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  • Veg Bolognese

    Veg Bolognese

    Simple and easy, this nutritious dish brings some of my favourite flavours together: black beans, tomato and mushroom. If you don’t like soya mince this recipe uses whole, vegetable ingredients only. The greens ensure you have a portion of iron and the black beans up the protein content. It takes an hour on the hob Read more

  • What Do You See?

    What Do You See?

    Two birds of beautiful plumage, comrades Inseparable, live on the selfsame tree. One bird eats the fruit of pleasure and pain; The other looks on without eating. Shvetashvatara Upanishad IV.6 The ajna chakra is another name for the third eye. Its powers of introspection can be awakened through meditation and asana. Ajna chakra is at Read more

  • The Arrow of Devotion

    The Arrow of Devotion

    Take the great bow of the sacred scriptures, Place on it the arrow of devotion; Then draw the bowstring of meditation And aim at the target, the Lord[/Lady] of Love. The mantram is the bow, the aspirant Is the arrow, and the Lord[/Lady] the target. Now draw the bowstring of meditation, And hitting the target Read more

  • Sat-chit-ananda: Finding Truth, Consciousness, and Bliss in Gandha Bherundasana

    Sat-chit-ananda: Finding Truth, Consciousness, and Bliss in Gandha Bherundasana

    The peak pose of this moonth’s routine is the advanced pose Gandha Bherundasana. It relies on core strength to enter and exit the pose, and is challenging even using the wall as support. The weight of the body is on the chest and chin with legs in a locust variation. The pose is a throat Read more

  • Two Keys of Awareness: Proprioception and Interoception

    Two Keys of Awareness: Proprioception and Interoception

    Two essential concepts in the yoga world: proprioception and interoception. Both terms relate to a process of turning inward. Proprioception means awareness of the physical body, as it moves through space. Interoception means having awareness of the spiritual, or mind, body. Both in proprioception and interoception, rather than looking at our body we sense it. Read more

  • Love and light, between the heart and the crown

    Love and light, between the heart and the crown

    From the heart there radiate a hundred And one vital tracks. One of them rises To the crown of the head. This way leads  To immortality, the others to death Kathe Upanishad [3.16] (1) This moonth I am working on the throat chakra. It is connected to the heart below and the ajna chakras above. Read more