Category: Geen categorie
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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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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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Video: pearl couscous mega bowl with an Arabic touch
Here is my latest video. I had so much fun with my nephew making this (no face reveal he said and I cannot become like that vegan teacher… but I’m okay he said ;)).
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2 times yoga diet spinach & samphire
Two Sattvic recipes with the lovely combination of spinach & samphire.
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3 x Sattvic, vegan and low carb dinner
The Sattvic or Yoga Diet is very light. Best thing is to get up after dinner with the same lightness as before eating (Sri Sathya Sai Baba). If you feel heavy and tired after dinner, something went wrong. Sattvic food is fine tuned on your own personal and unique body, mind and soul, so if […]
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Goddess power
I remember last year when I said to Dhroeh: ‘Happy International Womens Day!!’ And his answer was: ‘Wow, how can you be happy on a day like this? When women are treated so horribly’. I felt that. Why do we even need a day to remember the value of womanhood or femininity? Shouldn’t we be […]
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The amazing healing powers of Ashwaganda
A lot of beautiful natural remedies we unknowingly have in our kitchen or garden. Like Hippocrates, founder of modern medicine said: ‘Our food is our medicine, our medicine our food’. The Yoga Lifestyle and Sattvic diet recommends to eat as natural as possible and that also concerns our medicine. Ayurveda is a beautiful natural healing […]
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Warm winter smoothie
Drinking cold smoothies makes us sometimes feel even colder these winter days, but smoothies are an important part of the Sattvic Yoga Lifestyle. A solution is to add some fresh ginger to your smoothie; this warms you from the inside. Another possibility is to drink a warm smoothie. The one in the picture came out […]
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Winter dish: Sweat potato with purslane and goat cheese
This typical Sattvic dish is a good alternative for mashed potatoes: it is light, vegetarian, natural & fresh, organic, low-carb and it contains a lot of prana. It has chlorophyll, vitamin C and beta carotene: all amazing antioxidants, which can be found in these season veggies to get us through winter. That is the reason why […]
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