Women's Fitness

EAT LIKE A YOGI

You probably know tree pose improves your balance, and triangle opens your chest, making you feel more open-hearted, but yoga postures are not the only way to experience the benefits of this ancient practice. In fact, it’s only relatively recently in yoga’s long history that physical postures were introduced.

In her new book, Vegan Recipes to Enhance your Yoga Life: Food to Balance and Invigorate your Chakras (CICO, £12.99), Sarah Wilkinson shows you how your diet can affect your mental and spiritual wellbeing – in much the way yoga can.

Wilkinson gave up her career in the arts and education to pursue a more spiritual path, and here she introduces

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