Yogi in the Kitchen: Nourish Your Body, Mind and Spirit

The yoga diet is one of the oldest diets on the planet. Although yoga is most often celebrated as a pillar of twenty-first century fitness, it is actually a 5,000-year-old comprehensive philosophical discipline that includes healthy eating guidelines. The yoga diet has an ancient lineage dating back to the Vedas, sacred yoga scriptures (2500 B.C.E.), the Yoga Sutras (2 B.C.E.), written by the great yoga master, Patanjali, and the Bhagavad Gita (1 B.C.E.), a classic Hindu text. Yoga’s holistic approach to healthy and delicious eating is just as important and relevant today - to purify, strengthen, and nourish our body, mind and spirit.

The yoga diet is based on the yogic principles of purity (sattva), nonviolence (ahimsa), and balanced living. Originally, yoga was practiced as a path to spiritual enlightenment. The ultimate purpose of the yoga diet has always been to reach a higher consciousness and attain enlightenment through eating pure (sattvic) foods. Yoga philosophy teaches that the body\'s life-force energy - its prana - comes from air, water, and food. Eating pure, organic yogic foods increases our prana.

Following a yoga diet helps you cultivate a magnificent body, mind, and spirit. Including pure yogic foods in the diet can help increase life expectancy and lower the risk of heart disease, cancer, obesity, diabetes, hormonal imbalances, and many other chronic diseases that affect millions of people globally.

As featured in Elaine Gavalas' book, Yogi in the Kitchen, this 3-part yoga download offers a complete guide to the yoga diet, pure yogic foods, yoga-inspired recipes and meals, mindful eating, and asanas for digestion.

Lecture One is an overview of yoga in the kitchen including yoga dietary guidelines, sattvic (pure) foods, and asanas while cooking.

Lecture Two goes into more detail about:

• Yoga Diet: Yogic healthy eating guidelines to customize your diet and reach and maintain your healthiest weight.
• Yogic Body Types: Identify your yogic mind-body type and balance your diet accordingly.
• Yoga Pantry: Yoga sattvic (pure) foods to help you make your best food choices and enjoy a lifetime of deliciously healthful eating.

Lecture Three goes into more detail about:

• Yoga Recipes: Yoga-inspired recipes and meals for the body, mind and spirit. A selection of yoga recipes will be included.
• Yoga in the Kitchen: Simple yoga poses to do before, during, and after cooking, to ease digestion and promote regularity, relieve tension and stress and refresh the body, mind and spirit.
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  Yoga Mindful Eating: The 7 essential components of a yoga conscious eating practice.

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