Tag: summer
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Red Pepper, Basil & Chickpea Hummus
A healthy dip to have on hand during warmer months when cool salads, chopped veg and bright colours fill the table! Chickpeas are a powerful plant-based protein and contain inulin which helps to reduce visceral internal fat (the fat around the vital organs like heart and liver), so serve with carrots, celery, yellow peppers, cucumber…
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Secretly Simple Raspberry Infused Vinegar
Apple cider vinegar comes with a host of health benefits; it aids digestion, detoxification and Hippocrates used it for wound-cleaning and healing years ago. “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” ~ Hippocrates Infusing vinegars not only makes them look more fancy – and let’s face it, sometimes it’s just nice to…
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Springtime Sustenance: Courgette ‘Spaghetti’ With Avocado-Matcha-Moringa Sauce
A totally raw, vegan superfood recipe, helping you to spring into action this season as the sunshine emerges! Recently featured in the Brighton Yoga Festival newsletter, click here to find out more about the UK’s only free one-day Yoga and wellbeing festival on July 23rd 2016! I’m very excited to be managing the festival this…
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Lemon & Nectarine Rye Flour Muffins
Using alternative flour varieties like rye, spelt, quinoa, buckwheat or oat offers more nutrition per bite than when baking with the usual white flour. Get creative and make a few other swaps with ingredients, and you’ll have transformed what could have been an unhealthy indulgence into a genuinely good-for-you snack or meal. Rye does contain a…
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Cashew, Cacao & Coffee Chunks
When preparing for something that requires a lot of energy (physical or mental), the body needs the appropriate fuels to keep it going. While fats and proteins are essential for energy and building and maintaining a strong and healthy body, carbohydrates often provide the energy to make that possible. Good sources of carbohydrates primarily help…
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Raw, Black Sesame Seed Tahini Hummus (In Collaboration With Indigo Herbs)
Ok, don’t be scared of the colour of this dip…. Although the appearance is a little unusual, (it’s been compared to concrete….) this is because it uses raw black sesame seeds, rather than the processed white variety! Healthy may not always be ‘pretty’, but it’ll definitely help you feel your best from the inside out,…
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Practice: Flying Eagle Transition (Garudasana & Virabhadrasana 3)
Garudasana is often known as ‘eagle pose’, however the word ‘Garuda’ doesn’t literally translate as ‘eagle’. As I mentioned in last week’s post the Sanskrit language doesn’t just describe or name an object, it actually holds the essence of the very thing it’s describing. ‘Garuda’ more closely means ‘devourer’, ‘devourer of serpents’, or ‘all-consuming fire…
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Yoga Retreat Review – IBIZA
Famed for its clubs, bars and a general reputation for excess; Ibiza isn’t necessarily the first place you’d imagine when it comes to booking a yoga retreat….which is exactly what made the JoGa Beats F-I-E-S-T-A yoga week so special and unlike any ‘normal’ yoga retreat you’re likely to experience! The other side of Ibiza is one of…