When I first had the idea to create a cookbook called Eat Like a Yogi, I decided to base it on the first two limbs of yoga: the Yamas and the Niyamas, which I think of somewhat like the Ten Commandments of yoga. The Yamas—there are five of them—are a set of prescribed restraints, or suggestions ...
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Yoga and Vegetarianism
In composing the FAQ for this site, one question that came up was “Do I have to be vegetarian or vegan to be a real yogi?” Here’s what I said: "No. By now you know that my definitions are very liberal. The reason they are liberal is because I believe that we are all at different places on the ...
An Introduction
Welcome to eatlikeayogi.com! I’m so happy to finally launch this site; it’s been a long time in the making… Eat Like a Yogi was born in my Berkeley apartment in 2009 as a small seed of a cookbook. I was unemployed at the time—funemployed, really—which meant that I had hours every day to spend as ...