VIRTUOUS WOMAN PART 1

 I saw God in my yoga practice today as I cultivated my feminine traits and characteristics. Yoga is for everyone. For every body and soul. But there is a softness, a tenderness to yoga that speaks to my characteristics of being a woman. I desire with all my heart to be a virtuous woman. These virtues I share align with the Nijamas and Yamas. 

The Nijamas are:                                                     The Yamas are:

Ahimsa (Nonviolence)                                             Saucha (Purity)

Satya (truthfulness)                                                 Santosha (Contentment)

Asteya (Nonstealing)                                                Tapas (Self-Discipline)

Brahmacharya (Nonexcess)                                     Svadhyaya (Self-Study)

Aparigraha (Nonpossessiveness)                             Ishvara Pranidhana (Surrender)

A virtuous woman is:

-a woman a husband can trust

-she should do good

-be willing and able to work with her hands

-a woman who is knowledgeable about foods and willing to prepare and serve a variety of them to her household

-have an understanding of money management and financing

-be familiar with agriculture, planting and reaping from her own vineyards

-be physically fit and healthy, even strong, in that she “girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.

-She is knowledgeable in consumer economics and able to trade wisely.

-Knows how to produce some of her own goods without having to purchase all of them.

These traits are adapted from Proverbs 31: 10-19.