RT Article
T1 A Life in Balance: Sattvic Food and the Art of Living Foundation
JF Religions
VO 10
IS 1
SP 1
OP 16
A1 Jacobs, Stephen
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1587260298
AB Many modern forms of yoga can be located in the holistic milieu. Discourses of health and wellbeing for mind, body and soul are central in the holistic milieu. Ideas about food and diet are frequently significant aspects of this therapeutic discourse. This paper focuses on ideas about food and diet in the Art of Living Foundation (AOL), a modern transnational yoga movement. AOL legitimises its beliefs about food through an appeal to concepts found in traditional texts on yoga and āyurveda. In particular, the concept of sattva, which can be translated as balance or harmony—both significant tropes in the holistic milieu—is central to discourses about food choices in AOL and other writers in the holistic milieu.
K1 The Art of Living Foundation
K1 Yoga
K1 Āyurveda
K1 food and diet
K1 health and wellbeing
K1 holistic milieu
K1 therapeutic culture
DO 10.3390/rel10010002