00:05So you go into any yoga class in the west and it is full of women and it's so ironic,
00:13women were never ever part of a yoga tradition at all.
00:19Right up until the early 20th century to be a woman practitioner of yoga, you actually had to leave your
00:25family.
00:25Women are included in a list of obstacles, things like filthy water, rotten food that men would want to avoid.
00:37So many female teachers now, it's really wonderful for women especially because a woman knows how a woman feels.
00:45When women come together and you let go of the judgment and you just be together as women and breathe
00:51together as women, truths come out, ritual happens, connection.
01:02In daily life we are being pulled out of ourselves all the time.
01:07One in five women will be depressed over their lifetime. Half of women in the US are on a diet.
01:1425 million with compulsive overeating. Why is this so? Why have we bought into this madness?
01:28Yoga is one of the most politically subversive practices that any person, male or female, could do in our time.
01:38It's our obligation to teach other women, to teach young girls, to teach our mothers so that the ripple effects
01:46of the power of yoga reverberate throughout the world.
01:50From the busy streets of Manhattan to the dusty slums of Kenya, Yoga Woman uncovering a global phenomenon that has
02:01changed the face of yoga forever.
02:05That is a revolution for me.
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