Yoga and Vegetarianism

The Diet of Enlightenment

Written By: Sharon Gannon
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According to Sharon Gannon, the single most important part of your yoga practice is the strict adherence to a vegetarian diet--a diet free of needless cruelty, harm, and injustice.

Gannon offers truth and wisdom from a tradition of spiritual practice thousands of years old and explains how to apply these practices to our modern lifestyles.

Drawing upon her studies of Vedic traditions, Gannon explores how the practices of yoga are historically and structurally tied to an ethical vegetarian lifestyle. Integral to each another, both yoga and vegetarianism form a framework for physical and spiritual attunement, and when practiced as a whole provide the path not only to physical health, but to spiritual enlightenment.
Format: Main Book
Publication Date: 11/18/2008
ISBN: 9781601090218
Pages: 144
Trim Size: 5.5 x 7.5 x .6

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Sharon Gannon, Author: For over forty years, Sharon Gannon has been dedicated to changing the ways in which people view spirituality, life, themselves, one another, animals, and the environment. Along with David Life, she is the creator of the Jivamukti Yoga method, a path to enlightenment through com-passion for all beings, which holds veganism as a core principle. Blessed by her teachers, Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati, Swami Nirmalananda, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, Shyamdas, and Shri Milan Goswami, she is a pioneer in teaching yoga as spiritual activism. The Jivamukti method has been recognized as one of the nine forms of hatha yoga practiced in the world today. Yoga Journal magazine has called Gannon an innovator, and Vanity Fair gives her credit for making yoga cool. Gannon has authored many books and produced numerous yoga-related films and music albums. She is the recipient of the 2008 Compassionate Living Award and the 2013 PETA Compassionate Action Award. She resides in a wild forest sanctuary in upstate New York.

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