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What is Sattvik Diet? || Dr. Hansaji Yogendra

The Yoga Institute · 5:54

In this practice

Key teachings

  • Understanding the qualities of food (Sattvic, Rajasic, Tamasic)
  • The importance of food for physical, mental, and spiritual well-being
  • Gradual transition to a healthier, more natural diet

Ideal for

  • Individuals interested in yogic lifestyle and diet
  • Anyone seeking to improve their health through food
  • People looking to understand different food qualities and their impact

Lesson

Instructions

Everyone is very curious about Sattvik Food, it is a wholesome food with all the nutrients our body needs. Sattvik food tastes just like your regular food but it is healthier. In this series, we’ll be sharing with you few Sattvik Treats that you can easily cook at home.

Steps

  • Classification of foods into Sattvic, Rajasic, and Tamasic categories
  • Identification of specific Sattvic ingredients (milk, fruits, vegetables, grains, sprouts, dals, sweeteners, spices)
  • Principles for combining Sattvic ingredients to create wholesome and tasty meals

Benefits

  • Improved health and nutrition
  • Easy digestion and a light feeling after eating
  • Good energy boost and positive state of mind
  • Peaceful and blissful feeling
  • Cheerfulness and enthusiasm

Transcript

[Music] no scarf food is such an important factor of our life you see a good for tasty food food which smells good looks good you feel so blissful so fine you must have heard sattvic food and maybe you must have tasted sometimes sattvic food now you will notice that sattvic food doesn't look so different than other foods which you really very much like but satiric food will give you very good health very good nutrition very easily digestible sattvic food is most natural so so natural that you don't feel heavy when you eat that food and that gives a very good peaceful feeling after eating so whatever food you may be eating slowly gradually learn how to cook sattvic food how to make varieties of tasty dishes and how to eat it with a pleasant state of mind because that is going to give you good health good energy boost and positive state of mind in today's scenario when all the family is together people are together this is the time you can make some changes in your life because then change has to be gradual little little change and you are ready for it so try and understand the varieties which we are going to show you now of sattvic food to understand sattvic food understand what is not non-veg eggs very heavy spices too much salt too much chili and a food which after eating you feel very heavy and you want to sleep that is a food which we should avoid that is called as rajasic food there is one more food which is called as Thomas a food that food brings dullness lethargic toxic feeling you feel very dull your brain doesn't work body doesn't work that type of a food all intoxicated foods or artificially colored flavored vitamin eyes mineralized food processed food the frozen foods all these foods come under Thomas IgG food so once this list is ready we should make a list of what is a sattvic food so list is very simple one milk and milk products second fruits fresh fruits seasonal fruits preferably third vegetables all these vegetables which you eat they're all very subtly fourth wheat rice unpolished rice to our Basra Makai and this whole group fifth all the sprouts which we cook and eat are very sattvic sixth all the dolls like moong dhal skinned moong dhal of skin moong dal and all other does if mixed dolls all these varieties of dance so these this is the list and among sweet comes Jackie honey and unrefined sugar all this would come under sweeteners then among spices the highest marks you get is from ginger ginger must go in our body and ginger is most sattvic it brings balance of all the three doshas and so it brings balance but healthy Danya try jeera may 3 all these things are something onion garlic they come under vegetables they are not sattvic they are rajasic because they have a very specific effect but they are medicinal so use them as a medicine and definitely use them in hot climate onion will do tremendous good in cold climate garlic will do good and in some certain foods you need garlic but otherwise it is very gaseous so all this definitely knowledge is there with us and we should use them definitely but keeping this list in mind we are supposed to eat food now we will notice that we have lots of varieties with us we have to learn to use these sattvic ingredients to make such a combination that it becomes tasty it looks tasty smells tasty and when you eat you feel very satiated very happy so now we are going to show you all these varieties of sattvic food the ingredients which we would be using would be all very sattvic the time which would be taken to cook that dish also we will show you the way in which you should cook we'll show you and then tell you all the benefits all these ingredients what benefits you will get out of it how much nutrition it has how many that nutrition is going to affect your system in your if in case you have a sickness or problem how it's going to affect you how to use the sattvic food to remain healthy and to see that you get proper nutrition in your body no deficit of any type in your body and so naturally you will notice that you will remain happy cheerful energetic enthusiastic so stay with us with this sattvic treat series and know all the health benefit out of it Namaskar [Music] you

Practice summary

Level
all levels
Duration
4 minutes
Equipment
none
Target areas
Dietary habitsOverall physical healthMental clarity and emotional balanceDigestive system
Energy
balancing

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