advice from pinche wey

[Guest guest]

Don't run. It will make you stiff and give you

too much muscle mass.<br><br>Diet: vegetarian. mostly

raw foods. very light supper. low dairy, no wheat, no

sugar (it makes you stiff)<br><br>Vinyasa. (empty bowel

helpful, mulabhanda, practice)<br><br>Got to Mysore as

soon as you can. You can go as a

beginner.<br><br>These are my opinions based on my experience over the

years, but everybody is different.<br><br>spw

[Guest guest]

>Diet: vegetarian. mostly raw foods.

<br>>very light supper. low dairy, no wheat, <br>>no

sugar (it makes you stiff)<br><br>I would like to hear

from more people on the subject of<br>diet. SPW’s

advice is good and to the point. It has been <br>my

experience that very few yoga teachers touch on this

<br>subject... I guess they don’t want to come across as to

pushy <br>in areas of the personal lives of students. I

remember one <br>student asking a teacher about being a

vegetarian on order <br>to practice yoga and got a vague

answer. Along the same <br>lines was the time when a

student asked the teacher what <br>religion she was....

questions that seem to throw some <br>yoga teachers for a

loop.<br>I too was in a quandary about diet, flirting with

being a <br>vegetarian off and on for years, not having

any clear <br>conviction either way. Deep down I knew

that my <br>practice would progress much better if I

quit eating <br>BBQ pork sandwiches (it’s the local

delicacy). <br>All this changed when I came into contact

with <br>Sharon Gannon of Jivamukti, she outlined the

<br>importance of diet in no uncertain terms likening <br>it to

the first rung on the ladder (ahimsa). <br>In short

she totally brainwashed me into not eating meat...

<br>a condition that I am very grateful for. <br>After

experimenting I have come to a diet similar to <br>what SPW

outlines above and enjoy the benefits in <br>so many

different ways. I would like to hear some <br>elaboration

on the sugars-cause-stiffness claim. <br>Although I

avoid sugar in general, I do eat lots of <br>local wild

flower honey. I have found that eating <br>honey has

eradicated my awful pollen allergies. <br>Now that I think

about it stiffness in the morning <br>is very apparent

in my body....<br>so I will quit the honey for a

while and see if that changes.

[Guest guest]

Not to monopolize this message board... someone

said "don't change your diet, yoga will change it for

you" which is great advise, I think, and true.

Everybody is different, yes? But why add toxins to your

body when you work so hard to flush it out? Years ago,

after only two months of daily practice and lots of

sweating and flushing, I gave away all the chicken and

fish in my freezer because I couldn't stand the

thought of eating it. Whatever. What are toxins? To some

it is cooked honey, to some it is a bad

relationship.

[Guest guest]

Oh yeah... How are classes in the Puck building? Anyone?