Ask anyone who has spent five days practicing yoga seriously: by the third day, you can feel exactly what your last meal is doing to you. Food is not separate from practice. It is the fuel the practice runs on.
What sattvic means
In the yogic understanding, sattvic food is food that leaves the system light, clear and steady — fresh vegetables and fruits, salads, juices, whole grains, food cooked simply and eaten with attention. It is not a diet in the modern sense. It is an alignment.
Sattvic, the Goan way
At Shakthi Retreat the food is sattvic and traditional Goan — abundant salads, fresh juices and fruit, and local preparations made for the practice, not despite it. Goa’s land gives generously: coconut, kokum, banana, jackfruit, red rice. Eating what the land grows, where it grows, is itself a practice.
Sessions on food and the elements
Woven through the retreat are sessions on food, the earth elements, and the relationship between what we eat, where we are, and how we practice — so that what you learn at the table goes home with you, like the practice itself.