Tag: nature
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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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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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Ancient Ayurvedic antiviral remedy
The perfect Ayurvedic Antiviral Remedy is a glas of hot water with the following ingredients: fresh ginger fennel seeds one tsp turmeric 1/2 teaspoon black pepper juice of half a lemon Drink 1-2 times a day and this could prevent and heal any type of virus. It strengthens the immune system and is a strong…
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Nature & Yoga
It is that funny feeling in your stomach when you are outside. Almost magic. You can feel that the wind is telling you a story. The water is crying for help, but you leave it beside you because ‘this couldn’t be possible’. But it is possible: nature is communicating with us. How could that be?…
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Corona: nature as our only back up
Since there is no cure in the form of a medicine or vaccin against the corona virus yet, the only thing we can do is fall back to nature and strengthen our immune system. Hippocrates, founder of modern medicine taught us that the only thing that can really heal us is being outside in nature,…
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Spending time in nature heals body and mind
It is scientifically proven by many universities all over the world, that being in nature has good influence on our mental and physical health. Hippocrates, founder of modern medicine discovered that disease is something natural (and not ‘supernatural’) and thus it can be healed with nature as well. According to him three elements are necessary…
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Autumn is coming: find happiness within
Days are getting shorter. More clouds are coming. My garden is becoming less green and more colorful. The last buds of the gerbera are coming out. Birds are busy preparing for winter. I took out the last useful bits of my kitchen garden. Beans will not grow any further, the courgette plant has just some…
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Kitchen garden lessons: carrots
Look how amazing this carrot came out of my kitchen garden. As you can read in this series about my brand new greening, I get really exited about growing my own food as part of the Sattvic lifestyle and yoga-diet, thought it is hard. I have to learn everything from scratch, because at some point…
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A healthy planet with the yoga lifestyle
What does yoga have to do with our nature and the environment? Well, it’s everything actually. The healthy Yoga Lifestyle with Sattvic food and good habits is always in balance with our own true nature, but also our natural surroundings. Living this austere lifestyle brings you closer to your own intuition or better to say: your…
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