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Thoughts & senses
Living in awareness starts with information that broadens our minds. This can come to us in different ways; a story told by a friend, a book, a mantra, or maybe even a film or documentary. Our brain starts to create new connections or is renewing old lost links. At that very moment the proces of…
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The secret cause of obesity
Many people don’t know this, but most weight issues have the exact same cause. We can see a lot of persons struggle with their weight, even famous ones who battle in public. They eat only healthy food, eat less and count calories, they are running and doing all kinds off healthy activities; but they still struggle. That…
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Sattvic living: Pumpkin Spread
Can you imagine that this super-chic organic pumpkin spread is a diner left-over? Sattvic cooking is not only very healthy, it is in complete balance with all sources and nature. The butternut pumpkin puree is very easy to make: just cook the pumpkin with a little bit of salt, pepper, turmeric and veggie broth. When the…
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The first 3 steps towards healing
The best way to self healing is to take one step at the time on the path of yoga, and to have a lot of patience. Though it is possible to take a shortcut on this interesting road of self-realization: turn inwards. Look for healing inside, not outside yourself. These are the first 3 steps…
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High Sensitivity and yoga
As a child psychologist and a high sensitive person myself, this subject really comes from the heart. One out of 4 children has a form of high sensitivity these days, that means that a huge amount of children absorb all the energy of their surroundings! And our lifestyles have changed a lot during these last decades;…
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Yoga from The Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita teaches us about ‘yoga off the mat’ like I described before in ‘Yoga is a lifestyle‘. You can read the Bhagavad Gita in your own special way, there are no ‘goods’ and ‘bads’. Your own interpretation is the best for you at that moment. And sometimes you read a text one day…
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Super foods from ancient times!
Dried fruits like these lovely pears from the organic market, are amazingly popular nowadays. Of course they contain less vitamins and a lot less prana than fresh fruits, but it is still very healthy to eat them on a regular base. Over 5000 years ago in the Ancient Vedic times dried fruits were used in…
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Yoga is a lifestyle
When we think of ‘yoga’, we are automatically directed to an image in our mind of a person that is doing asanas on a yoga mat. That is ‘yoga’ for most people in Europe, and if you are lucky the yoga school also teaches meditation and pranayama, like in most Indian schools. Yoga is so…
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Mandala coloring to brighten the mind
Between working in health care, helping people on their personal path of healing, writing, cooking meals and taking pictures, designing, blogging and doing research, I really love to color Mandala’s. It is the perfect way to brighten the brain, to tame the monkey mind and to recharge my battery with prana. In a way it…
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A lovely Sattvic winter meal
It is always such a great pleasure to go to the organic market and find amazing new fruits and vegetables. This winter season I found a lot of nice different green leaves, which are according to the Sattvic lifestyle, the best you can eat. They contain a lot of iron and are a perfect antioxidant. Especially…