Why Study Ancient Cultures and Their Ways?

We are modern, of this time so why would it be important to study the ways others thought when they were nomadic or tribal in living? We have so much luxury, well developed our shelters, the food, the way we live so advanced to the ancient ways.

 The answer lies in the purpose.

Studying older traditions gives us a sense of living when survival was important. The things these people did where done so their group, tribe, community could continue to survive and be a peoples.  There was no time to be lazy or frivolous in the tasks they did. Having their community survive was the goal.

They read peoples faces and body structure not as a psychological study, they needed to see where others would fit into the tribe, add to the collective whole, support their gifts because they needed them in the right place supporting the community. You don't want a healer in the warrior position. So they read bodies and faces and made connections about peoples disposition as part of survival, not just to have learning.

They understood movement and how to use their bodies in health not because they wanted to look good. They needed to be physically strong to survive and move about. So they weren't just working out, they moved their bodies and understood nutrition because is was vastly important to be vital. They didn't eat out of bordemn. they didn't count calories,  food was sacred and precious. Their understanding of plants as medicine was their strategy to survive.

To me their ways seem purposeful and insightful. All they did was important to live. They didn't have time to hang out and watch tv in leisure. All their acts were done in support of themselves and the group. They had integarted mind, body, spirit and emotions because it was necessary for survival.

There was a great efficiency to what they did, sacred and artful where how they approached most activities. They were living as a unit, in a more magical way. To me their teachings are simple and enlightening. There is not all this information to clog the mind. They understood things simply. They did practices for health. They communed in collaboration, they learned about harmonious relationships so they could thrive.

This is why I teach health practices from ancient feminine cultures. They embodied  womanhood and their own body in a different way than our culture does. They were not copying the men which is what we have done to be in the male modeled economy. We must integrate both learnings to come to an understanding of ourselves here and now.

Our health in our wombs, our breasts and hearts and throats are not thriving as a collective "woman". That must be telling us something. In ancient traditions these are the feminine chakras. They are not being used properly because we are riding into too much yang, masculine energy. There is another way, a more healthful way to move as a woman that we must recover and apply. It is the swinging of the pendulum. Where we blend the masculine and feminine ways in living. I love this study because it is brings back the art of living, the yoga of doing, the creative connected side of us. These are the ways of woman so we get to engage in what delights us! To play about in our kingdoms! How lovely to be Queen!