Living Your Yoga: New Music Video Connects the Yoga Practice to Veganism

Living your yoga means taking your practice off the mat and into your everyday life, including what’s on your plate.

Fort Wayne, Indiana, July 31st, 2026 — Look, we’ve all seen it: yoga devotees who can’t stop talking about their spirituality while chowing down on an animal who wanted to live. Seriously, how does that work? You can’t nail a downward dog, chant about oneness, throw the word “namaste” around and then dive into a plate of tikka masala with chicken. That’s just yoga cosplay with a side of cognitive dissonance.

Are You a Yogi or Just a Yoga Poser?

In this new UNCHAINEDTV music video, popular social media influencer Jamie Logan is joined by famed yoga teacher Devi Daly and well-known drummer Carlos Garcia. Together, they humorously point out the rampant hypocrisy in the modern-day yoga community. See if you identify.

What Does Living Your Yoga Really Mean?

Here’s the thing: living your yoga means practicing the whole system—not just the stretchy parts. It’s about aligning your ethics, mind, and yes, your dinner with the principle of doing no harm. Yoga was never just an excuse to don lululemon tights and gather the girlies for brunch after.

Living your yoga means caring about how you fuel your body

The ancient framework includes five yamas, ethical restraints, and the first one? Ahimsa: non-harming. The list also includes ahimsa and the other yamas like satya (truthfulness) and asteya (non-stealing). Ahimsa comes first for a reason. So when someone spends 90 minutes breathing into their third eye and then bites into a burger, there’s a philosophical short circuit happening. In “Namaste, Vegan Love,” vegan influencer Jamie Logan pokes fun at this contradiction, and honestly, it’s about time someone did.

Pro Tip: If your “spiritual journey” ends the second a menu appears, it might not be a spiritual journey. It might be a hobby.

Yoga trains you to notice things—your breath, your posture, the tension in your jaw. So it’s a little strange that the same awareness stops cold at the grocery store. The practice is supposed to make you more conscious of your impact, not less. Once you actually pay attention, the disconnect between chanting about universal love and buying bacon gets loud.

Why “Living Your Yoga” Points Straight at Veganism

Living your yoga points toward veganism because both are built on the same load-bearing beam: compassion and non-violence toward all sentient beings. Most teachers know the score—even the ones still ordering cheese. Modern figureheads agree. The late B.K.S. Iyengar, who was considered one of the world’s most famous yoga teachers, flatly considered a vegetarian diet “necessary” to yoga. If you’re going to name-drop Iyengar in class, maybe honor the man’s actual position on lunch. For more on how spiritual traditions and plant-based ethics overlap, check out 5 Insights About Faith and the Vegan Lifestyle.

What Are the Biggest Myths About Yoga and Veganism?

The biggest myths? That you can’t be strong on plants and that vegan yogis are just riding a trend. Both crumble fast. A well-planned plant-based diet meets every nutritional need, and this connection is ancient, not some 2020s wellness fad.

India has the largest concentration of vegetarians in the world, with up to 40% of its population abstaining from meat and fish. That’s not a trend. That’s millennia. Meanwhile, the “you’ll be weak” myth keeps getting slammed by every plant-strong athlete who deadlifts more than the guy warning them about protein. Another famed yoga teacher, Sharon Gannon of Jivamukti Yoga, built a whole system on this, and clearly states that she treats animal protection as “a very important component of spiritual life, and one that is often underestimated.” Underestimated is putting it kindly.

What Is Ahimsa?

Warning Signs Your Yoga Practice Doesn’t Match Your Plate

The clearest warning signs? Guilt around food, elaborate justifications for eating animals, and that little internal wince when the teacher mentions ahimsa mid-flow. If you’re mentally arguing with a philosophy you signed up for, that’s the tell.

Some folks perform impressive mental gymnastics here, claiming ahimsa is really about being kind to yourself or other humans only, so treat yourself to the steak. Cute theory. But, as noted in the Vegetarian Times’ coverage, if Patanjali meant ahimsa to be about self-treatment, he’d have filed it under niyama, not the yamas governing how you treat others. Those who shun meat but hit the pause button on their belief in nonviolence when they hit the dairy aisle, also need to get real. Watching Dairy is Scary will do the trick.

Picture the teacher leading a heartfelt talk on interconnectedness, then grabbing a rotisserie chicken on the drive home. The philosophy didn’t fail. It just got left in the parking lot.

Fountain of Youth?

The documentary “A Prayer for Compassion” explores how compassion in religious traditions may lead some believers toward a vegan lifestyle.

You close the gap by starting small, swapping one animal product at a time, learning a handful of plant-based recipes, and leaning on a community instead of white-knuckling it alone. Nobody expects overnight sainthood.

One yoga teacher trainer estimates that while most teachers who enroll aren’t vegan, roughly 90 percent become vegan by the end of their training. Turns out when you sit with the philosophy long enough, the plate follows. Begin with easy wins, and plenty of options are hiding in plain sight, like these accidentally vegan snacks for your grocery list. Even better, try eating some fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains and legumes. It’s nature’s menu. A good recipe helps too, and Nina Bergman’s heavy metal detox smoothie is an easy on-ramp. Surround yourself with people already eating a nonviolent diet. Soon, the shift will stop feeling like a sacrifice and will start feeling like a joyous adventure.

Living your yoga isn’t about being perfect or preachy. It’s about noticing the gap and having the honesty to close it. The mat was always meant to change what happens off of it, dinner very much included.