“it’s natural for those who study yoga to try to adopt an entire lifestyle that reflects their commitment to conscious living and mental and physical balance.”
They say: “You are what you eat” … so what is it about yogis and a vegetarian diet? Suddenly you start practicing yoga and don’t want to eat meat anymore? Why is that? What other things change when you start doing yoga? Here I explore about yoga & a compassionate lifestyle & diet…
As you know, yoga is much more than the beautiful poses and shapes we twist turn and put our bodies in, these are the visible/physical part of yoga, but if we go back to the very base of yoga, we find the Ashtanga yoga limbs (see chart above) which have the “yamas” & “niyamas” as their foundation, from which all other aspects of yoga build from leading up to Samadhi or bliss, the ultimate goal of yoga.
The “yamas” & “niyamas” are the ethical principles of yoga that are supposed to…
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