The Traditional Yoga Association

For the first time in human history we are ageing in vast numbers. In the UK alone, people over forty now account for over 29 percent of the population, and in a 2000 census the oversixties outnumbered children. Swami Ambikananda sees this as a leap in evolution, as the spirit demands more time to properly align the individual to the cosmic. In this groundbreaking book, she challenges the popular notion that the ageing population is a ‘problem’ and suggests that it is actually a solution to the global crisis we currently face.

From Age With Spirit :

“We the ageing are being called to evolve into a community of shamans to better serve the purpose of the spirit. The shaman is the pivot between heaven and earth, the conduit through which the higher consciousness communicates with everyday consciousness... We are rarely and poorly educated about the spirit as something that can unite humanity and heal our personal fragmentation, giving us purpose and direction. In this absence of spirit the body has become the only place where we can pursue immortality, and youth has become the Holy Grail... We must come to see our wrinkled faces and changing bodies not as a loss of youth, but as an embodiment of a new human experience in which the spirit has more fully emerged to draw humanity towards its wholeness and interdependence and away from the killing fields.”

In this book Swamiji explores what she calls the ‘five waves of ageing’ and encourages readers, through practical exercises, to make the exploration for themselves.