Good Karma Vegetarian Diet
Sundays @ 3:00 pm PDT
Your teacher
Maha Lakshmi is a teacher of Classical Yoga for many years, graduated Yoga Health Educator, a student of Ayurveda, a practitioner of the four paths of yoga, and a dedicated student of Swami Sitaramananda and the teachings of Sivananda Yoga.
Event Introduction
We believe vegetarian diet is a “good karma diet” as if you eat vegetarian, you will :
– be more healthy, your organs, stomach, liver, kidneys, digestive system will say thanks!
– be contributing to the healing of the earth and climate change. The animals will say thanks!, the earth, water, air will say thanks!
– have better relationships as you become more peaceful. Your closed ones will say thanks!, your new friends will say thanks for coming in my life.
– overall the whole world will say thanks to you as you become more happy and positive and your joy will uplift others. Thanks to be part of the solution for this world!
Technical & Retreat Guidelines
– **Please don’t multitask while online with our community**. Engage as fully as you would if we were in person. – Audio Guidelines – Everyone will be muted when entering or exiting the rooms to cut down on feedback and extraneous sounds. – Troubleshoot your audio issue using Zoom’s audio help guide. You might also try leaving the event and rejoining it, making sure you click the green button that says – Video Guidelines – It is helpful for creating community to allow your video to be on during the meetings. It can also help navigate some of the disconnection that can come with using an online format. – Troubleshoot your video issue using Zoom’s video/camera help guide
There is medical evidence that a balanced vegetarian diet is extremely healthy and provides everything the body needs. The Yogic vegetarian diet is sattvic (pure), and helps to calm the mind, and to reveal the spirit as well as nourish the body.
Check out our upcoming courses in Diet and Nutrition.
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