About Yoga Nashit
The development of female yoga
Developed by Mira Artzi Padan, Yoga Nashit - female yoga blends the tradition of yoga with an understanding of the female body. In addition to providing a feminine interpretation of the various positions, the method also offers deep insights into women's changing life cycles through yoga practices.
Yoga is a thousand-year-old theory and practice that emerged from a profound understanding of humanity, nature, relationships with others, and life itself. Yoga means union. Man's union with himself, his environment, and God. Yoga began with mental practice, a practice of consciousness, rather than with physical practices.
At a later stage, physical practices developed with the belief that the soul was residing inside a body that needed to be comfortable and stable. Throughout history, men dominated yoga's development and deepening, and since most yoga practitioners were men, the practice was adapted to their needs.
As I practiced yoga with women, it gradually dawned on me that here too... There is a difference between men and women. Not less good, not less capable, but built differently and therefore require work from different places. The traditional practice of yoga does not include a comprehensive understanding of the female body, thus often causing short-term or even long-term damage to a woman's body.
For instance, a woman's pelvic floor stores important mental and physical information about their life. Yoga for women allows for in-depth work on the pelvic floor, a region that supports and stabilizes all daily activities. Through the proper strengthening and activation of this area throughout the years of practice, women have been able to reduce and even eliminate damages such as urine leaks, prolapsed organs, sphincter control problems, and pelvic pain.
The majority of us, if not all of us, will suffer from pelvic floor weakness at some point in our lives. There will be a day when we will hold our babies or grandchildren in our arms, and we will leak ... perhaps even while lifting grocery bags. We may enter the house and not control our bladder simply because we put the key in the lock... We may experience hip or pelvic pain. And the pain will prevent us from moving, sitting, standing, or even enjoying sexual intercourse... Yoga for women contains accessible and simple tools to treat, prevent and even heal these damages. The damage caused by routine life includes pregnancies, births, fertility problems, monthly cycles, menopause, stress, depression, and much more. The pelvis is affected by everything. The practice of female yoga can also improve women's ability to cope with their menstruation cycle, fertility problems, recurring migraines, or menopause-related fluctuation.
