Blog 6

  • Loving Kindness

    Loving Kindness

    This moon is all about balancing the heart chakra, a classic yoga focus. If you;ve got things going on for you in your love life it will likely show up in your practice. Are you feeling hurt, or are you free to express your self? The body is a reflection of the mind, and what Read more

  • Seitan Bourguignon

    Seitan Bourguignon

    I wish there was a catchier name for this delicious dish, but good for Halloween! If you want to impress someone with just how satisfying and rich vegan cuisine can be, this could be the recipe you’ve been looking for. Made in exactly the same way as the beef classic, seitan bourguignon, uses seitan marinated Read more

  • Enlightened Activism: Love Doing What You Do

    Enlightened Activism: Love Doing What You Do

    Another moon, another theme! As the third ego merges into the fourth chakra, the heart, we begin to see a magical combination. When loving kindness influences all our actions we are said to be liberated, or enlightened.  What is enlightenment? For me, it is freedom from pain thrugh a deeper appreciation of each moment. Contradicting Read more

  • Isometric contraction: working with the tensegrity of the body

    Isometric contraction: working with the tensegrity of the body

    Lots of fancy words in the title of this post, but what do they all mean? Tensegrity is a portmanteau (oo there’s another one – it means combination!) of tension and integrity. It’s what makes the body parts move in tandem with each other. The foot bone is connected to the leg bone, the leg Read more

  • Bean Soup

    Bean Soup

    On the search for a low calorie, high nutrition soup, I designed this beauty, which is high in calcium, iron and protein. Prep time: 1hr, serves 6. Onion (large) garlic chopped (4 cloves) Celery chopped (6 sticks Mixed herbs, bay leaf (3 teaspoons) Tinned tomatoes (2 cans) Kale chopped (200g bag) Butter beans (2 cans Read more

  • Take Back You Power

    Take Back You Power

    This moon I am working on the third chakra:the Ego, straight up. The solar chakra is home to the ego self, which drives us forward. Sometimes it does not know what to do; it reverses, or takes short cuts, avoiding what is being presented to us, determined to go down a path of our own Read more