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Inside beauty: ‘no make up’ tutorial
It’s all about looks these days and how to improve your appearance with beautiful clothes, shoes, bags and a lot of make up. And don’t get me wrong: I love to use make up and to put on nice clothes, but sometimes we forget that real beauty comes from the inside. Sometimes striking clothes and […]
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Stir-fried pumpkin with feta and raisins
This delicious pumpkin dish was made in 15 minutes and has only 4 ingredients. It is healthy, light, low carb and full of the necessary daily vitamins and minerals. And it fits the Sattvic yoga-diet perfectly. First you peal the pumpkin (if it is a butternut pumpkin this would not be necessary) and slice it […]
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The harsh truth about overweight
More people die of over-eating than out of hunger these days. Over 30% of the world population is suffering from obesity. There are more people overweight than underweight nowadays. Basically we are eating ourselves into death. Number one cause of death in the world is heart disease. And the cause of heart disease is mostly […]
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Best New Year’s resolution: give help
The Sattvic Yoga Lifestyle is not only about healthy, natural, fresh and light food. According to the Bhagavad Gita it means an austere life in which you are not using more of nature’s energy than necessary and you help others out of pure unconditional love. Therefor we need soft open hearts, and yoga is the […]
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Health benefits of eating pomegranate
Pomegranate is an amazing prana-rich fruit, which makes it very Sattvic. It helps every yoga or meditation practice, because it gives light thoughts and it drains negative energy. You can taste that yourself too: it has just like citrus fruits an acid bite. When a fruit has this sour taste, it is perfect to detox […]
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3 greens and their health benefits according to Sattvic philosophy
Everything natural we eat, has health benefits, but the green stuff has even more! The green in the picture came straight from the farm-land, inclusive the little fellow, who I gave a nice new living environment. In my former blog ‘the greener the better‘ I wrote about the mayor benefits of chlorophyll, iron and the life-giving […]
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The yoga lifestyle to heal humanity from cancer
According to doctor Siddhartha Mukherjee in his book ‘The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer’, in the near future one in two men and one in three women will suffer from cancer. It is a horrible disease we know very little of. Many people die from this stubborn ‘emperor’. The problem is that […]
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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 […]
