Om + Yum

I'm usually absolutely famished after I finish a yoga class; once I've said "namaste" and started rolling up my mat, I'm onto thinking about what I'm going to eat. Sometimes I head home and hope my man has dinner waiting for me; other times he meets me at Town Center where we can take advantage of all of the restaurants surrounding the studio and enjoy our meal al fresco. I've also scheduled friend dates with girlfriends where we go to a morning yoga class and then out to breakfast. Yoga + food makes perfect sense to me.

Which is why I was not surprised to read that restaurants and yoga studios are now teaming up to bring food and yoga to their customers in new and delicious ways. Whether it's a Vinyasa class followed by a farm-to-table dinner cooked in a wood-burning stove or a prix fixe dinner + yoga package, it all sounds great to me! Since yogis are focused on mind, body, and spirit, it doesn't surprise me at all that they are looking for healthy, fresh, yummy food to satisfy the appetite they work up during a vigorous class. And the social aspect is a fantastic bonus.

Do you like having a hearty, healthy meal after a yoga class? Would you take a yoga-plus-dinner class?

- Rachel