Can you be a yogi who enjoys wine and chocolate?

February 12, 2010

Possibly the biggest debate in the yoga community is around food and health. Can you be a yogi who like me enjoys wine and chocolate?

In the yoga community it seems that most of the teachers are vegetarian. Some students may feel the need to hide their love for haribo sweets. Yoga teacher David Romanelli is all about incorporating the benefits of yoga—an ancient practice—into modern life. Leading workshops combining yoga with exotic chocolates and fine wine. The debate on vegetarianism and will probably go on forever, where do you stand on the subject?

You probably think you’re doing less harm to living things and the environment by choosing to eat plants instead of animals. But how often do you consider the harm you’re doing to the plants when you eat your vegetables? For example, plant scientists have found that plants release chemicals to attract large predatory insects in hopes that they will eat the smaller insects that prey on the plant. Whether we eat animals or plants we have to eat it one of the greatest pleasures in life. Is eating plants the lesser of two evils?