I can believe that would be the case for Yoga mavens like myself: Raw+RAF resulted in incredibly low muscle tensions, lower than Yoga+cooked. However, I'm not sure the real Hatha Yogis would lose. They talk about working on "not lowering muscle tension too much" (ex: the late Swami Gitanada of Pondicherry claimed that if Yogis overdid it, the body would actually start decaying at extremely low levels of muscle tension!) I certainly don't have to worry about this. By the way, do you know anything about Bruno Comby's "power sleep"? Unfortunately the book is not available in English. Thanks! Roy ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Roy's yoga instructor (was Re: Peaceful hindus Author: [log in to unmask] at SMTPGATE Date: 2/18/97 9:19 PM Roy: >(My Yoga teacher even claims that ancient Indian >Yogis ate raw meat. My teacher is not a vegetarian either, and he says >he wants to try being an instincto.)" LOL...at a memory...Bruno Cromby has this Stressometer thingamajig that somehow measures you muscle tension. I was told, years ago at the Chateau, that the instinctos would invite the local yogis over for challanges with the stressometer and the instinctos almost always won--or so they said. I know Yoga isn't yogi (actually I don't know much about either) but anyway...if your instructor takes to it, he may beat everyone on the stressometer test!! Cheers, Kirt