By Bornika Das
Apart from practicing yoga it is necessary to maintain a proper diet. Yoga helps in increasing strength, flexibility, lose weight, calmness of mind and many others. Proper diet on the other hand, gives a push to achieve all these. Different popular yoga ashramas provide different diet menu. We have collated 5 of them, take a look:
They believe in Naturopathy which promotes and encourages natural food, that is food provided by nature and consumed in the natural form. They have their own farm and all fruits and veggies are naturally grown. If you are eating in their ashram the plate sees simple roti , dal and subzi which packed with nutrition
The place serves two meals a day – a brunch served at 10 AM and a dinner served at 7 PM. The foods that are included in the meals are some fruits or raw vegetables, gruel, a tiffin item like chappathi or dosa and some rice based dish.
This ashram provides lunch and dinner. In both the meals they provide dal, rice, chpatti and cooked vegetables. For breakfast you can get rice with potatoes and tiny pieces of vegetables. Sometimes, you can also get porridge.
Here, sattvic food is provided in limited quantities for Sadhak. Sattvic foods include bread, fruits, vegetables, milk, etc. There is a strict no to non-vegetarian foods. South Indian style vegetarian food is served during breakfast, lunch, dinner.
The place serves sattvic and cooked with steam produced from environmentally-friendly boilers using briquettes. The wheat and bajra flour used to cook chapattis