Diet and Fitness

As with food in athletics, in fashion, in the world of dance and in other areas, power yoga is a particular, specific and completely dedicated to improving the practice of Yoga.

The yogic diet is a diet that takes the same basis of a vegetarian diet, and basically prefer the consumption of vegetables, fruits, vegetables, fruit, vegetables and cereals, and try not to eat any type of meat, eggs, and spicy foods and hot.

The absence of meat in the yogic diet also has a foundation of respect for the animal (something in common with the vegan diet), a basis for excluding meat based on self-yogi. It is believed that by eating meat from an animal entering the body’s own suffering and suffering that the animal suffered at the time of his death.

The basics of Yoga comprise three basic qualities of nature that are associated with food.

The first are the Rajas. With these stir up passions and excitability, and are associated with them spicy foods, bitter, sour, salty and hot. The Tamas and associated with procrastination, heaviness, illness, sluggishness, lethargy and inertia, and are associated with the food such as meat, eggs, alcohol, processed foods and overeating.

Finally, the Sattva is the natural quality that gives balance, stability and health, correlating to the body and mind. The diet of yoga focuses on this natural quality, with special emphasis on it as natural foods, fresh fruits, vegetables, seeds, bread, honey, herbs, dairy, grains and legumes, all staples of the diet composition of Yoga.