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

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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