Category: 2015
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Purity: For Body & Mind
We can spend as much time as we like agonising over eating ‘clean food’, organic fruits and vegetables, getting enough vitamins and minerals and drinking enough water, and we can spend hours at the gym in an attempt to mould the body into a perfect shape. Indeed, we can make the body as ‘pure’ as…
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Warm ‘Pumpkin Pie’ Breakfast Bowl (vegan, gluten free, seasonal & paleo)
Shops and markets are full of pumpkins at this time of year; they’re inexpensive, very highly nutritious, and can be used in a wide range of different recipes. With an abundance of vitamins A, C and E, as well as potassium and manganese, they also contain good levels of iron and magnesium – essential for…
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Facing Fear to Find Freedom & The Deity Kali
Since Halloween is fast approaching, it seems fitting to write about the fascinating subject of FEAR. Yoga classes all over the Western world will more than likely be concentrating on this particular focus this week, with handstands, arm balances, headstands, and those classic ‘fear-based’ postures, but before all of that – let’s first consider what…
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What To Do After Carving The Halloween Pumpkin: Seasonal & Vegan Pumpkin Seed Granola! Recipe
When the fun of carving a pumpkin is over, you may be wondering what to do with the huge amount of seeds and flesh you have hanging around. Instead of throwing them away, use them to make a healthy granola recipe that will keep you going all morning. If you’re finding your way back to full…
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Sattvic Snacks: Cardamom, Cashew & Chickpea Cookies
In a recent Yoga & Meditation workshop I hosted with my mother (a Yoga & meditation teacher herself, as well as a qualified hypnotherapist and all-around wise woman), we briefly spoke about how a Sattvic diet was traditionally used to aid in the practices of meditation. The word ‘sattvic’ means ‘pure’, and it’s often referred…
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‘Vinyasa’: Life’s Moving Meditation
Technically, a ‘vinyasa’ can be any sequence performed with the breath; it isn’t restricted to the series of ‘chatturanga – upward facing dog – downward facing dog’, but this is indeed how we’ve lazily referred to these movements in the West for the past few decades. This is especially common ever since the whole Power…
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Simple, Seasonal Balsamic Roast Veg (October)
Eating seasonally and locally means we’re consuming foods when they’re highest in nutrients and haven’t had to be transported thousands of miles overseas. The closer we can make the gap between the origin of what we eat and the plate we eat it off, the more we save the earth’s resources – so you’re being…
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Stop Struggling & Find True Strength
Especially if you’re relatively new to practicing Yoga and have come directly from a ‘feel the burn’, ‘push, push, push’ and ‘no pain no gain’ background, postures like Bakasana, Adho Mukha Vrksasana (handstand), plank, Ashtavakrasana, or Urdhva Dhanurasana can all seem like asanas you’ll need to force your way through. The truth is though, while…
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Healthy Dark Chocolate & Coconut Doughnuts (vegan & gluten free)
Vegan, gluten free and without any refined sugar; these doughnuts actually count as a nourishing snack, filled with high-protein millet flour and healthy fats from coconut! These bites would be perfect for a seasonal gathering, so you can always swap the cocoa powder and chocolate chips for pumpkin spice and chopped apple, gingerbread spice, cinnamon,…
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Dharma: Doing Life On Purpose
With all the changing weather, heightened Vata energy, and transformation of nature around us, Autumn becomes a reminder of the impermanence and unpredictability of life itself.
