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21/03/2024

Mmmmm traditional spring dish 🌿 of beetroot, broccoli and leek soup with feta and mint 💚

04/02/2024

Happy Sunday you 😃 Are you making a roast? 🥕

What do you do with your veg cut offs? 🤔 Bin? Compost?

Today (as I had a bowl full!) I've popped them in a pan to make stock to go back into my broth - more vitamins and flavour and less waste 💚

18/12/2023

Mmmm fresh espresso with organic ghee and mushroom mix! 🍄 Perfect to start a busy day! of doing finances!

How are you waking up today? ☀️

Last Monday at work for me 😀

05/12/2023

Aaahhh at last ☺️ Pre-festive fasting is done 🥰 Riverford organic veg box is here 🥕 farm fresh butter has arrived 🧈 beautiful organic ghee (Ayurveda Elixir) has been made 💛

Life is settling in for winter (after a busy year if travelling!) and I'm enjoying it!

Give it another week I might even feel festive now I've got my super snug festive bedding on ❤️ 😊

What wintering habits are you loving?

21/09/2023

Rain sucks buuut SQUASHES are back 🧡 I am joyful 😊

My new pal is going on my Mabon altar 🍂😍

Whose excited for a season diet change to keep that Agni fired up? 🔥

What's your fav squash recipe? 🧡

Mines Roasted Squash stuffed with quinoa, feta, rocket, seeds, walnut and warming spices.

Orrrrr the squash made into soup topped with all of the above...Same favour different texture 🤭

01/07/2023

🏳️‍🌈 Happy London PRIDE day to my rainbow of unique humans having your wonderfully colourful human existence!! 🌈

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Today, like every day, celebrate how profoundly amazing you are with all your love, your abilities, your quirks and idiosyncrasies! Celebrate your gender/s or lack off, celebrate the way you show up to love.

I love you right back my colourful friend!

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Celebrate with YOGA!!

We often come to yoga, meditation, and breath in hard times. But this practice is here to remind us that movement can carry us through the high times too! Th...

26/06/2023

What a whopping change in heat this last week? Is it pushing your pitta over the edge? 🔥 are you getting heart burn or lose motions?

If, so switch up that acidic heating morning coffee for a cooling, green tea 🍵

Green tea is bitter, astringent and alkaline (and so pitta reducing by its opposite qualities) making it the ideal gut healing beverage on a Monday morning, particularly if you have had one too many summer ciders 🤭

22/02/2023

19/07/2022

Feeling hot? Chill the heck out with these delicious cooling foods! 😎

Heres my top 10 nommies to help keep internal temperatures down and prevent overheated body/bad tempers!

Enjoy! 🥬🥗

1 - Cucumber (put in drinks!)
2- Coconut (make into chutney or switch to coconut milk!)
3- Coriander (tastes awesome in salad)
4- Beetroot (juice it baby!)
5- Leafy greens (the perfect side dish)
6- Watermelon (slurp...)
7- Grapes (mmm smush)
8- Mung bean (sprout in a bit of water or make dal)
9- Ghee (or coconut oil, best most cooling and natural fat)
10- Buttermilk (blend yoghurt and water and spices, easy!)
11- Basmati rice (also good side dish)
12- Mint (put in water with that cucumber)
13- Tofu (cover in 14!)
14- Avocado (avo-cuddle?)
15- Berries (also add to water or water with coconut yoghurt!)

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24/02/2022

🥕Now Ayurveda is not strictly vegetarian, being heavy and nourishing meat is useful for maintaining Vata/brain/nerves and supportive in Autumn and Winter when (eating seasonally) fresh produce is limited. In the cold months we need heavier/fattier nutrition to stay warm...that said PASSIONATELY advocate small amounts of high quality, fresh fresh animal produce 👌🏻

Cheap meat is packed with a HORRIFYING amount of antibiotics, growth hormones and chemicals that interrupt the body's endocrine system and increase the likelihood of gut disease, toxicity and cancer 😫
...and don't even get us started on the "care" of the animals 🐮....

LUCKILY it's never ever been easier to eat non-animal bases produce 💜 Soooo...swap that steak for seitan, make the move to mushrooms, learn to love your lentils and get let those cheeky chick peas make your day cheerful!

Your body, the planet and the animals will thank you 🙏🏻



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Oxford University research also finds pescatarians have 10% reduced risk compared with those who eat meat regularly

22/02/2022

Happy twosday! 🥰

Hope you've had a two-riffic day 🤭💜🙈🥳

21/02/2022

You may be feeling ungrounded, fragile, shaky, nervous or anxious due to the excessive winds 💨 These are symptoms of excess vata so make sure to nourish and protect vata/nerves this week 🤗

My 5 hot tips for staying grounded and calm

🔥 Eat warm slightly sweeter (think root veg), slightly sour and lightly spiced foods with cardamom, cinnamom, ginger and add a little ghee (unless your pitta is too high!)

🧘‍♀️Don't overdo it, keep busy but make time to stay centred, focus on your breathing and think of the gifts you are grateful for

🛁Take a warm bath, ideally with a herbal bath oil to prevent muscle stiffness

🍵 Stay warm and drink herbal tea, ideally with warming spices (again, unless your pitta is high)

🧣If you do go outside, wrap up warm and protect yourself from the elements, particularly your EARS! Excess wind in the ears can cause headaches, tinnitus and increase vata/nerve stimulation in the head.

🌟BONUS tip: If you suffer from constipation (not going daily), try magnesium salts, triphala or a small dose of Castor oil to clear the gut!



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18/02/2022

✅ Yesterday I sadly tested positive for Covid so this will be much of my diet for the next few days 😌

🔥During an infection the agni is weak and eating heavy foods (meat, dairy, processed foods) will slow down healing and actually create more toxins.

To enable swift recovery it is important to eat light, soft and easily digestible foods such as rice porridge or peya (rice gruel) - at least for the first few days 🍲- only if you have appetite though!

🥕Once your appetite increases this can be followed by vegetable soups or meat broths particularly for vata dominant infections characterised by more pain and fatigue.

🍚Rice porridge is so easy 👍Simple soak, rinse and boil the rice. Lightly fry cumin seeds and mustard seeds, fresh garlic and ginger in ghee, add coriander, turmeric and methi powder. Stir into the rice with salt and some chopped fresh coriander.

Shouldn't be long before I am back on my feet 💪🏻

12/01/2022

☀️We all hear about the importance of getting enough sun to allow our bodies to convert cholesterol to from UVB rays....

🌤🌻But, did you that basking in the MORNING sun/sunrise is actually incredibly important because it’s saturated in infrared and blue light which...

✅ stimulates collagen production

✅ increases bone healing

✅helps to heals wounds.

✅ be anti-ageing

✅ reduce wrinkles and scars.

✅work with cellular water to create energy!

Yepp, hat's right, without the sun, we can't fully recharge! 😱☀️

This why red light therapy is becoming for and more popular, but why pay when it's free!

🌼☀️Try aiming to rise a little early and spend at least three minutes exposed to morning sun to get all the above health benefits and ultimately increase your longevity!

Also, if you get our I nature, there are even more benefits and dang, you may even catch a view like ours this morning 🌄 😍

12/01/2022

😴Insomniacs! Lots of people seem to be struggling with sleep this month, here's some tried and tested ways of enabling good sleep, in case it helps 🥰

📺Switch off screens at 9pm and read instead, the blue light from TV and phones tells your brain/pineal gland its the middle of the day!

🍵Pukka night time tablets and tea help increases melatonin to aid natural tiredness and sleep.

🪔DoTERRA lavender/Serenity oil on wrists before sleep helps a LOT too. I did that last night and the night before and for the first time in maybe 6 months I slept the whole night through completely undisturbed!

📺But if you DO ANYTHING its the screen switch off.

🥕Getting your winter vitamins is crucial too, vitamin D3 (like 2,000 iu), magnesium, vitamins C and your B vitamins 🥰🥰 Its recommended to supplement at this time of year as well as get a varied diet.

🧘‍♀️Finally daily meditation with the Headspace or calm app (you can use the free courses) is a great way to recognise emotions that might be keeping you up and to separate yourself from them 🥰

11/01/2022

As Ayurvedaas always said....

Good news! You can keep those hard-core resolutions to the Spring Equinox in March, now is chill time 🥰

Taken from the amazing book Stating alive in toxic times ©️ Dr Jenny Goodman