diet

Yogi Cookies & Muffins

At the Light Yoga Space

Feel peckish after class? We are now offering delicious home baked muffins and cookies at the Light Yoga Space.

We aim to make make all of our delights free from wheat and refined sugars. They will be made with different grains and flours such as spelt, oats, kammut, rye, and brown rice flour, and sweetened with natural sweeteners such as fruit, agave syrup, maple syrup, raw honey or date syrup. Our ingredients will be organic where possible.

Peter is using his wondrous baking skills to create these yummy treats.

We request a £1 donation for all cookies and muffins.

Example Ingredients

Yogi Blueberry Muffins: Wholegrain spelt flour, blueberries, organic yogurt, agave, date or maple syrup, organic milk, organic butter, baking powder, salt

Yogi Oatmeal Banana Cookies: Oats, organic banana, organic milk, organic butter, raisins, walnuts, vanilla

Satsang

After all our Satsangs we serve a delicious ‘Sattvic’ vegetarian home cooked yogic meal with fresh vegetables and various pulses and grains.

What does Sattvic Mean? Sattva, Rajas & Tamas

Satva, rajas and tamas are the three gunas or qualities of the mind. Rajas (activity), Tamas (inertia) and Sattva (purity).

Yoga explains that everything is energy. Food can also vibrate on these wavelengths. Sattvic yogic foods bring purity and clarity to the body and mind. Rajasic foods are overly stimulating and Tamasic foods induce mental or physical heaviness and lethargy. Tamasic and Rajasic foods are ideally avoided or at least eaten in moderation for aspiring yogis.

The Light Yoga Space bringing Sivananda Yoga to North, East and Central London

100 De Beauvoir Road London N1 4EN | lightyogaspace@gmail.com | 020 7254 9697 | 07956 208 666 | 07812 982 858

Home Baked Cookies & Muffins

The Five Points of Yoga

Yoga is not just an exercises routine but an entire lifestyle of physical, mental and spiritual health and well-being. Swami Vishnudevananda encapsulated the main essence of yoga in these five points:

1.Proper Exercise

2. Proper Breathing (Pranayama)

3. Proper Relaxation

4. Proper Diet

5.Positive Thinking & Meditation

Proper Diet

If we are what we eat, what are we?

Many of us sense that our diets are not really supporting us in our daily lives.

Our energy can feel sluggish and our minds foggy and we wonder if it might be to do with our diet? We can find ourselves bloated or constipated or suffering from irritable bowl and other digestive disorders. We gain weight, we loose weight, we comfort eat, we overeat, we under-eat and so it goes on...

Finding Balance

Yoga is very much a practice of finding balance. ‘Proper Diet’ simply means finding a comfortable and healthy way to eat that fully supports a positive and healthy body and mind.

In a strict yogic diet we would avoid overly stimulating foods like garlic, onion, wine, alcohol, vinegar and caffeine. As well as heavy foods that are low in vital energy such as meat and fish.

It is suggested however that any change in diet is practiced slowly and thoughtfully.

The yoga scriptures make some suggestions to keep the body healthy and the mind balanced and calm through use of diet.

Invigorating pure and healthy foods that are easy to digest and high in sunlight energy are a strong feature of the yogic diet including pulses grains and lots of fresh fruit and vegetables.