Siri Ved Kaur first learned about yogic cooking at the side of her spiritual teacher, Yogi Bhajan, starting in 1971, when he invited her into his household to cook for him. During those years serving as Yogi Bhajan’s personal cook her intuitive understanding of the healing nature of food first blossomed. He guided her in the art and science of yogic food preparation, while his wife, Bibi Inderjit Kaur, trained her in the fine art of Indian cooking. After leaving this service to raise her family, she built upon her knowledge and experience, developed many new recipes, taught many courses, and published two cookbooks, Conscious Cookery in 1979 and From Vegetables with Love in 1989.
Siri Ved has completely rewritten FVWL and a new 2nd Edition, From Vegetables with Love: Recipes & Tales from a Yogi’s Kitchen, will be published in April 2015. The new edition includes over 50 new recipes, numerous updates, more in depth commentary, stories from her years serving Yogi Bhajan, and comprehensive information about yogic diet, ingredients, and cooking methods.
Siri Ved also writes a food blog, "Conscious Cookery with Siri Ved,” with new recipes, photos, and stories and “whatever’s on my plate or mind having to do with food!”
Siri Ved Kaur continues to offer courses in vegetarian cooking and the science of yogic diet, and resides in Bakersfield, California with her husband.
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Publisher: Kundalini Research Institute
For nearly twenty years - in books, articles, and as an editor - Annie
Berthold-Bond has been researching and writing about the connections
between the environment, personal health and well-being, and has
become a leading authority. She is the author of three books:
Better
Basics for the Home (Three Rivers Press, 1999),
bestselling Clean
& Green (Ceres Press, 1990), and The
Green Kitchen Handbook (with Mothers & Others; foreward by Meryl Streep) (HarperCollins, 1997), and wrote
the chapter on cleaning in The Healthy School Handbook (NEA
Professional Library, 1995). She was founder and editor-in-chief of
Green Alternatives for Health and the Environment, the national
consumer magazine designed to provide a community to the emerging
environmental health field, and the founding editor of The Green
Guide (a publication of Mothers & Others), an
Utne Reader Alternative Press award recipient for general excellence
in newsletters. She is currently editor of Ecowire, an
environmental news roundup for shopeco.com, and associate editor of
News on Earth newsletter. Annis is also the author of dozens
of articles, the editor and designer of her own web site
betterbasics.com, and she authors a popular column "Ask
Annie." Dubbed "The Green Heloise" by Library
Journal, Annie has been featured in many magazines and newspapers
(including the New York Times and Martha Stewart
Living), and is a frequent guest on radio and television programs.
Her greatest passion, outside of her family, is packaging information
for the consumer on how to practice conscious harmlessness.
Having never had a serious health problem, Berthold-Bond became severely chemically sensitive after being exposed to pesticides in 1980. Her illness required that she be in an environment free of petroleum-based chemicals. Not an easy task in the late twentieth century, she began doing research into practical, nontoxic ways of cleaning and maintaining a home, learning willy-nilly as she went along. After getting well enough to have a child, she became particularly concerned about the environmental exposures of children, and the consequences of society's over-reliance on chemicals and their effect on the environment as a whole. She lives in Rhinebeck, New York with her husband Daniel, daughter Lily, two dogs, and an abundance of deer, wild turkey, and other wild birds and animals. She is continually adding to her large database of healthier alternatives and is committed to providing people with information to help them establish more natural lifestyles.
Annie Berthold-Bond
E-mail: AnnieBBond@aol.com
Wayne L. Westcott, Ph.D., is fitness research director at the South Shore YMCA in Quincy, MA. He is strength training consultant for numerous national organizations, such as the American Council on Exercise, the American Senior Fitness Association, and the National Youth Sports Safety Foundation, and editorial advisor for many publications, including Prevention, Shape, and Club Industry magazines.
He is also author of 20 fitness books including the new releases, No More Cellulite, Building Strength and Stamina, Strength Training Past 50, Strength Training for Seniors, Complete Conditioning for Golf, and Strength and Power for Young Athletes.
Dr. Westcott has been honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Fitness Professionals, the Healthy American Fitness Leader Award from the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, and the Roberts-Gulick Award from the YMCA Association of Professional Directors, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Governor’s Committee on Physical Fitness and Sports, and the NOVA 7 Exercise Program Award from Fitness Management Magazine.
Books
Strength & Power for Young Athletes, Human Kinetics, 2000.
Complete Conditioning for Golf, Human Kinetics, 1999.
Strength Training for Seniors, Human Kinetics, 1999.
Strength Training Past 50(Ageless Athlete Series) Human Kinetics Publishers, 1997.
Building Strength and Stamina New Nautilus Training for Total Fitness, Human Kinetics Publishers, 1996.
Strength Fitness Physiological Principles and Training Techniques,
Fourth Edition, Wm. C. Brown Publishers, 1995.
Nautilus Strength Training Certification Textbook, Nautilus 1995.
Be Strong: Strength Training For Muscular Fitness For Men And Women, Wm. C. Brown Publishers, 1992.
Personal Trainer Manual, American Council On Exercise, 1991. (Chapter On Muscular Strength And Endurance).
Strength Fitness: Physiological Principles and Training Techniques, Third Edition, Wm. C. Brown Publishers, 1990.
Keeping Fit, George W. Prescott Publishing Company, 1987.
Strength Fitness: Physiological Principles and Training Techniques, Second Edition, Wm. C. Brown Publishers, 1987.
Building Strength At The YMCA, Human Kinetics Publishers, 1987.
Strength Fitness: Physiological Principles and Training Techniques, First Edition, Allyn and Bacon Publishers, 1982.
Articles
Over 300 Articles in Professional Journals
Weekly Newspaper Fitness Column
Weekly Radio Fitness Show
Education
B.S. Pennsylvania State University 1971
M.S. Pennsylvania State University 1974
Ph.D. Ohio State University
Awards
Healthy American Fitness Leader Award, 1995, President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
Lifetime Achievement Award, 1993, IDEA: International Association of Fitness Professionals.
Massachusetts Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Honor Award, 1993.
American Heart Association Recognition Award, 1992.
Association of Professional YMCA Directors Program Service Award, 1983.
Wayne L. Westcott, Ph.D., is fitness research director at the South Shore YMCA in Quincy, MA. He is strength training consultant for numerous national organizations, such as the American Council on Exercise, the American Senior Fitness Association, and the National Youth Sports Safety Foundation, and editorial advisor for many publications, including Prevention, Shape, and Club Industry magazines. He is also author of several fitness books including the new releases, Building Strength and Stamina, Strength Training Past 50, Strength Training for Seniors, Complete Conditioning for Golf, and Strength and Power for Young Athletes.
Dr. Westcott was recently honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Fitness Professionals, the Healthy American Fitness Leader Award from the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, and the Roberts-Gulick Award from the YMCA Association of Professional Directors, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Governor's Committee on Physical Fitness and Sports, the Fitness Industry Leader Award from the National Strength Professionals Association, and the NOVA 7 Exercise Program Award from Fitness Management Magazine.
Donna Farhi is a Yoga teacher who has been practicing for 30 years and teaching since 1982. She leads intensives and teacher training programs internationally. Donna is best known for her unique ability to help students and teachers alike access a deeper connection with the body as a vehicle for the regeneration of the spirit. Her work focuses on the refinement of natural and universal movement principles that underlie all yoga practice. This concentration on fundamental principles allows student of all levels of experience and from all traditions to build their own authentic yoga practice. Donna has been the asana columnist for both Yoga Journal and Yoga International, and is the author of four books: Teaching Yoga (Rodmell Press), The Breathing Book, Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness, (Henry Holt) and Bringing Yoga to Life: The Everyday Practice of Enlightened Living (HarperSanFrancisco).American born, Donna now resides in North Canterbury, New Zealand.
Vasant Lad, B.A.M.S., M.A.Sc., brings a wealth of classroom and practical
experience to the United States. He received the degree of Bachelor of Ayurvedic
Medicine and Surgery (B.A.M.S.) in 1968 from the University of Pune, in Pune, India
and a Master of Ayurvedic Science (M.A.Sc.) in 1980 from Tilak Ayurved
Mahavidyalaya in Pune. For 3 years, he served as Medical Director of the Ayurveda
Hospital in Pune, India. He also held the position of Professor of Clinical Medicine for seven years at the Pune University College of Ayurvedic Medicine, where he was an instructor for many years. Vasant Lad’s academic and practical training includes the study of allopathic medicine (Western Medicine) and surgery as well as traditional Ayurveda.
Beginning in 1979, he has traveled throughout the United States sharing his knowledge of Ayurveda. In 1984 he came to Albuquerque as Director, principal instructor and founder of the Ayurvedic Institute. Vasant Lad is the author of numerous books and respected throughout the world for his knowledge of Ayurveda.
Vasant Lad is the author of numerous articles and many books, including
Ayurveda, The Science of Self-Healing and Secrets of the Pulse and co-author of The
Yoga of Herbs and Ayurvedic Cooking for Self-Healing. His work from Harmony Books,
The Complete Book of Ayurvedic Home Remedies, is a compendium of classic Ayurvedic
treatments for common and chronic ailments. He is the author of a series of textbooks on Ayurveda. The Textbook of Ayurveda: Fundamental Principles, Volume 1 and The Textbook of Ayurveda: Clinical Assessment, Volume 2 are the first two of the four volume set covering the topics he teaches in his eight-month Ayurvedic Studies Program.
He is co-author of a book on marma therapy, Marma Points of Ayurveda. The third
volume of the textbook series on management of disease will be published by the autumn of 2009.
Vasant Lad presently is the Director of The Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque,
New Mexico and teaches the Ayurvedic Studies Programs, Level 1 and 2 as well as an
advanced program in India each year. Vasant Lad also travels throughout the world,
consulting privately and giving seminars on Ayurveda, its history, theory, principles and practical applications.
