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Gazpacho Recipe

RED… the colour of Action, Confidence, Courage, Vitality, Fire and of course Love just to mention a few. All characteristics, which I also associate with Yoga! Most of the times when I returned home from my Yoga Teacher Training I longed to eat something cold, light and refreshing, when one

Something Sweet, Something Savoury

Sweet: Apple Pear & Pecan Crumble   I found this recipe here This is a vegan, gluten free and low glycemic index recipe.  You can add whatever fruit and berries you like! For the filling: 6 Large apples (peeled, cored and cut in 1 inch chunks) 3 Large pears (peeled,

Health benefits of Tom Yum Soup

Health benefits of Thai soup under study BANGKOK, Thailand — For years, zesty Tom Yum Gung soup has been a mainstay of Thai cooking. And now researchers are thinking it just might have cancer-fighting ingredients as well as good taste. “Tom Yum Gung is Thailand’s most favorite soup,” according to Chef

Food before doing Ashtanga Asanas

Many practitioners do not eat or simply just have a drink of coffee or hot chocolate before doing Asanas in the morning, so that they can do uddiyana bandha. However, I beg to differ and believe this is not the optimum method. In Ashtanga, Asanas are meant to be comfortable

Tiramisu- love diet

Similar to all asanas, there are different recipes on bakings to cater for beginners. Below is a very simple tiramisu recipe which I learnt while staying in Italy for a year & it tastes fabulously.Two different recipes are featured below and they are so simple that even young kids can join in

Inspiration for a vegan diet!

A few days ago I wrote about the yogic diet, which promotes a diet rich in vegetables, fruit and whole grains – what are called sattvic foods in the yogic philosophy.  In yoga philosophy food is categorised in three ways, called the three gunas, which are sattvic, rajasic – foods

What is the role of vegetarianism in the yogic philosophy?

Before I started the Yoga Teacher Training Course I assumed that practitioners of yoga were “supposed” to be vegetarian but I didn’t know why.  I came to this conclusion because I met people who practiced yoga and vegetarianism, and I also visited ashrams where a vegetarian diet was followed.  From

Yoga Philosophy – Yogic Diet

According to yoga philosophy, yogis should follow a lacto vegetarian diet.   In a nutshell, it is a vegetarian diet that includes dairy products but excludes eggs.                                                                             The dilemma…. Although there are several reasons to follow a vegetarian diet (e.g., physical, spiritual and psychological), the reality is that for many yoga practitioners a

Does glucosamine help in improving joint health?

I just bought a bottle of vegetarian glucosamine a few days ago as I heard my knee joints pop during fast knee extensions. I remembered I was prescribed glucosamine sulphate by a specialist in NUS when I had a mild knee joint injury about 10 years ago. The debate is

How I became a vegetarian with Asanas, Ahimsa and Satya.

After a yoga class At the beginning yoga and daily life were two separate things for me. After practicing a yoga asanas class, I felt the need to eat a lot. My mind pattern was “you have worked out a lot, now you need to eat” (eg Aparigraha I guess).

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