Blog 6

  • Vegan Yorkshire Puddings

    Vegan Yorkshire Puddings

    A super simple recipe, just needs a hot hot oven! Makes 12 puddings 200g self raising flour 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 50ml water 150ml soya milk 12 drizzles of oil Blend the flour, baking powder, water and milk to create a batter. Pour into a jug, cover and out in fridge for 1 hour. Pre… Read more

  • Universal Consciousness and Bliss

    Universal Consciousness and Bliss

    The Yoga Upanishads describe five sheats, or five bodies: annamaya, pranamaya, manomaya, jnanamaya, and anandamaya. These equate to the food body, the energy body, the mind body, the wisdom body and the bliss body. Just like the chakras, the koshas (Sanskrit for sheath/body) are on a spectrum of subtlety. The lower the body (the earlier… Read more

  • Om and Om

    Om and Om

    April has raced by and I am bringing this blog to you rather late in the day. As we spend our final moonth on the sixth chakra and start to focus on the seventh, we begin to approach the sea of universal consciousness and bliss The primordial sound, Om, is a bridge between the world… Read more

  • 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