When Chocolate and Chakras Collide
You must read this wonderful, funny piece by Julia Moskin in the NY Times: When Chocolate and Chakras Collide. We may be part of a trend here.
Eating, the one sensuous activity each human being engages in every single day, can surely be a path to balance, peace, harmony and health. Done mindfully and with joy, cooking can be, as well. But somehow cooking and food seem to many too earthbound, to ordinary to accomplish such spiritual ends. Here’s what Rick Bayless says in the article:
“It’s been one of my struggles,” said Rick Bayless, the Chicago chef, who has been practicing yoga for 15 years, is not a vegetarian and loves pork. “I think that sometimes the yoga community is a little too austere, and it’s hard to talk about what I do with people who believe in eating just what you need to stay alive.”
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Jan 28, 2010
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Jan 29, 2010
Hi guys – good work.
I think the idea is fascinanting, but the yoga class described was a little gross. Bacon and wine right on the sweaty mat? That so doesn’t appeal to my foodie self. Why not take a nice conscious shower, get dressed and eat a delicious meal?
It’s the struggle we humans have to find balance between sensuality and spirituality (the ol 2-6 chakra balance), that makes the story interesting and outrageous enough to be good press. The yoga teacher sounds histerical (I’m meaning funny). And the judgemental aspect of the yoga community is a heartbreaker.
Blessing on all in the universal struggle with what to eat and how to be in the world!
Annie
Annie Kay MS RD RYT
http://www.anniebkay.com
Feb 01, 2010
Bacon and wine would probably taste good wherever you have it, but the shower before the meal makes sense, too.
We tend to regard the sensuous and the spiritual as opposites, forever in tension with one another. That probably causes more grief than it needs to. Let good food, prepared with joy and consumed with sensual commitment, open you up to higher things.
Feb 04, 2010
This is the second entry I read tonight. And I am on my third. Got to think which one is next. Thank you.
Feb 06, 2010
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Feb 25, 2010
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Mar 13, 2010
It was a very interesting post thanks for writing it!
May 13, 2010
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