Ep 2. Cleanse, Detox, Hurt: The Allure of Unhealthily Strict Diets to the Ascetic Yogi Psyche

Non-Diet Yogi

Why juice cleansing is so popular in yoga culture, how detoxification actually works, and what you can do to support your body's detoxification processes without starving yourself.
· What is juice cleansing? How it’s marketed vs. what’s actually going on

· Why it’s so popular in yoga culture

· How tapas and saucha may underlie and amplify the tendency towards spiritually-endorsed disordered eating and body dysmorphia

· Ayurveda and juice cleansing

· Disordered eating and eating disorders in Yogaland

· My personal experiences with harsh yoga practices, fasting and orthorexia

· The physiology of detoxification and how juice cleanses impede this

· Why those initial “detox symptoms” and later, that feeling of “energised bliss” occur on a juice cleanse (it’s not what you think)

· What you can do to safely support detoxification (if you wish to do so)
· The next level of cray: water fasting in yoga circles

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My articles on Ayurveda, TCM and Intuitive Eating:
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https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/beyond-pitta-kapha-vata-ayurveda-tcm-intuitive-eating

The physiology of detoxification, how juice cleanses impede this, and what you can do to support detoxification:
https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/detoxification-so-not-about-juice-fasts-colonics
https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/your-bodys-lifelong-detoxification-kit

The stress response of restrictive eating:
https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/the-honeymoon-period
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