Category: Yoga lifestyle
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Tulsi Tea with ginger and cinnamon for inner warmth
Arriving at the organic market this afternoon, it started to rain! And being the first chilly day in months, I was very cold by the time I got home, especially my feet. Luckily, Mother Nature has a perfect solution for everything. I made a tea of dried Tulsi leaves, fresh ginger and cinnamon. It has…
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Great avocado-sandwich lunch… small dinner
With the Sattvic lifestyle we learn to listen to our inner voice. That way we can find out exactly what our bodies need each moment of the day. With this rather large lunch, I would eat less in the evening, just a small salad or veggie soup. I definitely love to eat all carbohydrates during…
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The world is in need of more female strength
Female strength is different than male strength. It has a mixture of inner peace, motherly love, female power and intuition. But also rough instinct; imagine if you would steal a cub of a she-wolf…. you will awake something inside of her that will eat you raw. We females have this ‘something’ that cannot be described,…
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The message of the soul
Knowing that Yoga is a healing Lifestyle and a ticket to free health insurance is great of course. Living the Sattvic lifestyle we feel better and better every day. Yoga is healing body, mind & soul. But… what if someone gets unexpectedly very sick? What can they do according to this ancient Vedic knowledge? First…
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Yoga is reconnecting with nature
Nature and the elements contain a lot of fresh energy; prana. Everything around us, including ourselves exist of the particles of prana, Divine love. We can feel love and see with love, through our hearts. Yoga is the only art to open the heart. We refresh the prana energy within ourselves with asanas, pranayama, meditation…
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Yoga concerns body, mind & soul
The other day I was reading about an amazing Spiritual Festival that will take place somewhere soon these weeks. The advertisement said; ‘… And of course there will be something to do for our bodies, with great yoga lessons’. As if yoga only concerns our bodies! Yoga is so much more: of course we do…
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Your whole day can be one meditation
When you live your life intensively and you stop once in a while to enjoy the wonders of life, like these beautiful flowers Mother Earth gave to us: your whole day becomes like a meditation! You can meditate while eating, by being thankful for it and enjoy every single bite. Feel the prana build up…
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A nice tip for meditation
In this world of many things to do and so many distractions it is sometimes hard to meditate. The monkey mind is taking over on these moments. Just stay relaxed, accept any of your thoughts and give the monkey something to do. Like a mantra or focus deeply on your breathing. What helps me most…
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The Golden Age
This morning I was captured by the words of author and scientist Bibhu Dev Misra: The Yuga Cycle doctrine tells us that we are now living in the Kali Yuga; the age of darkness, when moral virtue and mental capabilities reach their lowest point in the cycle. The Indian epic The Mahabharata describes the Kali Yuga…
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Shakti is Shiva’s strength
I am amazed by the amount of women who are actively ‘trying to find a man’ these days. With several dating-apps and pictures of men, which they scroll over during breaks and dinners on their cell phones. Finally they pick one guy for that week to have a date with. That is a common image…
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