Detailed Long Bio

Susmitha Veganosaurus is a vegan chef, plant based culinary consultant, podcaster, meditation guide, holistic business coach, joyful vegan transition coach, artist, reiki healer, tarot reader, light worker, and multi-passionate entrepreneur.

Having growing up on a vegetarian diet, her vegan journey began in 2003 when she became aware of the cruel practices in the dairy industry. After that, there was no looking back! She started out as an ethical vegan and later learned about the health, environment and spiritual benefits of the lifestyle.

Susmitha has been exploring spirituality and energy work since she was a teenager. Her passion for veganism and connection to spirituality are the biggest influences in every aspect of her life. She often brings the two together into her classes, speaking engagements, cooking, mentoring and activism.

The Feel Good Factor Podcast

The Feel Good Factor Podcast was launched by Susmitha in December 2019. It’s all about making happiness your highest priority. The podcast features contemplative talks and meditations, covering a wide range of topics.

Some of these are compassion, self-love, wellness, abundance, conscious entrepreneurship, being plant powered, prioritising yourself, self-worth, gentle productivity, multi-passionate living and women supporting women. Over time many more nuanced subjects have been emerging as a part of the conversations.

Thanks to her show, Susmitha has had the privilege to connect with various interesting and inspiring people from across the globe and build meaningful relationships.

Vegan Recipe Blog

Susmitha’s plant powered cooking and baking experiments in the early years of her veganism led her to publish her recipe blog, Veganosaurus in the beginning of 2008. For several years she’s filled it with many easy to prepare recipes to help others on their journey into veganism.

As a food blogger, she has also curated vegan pop-up events and cooking demonstrations in association with various food businesses (eg: Graze – Vivanta By Taj, Soul Khadi). The blog went on hiatus in 2014, and was revived again in mid-2021. Susmitha also shares recipes on Instagram and YouTube.

Business Coaching for Vegan Entrepreneurs

Susmitha coaches vegan women entrepreneurs to build and grow their business in a joyful way, with a focus on self-care and a mindset of abundance. She uses her personal experience and knowledge to help people generate revenue doing what they love while making a positive impact on the world.

Her approach to coaching is holistic, combining business strategies and spiritual techniques that have served her in her own entrepreneurial journey.

Susmitha’s unique hybrid Spiritual Business Guidance sessions are designed for heart based entrepreneurs with an inclination towards the mystical.

Vegan Culinary Consultation

After decades of experimenting with plant based cooking and baking, Susmitha has a deep understanding about plant based ingredients and the way they work together. Through her vegan culinary consultation sessions, she helps people get familiar with vegan cuisine so they can include plant based dishes in their restaurant, food business, or home.

Guided Meditations

Susmitha uses her naturally soothing voice to conduct meditation sessions and offer personalised meditation recordings. Her favourite form of meditation involves guided imagery. This style of meditating is suitable for beginners and seasoned practitioners alike. It stokes the listener’s imagination and keeps them involved in the meditation process.

Her intention is to help people bring more peace and joy into their lives through her free meditation recordings on insight timer and her podcast. Her cooking classes, online courses, business workshops and speaking appearances usually include some form of meditation in them.

She conducted meditation sessions regularly for her own team members at Carrots Restaurant, and in the more recent times, she’s developed meditation practices specifically designed to help vegan activists.

Carrots Restaurant

Chef Susmitha Veganosaurus is a co-founder of Carrots, India’s first ethical vegan restaurant (with in-house bakery, and culinary academy). Their tagline is Food That Loves You Back!

The restaurant was started in February 2013 by Krishna Shastry in Bangalore with the vision to bring a conscious dining experience to the world. The team at the restaurant has successfully broken all myths about vegan food through creative, delicious dishes, and plenty of informative, educational content/events.

Unable to sustain through the pandemic, the restaurant closed its doors in January 2021, much to the heartbreak of the vegan community across India. The iconic institution was more than just a place to dine at for a lot of people. It acted as a beacon of hope and inspiration for vegan businesses across the country. A few months later, Chef Ram relaunched Carrots as a cloud kitchen and has been doing a great job of running it on his own.

Through the eight years of its existence, the restaurant menu was famous for its wide range of food, dessert and specialty product choices. With plenty of allergy friendly (gluten free, soy free, etc.) options, there was something to cater to all taste buds and food preferences.

Everything – mylks, curds, cheeses, cakes, breads, dips, sauces, etc., was prepared in-house, in small batches, using fresh, locally available ingredients. Priority was given to healthy preparation techniques and all dishes on the dine-in menu were marked with a health level indicator.

Carrots Ecosystem

The working environment and team culture at Carrots was focused on loving communication, growth and support. All staff members felt a sense of ownership and pride for the business and considered each other, as well as regular guests, as family. This translated to a joyful, positive ambience and dining experience.

Over the years, Carrots evolved into a warm, welcoming space at the heart of the vegan community in Bangalore. The restaurant was also very well known and loved among vegans from across India and globally.

As an organisation, Carrots embodied the spirit of collaboration over competition and this sentiment lives on. The restaurant was a platform to launch and promote many small businesses. And now Susmitha mentors budding conscious/vegan entrepreneurs, especially women, to help grow their business.

The restaurant’s team was involved in various CSR initiatives over the years, the most well known ones being – The Good Karma Meal Project (replaced by the Let’s Fight Hunger Campaign in mid-2020) and their very unique Vegan Activists Reward Program.

Carrots built a beautiful ecosystem of healthy business collaboration, vegan activism, cozy atmosphere and delicious food. When the restaurant closed, the team was inundated with messages of heartfelt support and stories of personal impact. One of the regular patrons wrote, “even though Carrots the restaurant has closed, Carrots the movement will live on.”

Vegan Culinary Workshops

Susmitha believes that empowering everyone to make their own vegan foods is one of the most effective ways to take the movement forward. The vegan cooking and baking classes and recipe videos (in English and Kannada), continue to be a significant part of the Carrots legacy even now.

Chef Susmitha and Chef Ram (current owner of Carrots) have conducted culinary training sessions at hospitality schools and institutions in association with animal welfare organisations such as Humane Society International and Mercy for Animals.

Susmitha’s private online dairy alternatives workshop and vegan culinary consultation sessions have garnered appreciation from people from different parts of the world.

Rudely Awakened

Though kindness, love and being high vibe is Susmitha’s default setting, she also has a dark, angry, terribly potty mouthed side to her. In an attempt to resolve the two together, Rudely Awakened was born.

It’s a series of hilarious images and stop motion videos featuring magical, highly enlightened celestial beings of love, light… and profanity. They’re blunt, callous, coarse, cocky, curt, obscene, offensive, and uncivil. These creatures are here to whoop your spiritual ass back into gear, and they don’t intend to be polite about it.

Art and other Interests

Susmitha’s other interests include reading (mostly fiction), collecting magical healing crystals, reading Goddess and Tarot Cards, journaling, Reiki, visualisations and affirmations.

Some of the other ways in which Susmitha gets her creativity fix is through making jewellery, miniature clay animals and monsters, doodling, and making stop-motion videos.

She used to sell her handmade jewellery, mini animals and monsters, and art photography prints through her Etsy stores – Art by Susmitha and Veganosaurus from 2007 to 2012. You can explore the Art by Susmitha and Veganosaurus Facebook albums for archives of her creations.

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