Yoga and Diet: The Mindful Connection (Paperback)

<p>This book is what I was in desperate need of, but didn't have, when I started out as a yoga practicioner in 2005. And here it is - a guide through the mindful connection between your yoga practice on the mat, and your diet off the mat.</p><ul><li>What happens when we connect the ancient Yoga Sutras of Patanjali with modern nutritional science?</li><li>Or when mindful eating meets Chakra foods?</li><li>Or when we address the Ayurvedic dietary advice for each of our body and mind types, when we know what the Hatha Yoga Pradipika has to say about food and diet?</li></ul><p><strong>Answer: We get to understand why our bodies start craving other types of food when we engage deeply in our yoga practice.</strong></p><p>This book is a gift to all of you <strong>devout yoga students </strong>and <strong>experienced yoga teachers</strong> out there.</p><p>When I first met yoga, I perceived it solely as a form of exercise. And I loved it! Feeling my body getting stronger and more supple from week to week, mastering progressively more challenging poses. I started noticing all parts of my body in a new way. Also I noticed my energy levels like never before. And as time passed and I got more and more attuned to the subtleties of yoga, energetic work, and bodily awareness, I could hear my body asking for a shift. A shift in the kind of energy I fed it, no less.</p><p>Holding a Master's degree in nutritional physiology, I thought I knew all about healthy eating. But now, listening closely, I could hear my body asking for less meat. Less fish. More vegetables. More legumes. More fruits.</p><p><strong>And when I did what my body was asking me, I felt energized in a whole new way. I didn't need my evening nap, I didn't collapse on the couch after 9PM, I didn't feel dead tired when I woke up.</strong></p><p>This major energy shift made me curious. And because my Yoga Teacher Training contained a lot about Patanjali's Yoga Sutras - including the Yamas and the concept of Ahimsa, I got intrigued.</p><ul><li>What about <strong>yoga </strong>had made me more <strong>attuned </strong>to my <strong>dietary needs</strong>?</li><li>Was there a <strong>deliberate connection</strong> between my <strong>yoga practice on the mat</strong>, and my <strong>dietary choices off the mat</strong>? Meaning - was this dietary change embodied in the yoga practice, and if so, where did it come from?</li></ul><p><strong>And that is what this book is all about: The connection between the foods we eat and the yoga we practice has roots many thousand years old. And it is highly relevant even to this day.</strong></p><p>I invite you to follow me on the path of understanding the connection between yoga and food, so that you can create your own path the mindful way.</p>