THE YOGA DIET HEALING!

Practiced worldwide,yoga is one of the most popular exercise modalities. Though yoga is effective in training your body, giving you improved flexibility, tone and strength, yoga is also about training your mind. The word yoga actually means "to connect," and, in addition to the physical fitness, it offers many mind-related benefits.

Yoga is not just exercise; rather, it embodies the food you eat, your interaction with others, and the way you spend your day.

THE YOGA DIET:-

Yogis stress that consumption of "good" food, though not the goal of yoga, is an important step in the yoga ladder. Food is also considered in the three modes.

Mode of goodness:- 

Food in the mode of goodness increases longevity, purifies one's existence, and gives strength, health and satisfaction. The ideal diet includes only milk products, grains, sugar, fruit and vegetables.

Mode of passion:- 

This mode contains foods that are too bitter, sour, salty, pungent, rich, dry or hot. Like the effects of passion and desire, this type of food causes pain, distress or disease to the body.

Mode of ignorance:- 

This mode includes foods that taste stale, putrid, decomposed or unclean, or lack taste entirely. This includes leftovers, meat, fish, eggs and liquor. Foods of ignorance should be avoided to reach the perfection of yoga.

Mode of purified goodness:- 

This mode, one above the mode of goodness, is considered unattainable to the average yoga practitioner. The food in purified goodness is only the remnants of a saintly person or a spiritual master -- a virtual impossibility for most.