...se free or alkaline diet of the alternative health fraternity) will be the best way to go.

Simply put, it is your fruits, roots and leafy vegetables (raw and properly cooked). This is the yoga diet and this has to be included in your lifestyle if you seriously want to practice yoga.

Is it a co-incidence that this is the exact diet prescribed in Gen 1: 29 in the Bible? Is it a co-incidence that this diet forms the basis of Hippocrates quote let your foods be your medicine? Is it a co-incidence this is the same diet that the drug-free fraternity labels as the best for delaying aging, having brighter eyes and complexion, better muscle tone and the like?

I think not.

Heck, if you just want to do any kind of exercise and not just yoga, you will still enjoy a lot of benefits from such a dietetic lifestyle.

Ive read of several raw-vegan or vegetarian body-builders like Stephen Arlin, David Wolfe, Scott Brodie and Bill Pearl (A 4-time Mr. Universe contest winner) who do extremely well on a similar diet, so one will be on the right track eating as such and choosing any exercise they want.

So do you want to experience all that yoga has to give? Then remember to include perhaps its most important principle for your overall health-the yoga diet.

Your friend in the mirror will thank you that you did. Trust me.

In Friendship,

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Understanding Patanajali's yoga Sutras (11-15)

...l - while some of us spend the day visualizing our lustful desires. This is normal human consciousness, but it is also a prison, which holds us back from the good we can do and our higher purposes in this life.

Desire and attachment have held mankind back since the beginning. You can read it in any scripture, from any religion, and you can see it on your television tonight. Desire and attachment are the cause, or excuse, for countless wars throughout our history.

yoga practitioners often talk and work toward world peace. This is a noble effort, but we should not be silent about injustice, which stems from desire.

Copyright 2007 Paul Jerard / Aura Publications

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Can Tai Chi or yoga Ease Back Pain?

... encourages better posture through its exercises and we all know that good posture goes a long way to how someones back feels.

Yoga, which came from Hindu teachings, is not unlike Tai Chi, its designed to help a person restore both body and mind. By doing Yoga exercises you are strengthening your back muscles, improving posture and bring into line the spine. Yoga practitioners believe that if you learn about your body, in this case your back, then you become more able to tune into the area of problems and make them better before they become really bad.

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