Yogacharya Dr Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani's special session on Yoga and the digestive system for members of the Rishiculture Gitananda Yoga Family.
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Dr Ananda's special session on Yoga and the digestive system
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3. Yoga & the
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Yogacharya
Dr. ANANDA BALAYOGI BHAVANANI
MBBS, ADY, DSM, DPC, PGDFH, PGDY,
FIAY, MD (AM), DSc (Yoga) CIAYT
Chairman ICYER at Ananda Ashram & Director – CYTER Centre for Yoga
Education, Therapy and Research (CYTER), MGMC & RI, SBVU, Puducherry.
34. General guidelines in managing agni
imbalance:
• Vishamagni: Vāta pacifying lifestyle and diet,
regularity of routine meals and dinacharyā.
• Teekshnagni: Pitta pacifying lifestyle and
diet; avoidance of over-stimulating activities.
• Mandagni: Kapha pacifying lifestyle and diet;
exertional physical activities to decrease
kapha. Eat more spicy and stimulating foods.
35. YOGIC ASPECTS OF DIET
• One should eat to live and not live to eat.
• Bhagavad Gita advises Mitahara or moderation in diet
• Guna based classification of food:
– Sattva - Fresh / uncooked Food
– Rajas - Spicy / stimulating items
– Tamas - old /processed food.
• Satvik Diet includes:
– Adequate hydration
– Freshly cooked food
– Uncooked – Salads, sprouts, fruits
– High fiber
– Nutritive – greens
– Soups and juices – mineral balance
36. Yogic Method of eating:
• A Yogic should fill their stomach with
– ½ stomach of food
– ¼ stomach of water and
– ¼ stomach for the divine (i.e.) (empty)
• Water required for efficient functioning of all cells and
tissues as well as the organs and systems of the body.
• Food consumed in anger /disturbed mind is potent Poison.
• Balanced diet with equal importance to all constituents.
• Good clean environment
• Eat according to hunger only and not for taste.
• Slow and adequate chewing with mindfullness.
• Eating in good company and sharing.
37. To pacify and balance Doshas
• Anti Vata
– warm , heavy, fruits ,avoid beans
• Anti Pitta
– cool, raw, fruits– avoid oils & spices
• Anti Kapha
– dry food, more of spices - avoid fruits
38. Swami Kuvalayananda, founder of
Kaivalyadhama, one of India’s oldest yoga
schools has given the following opinion on diet
• Lacto Vegetarian diet with cereals but less pulses.
• Egg – is high in protein – not good for Yoga.
• Low protein diet – as there is increased
sympathetic drive initially
• Low salt / salt free diet
• No stimulant / irritating items.
• Unwise to dogmatize: Eskimo: on veg. diet ?
39. Dr Swami Gitananda Giri, founder of Ananda Ashram,
Pondicherry, India has said that the yogic diet is
• Lacto vegetarian diet
• 40% raw, fresh foods, natural seasonal foods
• 60% cooked food -whole grain products
• Don’t overcook
• Save the water for sambar, soups and sources
• Skin of the Veg /fruits – alkaline
• Poly unsaturated oils
• Avoid refined , unnatural / produced items
• EAT to satisfy hunger and not psychological disturbance.
• Beware of bad habits – appetite
• Don’t misuse salt or spices
• Balance calorie needs with adequate vitamins & minerals
40. The power in a seed or for that matter in any
food can be described in four terms:
• Biogenic-sprouting of seeds grains, pulses, peas, beans
and lentils and many other fruit-pit items.
• Bioactive- life sustaining bioactive group of foods includes
all unprocessed fruits and vegetables.
• Biocidic- life and health destroying foods in the process of
rot and decay. Animal flesh, fish and fowl & by-products.
In modern times preservatives, chemical additives,
extenders, adulterants, coloring and flavors.
• Biostatic- All over cooked and long stored food including
all types of frozen and tinned foods and much so-called
dried or dehydrated food.
41. Yoga and Ayurveda categorize energies, behaviours and
foods into the ‘gunas.’
• Sattvic food : increases life, purity, strength, health, joy.
Generally fresh and simple, foods that supply energy.
• Rajasic food : bitter, sour, saline, excessively hot,
pungent, dry and burning. i.e complex, cooked food,
foods that can over stimulate.
• Tamasic food : stale, tasteless, putrid, rotten and
impure. i.e processed food lacking in nutrients, foods
that can create anger/impure thoughts.
43. Eat only to satisfy your hunger and not
psychological disturbances.
44. Perform Vajra Asana
for a few minutes
after every meal to
help improve the
digestive and
eliminative process.
45. • Have adequate and restful sleep and avoid
naps in the afternoon that are longer than 45
minutes.
• Sleep on the left side with right side
dominant.
46. “dhautir-vastis-tatha netir, tratakam, nauli kapal-
bhatis-c-aitani, sat-karmani samacaret”-
Gherenda-Samhita
1. Dhauti- Cleanses the upper GIT up to stomach.
2. Basti – Cleanses lower GIT, especially the rectum.
3. Neti - Cleanses upper nasal tract
4. Trataka- Strengthens and tones the eyes
5. Nauli- Cleanses abdominal organs, strengthens
and tones abdominal muscles.
6. Kapalabhati - Refreshes, activates brain cells
57. PRANAYAMAS
• Vibhaga, Pranava and Bhastrika Pranayama
• Perform 27 rounds of Surya Nadi Pranayama three
or four times a day
• Sheetali, Sitkari and Sadanta to reduce appetite
• Savitri in Shavasana for relaxation