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Mindful Monday *New Year Special*
While New Year’s Eve often ensures that most of us wake up feeling a little less than 100%, the new year is usually a time of new beginnings and fresh starts. It just so happens too, that January 1st 2014 is a new moon; a time for rebirth, growth and manifestation throughout the waxing lunar…
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Almost Vegan Raw Chocolate Snowballs!
Rough recipe for a last minute almost vegan, raw and healthy Christmas treat. Really quick to make if you need yet more food at Christmas! Ingredients: A couple of handfuls of nuts (soaked over night) – Cashews work best. I mixed cashews, almonds and walnuts together. 4-5 dates 1 tsp cinnamon 1 tbsp raw cacao…
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Mindful Monday
Mindfulness Meditation A mindfulness meditation can be a great way to bring the practice and experience of mindfulness from our formal meditation practice and out in to the world in our everyday lives. A mindfulness meditation practice seems very simple, but can have very profound effects – and it is not always easy to deal…
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Ayurvedic Spice Blends
Ayurveda – the ancient ‘science of life’, is a traditional Indian system of medicine, which has been used to treat and cure people for thousands of years. Ayurveda is based on the idea of balancing the body and mind by using herbal treatment, dietary considerations and yogic breathing techniques. Ayurveda presumes our natural state…
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Your body: a prison or a paradise
There is a big difference between living in your body, and living with your body. Your body is not a cage. Not something to escape and run away from. If we treat ourselves badly though, it will feel like a prison. Your body is your best friend. Treat it well, it will be with you for…
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Mindful Monday
Multitasking Madness Are you one of those people who wears ‘busy-ness’ like a badge of honour? Feeling that ‘busy’ means ‘successful’ or happy? While we all need to do what our lives require us to do – there’s a way of doing them that doesn’t include the frantic and often actually stressful ‘busy-ness’ that our modern Western culture seems to…
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Vegan Brain Food
Especially around the Christmas season, it seems as though there’s a hundred things to remember and to plan for. Because of all the business and temptations of sugary treats around, it can also mean our health takes a bit of a back seat. If you’re a vegan too, it can be difficult to know exactly…
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Mindful Monday
The act of mindfulness has come in to mainstream discussion more and more in recent years – used as a tool to help us focus more, eat less, get to know each other better, and appreciate life. Mindful meditation, mindful eating, mindful speaking, mindful thinking…. It’s true that practicing mindfulness allows us to engage more…
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Yoga For Musicians
“Yoga is like music. The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul, create the symphony of life.” – BKS Iyengar The benefits of yoga are widely known and have proven themselves upon the millions of people who choose to practice it worldwide. (Right now,…
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Raw Vegan Mini Christmas Puddings
It’s not long until Christmas! Time to experiment with some alternative nutritious nibbles for everyone. We all know that you are what you eat. Would you rather be made of pre-packaged, sugar filled, artificial snacks? Or natural, healthy, filling and delicious treats? I know what I’d rather be made of…. So here is the recipe…
