My family lore includes a story about how my great grandfather was approached by Henry Ford for a business loan. Ford needed $2000. In exchange for the loan, my great grandfather would have become Ford’s business partner. In considering the deal, my great grandfather devised a test. He would sit ...
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Ask a Yogi: Anne Phyfe Palmer
Inspiring people offer their perspective on what it means to Eat Like a Yogi, and how we can all better serve the planet and each other. "The more clear and focused my eating is, the more clear and focused my practice is." Anne Phyfe Palmer, 500-ERYT, RPYT, founded 8 Limbs Yoga Centers ...
Ask a Yogi: Nicki Doane
Inspiring people offer their perspective on what it means to Eat Like a Yogi, and how we can all better serve the planet and each other. "Food is the most basic medicine that exists on the planet." Nicki Doane is an American yoga teacher and co-founder and co-director of the Maya Yoga ...
How Beyonce does her rocks
Remember when you were a kid and school let out for the summer, and the days stretched out before you for miles and miles? When you had time to be bored, which led to the invention of new games, the building of elaborate forts, and—if you were me—a variety of kitchen “innovations” with mixed ...
Ask a Yogi: Alexa Robbins
Inspiring people offer their perspective on what it means to Eat Like a Yogi, and how we can all better serve the planet and each other. "With yoga, just about anything is possible!" Alexa Robbins, of La Conner, Washington, is a clairvoyant tarot card reader who has been practicing for more than ...
About the Manifesto
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 ...
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 ...