Category: 2014
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Rawberry Jam Recipe
This raw, vegan and sugar-free jam tastes just as sweet as the kind you’d usually spread on your toast, but this time it’s even more delicious because it’s HEALTHY! The chia seeds give the jam an extra boost of energising omega 3 goodness, while the fact that it’s raw means none of the nutrient value…
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Practice: Urdvha Mukha Svanasana / Upward Facing Dog
Urdvha = Upward Mukha = Face Svana = Dog Asana = Posture Urdvha Mukha Svanasana or Upward Facing Dog is one of the postures we often come across in a Vinyasa flow style class, used within what is commonly referred to as a Vinyasa. (Moving from plank to chatturanga, through to…
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Raw, Vegan, Protein-Packed Cookies For An Extra-Quick Breakfast
If you’re rushing around in the mornings, it’s even more important to ensure you’re having a nourishing, wholesome breakfast. While these little cookies won’t fill your belly up completely, they contain everything you need to get you out of the door and on to where you’re heading first, all packed in to a delicious bundle…
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Practice: Tadasana / Mountain Pose
Tadasana is often the first posture we take just before launching in to a standing sequence in a yoga class. It might be the posture in which you set your intention for the practice, you may return to it a number of times to confirm that sense of stillness and grounding, or maybe you avoid…
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New Published Articles: Contentment & Backbends
I’ve recently kindly been asked to write a couple of articles for EkhartYoga.com and YogaMoo.com. Very grateful to have more writing out there available for everyone to see, so if you’re interested in learning more about the philosophical side of yoga with my piece on Santosha from the Ekhart Yoga site, click HERE. If you want to find…
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Practice: Virabhadrasana 3 / Warrior 3
Not my favourite posture, I’ll admit! Virabhadrasana 3 or Warrior 3 represents another aspect of the warrior Virabhadra in Indian mythology. (For just a little more detail on Virabhadrasana, click HERE). This asana is brilliant for strengthening the intrinsic muscles of the feet, the ankles, legs, hips and abdominal muscles, while testing our balance and will-power!…
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Stay Energised: Raw Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Balance your blood sugar and stay energised for hours with raw almond butter chocolate chip cookies! Balanced blood sugar levels are an essential part of managing our mood, our energy levels, and ensuring we don’t reach for the sugar-packed chocolate bar when four o’clock rolls around…. Plus, it’s SUMMER and we need all of…
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Practice: Ashta Chandrasana / Eight Point Crescent Moon Pose / High Lunge
Lunges are incorporated into lots of different types of physical activity, from gym workouts, HIIT, and ‘runner’s lunges’ – but as with everything, what makes a difference with a Yoga posture is the intention behind the pose. Observe your body and mind as you practice, being aware of each sensation and each thought that arises…
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10 Mudras For Healing, Health & Happiness
Our hands have the ability to harm, to help, or to heal. They can communicate love, hate, and any emotion in between. Essentially, our highly evolved and articulate hands are what separate us from other mammals and allow us to grasp, build and create the world around us. Just as reflexology links parts of the…
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Practice: Parivrtta Upavistha Konasana
When it comes to feeling that sense of opening, expanding and lengthening the body, Parivrtta Upavistha Konasana is one of those postures which can really help satisfy that sensation. Lengthening the calf muscles and hamstrings, while opening the rib cage and hips – this posture also teaches us a valuable lesson about the balance…
