| Practicing yoga brings many rewards, but could we | | | | The body will need to work harder to break down, |
| enhance these rewards by altering what we eat? | | | | utilize and remove aggressive and harsh foods much |
| Nutrition plays an enormous role in our lives, both | | | | more than it does with softer, lighter and more |
| emotionally and physically so it has to have an impact | | | | natural produce. |
| on what we do and the way that we do it. | | | | So how does this relate to yoga? |
| If we imagine ourselves as one long tube (our | | | | When practicing yoga we want to feel light, empty |
| digestive tract), we therefore need to understand | | | | and energized. Your yoga practice would therefore |
| that what goes into this tube will affect us in every | | | | be enhanced no end by eating foods of a softer |
| way. What enters the tube is responsible for our | | | | vibration. These foods will be easily absorbed and |
| energy, how we feel, how we look, how we heal, | | | | digested delivering energy, vitality and essential |
| how we communicate, how our brain works and so | | | | nutrients without causing unnecessary stress to the |
| on. | | | | body. |
| Knowing that, what happens if the tube gets blocked | | | | When your tube is clean your yoga practice will seem |
| or congested? Surely in this case, vitality and energy | | | | so much easier. Your body will flow through asana |
| would be reduced, and internal systems will need to | | | | with calm and concentration rather than shake and |
| slow down, and or stop to try and sort out the | | | | rattle! Why do you think yogis don't eat animals? |
| congestion or blockage. In short, what happens to | | | | Animal produce has a strong vibration so when the |
| the tube on the inside affects us totally on the | | | | body has to deal with that strong vibration from |
| outside. | | | | food it can't afford the space to feel spirit and |
| Everything external to us has a vibration including | | | | beyond! |
| what we eat. Altering the vibration to something | | | | Certain yoga postures will push and squeeze internal |
| softer, more neutral and lighter (such as fruits, | | | | organs creating cleanses and a release of toxins. This |
| vegetables, natural organic whole grains and water), | | | | in itself gives the body enough to do without adding |
| will allow your body and mind to feel softer and | | | | in extra toxins through foods. |
| lighter. | | | | Without getting too spiritual, yoga is a practice to |
| The harsher, stronger and more stressful aggressive | | | | open and connect your body and mind to whatever |
| foods holding a much higher vibration (such as meat, | | | | you chose spirit to be! What you eat will create work |
| dairy, alcohol, sugar and caffeine), create stress on | | | | for your body and therefore mind, so by keeping |
| our bodies and have a powerful and strong impact | | | | that work as simple as possible your yoga practice |
| upon us. These types of foods can make us feel | | | | could sour higher than you have ever imagined. |
| aggressive, angry, irritated and tired. | | | | |