Yogi in The Kitchen: More Than 100 Enlightened, Delicious, Healthful Recipes for Body and Soul

The book includes more than 100 mouth-watering recipes featuring fresh, organic, nutritious foods, that promote our life force energy.

Yogi in The Kitchen: More Than 100 Enlightened, Delicious, Healthful Recipes for Body and Soul

by Elaine Gavalas, M.A., M.S. —

Gavalas offers yoga lovers a complete guide to cooking and eating designed to complement their yoga practices.

The book includes more than 100 mouth-watering recipes featuring fresh, organic, nutritious foods, that promote our life force energy.

Incorporating elements from the healthiest food plans around the world — vegetarian, Mediterranean, Asian and Ayurvedic diets — the book helps people achieve and maintain their perfect weight, increase their life expectancy and lower their risk of heart disease, cancer, obesity, diabetes, hormonal imbalances and many other chronic diseases.

Readers also will discover how to balance their diet according to their Ayurvedic mind-body type (dosha); how to divide the kitchen into four quadrants for optimal balance; which foods to stock; menus in accordance with nature’s season; and detailed poses to do before, during and after cooking to ease digestion, relieve tension, improve flexibility and strength, and refresh the body, mind and spirit.

$17.95 — Avery, the Penguin Group, 375 Hudson St., New York, NY 10014-3657.

Reprinted from AzNetNews, Volume 24, Number 4, August/September 2005.