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Nine ways to improve your meditation
Meditation is the base of all yoga and mindfulness practice. It is the only vehicle that will bring you to higher realms and pure consciousness. With meditation we still the mind so that we can travel in between thoughts to our atma or soul. This way we are connected to the higher energy of love…
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Autumn & Winter kitchen garden
My autumn & winter kitchen garden is doing so well!! Inside; cress, radish, carrots, all sorts of herbs and germing the pea seeds to put them outside later. And outside: spinach, pepper and chives. Hoping for less 🐌… … found out with a farmer (how can we ever do without them?!?) that all these years…
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Vegan curry cauliflower soup (delicious, light and Sattvic)
This vegan curry cauliflower soup turned out delicious!! I had half a cauliflower and an old courgette and made it into something divine 😉 (if I may say so hihi 😁) First heat some coconut oil in a soup pan. Then add the herbs with chili and fresh ginger (cumin seeds, mustard seeds, garam massala,…
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Jala Neti to free the nostrils
Jala Neti is a water cleansing technique or Shatkarma. Yoga works with breathing. When meditating there is a focus on breath, during asanas we keep a flow with breath and with pranayama we control breath to higher prana levels in our body. Our nostrils are not working even, on some moments the right nostril (sun…
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Meditation and concentration
Deep meditation or dhyana is the seventh limb of yoga, all other limbs before that, are to sustain the process of meditation to reach the state of yoga. So asana for example is to help the body stay in the right position and to have discipline to meditate. With meditation we turn inwards, away from…
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Some more light yoga food: one pot pasta with pesto!
My favorite one pottie again, this time with garden veggies 🪴!! Prepare whole grain pasta, last minute cook courgette in the water. When done, add cherry tomatoes 🍅 for a second, drain the water. Add Himalaya salt, pepper, chili 🌶 flakes, pesto and olive oil. Stir. Add water of the pasta if needed when dry.…
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Some light yoga food: vegan grilled sweat potatoes!
This is Divine food! I love simplicity. Oven baked organic sweat potato with rosemary and cherry tomatoes from my garden! The thing is: how do you make them crispy? I’ve got the solution: spray them with olive oil. First you put all ingredients on a tray covered with baking paper. Then you spray the olive…
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Trigunas & tridoshas
In my earlier blog about the Yoga Sutras I refer to prakriti and purusha, which is important to understand the trigunas and the tridoshas. Purusha is pure consciousness, so this is energy. It cannot manifest in maya (earthly matters) without prakriti which is nature or the physical world (sometimes referred to as ‘maya’). Prakriti cannot…
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Become pure with the Yoga Sutras and karma yoga
The Yoga Sutras are 195 sutras or aphorisms which contain the theory of Yoga which is developed thousands of years ago by Lord Shiv and later systemised by different sages amongst them Patanjali who is considered the author of the Yoga Sutras. These 195 Sutras are divided into four chapters or books: Samadhi Pada, Sadhana…
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How to find balance in a demanding (teaching) job
The past year I’ve worked soo hard. There is nothing wrong with working a lot, every single person that reached something in life, worked their asses off. This is a fact. So I work hard and I love it. But this year I find it hard to relax during summer recess. Every semester in the…
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