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Japanese Kale Salad

Japanese Kale Salad

Clean and Simple - The Japanese Way of Cooking Filled with healing ingredients and wonderful Asian flavors, this Japanese Kale salad is gluten-free and special to serve at any meal. Yield: 4 portions / Prep time: 15 minutes / Cooking time: 10 minutes + 30 minutes soaking time   Dressing Ingredients  1/4 cup tamari 1/8 [...]
Quinoa Recipe

Quinoa Recipe

Quinoa - The Versatile Grain This quinoa recipe is a blank canvas that you can use as a basis for your own creations. It's such a versatile grain, you can use it in almost any dish, hot or cold, plain or mixed with other ingredients. Yield: 4 portions / Prep time: 2 minutes / Cooking [...]

Vegetable Stock

Take Stock Of What You Have  Vegetable stock is a flavorful liquid prepared by simmering vegetables in water until the flavor is extracted. Stocks are great to heighten the flavor of a dish as well as add wonderful nutrients. Stocks can be used for soups, instead of water, for making grains like rice or quinoa, [...]
Enlightened Kale

Enlightened Kale

Shine Bright This enlightened kale may be the brightest food on your plate. It's a powerhouse of nutrients and minerals that will make you shine brightly for the whole day. The whole family of dark, leafy greens should ideally be part of your meals at least once a day as they are an ingredient that [...]
Being Sore and Pain – To Practice or Not

Being Sore and Pain – To Practice or Not

Your body as a temple Seems like most people I know suffer from some sort of injury one time or another. Here are a few tips, from Yoga practice to supplements and food. Before I begin my practice I bring my awareness to my body. Feeling where it is today, awake, stiff, sore or energetic. [...]
Backbends – Open Hearts

Backbends – Open Hearts

Backbends in Yoga No better time than Thanksgiving to practice backbends. The practice of back bending is very powerful and can lead to more than a beautiful arc in the spine. When backbends are practiced appropriately we begin our movement with the breath. As we inhale we find greater length in the spine and as [...]
The Perfect Yoga Pose?

The Perfect Yoga Pose?

The Perfect Pose It is important to remember that yoga, as we know it today, with such emphasis on Asana, on the "perfect pose", is relatively a new phenomenon. Yoga Asana as it has been practiced for thousands of years is mostly about taking a seat in lotus position to meditate. In the early 1900s [...]
Improve Your Sleep Pattern in 8 steps

Improve Your Sleep Pattern in 8 steps

Better Sleep Techniques You Must Try! Would you like to improve your sleep pattern? Falling asleep is one thing, but staying asleep through the night is another. Many of us wake up around 3am with thoughts, worries or plans. Some of us enjoy dreaming, but sometimes dreams can be the mind overworking and showing us […]

Tips for a good night sleep

Tips for a good night sleep

Sleep Well A good night sleep is the secret to a happy productive next day. It is the time our body takes to restore and rejuvenate. Our night depends on the day we had, and the next day depends on how well our previous night's sleep was. The following are a few tips to reduce [...]
How to eat healthy without spending a lot

How to eat healthy without spending a lot

Eating Healthy on a Budget I keep hearing that eating healthy is for the rich. But, eating well allows us to stay healthy and clear minded, saving costs to the doctor and for medications. And it’s not impossible to go healthy on a budget.   Buying Healthy for Less Buy what’s in season. Some of [...]