Healthy Lifestyle

These easy-to-learn techniques have helped many people increase the ease, quality, and duration of their sleep. Practice them while lying in bed with lights out, ready to sleep—you’ll soon have a portable sleep aid that will serve you anywhere. Some people like to learn the techniques for themselves, whereas others put the techniques into separate, one-cut playlists so they can follow along as the technique takes them into sleep.

It’s all based in the yoga tradition of Paramhansa Yogananda, author of the spiritual classic, Autobiography of a Yogi, and on the teachings of his direct disciple, Swami Kriyananda, the founder of Ananda.

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Enjoy a wealth of delicious, easy-to-prepare recipes, almost all of them dairy-free. In fact, they’re so easy that even her husband Gyandev can prepare them—and enjoys doing it!

This cookbook has been popular  for many years. It’s a gold mine of recipes—almost all vegan—that have proved to be favorites with many guests over the years that Diksha managed The Expanding Light retreat kitchen at Ananda Village in Northern California. In fact, The Expanding Light kitchen still uses many of these recipes. They’re winners.

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This is the warmest, most beautiful, most joy-filled, most useful cookbook you’ll ever have. Really! Highly international in flavor, the recipes are super-delicious, and the photography—not only of appealing food, but of radiant Ananda Village residents as they enjoy the food—will keep you paging through it just to enjoy the pictures.

The book has not only individual recipes, but also full menus for balanced, healthful, season-specific meals. There are even special holiday meals for each season: Easter, July 4, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.

But don’t be content with merely looking through the cookbook. Try it! Truly, there’s never been a cookbook like it.

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Are you wondering how to make a “go” of vegetarian cuisine—and whether it will taste good when you do? Here’s a perfect solution: a solid and simple introduction to vegetarian cooking. It includes not only a bounty of easy & delicious recipes, but also entire sections on vegetarian nutrition, and the basics of preparing beans and grains to get the protein that you need. The book is entirely vegan.

This “manual” for healthy vegetarianism takes you beyond mere health fads into solid nutrition and excellent taste.

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Learn to cook healthy, delicious, nutritious vegan fare. Diksha guides you through this popular, far-ranging online series. Its 97 segments take you through many of the dishes, meals, teas, smoothies and more from The Healing Kitchen. It includes special holiday meals for each season of the year: Easter, July 4, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.

You can subscribe on a quarterly or annual basis. Click here for details and special previews of this online series.