Episode 40: Kriti Sachdeva discusses the connections between the philosophy of yoga and the vegan ethic

This week's episode of Always for Animal Rights features an interview with Kriti Sachdeva. Kriti is the founder of Yogific, an organization that hosts yoga and vegan festivals in the UK and Europe and educates yogis and yoga teachers about veganism.

In this interview, Kriti tells me about the following topics:

• how the ancient text studied by yoga teachers, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, requires practitioners to practice ahimsa (non-violence) and other principles that logically lead to veganism
• how studying human rights led Kriti to veganism, and why she started holding vegan yoga events
• why more yoga teachers aren't vegan (yet!) and how we can change that.

 

This interview is great to share with yoga practitioners or anyone else who needs a reminder of why they should go vegan. :)

After the interview, we hear the song "Ocean" by the vegan singer-songwriter Rebecca Shelley. You can watch the animated music video for this song here.

 

You might also like to check out the article "Why All Yogis and Yoga Gurus Should be Vegan", which is on Yogific's website.

 
How to listen to this episode

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1. Listen to the episode on CKCU FM's website at https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/553/49557.html.
2. Listen to or download the podcast from Archive.org at https://archive.org/details/afar-october-28-2020.

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Go vegan, stay vegan, and let's remember to stand up and speak up for animal rights today and every day. Thanks for listening to the show!