Practicing yoga for over 40 years, Mark is a Culinary Olympic award-winning vegan chef, co-founder of World Peace Yoga, and yogi teaching cooking classes, yoga philosophy, and meditation. Growing up around his Grandmother’s catering business, Mark was exposed to professional food preparation, i.e. kitchenasana early in life. In the 1980’s he opened Cincinnati restaurant Christos and Drivakis; voted one of the ten best vegetarian restaurants in the country by Vegetarian Times magazine. Chef Stroud was part of a vegan team at the Culinary Olympics in Frankfurt, Germany that won a bronze medal. He is passionate about vegan cooking and making greater steps to world peace.
Mark guides plant-based cooking classes as part of Yoga Teacher Training and yoga philosophy and book study. Look out for the donation-based community offering Yoga Roots: Realize Liberation.
Recommended books:
Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease
Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey
Risk to Be Healed by Joyce and Barry Vissell
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van derKolk M.D.
The Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Cookbook by Ann and Jane Esselstyn
The Wisdom of Wildness: Healing the Trauma of Domestication by Ren Hurst
The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony by Dr. Will Tuttle
