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The Truth on Drinking Coffee and Teaching or Practicing Yoga

March 8, 2016 by Kara-Leah Grant 33 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant Since stopping regular coffee drinking back in 2013, I have become fastidious about never drinking coffee before practicing or teaching yoga. Since I practice every day, and teach often, there are very rare windows when caffeine is an option for me. At a recent summer festival, I realised how deeply this belief I have about the importance of not having caffeine in the system when practicing and teaching was ingrained. A couple of hours before I was teaching a class, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Foundations Tagged With: addiction, coffee, intoxicants, teaching yoga, Yoga Sutras

How Yoga Cured My Coffee Addiction

January 25, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 7 Comments

By Kara-Leah Grant,  I'm jittery right now, and struggling to write this article. I feel like I've had a line of speed. Maybe a line of cocaine. My heart is beating faster. I'm struggling to calm down enough to find the flow of my words. My breathing is erratic. There's no drugs in my system though. At least, not a drug we think of as a drug. I have just had my first cup of coffee after a ten day cleanse. I've been looking forward to this coffee since Day 1 on the cleanse. Dreaming about it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Living Your Yoga, Musings from the Mat Tagged With: addiction, cleanse, coffee, drug, lifestyle, saucha, yogi

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