Dr Shima Beigi, BSc,MSc,MSc,Ph.D founder of Mindfulness Engineering™️ and ideaXme Rich Connectedness™️ ambassador interviews Sayuri Tanaka, renowned raw food chef, yoga teacher, cookbook author, chef tutor and owner of Sayuri Healing Food “The best vegan food in Bali”.
A Growing Vegan Population
6% of U.S. consumers say they are vegan, a 600% increase compared to just 1% in 2014. In Great Britain, approximately 1.16% of the population (600,000 people) reported being vegan in 2018, a 300% increase from 2014, when 150,000, or 0.25% of the population reported being vegan.
Numbers of those adopting a vegan lifestyle are rising across the world and are set to increase exponentially due to many sharing the opinion that being vegan not only represents a benefit to individual health and alleviates animal suffering but is also essential to the health of our planet. The Vegan Society: “If the world went vegan, it could save 8 million human lives by 2050, reduce greenhouse gas emissions by two thirds, lead to healthcare-related savings and avoid climate damages of $1.5 trillion” (Source: A Well Fed World).
Shima Beigi comments:
In this episode of the ideaXme Rich Connectedness podcast series, I, Dr. Shima Beigi, founder of Mindfulness Engineering™️ and Rich Connectedness ambassador focus on the important subject of healing our planet.
I connect with one of the most talented raw food chefs in the food industry, Sayuri Tanaka, founder of Sayuri Healing Food in Bali. Sayuri is not only a world class raw food chef, but also a yoga teacher, businesswoman and author of several raw food guides.
Originally from Japan, her passion for food started at a very young age; watching her mother cook! Growing up she took the seed with her and later on created her own raw food training academy in Bali.
The Intentions Behind Sayuri Food
Together we explore the success story behind her Sayuri Healing Food. I met Sayuri in the early months of 2019 when I was living in Bali for four months. Being a scientist and a yoga teacher myself as well as a consciousness coach in STEM industries, I’m highly motivated to integrate the success and resilience lessons of other industries into the field of engineering.
I asked Sayuri about three key lessons that have contributed to her successful community. In response she stated: Trust. Delegate. Flow. “You must trust people. You must delegate and you must let the organic nature of things run their course”. I think these pointes are highly transmittable to the engineering world.
The logo represents the circle, ENSO, or 円相 in Zen, translated to KUU, or 空, the source, essence, or nothingness, infinity and the whole universe. It expresses that everything is interconnected in a chain of co-becoming and in a state of constant flow.
Sayuri Food Is Medicine
The plant-based food that Sayuri provides is summarised as “raw-living” food, mostly gluten-free with some simply cooked elements. Sayuri’s first choice is to use ethically and organic-grown resources wherever possible. They incorporate the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Macrobiotics.
They see food as “energy”, that helps us to “align with nature”. They believe that if we can align with “the universal energy”, our body, mind and spirit will function perfectly, and “how it was always supposed to”.
Sayuri invites us to ask: “What if ‘what we eat’ is the easiest access for that alignment? What if creating all that radiance within is possible from the simple act of “eating?”.
“Did you know that every living being gives off light, called “bio-photons”? What if we eat more of the light? If “we are what we eat”, what food do you want to become? We serve predominantly raw-living food for its higher light and vibration to enhance our healing processes, healthy rejuvenation & longevity on the physical, emotional and spiritual level”. Sayuri Tanaka
Sayuri’s call to action: “Let our food be the medium for us all to fulfil our every dharma – the true purpose for us here and now on this planet, to activate ourselves to reach our full potential, to heal and balance our body, mind and spirit for all living beings. May we reconnect to the infinite universe within, find our every individual path for a sustainable radiant healthy lifestyle!”
To know more about Sayuri Cookbooks please visit http://ur0.work/eK6V
To learn about her Raw Food online course please visit:
https://www.veecoco.com/raw-vegan-online-course
Credits: Dr. Shima Beigi interview text, video, and audio.
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