Before introducing the following meal, you are giving your body time to completely digest, absorb, and assimilate the nutrients. In yoga, two meals a day are referred to as “Bhogi,” which is Sanskrit for “one who enjoys eating.”

Yogi has since the 12th century CE also denoted members of the Nath siddha tradition of Hinduism, and in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, a practitioner of tantra. In Hindu mythology, the god Shiva and the goddess Parvati are depicted as an emblematic yogi–yogini pair.