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Gingerly Butternut Soup
This is quick one for a keto vegan Butternut squash soup which quickly heals all of the bad ideas you may have had over the weekend. I often like to pretend I am the healthest person in the world on a Monday, well this is one that is so good at creating the pious vibes,…
Dal Doesn’t Have To Be DULL (GF/VG)
So there are two versions of this recipe mine and then AI. I have a feeling AI won on this one. I recently make the most wonderful caulflower dal and served it with lime and tumeric amaranth grain and the guests asked me to share the recipe. Tumeric, Cinnamon, Garam masala, Curry powder, tomatoes, peppers,…
Smooth as Smoothy
A timely recipe for Blue Monday, A blues removing smoothy that is blue! This smoothie recipe is not only delicious, but it’s also packed with nutrients that your body needs. Bananas are a great source of potassium, which helps regulate fluid balance, muscle contractions, and nerve signals. Peanut butter adds healthy fats and protein to…
TO BE AT WAR
With ourselves as the enemy, we will find no peace, whether this is a small internal war of expectations on ourselves or the bigger fight with the outer world or people in it, and as someone who has fought both, I can promise you there is no winning. Anger creates anger, just as my now…
Green Masala Curry
This recipe is after a request for it from a recent retreat. It was very much a last minute idea, due to not having any tomatoes. Paste Some water, green chillies, onions, coriander powder, salt, oil, cumin powder, fenugreek powder, cinnamon, fennel powder. Fry them together till soft and then put in a blender to…
How to Pay Attention
We are always being told to listen to the sensations, and release judgement etc in a yoga class. But it occured to me that this is not always understood. So with my upcoming monthly course in yin this September, I thought it might be a timely change to take a brief look at this. The…
Is that your final answer?
This is an except from a wonderful article I read on Pathos by Greg Robinson. We Want to Be Right For longer than I can remember I have been told being right is better than being wrong.We are taught it is essential to having a happy life. In school, at home, in spiritual life, it…
The Power of Discomfort
Do you ever get yin and restorative yoga confused? I’ve been having a lot of conversations with practitioners recently who are trying yin for the first time about the difference. Yin is finding an edge and sitting there, maybe with a little discomfort. There is no pain, no pushing but rather sitting at that edge….
Always Do your Best
It’s been a busy season and I have had hardly any spare time to devote to my blog. But over the last month or so as I struggled with the pressure of feeling like I “had” to post the final agreement sequence on here, I had an AHA moment when I remembered what this fourth…
New Forest Retreats 