One of the things that started me off in the blogging world was receiving a stumble sent to me by one of my StumbleUpon friends. For those of you who have yet to experience the fun of SU as its commonly called, I must say you are missing out on quite a bit. Granted, not everyone likes the idea of setting up a profile and spending time rummaging around the Internet for the interesting, eclectic and the wildly outrageous. That’s why I post things like this.
Watch and feel the pain…
Now, you’re probably thinking, like I did, “What-the…!!!”
After I cleared the tears from my eyes, finished unwinding my internal organs and stopped the aches in my joints through sheer force of will, I thought that I would find out what a ‘yogini’ was. This is what I found.
Definitions of Yogini on the Web:
- A yogini is the female origin of a practicing male yogi: having a steadfast mind cultivated by the disciplined pursuit of transcendence through …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogini
- A female yogi
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yogini
- one of a class of powerful, fierce and often sexually alluring female demigods and human sorceresses who imitate or are identified with them; a …
www.iivs.de/~iivs01311/SDLE/Glossary.htm
- 1) One who practices yoga. 2) One who has attained perfection through yogic practices.
www.siddhayoga.org.in/glossary.html
- (Sanskrit) Feminine counterpart of yogi.
www.experiencefestival.com/hinduism_dictionary_-_y
- A female Yogi. A woman adept. Also a synonym for a Shakti in both celestial and earthly senses.
www.terapanth.com/glossary_indian.htm
- A sorceress. Yoginis are eight female demons attending on Durga. The term also refers to a female practitioner of yoga.
www.findyourfate.com/faq/y-glossary.htm
Another really good resource for information was located at the Global Oneness website.
In short, a yogini is a female devoted to the practice of one of a variety of yoga systems.
Yoga is believed to assist a person in becoming the absolute master of their existence and provides the practitioner with full control of their body. It has been described as a spiritual pursuit enlightening the expert through access to his/her knowledge of higher and lower self. This in turn leads the person to overcome mental, intellectual and bodily states of existence. This leaves the ego/id to experience a pure or divine condition.
Leave a comment to tell me how you feel about those aching joints now.
Source: http://www.experiencefestival.com/yogini/page/1
Source: http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&hs=xya&defl=en&q=define:Yogini&ei=0_A4StXzBZnm7APGjsW1DQ&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title
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I couldn’t watch it all the way through. I nearly fell off my chair several times twitching in response to some of those moves. Bloody hell!! I’ll just stick to my yoga on the Wii Fit thanks.