Recipes
Simple Pumpkin Soup
Ingredients (Serves 3-4) 2 ¼ cups sugar pumpkins (or pumpkin puree) 2 cups vegetable broth 1 cup light coconut milk 2 Tbsp maple syrup or agave nectar 1/4 tsp each of: sea salt, black pepper, cinnamon, and nutmeg Directions Preheat oven to 350 degrees …
Golden Milk Recipe
Ingredients: 2 cups of unsweetened almond milk (or your preferred milk) 1 tsp of ground turmeric 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon 1/4 tsp of ground ginger 1/4 tsp of ground cardamom (for a fragrant, warming touch) 1 tbsp of coconut oil (optional, for extra c …
Refreshing Cucumber Mint Cooler Recipe
Cool down this summer with a refreshing Cucumber Mint Cooler. This simple, delicious, and hydrating drink is perfect for balancing pitta and keeping you cool all season long. Ingredients: 1 large cucumber, peeled and chopped 1/4 cup fresh mint leaves 2 …
Gnocchi with Spinach and Basil Sauce
These tender, little Italian dumplings are best when homemade, and make a delightful alternative to pasta dishes. You can use fresh or canned tomatoes. Serves 6. Ingredients: 2 1/4 pounds potatoes, chopped Salt 1 tablespoon chopped fresh basil 1 1/2 cu …
Vegan Banana Bread Recipe
Nobody likes to waste food. So when you have bananas about to go bad, make banana bread! Here is one of our favourite recipes for when we have extra bananas. Wet ingredients: 3 medium to large very ripe bananas ⅓ cup coconut oil or vegetable oil …
Kitchari is medicine
“Let medicine be thy food and food be thy medicine.” – Hippocrates of Cos, Greece, 460-377 B.C. With so many fad diets flooding your mind with ideas like “all carbs are bad for you” or “you need more protein,” it can be confusing to know what to …
Yogic Recipes for Busy Lives: Yummy Superfood Banana Nice Cream
Some people limit their fruit intake to just mornings or desserts. Yogis say, eat more fruit! This refreshing snack is filled with vitamins, antioxidants, and all the health-promoting properties of fruit.
Yogic Recipes for Busy Lives: Carrot, Watercress, Beet Tricolor Salad
Salads, among other raw, light, foods are especially well- received by the body during the warm, summer months. In Ayurveda, yoga’s sister science, you can use food to balance your own body. So when the temperature is hot outside, eating cooling meals brings balance.
Yogic Recipes for Busy Lives: Creamy Avocado Zucchini Noodles
If you’re looking to make digestion easier and simpler for your system, zucchini noodles are the perfect pasta substitution. You can use a handheld spiralizer to curl your zucchini into noodles. Beets and carrots are also great vegetables to spiralize!
Homemade Almond Milk
Homemade almond milk is easy, and so delicious! Plus, it entails only a few simple, natural ingredients without added processed sugar and thickeners found in store-bought almond milk. Ingredients 1 cup raw almonds (soaked overnight in cool water, or so …
Chia Raspberry Pudding Recipe
“Chia is probably my favourite ingredient,” says Padmavati, dessert-maker in the ashram Boutique in February 2019. “It’s densely packed with nutrition, and it feels like comfort food. It fills you up so much it can even be substituted for a meal.” In h …
Ganesha’s Famous Pizzas
On graduation day for students of the Sivananda Teacher Training Course, the entire ashram is hopping with excitement as dinnertime approaches. This is the night that Ganesha, a longtime staff member, makes pizza for dinner. These are no ordinary pizza …
We’re Recruiting: Cook and Assistant Cooks Needed
Karma Yoga (work-service) Positions Available Add this unique experience to your C.V. whether you just graduated from culinary school or are an experienced cook. By expanding your expertise and expressing your creativity in healthy, nutritious m …
Vegan Chocolate Cake with Chocolate-Coconut Frosting
from Karma Yogi Dinija Birne Since she was 15 years old, Dinija Birne has loved baking. Her enjoyment in the kitchen led her to cooking school, although she left before graduating, and her home in Gulbene, Latvia, to travel. This is her way, she says, …
Chickpeas with Cauliflower and Tahini Sauce
For more than a dozen years, senior staff member Pranava Chaitanya has been cooking in the ashram kitchen as well as offering cooking courses. One of his signature dishes, the recipe melds the creaminess of chickpeas with the medium crunch of cauliflow …
“Made With Love” Raw, Vegan Sugar Cookies — Vanilla, Lemon, and Chocolate-Orange
When Padmavati returned to the ashram from Salt Lake City, Utah, for her three-month karma yoga stay — she had previously done her teacher training and advanced teacher training here — she was assigned the very job she had been afraid to do. An enthusi …
Simple Sweet Potato Mash
The holiday season often encourages us to indulge our sweet tooth. Here’s a delicious recipe to experience some sweetness without sacrificing your health. Sweet potatoes are high in many important nutrients. They contain a good amount of fiber as well …
Superfood Oatmeal Power Bowl
By Katie Papo (Ambika) Every morning after my yoga practice, I indulge in a healthy oatmeal power bowl. This is one of my favorite fiber and protein-filled breakfasts, because not only will it keep me full until lunchtime, but it’s easily adaptable for …
Autumn Apple Crisp
It’s apple-picking season around North America and they are in abundance. Need something to do with all those apples? Here’s the perfect fall-inspired sweet treat that’s simpler than a pie, and just as delicious! Serves 8-12 Filling 7-9 medium-large ap …
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On-the-Go Yogi Snack Packs
When the slow and relaxed energy of summer starts to speed up into the fall and winter months, it’s vital we have the proper nourishment to keep us going — especially with the demands of a busy lifestyle. Take a look at our top four model snack pack id …
Raw Vegan Ice Cream Cake
This recipe first came to us from one of our Yoga Teacher Training graduates and Karma Yogis, Hanuman. He created his first raw vegan ice cream cake in our boutique’s health hut in 2012, and he continues to make them for his loved ones at home. This is …
Delicious & Easy Vegetarian BBQ Recipes
Summer is here! And that means spending time in the backyard and BBQ-ing our favorite summer treats. From a yogic perspective, it’s important to not only keep the body healthy, but to also consider other implications of our diet. Ahimsa, the first ethi …
Detox Dandelion Green Smoothie
Spring is the time to lighten up! As far as a successful detox goes, leafy greens play a key role. Dandelion greens have especially powerful detox properties, and you can buy them inexpensively in a store, or even pick them from your own yard or garden …
Chocolate Avocado Pudding Bowls
If there’s a healthier way to eat chocolate, we want to know about it! This easy recipe offers a more nutritious and delicious way to satisfy the the sweet tooth. You’ll get the healthy fats of avocado, magnesium from cacao powder, and the antioxidants …
The Something Chocolate Recipe
In the mood for something chocolate? Often when that chocolate craving strikes, we go for the first satisfyer we see, whether it’s a coffee shop muffin, chocolate granola bar, or supermarket cookie. Why not prepare a more mindful chocolate treat? Now y …
Nurture Your Body with Winter Stew
When the weather gets colder, our bodies tend to crave heavier comfort foods. To help satisfy cravings and nurture the body at the same time, a hearty stew has the power to warm you from the inside out. Stews are an especially convenient winter go-to f …
Vegetable Lasagna from Down Under
Lasagna is a classical dish, enjoyed in many variations around the world. We are delighted to share this delicious Vegetable Lasagna recipe, wonderfully adapted to the yogic diet by Sivananda yogi Shyamala, based in Australia. Her lovely new cookbook, …
Spicy Massaged Raw Kale
Inspired by our own boutique’s kale chip recipe, this delicious variation was created by Sanatani, teacher of the Detox Basics mini-course. It’s a delicious way to enjoy kale! The massage technique used in this recipe makes the kale more digestible, so …
October Recipes: Pumpkin Bliss … Hot or Cold!
For northerners, it’s getting cold. And for those in the tropics and southern climes, it’s still summer or moving toward it. That’s why we’re giving you two fall recipes. They’re both based in pumpkin … and they both taste like bliss. If you’re at home …
Why Cleanse?
The upkeep of a healthy and pure body is a crucial part of the spiritual path, because a healthy body is important for spiritual practice. With a healthy body, meditation, yoga, and spiritual practice are possible. With a cleansed body, the mind become …
Back-to-School Snack: Feel-Good Granola Bars
It’s that time again! This on-the-go snack is packed full of protein and healthy fats to keep you fuller longer. You can choose your favorite nuts or seeds, as well as dried fruit. In this recipe we chose sunflower and pumpkin seeds for their many heal …
Bright and Refreshing Mango Nice Cream
Fill your ice cream craving … without the guilt. Try our fruit-only ice cream recipe that you can make at home to cool you off all summer long. With just a few ingredients and a short prep time, you can enjoy this quick recipe as a dessert or a …
Sweet Potato Black Bean Burgers
These are the perfect veggie burgers for a light dinner or lunch on-the-go. Black beans are high in protein, fiber, and essential minerals, and sweet potatoes are an excellent source of vitamin A. While their high nutritional content will help you feel …
Gigi’s Yummy Veggie Burger Recipe
Looking for a healthy veggie burger? Chef Gigi from the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat has the perfect recipe. Not only will you get an ideal portion of grains, like rice and quinoa, but you’ll also get a healthy dose of nutrient-packed seeds, like sunf …
May Recipe: Gigi’s Famous Tahini Sauce
This yummy and versatile recipe can be used as a delicious topping for veggie burgers, as a dip with vegetables, cooked with eggplant, and more. Make a batch and see for yourself! Ingredients 1 cup (250 ml) tahini paste 1 cup (250 ml) boiling wa …
Simple, Creamy, Dairy-Free Broccoli Sauce
Creamy can be healthy too — with the right recipe. This wholesome Simple, Creamy, Dairy-free Broccoli Sauce can be used in all kinds of meals and is the perfect complement to pasta, rice, and vegetable dishes. This recipe is especially handy when you h …
Warming Winter Vegetable Stew
Nourish your body and warm up your insides with this delicious, creamy stew — perfect for the winter months. Not only is it protein-packed, but the variety of veggies adds plenty of vitamins for immunity. It’s also gluten and dairy-free. Recipe ½ cup c …
Creamy Tomato Sauce Recipe
You’d never guess that this sauce is healthy, but it is — it’s also delicious and nutritious. And you only need a few ingredients. Enjoy with your favorite pasta dishes, bean recipes, or with veggies. Ingredients 1 tomato ½ cup of tofu (silken or soft …
Health Hut Green Smoothie
Our Bahamas Boutique & Health Hut green smoothie recipe is the perfect pick for starting off the new year on a healthy note. At Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat, we started serving up smoothies several years ago in our little health hut, helping our g …
Shredded Sweet Potato Salad: A Delish Vegan Side Dish
from Grace Van Berkum This recipe is an easy, delicious, and nutritious side dish to bring to a Thanksgiving potluck or to serve at your family table. No-bake! Shredded Sweet Potato Salad 2-3 sweet potatoes or yams 1 cup unsweetened, shredded co …
Healthy Breakfast — Oatmeal Banana Pancakes
From Joelle Rabion We’ve always been told that breakfast is the most important meal of the day — and it is! It literally ‘breaks the fast’ and resets your metabolism, allowing you to launch your day as your best self. So, it’s important to use quality …
Easy, Guilt-Free Banana Nut Squares
From Clarissa Kussin DID YOU KNOW: Bananas are one of the most nutritional and healing fruits readily available today. They are 76% water and are packed with vitamins C and B6 and minerals such as potassium, copper, and manganese. Their high water/nutr …
Beet, Carrot, Watercress Tricolor Salad
From the Sivananda Yoga Cookbook This refreshingly healthy Beet, Carrot, Watercress Tricolor Salad draws on three powerfully beautiful and nutritious vegetables. Beets are high in immune-boosting vitamin C, fiber, and essential minerals like potassium …
Masala Chai and Sheera Sweets
from Geeta Inamdar These two “sweet treat” recipes were generously shared with us by Geeta Inamdar, who has been coming to the ashram with her husband and children for years — her daughter is a graduate of the Sivananda Teacher Training Course! Masala …
Blueberry and Spinach Salad
from Chef Ambika This simple, super-nutritious Blueberry and Spinach Salad is a wonderful accompaniment to a winter soup or stew, as well as a welcome contribution to any potluck. In addition to a delightful variety of flavors and textures, it provides …
Fresh Morning Juice Recipe
From Petra Rakebrandt This tropically inspired juice will get your day started with a boost! Each of the ingredients is packed with a handful of health-promoting benefits, including anti-inflammatory and digestive properties. It is especi …
Cuban Black Bean Soup Recipe
From the Sivananda Yoga Cookbook There’s nothing like a hearty soup to warm us up in the colder weather. Black beans are warming by nature, offer a healthy dose of both protein and fiber, and are believed to help strengthen kidney energy. In this tradi …
Split Moong Bean Dal (Dhal) Recipe
We are grateful to Dr. Govinda and his wife, Pramila, long-time friends of the ashram and both graduates of the TTC and ATTC, who live in Nassau and brought this delicious dish as prasad (a food offering) on the 6th night of our Navaratri celebr …
Ayurveda Recipe: Aloo Gobi (Potato and Cauliflower)
from Bharata Surya A go-to Ayurveda recipe, this classic dish is one of the most popular vegetable dishes in Ayurveda and Indian cooking. Not only is it very tasty, it uses some of the main spices in Ayurvedic cooking (these spices help in the d …
Savory Watermelon Salad
recipe from Grace Welker (Annapurna Devi) This Savory Watermelon Salad is my favorite summer recipe with its surprising blend of sweet and salty flavors. It is very cooling on hot summer days — and is always a hit at potlucks. In terms of quantities, j …
Chocolate Truffles
From the Sivananda Yoga Cookbook These chocolate truffles, created by Prema, one of our affiliated teachers in London, are irresistible. They are outrageously sweet — the perfect prasad. Ingredients 2 1/4 cups confectioners sugar 1/2 cup chopped nuts 2 …
Brown Rice Sushi Rolls and Arame Salad with Sesame Seeds
We are grateful to Akiko (Sri Devi), a Sivananda Yogi in Japan, for these fantastic recipes, full of flavors, colors, and nutrients. Perfect for a brunch gathering, a special evening meal, or a potluck with yoga friends. A Karma Yogi and cooking instru …
Potato and Zucchini Casserole
Yogic cooking is meant to be as simple, fresh, and energy-giving as possible. This Potato and Zucchini Casserole with creamy zucchini and a cheesy potato crust is a delicious entree from Yoga Mind and Body, published by the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centr …
Chia Power Protein Bars
Unique to the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat Bahamas, these healthy energy-boosting bars are a great snack. Thanks to Karma Yoga Donna for sharing the recipe. Enjoy! INGREDIENTS 3/4 cup chia seeds (high in protein, fiber, omega 3’s) 1 1/4 cup dates (hig …
Spinach Kitchari
Recipe from Pranava This is a balancing dish full of health. Light and nutritious, it is popular for cleansing and wonderful for winter dinners. Serves 2-4. INGREDIENTS 1 cup green mung beans 1 cup basmati rice 7-8 cups water 2 cups washed spinach (or …
Chocolate Chickpea Mousse
An unusual mousse that is delicious, nutritious, yet low in fat and simple to prepare. Chickpeas (also called garbanzo beans) are a good source of protein and calcium and are rich in fiber. They also have a low glycemic index. When a protein source suc …
Vegetarian Holiday Roast
Recipe by Arjuna This delicious recipe provides a rich, nourishing entrée for any holiday table. As a meal, it is usually served with mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, roasted squash, and Brussels sprouts. Arjuna, a longtime Sivananda yogi and professi …
Vegetarian Split Pea Soup
Recipe from the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres website. This hearty and nourishing version of Split Pea Soup offers rich flavor and makes a filling meal in and of itself. Makes 7 cups. Ingredients: 2 tbsp. of oil 1 tsp. of basil 1/4 tsp. …
Mung Dal Kitchari Recipe
Enjoy this cleansing and nourishing Mung Dal Kitchari Ayurvedic recipe from Lalita Devi, Director of the ashram’s Well-Being Center. Makes 6-8 servings Ingredients 1 cup mung dal ¾ cup white basmati rice 4 tablespoon ghee 1 tablespoon fresh ginger (pe …
Picnic in the Sun Summer Recipes
These three refreshing recipes (Fruit Brochettes, Cold Sesame Noodles, Papaya Zing) from the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers’ The Yoga Cookbook offer creative and nutritious additions to your summer gatherings. Fruit Brochettes 1 tablespoon maple syrup …
Chick Peas with Tomato Sauce and Coconut Milk
recipe from Etay Efrat (Iswara) The owner of a vegetarian food-delivery business in Shoham Israel, Iswara regularly includes this surprisingly easy and delicious dish in his menus. The recipe combines Mediterranean and Asian ingredients with a vegan It …
Pomegranate Power Smoothie — with Bok Choy!
Thanks to the always-inspiring Grace Van Berkum for this super delicious, health-promoting recipe. Enjoy this Pomegranate Power Smoothie that boasts substantial health promoting benefits and is great for digestion. Strawberry and pomegranate phytochemi …
Gracious Living Creamy Apricot Salad Dressing
Oddly delicious and always nutritious! Recipe thanks to Grace Van Berkum. 1 handful 6-8 soaked organic apricots (Soak your dried fruit in water overnight, or at least a few hours. This makes it easier to digest and also easier to blend as it softens th …
Chocolate Superfood Smoothie
Recipe contributed by Grace Van Berkum. * handful of raw cacao beans * Sunwarrior plant-based chocolate protein powder * 3 tbsp dandelion root powder * 3-4 cups of unsweetened coconut milk (or almond milk) * 1 frozen banana * 1 cup frozen papaya * 1 tb …
Creamy Tomato Miso Dressing
Thanks to Grace Van Berkum for this yummy recipe! 1 tomato handful of walnuts handful parsley 1 tbsp miso juice of 1 fresh lemon 1/4 cup 100% extra virgin cold pressed olive oil 1 cup water 1 tsp cumin 1/2 tsp turmeric Blend till smooth & creamy. S …
Creamy Papaya Pudding
Raw, vegan, nutritious, easy, and delicious! Gracious Living Creamy Papaya Pudding is an easy to digest, anti-inflammatory pudding that is great for breakfast, snack, or dessert. It offers protein, calcium, enzymes, essential fatty acids and fiber. Mor …
Cashew Goji Superfood Cookies
Recipe shared by Grace Van Berkum The following recipe can be a healthy, nutrient dense breakfast, snack, or dessert that will provide you with sustainable energy. It’s an excellent source of protein and essential fatty acids too. 1 1/2 cups cashews 2/ …
Vegan Vanilla Chia Seed Pudding
from Grace Van Berkum Chia seeds, nature’s little powerhouse, are an amazing superfood providing calcium, alkalinizing, absorbable protein, and anti-aging antioxidants. (Yes, this is where the famous chia pet came from!) They are also high in omega-3 f …