I'm practicing yoga solely as a healing method for my back. So it's only an exercising for me. Regarding all energetic and other stuff, i've been practicing something else for many years so all the mantras and chakras and stuff i just let them pass by my ears. In yoga they use different energetic system than my way anyway. And yes, i love meat.
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yoga makes you fart a lot
Vegetarianism certainly has huge benefits, but it has to come naturally.
With practice you might notice how your inner experience differs depending on what you eat.
In itself vegetarianism is not enough, if you are serious, it has be clean organic diet.
Arguably, meat is not as big of a problem as GMO corn, GMO soy (tofu), aspartame, flouride & chlorine in your water, MSG, etc.
A lot of mma players do yoga. Their focus improves and they can control their breathing better as well as well as the obvious like flexibility and spine / joint health.
I started hatha yoga in September. It has been physically the most demanding thing I've ever done, mainly I suppose because I'm working muscles that haven't been used much before, but also the balance needed, and the breathing and the endurance - it has taken a while to get the hang of it.
I do two 90 minutes sessions per week and I still feel like shit most of the class, but I feel great after I get home and shower. First few weeks my legs hurt, a lot, but that has passed. I couldn't touch my toes when I started but now I can, which is a result for me given that I've sat hunched-up on my chair all day every day for years. GF says my posture has improved a bit.
Oddly, while doing yoga I've discovered some 'inner negative things' about myself, which I am now working on - stuff that I can now see was expressing itself through my body language.
Diet-wise I eat more or less the same as before.
Love yoga, it's completely different to how I imagined it to be. I thought it would be a gentle stretch and meditate session - instead I literally have sweat dripping off me, and I'm in pretty good shape.
My wife is into yoga and she's sure isn't vegetarian.
Several of her friends are psycho yoga, vegan, gluten-free, anti-sulfides bla bla bla. Oddly enough, they are the one's who always seem to be sick, have migraines and other ailments.