Own Your Depth

 Having been raised in a Christian household, the thought of yoga had never crossed my mind. I never saw it as a possibility in my life, after all, how could I? I only knew the religion I was taught, and I tried very hard to follow the rules so that one day I would be accepted in heaven and live a happy life forever but somehow, I was not following the rules. Life had a different agenda altogether. I found myself embracing yoga because I had successfully taken my mind to a very negative place, and in turn, my experience of life was not pleasant at all. The solace that I knew was not working for me. I used to pray a lot, hoping that somehow God would hear my prayers and help me with my seemingly hellish situations.  When I started my yoga journey I quickly realized that the Creator actually made us in a way that we are capable of dealing with the situations that face us, whether good or bad. The capability is there within us if we teach ourselves to quiet the mind and learn to ...

  Our choice of food should not be defined by any moral or social needs , it should be according to the needs of the body. Whenever we consume any kind of food, we should be able to pay attention to how the food behaves within us, by observing exactly how it makes us feel. The yogic system categorizes food into 3 different types, namely: Positive pranic, negative pranic, and zero pranic foods. let's take a look at each of them individually; positive pranic foods ‘Prana’ is the Sanskrit word for ‘Life energy.’ Therefore, positive pranic foods are the kind that impacts our life energies positively, in other words, they make energy reverberate in a dynamic way. There is a whole variety of positive pranic foods available to us, some of which include: honey, black pepper, fruits, nuts, dried fruits, sprouted green grams, whole grains, legumes, cereals(rice, millet, oats, etc), and winter melon. zero pranic foods These are the kinds of foods that have no impact on the energy body, they o...