By Jose Calarco and Ana Forrest
Ana Forrest, famed yoga teacher and the creatrix of Forrest Yoga, has had an ever-evolving relationship with food and nutrition. She explains that it stemmed from when she was young and didn’t know how to feed herself.
“When I moved into a yoga centre that provided healthy, fresh, vegetarian meals twice a day, I felt very lucky. However, I was then horriied to find that the longer I ate the food, the sicker I got. Years later, I took an allergy test and discovered that I was allergic to many of the protein builders in the traditional vegetarian diet…all grains and beans. In an attempt to honour ahimsa (non-violence) I was yet again doing violence to myself. I was poisoning myself”, she remembers.
As a teacher of thousands of yogis worldwide, it was a challenge to pr omote conscious eating when she hersel fstruggled to find a diet that worked with both her body and her beliefs. It wasn’t until 2014 when she met Jose Calarco that the connection of what she needed nutritional ly, and how she could also make a difer ence in the world came together.
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