recipes
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Hello everyone! How are your weeks going? Anyone have exciting plans for the weekend? This weekend I have yoga teacher training, and I’m excited to see what’s on the curriculum! In a weird way, it seems that whatever sort of life lesson I need for that week is somehow encapsulated into my yoga teacher training.…
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Do you guys have that food you’re always in the mood for, no matter what? For me, it’s Japanese food. I can always go for Japanese food. Vegetable tempura, avocado sushi, veg gyoza, seaweed salad, house salad, rice… it’s all SO GOOD. But eating at a Japanese restaurant every day is not wallet-friendly, so I’ve…
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Today’s Sunday Sutra is all about the Throat Chakra, or Vishuddha, the center of communication and self-expression in our bodies. While the throat chakra is, funnily enough, located at the throat, the bodily sense associated with this chakra is hearing. I think this is fascinating. Backing up a step…. the chakras were first clearly delineated in…
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I’ve never been a huge sweets person, but this is a cookie I can get behind. More specifically, a raw vegan oatmeal cookie. If someone had said this to me a few years ago, I would have said, “Oh, you mean cardboard?” Little did I know the luscious tastes and flavors that raw and whole foods contain.…
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Today’s vibrantly green smoothie is inspired by the heart chakra, or Anahata. This chakra is the center of our bodies’ love energy, but also of self-esteem and self love. In addition, as the Anahata is located at the center of our chests (and not just at the heart), it symbolizes holistic and physical balance. Which…
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Today’s recipe is quite appropriate for a little announcement that I’ve been sitting on… if any of you didn’t see this on my Super Green Detox Salad post, I am now excited to announce that I’ve decided to get my certification in Holistic Nutrition. I haven’t chosen a program yet, but my goal is concrete and…
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Today’s Sunday Sutra features a beautifully yellow, solar plexus stimulating smoothie. I almost didn’t post this recipe yet, because I’ve been trying to post my smoothies in sync with my yoga teacher training. We haven’t gotten to the solar plexus yet, but this smoothie is so bright and cheering that I couldn’t resist posting it!…
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Happy 2016, everyone!! I hope all of you had a wonderful New Year’s Eve! Did any of you make resolutions? I kind of have mixed feelings about resolutions, because they never really seem to stick. I can’t even remember what mine were from last year! But I also think that it’s a really nice tradition…
