The Om Yoga Show — this vegan life

I went to the Om Yoga Show and all I got was this t-shirt.

Lies! Hell will freeze over before I go anywhere near a vegan-friendly yoga exhibition without spending all my pocket money on all the goodies.

My sister and I used to attend the now defunct Vitality Show at London’s Olympia. I have fond memories of systematically snaking up every aisle Pacman-style, ensuring we didn’t miss an opportunity to grab a freebie. We like freebies. And shopping. That’s how we earned our moniker The Shopping Sisters.

The Om Yoga Show is held at Alexandra Palace, which is even bigger than Olympia. There was room for demonstrations, classes and workshops as well as hundreds of stands selling everything from mats and straps to vegan chocolate, protein balls and shampoo. Paradise in a palace, if your paradise is yoga and veganism, as it is for moi.

Sister has moved to Burma, which means this Shopping Sister is without her wing-man. I attended the Om Yoga Show with my yoga teacher, my yogini, Ami. We’ve practised a lot of yoga together, but how would we fare branching out into yoga shopping? Would she be as systematic as I? Would she care for visiting every single stand, trying every sample and swiping every freebie?

Course she bloody would. Turns out my yogini is as much of a legend off the yoga mat as she is on it. She humoured my shopping style and allowed me to Pacman my way around the arena.