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Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement | Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation

Age Like a Yogi with Victoria Moran: Veganism, Spirituality, and Animal Rights

Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement | Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation

Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan

Documentary, Education, News, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.9579 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Vegan pioneer Victoria Moran discusses her new book “Age Like a Yogi” and explores how yoga’s principle of non-violence (ahimsa) connects with animal advocacy. Drawing from 40 years of activism, Victoria shares how spiritual practices can sustain long-term advocacy while preventing burnout. Key topics include: Why yoga philosophy naturally leads to veganism Using meditation to process activist trauma Connecting animal rights…

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0:00.0

Welcome to Our Hen House.

0:07.0

This is Jasmine Singer.

0:09.0

This is Marianne Sullivan.

0:10.0

And this week we are joined once again by the always lovely vegan icon, Victoria Moran,

0:16.0

one of our very favorite people.

0:18.0

And though we speak of a lot of things with Victoria, we will be focusing

0:22.8

mostly on her latest book, which is the forthcoming, age like a yogi. I am so excited to hear

0:29.9

your chat with her. I know that you're trying to age like a yogi, Marianne. I'm not sure I had

0:34.9

that. After speaking to Victoria, that's become my new goal. I wasn't sure what it meant to age like a yogi, but it sounds good. I'm going to call myself yogi from now on. Oh, okay. This is yogi, I don't think I can quite pull it off. No, I don't think so. The book is like, when you hear yoga, and then we talk a lot about this, in this country,

0:55.0

you tend to think of exercise programs, sort of, and it's so far beyond that it's really about

1:00.4

the whole philosophy of yoga.

1:02.5

And we talk about Ayurveda a lot, too, and it's fascinating.

1:05.9

And she is apparently, this isn't something that's new to her.

1:09.5

Like, this is how she first went vegan, which, you know, she was the first vegan just about

1:14.6

like a million years ago.

1:16.6

And not quite a million, but we are exactly the same age.

1:19.5

And she went vegan a whole lot earlier than I did.

1:22.0

And she attributes that to learning about yoga.

1:25.6

Well, that's amazing.

1:26.7

I mean, Victoria has been an inspiration to both of us and so many others for so long.

1:31.5

I know we've told this story before, but she was actually an inspiration to you before you were

1:36.3

even vegan.

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