Yoga Is Vegan
140 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsYoga Is Vegan is a podcast focused on raising awareness of the non-harm principles in the yoga community. Each episode, Yoga Is Vegan's founder Holly Skodis, interviews yogis who have chosen the vegan path.
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133- Rising Mothers' Margaux Khoury
September 23, 2022 09:15 - 53 minutes - 97.4 MBAs a corporate advisor for ethical start-ups, Margaux finds balance with her daily yoga and meditation practice. She is certified in holistic plant-based nutrition, with a focus on longevity, and has studied what the longest living people on earth have in common. Her upcoming virtual longevity summit will be a gift for mothers and families. In this episode Yoga is Vegan's Holly Skodis and Margaux Khoury talk about Margaux's upcoming summit, Rising Mothers. They also discuss the differe...
132- Presenting a More Accurate Representation of Yoga with Gayatri Sehgal
September 15, 2022 13:41 - 1 hour - 131 MBGayatri Sehgal is currently a graduate student at LMU's Yoga Studies program. They also create online content on Instagram and Youtube around intersectional anti-speciesism, Yoga philosophy, environmental justice, and their personal journey under the alias @goddessgaya. She is also on the board of the Compassion Consortium. Their spiritual practice consists of activism as an embodiment of dharma and yogic ethics, yogāsana and mindfulness, bhakti, mysticism, and of course, living the vegan lif...
131- Vegan Yoga Momma's Lauryn Glass
September 06, 2022 08:25 - 57 minutes - 105 MBLauryn Glass is a vegan animal rights activists, licensed mental health therapist and a 200 hour trained yoga teacher. She has a plant-based nutrition certification from ECornell and is raising two young healthy vegan kids (9 & 3) with her husband in the Midwest. Lauryn uses social media to share information, tips & recipes in favor of the vegan lifestyle. She hopes to provoke thought in others that will help them recognize that the desire for life, love and freedom is the same in all living ...
130- Lancaster Farm Sanctuary's Sarah Salluzzo & Jonina Turzi
August 23, 2022 16:44 - 59 minutes - 110 MBSarah Salluzzo cofounded Lancaster Farm Sanctuary in 2017. She holds an MSW and MA in media studies and previously worked in substance abuse rehabilitation. She now works full-time at LFS as the Executive Director and is the board president. Jonina Turzi cofounded Lancaster Farm Sanctuary in 2017. She is passionate about advancing the well-being of humans and animals. She holds a Doctorate of Physical Therapy as well as several certifications in healthcare and wellness. In addition to servin...
129- Christopher Jain Miller, PhD on Why Yoga & Jainism are Inherently Vegan
August 16, 2022 09:10 - 1 hour - 111 MBChristopher Jain Miller is the VP of Academic Affairs and Professor of Jain and Yoga Studies at Arihanta Academy. He completed his Ph.D. in the study of Religion at the University of California, Davis, and his current research focuses on applied Jain dharma and the ways by which Jain principles can be lived in daily life. Christopher is the author of a number of articles and book chapters concerned with Jain dharma, Jain veganism, the history and practice of modern yoga, yoga and politics, ...
Ep. 129- Christopher Jain Miller, PhD on Why Yoga & Jainism are Inherently Vegan
August 16, 2022 09:10 - 1 hour - 111 MBChristopher Jain Miller is the VP of Academic Affairs and Professor of Jain and Yoga Studies at Arihanta Academy. He completed his Ph.D. in the study of Religion at the University of California, Davis, and his current research focuses on applied Jain dharma and the ways by which Jain principles can be lived in daily life. Christopher is the author of a number of articles and book chapters concerned with Jain dharma, Jain veganism, the history and practice of modern yoga, yoga and politics, ...
Encore Episode- Dharma Mittra
August 10, 2022 12:19 - 45 minutes - 83.8 MBLegendary yoga teacher Sri Dharma Mittra first encountered yoga as a teenager before meeting his guru in 1964 and beginning his training in earnest. Sri Dharma founded one of the early independent schools of yoga in New York City in 1975 and has taught many tens of thousands the world over in the years since. Sri Dharma is the model and creator of The Master Yoga Chart of 908 Postures, the author of ASANAS: 608 Yoga Poses, the LOAY Teachers’ Manual and Yoga Wisdom, has released two DVDs to da...
Ep. 128- Plantspiration's Stefanie Ignoffo
August 02, 2022 09:15 - 59 minutes - 109 MBStefanie Ignoffo is a Plant Interventionist, Lifestyle Medicine Coach and Food For LIfe Instructor with the Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine. She is also the CEO & Founder of Plantspiration® NFP INC. After transitioning her family to plants in 2013, Stefanie lost 100 pounds. As a family, they lost a total of 250 pounds and reversed their chronic diseases. Stefanie has made it her mission to educate, motivate and inspire people all over the world to Eat Your Plants Off, prevent ...
128- Plantspiration's Stefanie Ignoffo
August 02, 2022 09:15 - 59 minutes - 109 MBStefanie Ignoffo is a Plant Interventionist, Lifestyle Medicine Coach and Food For LIfe Instructor with the Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine. She is also the CEO & Founder of Plantspiration® NFP INC. After transitioning her family to plants in 2013, Stefanie lost 100 pounds. As a family, they lost a total of 250 pounds and reversed their chronic diseases. Stefanie has made it her mission to educate, motivate and inspire people all over the world to Eat Your Plants Off, prevent ...
Encore Episode - Stewart Gilchrist
July 26, 2022 09:10 - 1 hour - 183 MBHate something? Change something! Born at the beginning of the 60s, Stewart experienced the hippy revolution, punk rock, new wave, two tone, reggae and much more in the diverse politicised atmosphere of Thatcherist Britain. Leading a wild, nihilistic, and hedonostic lifestyle led him to a multitude of years and experiences with hallucinogenics, shamanism and ethnobotany both recreationally and spiritually. The new age travellers and the second summer of love in the UK, where Rave and...
127- Bobbi Paidel: A Curious Yogi
July 20, 2022 09:15 - 55 minutes - 102 MBBobbi Paidel is a Hatha Yogi & Sadhak who spends most of her days traveling or living in northern India studying meditation & the wisdom of the vedas. Bobbi grew up on a second generation cattle ranch in southern Alberta, Canada, had a promising career in the global fashion industry and was continually struggling with addiction & mental health issues. That all changed when Bobbi met her Guru in India, devoted her life to Yoga, sadhana & sobriety, became a compassionate, animal loving vegan, a...
126- Alfredo Meschi: In the Blink of An Eye
July 12, 2022 09:00 - 54 minutes - 99.9 MBAlfredo Meschi, is a theatre teacher, an author and a contemporary artist. In 2016 he chose to become a total manifesto, a permanent performance, covering his whole body with 40,000 "X" tattoos, representing the animals killed worldwide every second, just to satisfy our palate. Nowadays his artivisim involves hundreds of thousands of people all over the world, spreading through both institutional and informal contemporary art spaces. In this episode Yoga Is Vegan's Holly Skodis and Alfredo ...
125- Danielle Lowy: Teaching with Integrity
July 01, 2022 16:24 - 54 minutes - 100 MBDanielle’s passion for movement as medicine is firmly grounded in her personal struggle with scoliosis, and the lessons she has learned along the difficult path of living in a warped body. Through exploring various movement modalities over the past 20 years, Danielle has certified in various forms of yoga, aerial arts, Pilates, Gyrotonic ® Method, and her most recent interest has taken her down the path of Iyengar Yoga. Danielle seeks to change the way her students view their bodies, to inspi...
124- Spiritual Gap Year with Karo Tak
June 24, 2022 21:17 - 1 hour - 126 MBKaro Tak is a vegan chef, food coach, yoga teacher and activist. She has traveled the world to teach yoga, talk about her activism, facilitate vegan cooking classes and compassionately spread the word for animals worldwide. She lives in Amsterdam where she facilitates yoga retreat catering and plant based food coaching/ consulting with my companyTHE PINK KITCHEN. She is currently studying in the UK to become an AYURVEDIC HEALTH COACH at DRU YOGA UK and she's doing a 500hr Yoga Teacher Traini...
123-Uma Va Shi Devi Lescault on Living at the Sat Manav Yoga Ashram
April 21, 2022 08:20 - 1 hour - 131 MBUma VaShi Devi Lescault devoted her life to Yoga, when she found her Gurus' at age 10. Sat Manav Yoga Ashram, where Uma resides with her gurus, Sri Bhagavan VaShi Baba and Sri Mirabai Ishwari, and fellow yogis, is a place dedicated to practicing, living and sharing the classical teachings of Yoga. Through practice and emanation, retreats, classes, monthly festivals, and many other offerings we illuminate the ultimate intention of Yoga, to embody our true purpose as human beings, so we can...
122- Ahimsa in Yoga, Vegan Advocacy & Social Justice with nico stubler
March 04, 2022 08:45 - 1 hour - 136 MBnico is an activist and a scholar. They completed their M.A. in Animal Studies from New York University, and have led grassroots animal rights and environmental protection campaigns in Colombia, Colorado, New York, and California. They focus on activism and scholarship that address Big Meat's devastating harms with the urgency they demand, and is currently working on a book, Ban Meat? A Not-So-Radical Policy Proposal. You can learn more and connect with nico here. In this episode nico stuble...
121-Activism as Atractivism with Andrew-Sealy
February 01, 2022 09:15 - 45 minutes - 83.1 MBIn this episode Yoga is Vegan's Holly Skodis and Andrew Sealy talk about activism and attractivism and how leading by example works to inspire others to go vegan. We talk about his recent trip to Egypt, And as per usual, we talk about Andrew's vegan and yoga journey. Andrew Sealy is a connection catalyst, a yoga artist, and a movement creator. He is internationally recognized for his yoga teachings and wellness leadership. Andrew's teachings of Compassionate Self Love and Infinite Positive ...
120-Living in Your Values with Lara Heimann
January 18, 2022 09:05 - 1 hour - 116 MBIn today’s episode, Yoga is Vegan's Holly Skodis and Lara Heimann talk about how common it is that yoga teachers complete Yoga Teacher Trainings without understanding how the body works. We discuss incorporating veganism into Yoga and we talk about Lara’s vegan journey. The seeds of Lara's fascination with the brain-body connection were planted at the tender age of 18 as she laced up her running shoes for a marathon she had not trained for. Hitting the wall at mile 20, Lara learned that she...
Episode 119- Dr. Dean Ornish: On Reversing Chronic Disease and Improving Immunity
January 04, 2022 09:30 - 1 hour - 111 MBDean Ornish, M.D., is the founder and president of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute, clinical professor of medicine at the UCSF, and the author of six books, all national bestsellers. He received the Outstanding Young Alumnus Award from the University of Texas, Austin, and the National Public Health Hero Award from the University of California, Berkeley. He was recognized as a “TIME 100 Innovator;” by Life magazine as “one of the 50 most influential members of his generat...
Episode 118- Austin Sanderson: Surviving as a Yoga Studio in the Pandemic Era
October 21, 2021 07:35 - 1 hour - 140 MBAustin K. Sanderson moved to NYC in 1998 to attend New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Design and Production Department. After graduating with his Masters degree in set and costume design, he spent the next twenty-two years working as a designer in the American theater. In 2008 he was introduced to Jivamukti Yoga in a yoga class at a local neighborhood gym in Jersey City New Jersey. As he continued to take Jivamukti classes both locally and at the Jivamukti Yoga School NYC. Aust...
Episode 117- Karo Tak is In the Pink
October 14, 2021 07:10 - 1 hour - 127 MBKaro focuses on 3 things. FOOD, YOGA AND ACTIVISM. She is a vegan chef, Jivamukti Yoga teacher and activist. For years now she has been bringing these elements together, traveling the world to teach Jivamukti Yoga, talk about animal rights, teach cooking classes and compassionately spreads the word for animals worldwide. She dedicates herself to several causes and projects and a huge part of her activism is her podcast called GO FOR YOUR LIFE. She runs her own company called: IN THE PINK, wi...
Episode 116- Homo Ahimsa with Climate Healers' Sailesh Rao
September 23, 2021 07:05 - 1 hour - 117 MBDr. Sailesh Rao has over three decades of professional experience and is the Founder and Executive Director of Climate Healers, a non-profit dedicated towards healing the Earth’s climate. A systems specialist with a Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Dr. Rao worked on the internet communications infrastructure for twenty years after graduation. During this period, he blazed the trail for high speed signal processing chips and technologies for High Definition Television...
Episode 115- Berenice Miles
September 16, 2021 07:55 - 46 minutes - 84.7 MBBerenice Miles is a vegan yoga teacher and yoga therapist. After living eight years abroad, she loves to call south of France home. She discovered yoga several years ago and hated her first yoga class. Yet, she embarked on the yoga journey by chance. Today, sharing yoga and helping human beings to get better with yoga is her greatest source of joy and gratitude. Yoga has been, and still is, a stepping stone in her recovery from anxiety, PTSD and eating disorders. In this episode Yoga is Veg...
The Vegan Aspects of the Yamas & the Niyamas with Swamini Amma Niradhara
September 08, 2021 10:55 - 1 hour - 160 MBSwamini Amma Niradhara is a Vedic Vegan, Agnihotri, Sannyasi, Spiritual Mother & Resident Managing Director of SwAr Ashram & its small grass-roots charity NGO located in an ancient heritage hermitage in rural India, along the banks of the most holy River Narmada. She is providing educational initiatives in English, Computers & Yoga, supporting girls with Moon Cycle educational Satsang as an integral part of monthly Yoga Camps, providing eco & bio-friendly cloth fem pads, empowering girls to...
Episode 114- The Vegan Aspects of the Yamas & the Niyamas with Swamini Amma Niradhara
September 08, 2021 10:55 - 1 hour - 160 MBSwamini Amma Niradhara is a Vedic Vegan, Agnihotri, Sannyasi, Spiritual Mother & Resident Managing Director of SwAr Ashram & its small grass-roots charity NGO located in an ancient heritage hermitage in rural India, along the banks of the most holy River Narmada. She is providing educational initiatives in English, Computers & Yoga, supporting girls with Moon Cycle educational Satsang as an integral part of monthly Yoga Camps, providing eco & bio-friendly cloth fem pads, empowering girls to...
Episode 113- Whitney Pérez-Wright: Ahimsa & COVID
August 12, 2021 16:43 - 1 hour - 138 MBWhitney Pérez-Wright (she/her) is cardiovascular/critical care RN who has served in COVID ICU and recently experienced the effects of the virus personally. She strives to employ the principles that she has learned from the ancient technology of yoga passed down to her by her teachers, to help her serve other people. She has a passion for helping the world come together and heal in every way. She currently resides in Colorado with her partner Sam along with her animal companions. In this epis...
Episode 112- We Can All Do Better with HEALable Founder Adriane Marie
July 29, 2021 07:40 - 55 minutes - 102 MBAdriane Marie is an ethical consumerism advocate. She founded HEALabel, a website and app to help spread awareness about how our purchases impact health, the environment, animals and laborers. Adriane is also the author and illustrator of the kids book "The Roots Of Our Food". She enjoys studying and teaching all aspects of consumer mindfulness in order to help others in their lives in the name of personal and societal improvement and empowerment. In this episode Yoga is Vegan's Holly Skodi...
Episode 111- John Smrtic
July 20, 2021 07:55 - 1 hour - 161 MBJohn Smrtic, JD, Advanced Certification Jivamukti Yoga, teaches yoga and meditation internationally and believes in love as the divine reality, holding the power to unify and fully awaken the soul, the eternal connection to Source, in this lifetime, through devotional, compassionate, yogic living. He innovatively shares yoga as the technology to spark this Divine Re-membering, more recently focusing on the power of silence, stillness and devotional surrender through meditation to actualize t...
Episode 110- Christina Gdisis on Compassionate Veganism
July 06, 2021 10:05 - 56 minutes - 103 MBChristina is a Conscious Vegan Lifestyle Coach, Yoga and Meditation teacher, and an Activist. She has been vegan for over 8 years and in that time has explored the depths of compassionate living through plant based foods, social justice, animal rights, and the environment. She creates space for others through cooking classes, lifestyle programs, and retreats, to explore what it means to live consciously and how to live life more from the heart. It is through yoga that she found a path of sha...
Episode 109- Cinda Lark- Finding Compassion with Veganism
June 29, 2021 07:25 - 1 hour - 112 MBCinda is a former gymnast, dancer and diver, who easily connected to the physicality of the practice. Very soon after though, she realized that there was so much more to yoga. Cinda studied with Andrea von Behren for her 200 hour training. She continued her studies with Alan Haras at Hamsa Yoga and eventually went on to study with Sri Dharma Mittra for both the 500 and 800 hour Life of A Yogi teacher trainings. Cinda is the owner of Evolve Yoga Studio and offers a 200 hour Yoga Alliance re...
Episode 108- Gabrielle Kali Om
June 22, 2021 07:35 - 1 hour - 110 MBGabrielle has been teaching yoga since 2008 and has earned over 1200 hours of teacher training certifications in various styles and lineages including Dharma Yoga where she found her beloved teacher Dharma Mittra. Gabrielle has been operating as the founder of her company and yoga school, Hatha Raja Yoga, since 2015. She leads yoga teacher trainings and retreats nationally and internationally. In addition, Gabrielle is a senior teacher and staff member in Dharma Yoga’s Life of a Yogi Teache...
Episode 107- Erica Nicholson: Having Grace with Yourself & Others
June 15, 2021 07:35 - 1 hour - 124 MBErica Nicholson’s mission is to demystify living a holistic lifestyle for all - by uncovering limiting beliefs, cultivating sustainable healthy eating habits and igniting personal transformations from the inside out. As a certified yoga teacher, plantbased coach, author, and award-winning speaker, she leads clients to nurture their bodies, release weight, boost energy levels, and become their own wellness advocates. She’s an avid reader, a culture aficionado, world traveler, and plantbased-ve...
Episode 106- Plant Chics' Jacque Tarlton
June 03, 2021 16:29 - 1 hour - 115 MBJacque Tarlton, Certified Wellcoach® & Wellness Advocate, is passionate about improving health through fabulous, fun, and scientifically proven lifestyle changes. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Nutrition and Dietetics and she practiced as a Registered Dietitian (RD) early in her career. She is currently a Certified Wellcoach®, Complete Health Improvement Program (CHIP) Facilitator, & Corporate Wellness Trainer specializing in the power of plants to improve health & longevity for...
Episode 105: Arturo Jose Garcia on Patience & Meeting People Where They Are
May 27, 2021 08:30 - 1 hour - 116 MBArturo Jose (AJ) is passionate about changing our food systems via a just transition to mitigate the climate crisis, health crisis, and the exploitation of human and non-human animals and the planet. He has fifteen years of international experience and ten years in senior management, public awareness campaigns, public relations, and undercover investigations. He has been a leader in the non-profit realm for the last decade, working with animal protection organizations such as CARE (동물권단체케어), ...
Episode 104- Marianna Azzurro: Being Vulnerable and Letting Go
May 20, 2021 14:44 - 1 hour - 114 MBMarianna is the co-founder of Kind Living Yoga, a yoga teacher training school and studio that also works with mental health charities and offers counseling and clinical hypnotherapy. Born in Italy, Marianna eventually moved to London where she began teaching Barre before making the move into Yoga and mental health. Her passion is to bring people together while helping them find space for healing so that they can ultimately lead a kinder, more consciously aware life. Marianna is a big ani...
Episode 103- Gopi Om: On Teaching Yoga as a Complete System
May 13, 2021 07:05 - 1 hour - 117 MBGopi Om (Nicole Sopko) first discovered yoga by chance and was instantly intrigued. She attended her first teacher training with the sole intention of learning more about the practice, but, despite being a lifelong introvert, found the teachings of yoga to be so transformational that she couldn't keep them to herself and began teaching in 2005. Shortly after, her practice grew immensely when she met her beloved Guru, Sri Dharma Mittra, who gave her the name Gopi. Gopi practices and teaches y...
Episode 102- Rishi Chidananda on Finding Happiness
May 06, 2021 07:40 - 1 hour - 121 MBIn this episode Yoga is Vegan's Holly Skodis and Rishi Chidananda discuss the following: Bhagavad Gita Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananada and the Self Realization Fellowship ( Lake Shrine in Pacific Palisades) Maha Kumbh Mela Paramahamsa Sri Swami Vishwananda Victoria Moran on Episode's 16 and Episode 94 Sanatana dharma Ahimsa Rishi Chidananda has spent the latter part of his life as a monk, studying the philosophical traditions of India and gaining deep insights into t...
Episode 101- Rowdy Girl Sanctuary's Renee King-Sonnen
April 29, 2021 07:25 - 1 hour - 123 MBIn this episode Yoga is Vegan's Holly Skodis and Rowdy Girl Sanctuary's Renee King-Sonnen discuss the following: Renee's journey from former cattle ranger's wife to a vegan powerhouse Renee's calf and greatest teacher, Rowdy Girl Yoga & Spirituality Richard Hittleman's Yoga: 28 Day Exercise Plan International Yoga Studies Sandra Summerfiel Kozak Satchidananda Ashram Yogaville Renee, a native Houstonian, is the President and Founder of Rowdy Girl Sanctuary in Waelder, Texas. She remarried h...
Episode 100- Eating Animals Causes Pandemics with Ray Ippolito
April 22, 2021 07:10 - 1 hour - 112 MBWhat is our COVID Karma? Ray Ippolito, a long time Yoga practitioner, Kirtan wallah and Animal Liberation Activist has created an initiative that is committed to educate, inspire and remove our role from this most challenging virus and all others that are headed our way. How can we use our practice to make a difference in the COVID world we created and what are you willing to do about it? In this episode Yoga Is Vegan's Holly Skodis and Ray Ippolito discuss the following: International Pan...
Episode 99- Breaking Conditioning with Achāryā Samitā Rāthor
April 15, 2021 07:10 - 1 hour - 120 MBIn this episode Yoga is Vegan's Holly Skodis and Achāryā Samitā Rāthor discuss the following: Samita's experience studying with Yogi Sir Desikachar Yoga as therapy Vibrational energies as children One on one versus group trainings Traditional Yoga Asana and the meaning of Yoga Alkaline diet and sattvic diet Prana The importance of contolilng your tongue in Yoga Tapas Achāryā Samitā Rāthor is the founder of Yogarpanam which translated in English literally means Yoga Surrender. She is an adv...
Episode 98- Going the Distance with Lili and Dr. Alex Charmoz
April 08, 2021 07:05 - 1 hour - 121 MBIn this episode, Yoga is Vegan's Holly Skodis, Lili & Dr. Alex Charmoz discuss the following: Optimal Performance with Yoga, nutrition and running yoga pottery long distance running The benefit of fasting mimicking fasts Chi Running by Danny Dreyer sacha inchi powder Alex noted after the podcast to add that he also uses Cordyceps because it has been shown to increase VO2 max (capacity of the body to use oxygen) Liliana (aka Lalitanand) Charmoz is an advanced 500-hr plus yoga teacher, Thai ...
Episode 97- Body on Fire with Dr. Jyothi Rao
April 01, 2021 07:05 - 1 hour - 137 MBDr. Jyothi Rao, MD, ABAAHP, FAARFM, has been practicing medicine for over 20 years. She received her Doctorate of Medicine (MD) from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and completed her internship and residency at the prestigious New England Medical Center (Tufts) in Boston. Before opening Shakthi Health & Wellness Center, Dr. Rao practiced medicine in New York and Maryland. A strong proponent of holistic medicine, Dr. Rao is certified in Medical Acupuncture from UCLA. Sh...
Episode 96- Zen & Juice Yoga: A Hip Hop Yoga Tribe with Exavier Pope
March 25, 2021 07:10 - 1 hour - 159 MBExavier Pope is a media personality, serial entrepreneur, lawyer and owner of The Pope Law Firm. He's a certified yoga instructor, owner of Zen & Juice Yoga Studio and vegan chef and owner of Pope's Vegan Kitchen, a vegan chef brand of cookbooks, social media influencing, restaurant concept, and merchandising. Pope became a strict vegan in 2017 after as an extension of his yoga and mindfulness practice. More in tune with his body, he cut out animal-based ingredients as well as gluten to fee...
Episode 95- Kiko Ellsworth: Balancing the Masculine & Feminine Energies Within
March 18, 2021 07:30 - 1 hour - 122 MBKiko Ellsworth is an Emmy award winning actor, producer and director who took a hiatus from the entertainment industry to work on his spiritual path. He’s now a Kundalini Yoga teacher and men’s evolutionary life coach. Kiko is the founder of Ma’at University, an online learning platform that provides transformational learning for under-resourced communities, relationship empowerment and soul-success. His work is now largely dedicated to supporting men in becoming happy, healthy and whole men ...
Episode 94- Yoga Goes Vegan with Main Street Vegan's Victoria Moran & Integral Yoga Institute NY's Chandra
March 11, 2021 08:30 - 55 minutes - 102 MBVictoria Moran has been a Main Street Vegan® for 37 years and she held the title of Peta’s Sexiest Vegan Over 50, alongside the male winner, Joel Kahn, MD, in 2016/17. She is the bestselling author of thirteen books, including Creating a Charmed Life (in 30 languages around the world); the gentle weight loss classic, The Love-Powered Diet, reflecting the author’s own struggle with and recovery from compulsive eating; The Good Karma Diet, celebrating a high-green, high-raw, high-energy food st...
Episode 93- YogiTriathlete's Jess Gumkowski
March 04, 2021 08:15 - 1 hour - 131 MBJess Gumkowski is a mindset coach, podcast host, Vegan Lifestyle Coach, and Educator, and co-founder of YogiTriathlete. She is a long-time endurance athlete, ultrarunner, and triathlete. In her essence, she is a yogi committed to living a life of ahimsa as she pursues mastery of the mind. She is the author of the YogiTriathlete Cookbook: High Vibe Recipes for the Athlete Appetite and High Vibe Pie: Pizza Night Finally Done Right. She has been featured in Triathlete Magazine, Men’s Journal, El...
Episode 92- John Caldwell On Surfing, Yoga, & Veganism
February 25, 2021 12:38 - 1 hour - 141 MBJohn Caldwell manages the Beran Island Resort. He organizing retreats and plays the role of a surf guide around the various spots in the atoll (atalwl)in the Marshall Islands. He is has been vegan for 18 years and is passionate about using his technical skills to share veganism, yogic teachings, recovery and peace to all beings. Siddha Yoga Ashtanga and John's teacher Petra Gordon Surfing in the martial islands Animal Liberation Front Direct action and veganism What the Health Catskill Anima...
Episode 91- Dr. Sumeet Bahl
February 18, 2021 20:21 - 1 hour - 145 MBDr. Sumeet Bahl is an Interventional Radiologist at the Brooklyn Hospital Center in Brooklyn, NY. He completed his internship in General Surgery at Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School and his Radiology residency and Vascular and Interventional Radiology fellowship at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City. He performs minimally invasive image-guided procedures for uterine fibroids, venous disease, kidney failure, pulmonary embolism, and cancer. Dr. Bahl has 20+ years of medi...
Episode 90- Dharma Yogi and Jacinthe Natural Skin Care founder Andry Sophocleous
February 10, 2021 14:06 - 1 hour - 140 MBAndry Sophocleous is a 500hr Dharma Yoga teacher who teaches in her studio Dharma Yoga in Cyprus. Andry is also the founder of Jacinthe Natural Skincare an indie brand that strives for purity and transparency in natural skincare. She makes use of green biotechnology hence bringing science and plants together in all of her Jacinthe products. In this episode Yoga Is Vegan's Holly Skodis and Andry Sophocleous discuss the following: Sri Dharma Mittra and The Life of a Yogi Teacher Trainings. Y...
Episode 89- CT Lifestyle Medicine with Dr. Dipak Patel and Catherine O'Rourke
February 03, 2021 23:10 - 1 hour - 159 MBDr. Dipak Patel is a board certified family medicine physician and has practiced full spectrum family medicine, including pediatrics and women’s health. For the past 10 years, he has worked at the Community Health Center in Meriden as a family medicine physician and onsite medical director. Additionally, he is certified and experienced in addiction medicine and mental health conditions working as a hospital physician at the Midstate Medical Center. In 2017, Dr. Patel earned his most precio...