By Kevin Pederson
 Yogis survived on water, fruit, milk and clarified butter in ancient times. Eat to live, not live to eat is the yogas healthy eating motto. It is imperative to understand the purpose of eating. To supply ourselves with vital life energy or Prana, we eat. A simple diet of fresh nutritional food is the food plan of a student practicing yoga. Yogis believe that eating food directly from nature, grown in fertile soil ensures a better supply of nutritional needs especially prana. They are in the opinion, that processing, refining and overcooking destroys the nutritional food value. This is of great concern to yogis who prefer to eat foods that keep the mind calm and sharp, rather than over stimulated foods.
Yoga and Ayurveda, both advocate that sattvic or pure vegetarian diet encourages the development of peace, love and spiritual awareness. The basis of yoga diet is ideally Sattva, attitude of ahimsa or non-violence. The Sattvic diet is dominantly vegetarian. All methods that involve killing or harming animals are shunned with great emphasis on natural foods, good soils, natural ripening, cooking correctly and |
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By Rebecca Prescott
 Bikram yoga is a type of yoga that is performed using a number of specific poses in a room heated to ninety to one hundred degrees Fahrenheit. This form of Yoga is named after its founder, Bikram Choudury, an Indian who spent some time studying with the brother of Paramahansa Yogananda, named Bishnu Ghosh.
This form of yoga, like other types, is designed to unify the mind, body and spirit, as well as to increase levels of flexibility and strength throughout the body. This is a form of exercise that has become more and more popular over the years, with many attracted to the benefits it can bring not only to our muscles, but the nervous, lymphatic, and endocrine systems.
With Bikram Yoga a series of twenty six poses is used, and these are performed in a suitably heated room using the temperatures specified above. Within this school, each of the twenty six poses is performed twice, and held for a specified time period. Amongst the Bikram yoga poses used are standing poses, back bends, forward bends, and twists.
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