Main Courses, Recipes, Salads
One of the best ways to enjoy a healthy lunch is in the form of a salad. Not the iceberg lettuce and ranch dressing sort of salad, but a nutrient dense salad that contains many vitamins, minerals and enzymes. This salad uses fresh vegetables and cooked lentils. When cooking lentils, make sure to soak them...
Articles, Nutrition
Antioxidants. This is one of those words that seems to come up all the time. Someone tells us to eat a particular food because it’s “full of antioxidants”. While picking out a tea to drink, we see some labels that say “high in antioxidants”. Even juice bars are naming their smoothies with “antioxidants” as one of the words in the title. ...
Main Courses, Recipes
Continuing on the subject of stress, there are many different ways that our body copes with the effects of stress. When mildly stressful events occur, our body kicks into this stress mode to help us deal with it more effectively. Getting stressed out occasionally is one thing, but when stress becomes chronic, it can really...
Articles, Nutrition, Uncategorized
It seems like everyone is coming down with something these days. There is a bug going around which apparently debilitates victims for about 4 to 6 days. Changes of seasons often bring flus, viruses and colds. I believe that we don’t necessarily need a flu shot in order to protect ourselves from what’s to come each...
Articles, Mindfulness
Before we are fully ready to change something, it seems pointless. The sacrifice of taking time make this change always seems too overwhelming. For example, we say “I’d really love to start being more active.” Although, our hectic lives take over, the year passes and we still haven’t made a change. If we’re lucky though, there...
Articles, Mindfulness, Yoga
In addition to my post a few days ago, I’m still intrigued with how many parallels there are between teaching yoga to children and adults. Here’s a quote that I found interesting today: “In order to relax the group, get them to imagine blowing away nasty things by cupping hands and taking a long exhalation. This can be very...
Main Courses, Recipes
Whenever I have lots of food, accompanied with lots of time, I enjoy making a large pot of something that will last for a few days. It has been raining for days (but it’s finally sunny today, ya!), so I felt like a soup or a stew that would provide some warmth. When the weather...
Articles, Mindfulness, Yoga
I’m away for the weekend at a yoga training conference. I’ll be learning about teaching simple yoga practices to children through the art of play, music and fun. It focuses on introducing children to the general aspects of yoga, specifically the importance of the breath and movement. I was just looking over the manual before...
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I not only love Mexico but I also love Mexican food. We often associate Mexican food with lots of cheese, sour cream and ground beef but this is an usually an exported style of Mexican cooking. Traditional Mexican meals are often made without any of these ingredients. It’s still possible to make a tasty meal...
Articles, Mindfulness
Everywhere we look, there are products that promise to make us look younger and reverse the aging process. Botox, fillers, plastic surgery, creams, lotions, potions…the list goes on. What if it was possible to age well naturally? Well, you guessed it – it is! To live beyond 100 years old is not unreasonable if we take care of ourselves regarding diet,...
