About us

Food Yoga International, formerly known as Food for Life Global (FFLG), serves as the international headquarters for an international network of hundreds of affiliate projects in 65 countries serving over 1 million plant-based meals daily. To date, Food Yoga International affiliates have served over 8 billion free meals and are the world’s largest food relief organization. 

FYI’s mission to address the root cause of hunger and other social issues through teaching equality of all life through the liberal distribution of plant-based meals prepared with loving intention. Our projects also include disaster relief, plant-based nutrition advocacy, eco-farming, schooling, animal rescue, and animal care. From school meal programs to mobile vans and disaster relief, volunteers of every background join together in this work, sharing sanctified plant-based meals as an open expression of the Vedic culture of hospitality.

The US registered 501c3 charity is a plant-based food relief project born from India’s Vedic culture of hospitality, in which the distribution of sanctified plant-based meals has been and will continue to be an essential practice. 

Since its inception in the early ’70s, Food for Life has worked to liberally distribute pure plant-based meals, known as prasadam, throughout the world with the aim of creating peace and prosperity. 

The charity’s virtual headquarters facilitates the expansion, coordination, and promotion of this prasadam distribution across every region where the project operates. 

The project started in 1974 after yoga students of Swami Prabhupada, the founder of ISKCON became inspired by his plea that “No one one within ten miles or our temple should go hungry.”

With volunteers serving over 1,000,000 free plant-based meals daily to schools, as well as from mobile vans, and to disaster areas in 63 countries, Food Yoga International is now the largest food relief organization in the world, eclipsing even the United Nations World Food Programme.

Food Yoga International and its worldwide network of affiliates are non-sectarian and non-discriminating. Everyone is welcome to participate in our community projects. 

Food yoga is the practice at the heart of this mission: the preparation and distribution of pure plant-based meals, offered as sanctified prasadam, with the aim of creating peace and prosperity. 

Frequently Asked Questions

What is food yoga?

Food Yoga International, formerly known as Food for Life Global (FFLG), serves as the international headquarters for an international network of hundreds of affiliate projects in 65 countries serving over 1 million plant-based meals daily.

What is prasadam, and why does Food for Life distribute it?

Prasadam refers to pure, sanctified plant-based meals rooted in India’s Vedic culture of hospitality, from which Food for Life was born. Since the early ’70s, Food for Life has distributed prasadam throughout the world with the aim of creating peace and prosperity.