The relationship between yoga and tea is ancient and significant. For thousands of years, our ancestors have infused tea into their daily lives to boost their yoga routine. The yoga practitioners are quite aware of the importance of a healthy diet. Tea is a superfood that is enriched with multiple vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants and can bless someone with its health benefits.

Do you know why yoga practitioners often talk about the significance of adding varieties of natural tea leaves into daily diet?

Teas can be categorized according to their health benefits. Similarly, there are yoga poses for every health benefit. Purposely, adding certain kinds of tea to your wellness diet can help you get the maximum benefits of yoga. Suppose someone is practising yoga to combat winter-borne diseases like the common cold. Now, along with yoga, drinking a cup of Tulsi Ginger Green Tea daily can gradually help him get the maximum benefits out of it.

But it would not be correct to limit the importance of yoga to its physical aspects. It has a significant role in promoting mental health. Thus, tea meditation has originated. Tea meditation has a significant role in improving concentration, curing insomnia, and reducing anxiety and mental depression.

In this blog, we will discuss the top 5 teas that are great to boost your yoga routine and can help you get the maximum benefits out of it.

• English Breakfast Tea will give you an early morning caffeine boost. 

The ideal time for practising yoga is early in the morning after waking up from sleep. You need your energy level to be high while practising any sort of physical exercise, including yoga. The human body becomes less energetic after 8–9 hours of fasting at night during sleep. It demands a quick energy boost for the body. Black tea contains caffeine, which is excellent for boosting energy. A cup of black tea contains 50–90 mg of caffeine, which is actually great to kickstart your day in the early morning. This is the reason English Breakfast Tea is mostly consumed at breakfast.

• Winter Forest Green Tea can help you lose weight. 

Obesity is the common curse of this era. An obese body is the shelter of numerous diseases and can lead to major malfunctions in the human body. Due to increased consciousness, people are now gradually involving themselves in some kind of physical activity to lose weight. Reducing body fat through yoga practice is not difficult. Various yoga poses exist that can genuinely help you reduce weight and stay fit. Green tea is widely consumed around the globe by tea lovers for its weight-loss benefits. Natural green tea leaves can give excellent results in reducing fat and losing weight. Adding a cup of green tea will actually catalyze this fat-loss process.

• Masala Chai boosts your immunity. 

Strong immunity plays a major role in our physical bodies. Numerous diseases like the common cold, fever, cough, and sore throat are caused by low immunity levels in the body. It is scientifically proven that regular practice of yoga can strengthen the body's immunity. In ayurveda, herbs play a crucial role in increasing immunity in the body. But what are those herbs? Mostly the herbs and spices that are available in the kitchen. Our Masala Chai contains some of these essential Indian herbs, like cardamom, ginger, clove, etc, which help increase the immunity level in the body. Adding a cup of Masala Chai every day can boost your yoga routine.

• Spearmint Green Tea after meals improves the digestion process.

Stomach health is very important. Essential diets can’t be consumed if the stomach is weak and doesn’t allow the foods to digest. Thus, yoga practitioners strongly prescribe working on stomach function. Various poses are introduced in yoga that can help improve the digestion process. It is said that if the digestion is fine, then 50% of the diseases will be cured. If you are suffering from any kind of indigestion problem, add a cup of Spearmint Green Tea in your daily routine. Spearmint is recommended for drinking after a heavy lunch. It helps digest the food. Regular drinking of Spearmint Green Tea along with practising yoga can bless you with a healthy stomach in the long term. It is a magical herb to cure indigestion.

• Calming Chamomile at night for sound sleep.

Acute depression, anxiety, and insomnia are the consequences of an unhealthy lifestyle, unhealthy food and drinking habits, and an imbalance in work life. Mental health is one of the most underrated subjects in society. Bad mental health can ruin someone’s life forever. Pranayama and tea meditation have a significant role in combating mental illness. Both of these processes talk about mindfulness. Herbal tea has a very unique importance when practising tea meditation. Teas like hibiscus, peppermint, lavender, and most importantly, chamomile, are mostly used in tea meditation. Caffeine is not good for insomnia. Chamomile is a caffeine-free herb that has some relaxing effects. If you are suffering from anxiety, depression, and sleeplessness, infusing tea meditation into your daily life can help you cope with this. You can drink chamomile while doing tea meditation, but apart from this, drink a cup of chamomile tea every day, an hour before going to sleep. It will help you induce sound sleep.

It is said that the match between yoga and tea is made in heaven. Well, it was correctly said. The health benefits of yoga can be amplified by the correct consumption of tea. Regularly practising yoga and drinking tea are parts of the art of healthy living that promote mindfulness and sustainability.