yoga postures. Vinyasa translates as linking and the system also implies the linking of the movement to the breath. Essentially the breath dictates the movement and the length of time held in the postures. Unlike some Hatha yoga styles, attention is also placed on the journey between the postures not just the postures themselves. The vi?y?sa ‘flow’ is a variant of S?rya namask?ra, the Sun Salutation. The whole practice is defined by six specific series of postures, always done in the same order, combined with specific breathing patterns (ujj?y? breathing).
“Older people need to keep their muscles moving the same as anyone else or they will lose their strength. Yoga is an excellent way to accomplish this. Older people also need to move around for a feeling of well-being.”
